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@@ -3,9 +3,15 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 8.1
 
+* The commands 'info variables/functions/types' now show the source line
+  numbers of symbol definitions when available.
+
 * 'info proc' now works on running processes on FreeBSD systems and core
   files created on FreeBSD systems.
 
+* C expressions can now use _Alignof, and C++ expressions can now use
+  alignof.
+
 * New commands
 
 set debug fbsd-nat
@@ -17,10 +23,40 @@ set|show varsize-limit
   objects being printed when those objects have a variable type,
   instead of that maximum size being hardcoded to 65536 bytes.
 
+set|show record btrace cpu
+  Controls the processor to be used for enabling errata workarounds for
+  branch trace decode.
+
+* Python API
+
+  ** Type alignment is now exposed via the "align" attribute of a gdb.Type.
+
+  ** The commands attached to a breakpoint can be set by assigning to
+     the breakpoint's "commands" field.
+
+  ** gdb.execute can now execute multi-line gdb commands.
+
 * New targets
 
 RiscV ELF                      riscv*-*-elf
 
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+m88k running OpenBSD           m88*-*-openbsd*
+SH-5/SH64 ELF                  sh64-*-elf*, SH-5/SH64 support in sh*
+SH-5/SH64 running GNU/Linux    SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-linux*
+SH-5/SH64 running OpenBSD      SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-openbsd*
+
+* Aarch64/Linux hardware watchpoints improvements
+
+  Hardware watchpoints on unaligned addresses are now properly
+  supported when running Linux kernel 4.10 or higher: read and access
+  watchpoints are no longer spuriously missed, and all watchpoints
+  lengths between 1 and 8 bytes are supported.  On older kernels,
+  watchpoints set on unaligned addresses are no longer missed, with
+  the tradeoff that there is a possibility of false hits being
+  reported.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.1
 
 * GDB now supports dynamically creating arbitrary register groups specified