2.44 release branch has been created

[Andrew Carlotti]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 01:22:28PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Everyone, 
> 
>   The 2.44 branch has now been created:
> 
>      git clone git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git -b binutils-2_44-branch
> 
>   A snapshot of the sources is also available here:
> 
>     https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.43.90.tar.xz
> 
>   Please could all patches for the branch be run by me.
>   The rules for the branch are:
> 
>     * No new features.
>     * Target specific bug fixes are OK.
>     * Generic bug fixes are OK if they are important and widely tested.
>     * Documentation updates/fixes are OK.
>     * Translation updates are OK.
>     * Fixes for testsuite failures are OK.
> 
>   Ideally I would like to make the release happen in two weeks time,
>   i.e. 2nd Feb 2025.  Which I hope will be enough time for everyone
>   to get their final fixes in.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick
>   
> 
Hi Nick,

Apologies for the late request, but can I draw your attention to some aarch64
patches that we'd like to have backported to the 2.44 branch before the
release: 
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2025-January/139183.html

The three patches have already been merged to master, as:
0fad7627cf8 aarch64: Fix overly lax +frintts dependency
99b90c46110 aarch64: Fix fp8 feature dependencies
71e59ebefc2 aarch64: Support +sme+nosve permissively

So we're just waiting for your formal approval for the release branch.  The
patches have no effect on the the aarch64 generated source files, so
backporting them is just a clean cherry pick from master.

Thanks