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                What has changed in GDB?
             (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 6.7
+*** Changes since GDB 6.8
+
+* Watchpoints can now be set on unreadable memory locations, e.g. addresses
+which will be allocated using malloc later in program execution.
+
+* The qXfer:libraries:read remote procotol packet now allows passing a
+  list of section offsets.
+
+* New features in the GDB remote stub, gdbserver
+
+  - The "--wrapper" command-line argument tells gdbserver to use a
+  wrapper program to launch programs for debugging.
+
+* New commands
+
+set debug timetstamp
+show debug timestamp
+  Display timestamps with GDB debugging output.
+
+set exec-wrapper
+show exec-wrapper
+unset exec-wrapper
+  Use a wrapper program to launch programs for debugging.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 6.8
 
 * New native configurations
 
@@ -62,6 +86,20 @@ Decimal Floating Point extension.  In addition, the PowerPC target
 now has a set of pseudo-registers to inspect decimal float values
 stored in two consecutive float registers.
 
+* The -break-insert MI command can optionally create pending
+breakpoints now.
+
+* Improved support for debugging Ada
+  Many improvements to the Ada language support have been made.  These
+  include:
+    - Better support for Ada2005 interface types
+    - Improved handling of arrays and slices in general
+    - Better support for Taft-amendment types
+    - The '{type} ADDRESS' expression is now allowed on the left hand-side
+      of an assignment
+    - Improved command completion in Ada
+    - Several bug fixes
+
 * New commands
 
 set print frame-arguments (all|scalars|none)