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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index d9014075b4..8405bd0632 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 		What has changed in GDB?
 	     (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 8.3
+*** Changes since GDB 9
+
+* Debugging MS-Windows processes now sets $_exitsignal when the
+  inferior is terminated by a signal, instead of setting $_exitcode.
+
+* Multithreaded symbol loading has now been enabled by default on systems
+  that support it (see entry for GDB 9, below), providing faster
+  performance for programs with many symbols.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 9
 
 * 'thread-exited' event is now available in the annotations interface.
 
@@ -33,6 +42,12 @@
   provide the exitcode or exit status of the shell commands launched by
   GDB commands such as "shell", "pipe" and "make".
 
+* The command define-prefix can now define user defined prefix commands.
+  User defined commands can now be defined using these user defined prefix
+  commands.
+
+* Command names can now use the . character.
+
 * The RX port now supports XML target descriptions.
 
 * GDB now shows the Ada task names at more places, e.g. in task switching
@@ -100,6 +115,9 @@ pipe -d DELIM COMMAND DELIM SHELL_COMMAND
   With no COMMAND, repeat the last executed command
   and send its output to SHELL_COMMAND.
 
+define-prefix COMMAND
+  Define or mark a command as a user-defined prefix command.
+  
 with SETTING [VALUE] [-- COMMAND]
 w SETTING [VALUE] [-- COMMAND]
   Temporarily set SETTING, run COMMAND, and restore SETTING.
@@ -139,6 +157,12 @@ show print max-depth
   The default max-depth is 20, but this can be set to unlimited to get
   the old behavior back.
 
+set print raw-values [on|off]
+show print raw-values
+  By default, GDB applies the enabled pretty printers when printing a
+  value.  This allows to ignore the enabled pretty printers for a series
+  of commands.  The default is 'off'.
+
 set logging debugredirect [on|off]
   By default, GDB debug output will go to both the terminal and the logfile.
   Set if you want debug output to go only to the log file.
@@ -160,6 +184,14 @@ maint show worker-threads
   reasonable.  Currently worker threads are only used when demangling
   the names of linker symbols.
 
+set style tui-border foreground COLOR
+set style tui-border background COLOR
+  Control the styling of TUI borders.
+
+set style tui-active-border foreground COLOR
+set style tui-active-border background COLOR
+  Control the styling of the active TUI border.
+
 maint set test-settings KIND
 maint show test-settings KIND
   A set of commands used by the testsuite for exercising the settings
@@ -179,6 +211,14 @@ show print frame-info
   'frame', 'stepi'.  The python frame filtering also respect this setting.
   The 'backtrace' '-frame-info' option can override this global setting.
 
+set tui compact-source
+show tui compact-source
+
+  Enable the "compact" display mode for the TUI source window.  The
+  compact display uses only as much space as is needed for the line
+  numbers in the current file, and only a single space to separate the
+  line numbers from the source.
+
 info modules [-q] [REGEXP]
   Return a list of Fortran modules matching REGEXP, or all modules if
   no REGEXP is given.
@@ -278,6 +318,7 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
       -null-stop [on|off]
       -object [on|off]
       -pretty [on|off]
+      -raw-values [on|off]
       -repeats NUMBER|unlimited
       -static-members [on|off]
       -symbol [on|off]
@@ -322,11 +363,11 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
    "on" if omitted.  This allows writing compact command invocations,
    like for example:
 
-    (gdb) p -r -p -o 0 -- *myptr
+    (gdb) p -ra -p -o 0 -- *myptr
 
    The above is equivalent to:
 
-    (gdb) print -raw -pretty -object off -- *myptr
+    (gdb) print -raw-values -pretty -object off -- *myptr
 
   ** The "info types" command now supports the '-q' flag to disable
      printing of some header information in a similar fashion to "info
@@ -377,6 +418,10 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
 -symbol-info-modules, this is the MI equivalent of the CLI 'info
   modules' command.
 
+-symbol-info-module-functions and -symbol-info-module-variables.
+  These commands are the MI equivalent of the CLI commands 'info
+  module functions' and 'info module variables'.
+
 * Other MI changes
 
  ** The default version of the MI interpreter is now 3 (-i=mi3).