Binutils 2.26 released

[Tristan Gingold]

> On 28 Jan 2016, at 17:37, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> On 28 Jan 2016 09:54, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>> On 27 Jan 2016, at 18:19, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> On 27.01.2016 10:25, Tristan Gingold wrote:
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>>>> I am pleased to announce binutils 2.26.  You can get it from sourceware.org
>>>> and ftp.gnu.org in the usual places, e.g. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> However, the release doesn't set back the development mode to release. At least bfd/development.sh is still set to true, causing the date included in the sonames.  Is anything else affected?
>> 
>> Indeed, I have forgotten that.
> 
> will there be a respin or bump or something ?  this is a fix that
> everyone trying to build/ship binutils will need to make …


Apparently there is already a couple of fixes to backport in 2.26, so it is highly possible that a new 2.26 release will be created.

Tristan.