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GDB 7.10 released!

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>

To: gdb-announce at sourceware dot org, info-gnu at gnu dot org

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:54:04 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: GDB 7.10 released!

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GDB 7.10 released! Release 7.10 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows variants. You can download GDB from the GNU FTP server in the directory: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb The vital stats: Size md5sum Name 18MiB 2a35bac41fa8e10bf04f3a0dd7f7f363 gdb-7.10.tar.xz 32MiB fa6827ad0fd2be1daa418abb11a54d86 gdb-7.10.tar.gz There is a web page for GDB at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ That page includes information about GDB mailing lists (an announcement mailing list, developers discussion lists, etc.), details on how to access GDB's source repository, locations for development snapshots, preformatted documentation, and links to related information around the net. We will put errata notes and host-specific tips for this release on-line as any problems come up. All mailing lists archives are also browsable via the web. GDB 7.10 brings new targets, features and improvements, including: * Improved support for accessing shared libraries directly from the target system when debugging remotely. * Various Guile and Python scripting improvements, including (but not limited to): ** Support for auto-loading Python/Guile scripts contained in a special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts'. ** Support for writing a frame unwinder in Python. * Support for record-replay and reverse debugging on Aarch64 Linux. * GDB now has support for fork events on extended-remote Linux targets (Linux kernels 2.5.60 and later). * Support for DTrace USDT (Userland Static Defined Tracing) probes on x86_64 GNU/Linux targets. * Vector ABI support on S/390 GNU/Linux targets. * GDB now reads the GDBHISTSIZE environment variable rather than HISTSIZE to determine the size of GDB's command history. * Support for setting the parity when connecting to the target using a serial interface. * It is now possible to limit the number of candidates to be considered during completion. * Support for Sun's version of the "stabs" debug file format has been removed. * Support for the following targets and native configurations has been removed: ** HP/PA running HP-UX (hppa*-*-hpux*) ** Itanium running HP-UX (ia64-*-hpux*) Support for the "-xdb" command-line switch (HP-UX XDB compatibility mode) has also been removed. For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the gdb/NEWS file. -- Joel Brobecker