From 807310c5c7e2585a6a8eaaebd376077d1ccb86e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Burgess Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 13:42:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gdb: announce upcoming removal of Python 2 support from gdb As has been discussed here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-January/184910.html Python 2 support will be removed from GDB after GDB 12 has branched. This commit places an entry in the NEWS file to inform users of this decision. --- gdb/NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index cf1e084fed6..4d282cb37dd 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ * DBX mode is deprecated, and will be removed in GDB 13 +* GDB 12 is the last release of GDB that will support building against + Python 2. From GDB 13, it will only be possible to build GDB itself + with Python 3 support. + * Improved C++ template support GDB now treats functions/types involving C++ templates like it does function -- 2.30.2