GDB 8.2.1 released!

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

            GDB 8.2.1 released!

Release 8.2.1 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available.  GDB is
a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Go, Rust, and many other
languages.  GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on)
more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself
can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows variants.
GDB is free (libre) software.

You can download GDB from the GNU FTP server in the directory:

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb

The vital stats:

  Size   md5sum                            Name
  20MiB  f8b2562e830a4098dd5b5ea9e9296c70  gdb-8.2.1.tar.xz
  36MiB  6a11cc642b626541777d9e5f96ae406f  gdb-8.2.1.tar.gz

There is a web page for GDB at:

        http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/

That page includes information about GDB mailing lists (an announcement
mailing list, developers discussion lists, etc.), details on how to
access GDB's source repository, locations for development snapshots,
preformatted documentation, and links to related information around
the net.  We will put errata notes and host-specific tips for this release
on-line as any problems come up.  All mailing lists archives are also
browsable via the web.

GDB 8.2.1 brings the following fixes and enhancements over GDB 8.2:

 * PR build/23516 (gdb build error under msys+mingw: strip can't handle gdb-add-index.exe)
 * PR build/23623 (install-strip fails)
 * PR rust/23626 (gdb crashes in upstream rust nil-enum test)
 * PR rust/23650 (rust field name access error mentions "foo")
 * PR gdb/23663 (gdb 8.1.1: undefined rpl_stat function with musl toolchains)
 * PR python/23669 (gdb.execute("show commands") doesn't work)
 * PR python/23714 (Command repetition stops working after gdb.execute)
 * PR gdb/23838 (8.2 regression for invalid -data-directory)
 * PR gdb/23974 ("info os" crash when specifying invalid object)
 * PR gdb/23999 (SYMBOL_LANGUAGE assertion failure on AIX)
 * PR gdb/24003 (Error when binary searching CUs for a specific DIE when using DWZ)

GDB 8.2 includes the following changes and enhancements:

  * Support for the following target has been added:

      RiscV ELF                       riscv*-*-elf

  * Support for following targets and native configurations has been removed:

      m88k running OpenBSD            m88*-*-openbsd*
      SH-5/SH64 ELF                   sh64-*-elf*, SH-5/SH64 support in sh*
      SH-5/SH64 running GNU/Linux     SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-linux*
      SH-5/SH64 running OpenBSD       SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-openbsd*

  * Various Python API enhancements

  * Aarch64/Linux enhancements:

    ** SVE support.

    ** Hardware watchpoints improvements for entities stored at unaligned
       addresses.

  * New "c" response to disable the pager for the rest of the current command.

  * C expressions can now use _Alignof, and C++ expressions can now use
    alignof.

  * Improved flexibility for loading symbol files.

  * The 'info proc' command nows works on running processes on FreeBSD systems
    as well as core files created on FreeBSD systems.

  * A new --enable-codesign=CERT configure option to automatically codesign
    GDB after build (useful on MacOS X).

For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the gdb/NEWS
file, available at:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gdb/NEWS;hb=gdb-8.2.1-release

-- 
Joel Brobecker