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@@ -3,6 +3,21 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 7.1
 
+* Windows Thread Information Block access.
+
+  On Windows targets, GDB now supports displaying the Windows Thread
+  Information Block (TIB) structure.  This structure is visible either
+  by using the new command `info w32 thread-information-block' or, by
+  dereferencing the new convenience variable named `$_tlb', a
+  thread-specific pointer to the TIB.  This feature is also supported
+  when remote debugging using GDBserver.
+
+* New remote packets
+
+qGetTIBAddr
+
+  Return the address of the Windows Thread Information Block of a given thread.
+
 * The source command now accepts a -s option to force searching for the
   script in the source search path even if the script name specifies
   a directory.
@@ -12,6 +27,8 @@
   - GDBserver now support tracepoints.  The feature is currently
     supported by the i386-linux and amd64-linux builds.
 
+  - GDBserver now supports x86_64 Windows 64-bit debugging.
+
 * GDB now sends xmlRegisters= in qSupported packet to indicate that
   it understands register description.
 
@@ -32,12 +49,51 @@
   single `break' command creates multiple breakpoints (e.g.,
   breakpoints on overloaded c++ functions).
 
+* The `rbreak' command now accepts a filename specification as part of
+  its argument, limiting the functions selected by the regex to those
+  in the specified file.
+
+* Support for remote debugging Windows and SymbianOS shared libraries
+  from Unix hosts has been improved.  Non Windows GDB builds now can
+  understand target reported file names that follow MS-DOS based file
+  system semantics, such as file names that include drive letters and
+  use the backslash character as directory separator.  This makes it
+  possible to transparently use the "set sysroot" and "set
+  solib-search-path" on Unix hosts to point as host copies of the
+  target's shared libraries.  See the new command "set
+  target-file-system-kind" described below, and the "Commands to
+  specify files" section in the user manual for more information.
+
+* New commands
+
+set target-file-system-kind unix|dos-based|auto
+show target-file-system-kind
+  Set or show the assumed file system kind for target reported file
+  names.
+
+save breakpoints <filename>
+  Save all current breakpoint definitions to a file suitable for use
+  in a later debugging session.  To read the saved breakpoint
+  definitions, use the `source' command.
+
+`save tracepoints' is a new alias for `save-tracepoints'.  The latter
+is now deprecated.
+
 * Python scripting
 
 ** The GDB Python API now has access to breakpoints, symbols, symbol
-   tables, and frame's code blocks.
+   tables, program spaces, and frame's code blocks.  Additionally, GDB
+   Parameters can now be created from the API, and manipulated via
+   set/show in the CLI.
+
+** New functions gdb.target_charset, gdb.target_wide_charset,
+   gdb.progspaces, and gdb.current_progspace.
 
-** New methods gdb.target_charset and gdb.target_wide_charset.
+** Pretty-printers are now also looked up in the current program space.
+
+** GDB now looks for names of Python scripts to auto-load in a
+   special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts', in addition to looking
+   for a OBJFILE-gdb.py script when OBJFILE is read by the debugger.
 
 * Tracepoint actions were unified with breakpoint commands. In particular,
 there are no longer differences in "info break" output for breakpoints and
@@ -48,6 +104,10 @@ regular breakpoints.
 
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+* D language support.
+  GDB now supports debugging programs written in the D programming
+  language.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.1
 
 * C++ Improvements