The 2.46 release of the GNU Binutils is now available

[Jan Beulich]

Nick,

On 08.02.2026 12:43, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> We are pleased to announce that version 2.46 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/
> 
> Checksums:
> 
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since there was no reaction so far to the earlier similar request: What about
the plain binutils-2.46.tar.*?

Thanks, Jan

>   These tarballs were made with the "-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
> 
>   As this is an even numbered release, the sources for the GOLD
>   linker are included.
> 
>   This release contains numerous bug fixes, and also the following new
>   features:
> 
>     * Support for new instructions added to AMD, ARM and RISC-V
>       architectures.
> 
>     * Support for version 3 of the SFrame standard.
> 
>     * The readelf program can now display the contents of Global Offset
>       Tables.
> 
>     * Improved linker tagging support.
> 
>   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_46
>     https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=ld/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_46
>     https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=binutils/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_46
> 
>   Our thanks go out to all of the binutils contributors, past and
>   present, for helping to make this release possible.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick Clifton
> 
> 
>