binutils: NEWS: announce new RISC-V extensions

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 -*- text -*-
 
+* The MIPS port now supports the Sony Interactive Entertainment Allegrex
+  processor, used with the PlayStation Portable, which implements the MIPS
+  II ISA along with a single-precision FPU and a few implementation-specific
+  integer instructions.
+
+* Objdump's --private option can now be used on PE format files to display the
+  fields in the file header and section headers.
+
+* New versioned release of libsframe: libsframe.so.1.  This release introduces
+  versioned symbols with version node name LIBSFRAME_1.0.  This release also
+  updates the ABI in an incompatible way: this includes removal of
+  sframe_get_funcdesc_with_addr API, change in the behavior of
+  sframe_fre_get_ra_offset and sframe_fre_get_fp_offset APIs.
+
+* SFrame Version 2 is now the default (and only) format version supported by
+  gas, ld, readelf and objdump.
+  
+* Add command-line option, --strip-section-headers, to objcopy and strip to
+  remove ELF section header from ELF file.
+
+* The RISC-V port now supports the following new standard extensions:
+  - Zicond (conditional zero instructions)
+  - Zfa (additional floating-point instructions)
+
+* The RISC-V port now supports the following vendor-defined extensions:
+  - XVentanaCondOps
+
+Changes in 2.40:
+
+* Objdump has a new command line option --show-all-symbols which will make it
+  display all symbols that match a given address when disassembling.  (Normally
+  only the first symbol that matches an address is shown).
+
+* Add --enable-colored-disassembly configure time option to enable colored
+  disassembly output by default, if the output device is a terminal.  Note,
+  this configure option is disabled by default.
+  
+* DCO signed contributions are now accepted.
+
+* objcopy --decompress-debug-sections now supports zstd compressed debug
+  sections.  The new option --compress-debug-sections=zstd compresses debug
+  sections with zstd.
+
+* addr2line and objdump --dwarf now support zstd compressed debug sections.
+
+* The dlltool program now accepts --deterministic-libraries and
+  --non-deterministic-libraries as command line options to control whether or
+  not it generates deterministic output libraries.  If neither of these options
+  are used the default is whatever was set when the binutils were configured.
+  
+* readelf and objdump now have a newly added option --sframe which dumps the
+  SFrame section.
+
+Changes in 2.39:
+
+* Add --no-weak/-W option to nm to make it ignore weak symbols.
+
 * Add an option to objdump and readelf to prevent attempts to access debuginfod
   servers when following links.
+
 * objcopy --weaken, --weaken-symbol, and --weaken-symbols now make ELF
   STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbols weak.
 
@@ -845,7 +903,7 @@ Changes in binutils 2.1:
   and/or local symbols only.  They now also support long options.
 
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