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 -*- text -*-
 
+Changes in 2.27:
+
+* Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should
+  be enabled in ELF linker by default.  Default to yes for all Linux
+  targets except FRV, HPPA, IA64 and MIPS.
+
+* Support for -z noreloc-overflow in the x86-64 ELF linker to disable
+  relocation overflow check.
+
+* Add -z common/-z nocommon options for ELF targets to control whether to
+  convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type during a relocatable link.
+
+* Support for -z nodynamic-undefined-weak in the x86 ELF linker, which
+  avoids dynamic relocations against undefined weak symbols in executable.
+
+* The NOCROSSREFSTO command was added to the linker script language.
+
+* Add --no-apply-dynamic-relocs to the AArch64 linker to do not apply link-time
+  values for dynamic relocations.
+
+Changes in 2.26:
+
+* Add --fix-stm32l4xx-629360 to the ARM linker to enable a link-time
+  workaround for a bug in the bus matrix / memory controller for some of
+  the STM32 Cortex-M4 based products (STM32L4xx)
+
+* Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,ld} to
+  decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default.
+
+* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures.
+
+* Experimental support for linker garbage collection (--gc-sections)
+  has been enabled for COFF and PE based targets.
+
+* New command line option for ELF targets to compress DWARF debug
+  sections, --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi].
+
+* New command line option, --orphan-handling=[place|warn|error|discard], to
+  adjust how orphan sections are handled.  The default is 'place' which gives
+  the current behaviour, 'warn' and 'error' issue a warning or error
+  respectively when orphan sections are found, and 'discard' will discard all
+  orphan sections.
+
+* Add support for LLVM plugin.
+
+* Add --print-memory-usage option to report memory blocks usage.
+
+* Add --require-defined option, it's like --undefined except the new symbol
+  must be defined by the end of the link.
+
+Changes in 2.25:
+
+* PE binaries now once again contain real timestamps by default.  To disable
+  the inclusion of a timestamp in a PE binary, use the --no-insert-timestamp
+  command line option.
+
+* Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k.
+
+* Add support for the --build-id command line option to COFF based targets.
+
+* x86/x86_64 pe-coff now supports the --build-id option.
+
+* Add support for the Andes NDS32.
+
+Changes in 2.24:
+
+* Add LOG2CEIL() builtin function to the linker script language
+
+* Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor.
+
+* Add support for Altera Nios II.
+
+* Add support for the V850E3V5 architecture.
+
 * Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor.
 
 * --enable-new-dtags no longer generates old dtags in addition to new dtags.
 
-* For Linux/GNU targets, new dtags is now the default.
+* Remove linker support for MIPS ECOFF targets.
+
+* Add ALIGN_WITH_INPUT to the linker script language to force the alignment of
+  an output section to use the maximum alignment of all its input sections.
 
 Changes in 2.23:
 
@@ -565,7 +642,7 @@ Changes in version 2.1:
   other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.
 
 \f
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+Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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