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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 59895bd68b..ee10914fd8 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 		What has changed in GDB?
 	     (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 8.3
+*** Changes since GDB 9
+
+*** Changes in GDB 9
 
 * 'thread-exited' event is now available in the annotations interface.
 
@@ -33,6 +35,12 @@
   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
@@ -58,6 +66,10 @@
  with extensions .gdb, .py and .scm are supported as long as GDB was
  compiled with support for that language.
 
+* GDB now supports multithreaded symbol loading for higher performance.
+  This feature is still in testing, so it is disabled by default.  You
+  can turn it on using 'maint set worker-threads unlimited'.
+
 * Python API
 
   ** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
@@ -77,6 +89,9 @@
   ** The new function gdb.lookup_static_symbol can be used to look up
      symbols with static linkage.
 
+  ** The new function gdb.lookup_static_symbols can be used to look up
+     all static symbols with static linkage.
+
   ** gdb.Objfile has new methods 'lookup_global_symbol' and
      'lookup_static_symbol' to lookup a symbol from this objfile only.
 
@@ -93,6 +108,9 @@ 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.
@@ -132,6 +150,12 @@ 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.
@@ -146,11 +170,32 @@ set style highlight background COLOR
 set style highlight intensity VALUE
   Control the styling of highlightings.
 
+maint set worker-threads
+maint show worker-threads
+  Control the number of worker threads that can be used by GDB.  The
+  default is 0.  "unlimited" lets GDB choose a number that is
+  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
   infrastructure.
 
+maint set tui-resize-message [on|off]
+maint show tui-resize-message
+  Control whether GDB prints a message each time the terminal is
+  resized when in TUI mode.  This is primarily useful for testing the
+  TUI.
+
 set print frame-info [short-location|location|location-and-address
                         |source-and-location|source-line|auto]
 show print frame-info
@@ -159,6 +204,14 @@ 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.
@@ -177,6 +230,12 @@ info module variables [-q] [-m MODULE_REGEXP] [-t TYPE_REGEXP] [REGEXP]
   TYPE_REGEXP matches against the variable type, and REGEXP matches
   against the variable name.
 
+set debug remote-packet-max-chars
+show debug remote-packet-max-chars
+  Controls the number of characters to output in a remote packet when using
+  "set debug remote".
+  The default is 512 bytes.
+
 * Changed commands
 
 help
@@ -252,6 +311,7 @@ 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]
@@ -296,11 +356,11 @@ 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
@@ -344,6 +404,17 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
   These can be used to catch C++ exceptions in a similar fashion to
   the CLI commands 'catch throw', 'catch rethrow', and 'catch catch'.
 
+-symbol-info-functions, -symbol-info-types, and -symbol-info-variables
+  These commands are the MI equivalent of the CLI commands 'info
+  functions', 'info types', and 'info variables' respectively.
+
+-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).
@@ -396,6 +467,11 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
 
 TI PRU					pru-*-elf
 
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+Solaris 10			i?86-*-solaris2.10, x86_64-*-solaris2.10,
+				sparc*-*-solaris2.10
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on