GNU Binutils 2.40 released

[Xi Ruoyao]

Hi Nick,

binutils-2.40.tar.xz is available at sourceware.org, but not
ftp.gnu.org.  I guess something is wrong?

On Sat, 2023-01-14 at 15:32 +0000, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
>   We are pleased to announce that version 2.40 of the GNU Binutils
> project
>   sources have been released and are now available for download at:
> 
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils
>      https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/
> 
>   SHA256 checksums:
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>      f8abdb11141faf0cec3cba64ff9d07158a9b6bc45b48f5236501f7d64edcb781  binutils-2.40.tar.bz2.sig
>      d7f82c4047decf43a6f769ac32456a92ddb6932409a585c633cdd4e9df23d956  binutils-2.40.tar.gz
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> 
>   As an experiment these tarballs were made with the new "-r <date>"
>   option supported by the src-release.sh script.  This attempts to
> make
>   reproducible tarballs by sorting the files and passing the
>   "--mtime=<date>" option to tar.  The date used for these tarballs
> was
>   obtained by running:
>   
>     git log -1 --format=%cd --date=format:%F bfd/version.m4
> 
>   This release contains numerous bug fixes, and also the following new
>   features:
> 
>      * Support for more Intel, ARM, Risc-V architecture extensions.
>      
>      * Support for generating and reading compressed debug sections
>        using the zstd compression format.
> 
>      * Support for the SFRAME unwind format.
> 
>      * Support for the CTF debug format.
> 
>      * The objdump tool now has an option to enhance its disassembly
>        output by showing all of the symbols that match an address,
>        instead of just the first symbol.
> 
>      * The objdump tool's disassembler is now also able to use colors
> to
>        distinguish differents parts of each instruction.  This feature
>        is only supported by a limited set of architectures at the
>        moment.
> 
>      * The linker (ld) has a new command line option to disable the
>        generation of warning and error messages.  This can be useful
>        when it is known that the link will not be successful, but
> there
>        is still a need to create a binary.
>   
>   For more information see:
>    
>    
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gas/NEWS;;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_40
>    
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=ld/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_40
>    
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=binutils/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_40
> 
>   In addition there is now a GNU Binutils wiki site, which attempts to
>   answer some of the more social needs of the GNU Binutils project.
>   This is still a work in progress however, and its contents, format
> and
>   location may change in the future:
>   
>     https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/HomePage
> 
>   Our thanks go out to all of the binutils contributors, past and
>   present, for helping to make this release possible.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick Clifton
>   GNU Binutils co-chief maintainer
> 

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University