Added NEWS items for releases/linaro-6.4-2017.08-rc1.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/components/toolchain/binaries/README.textile.series b/components/toolchain/binaries/README.textile.series
index b26a741..07426af 100644
--- a/components/toolchain/binaries/README.textile.series
+++ b/components/toolchain/binaries/README.textile.series
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
 {# This document uses jinja2 templating markup.  Please refer to the Jinja2
    template documentation for further information.
 
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ Linaro binutils 2.27 (linaro-local/linaro_binutils-2_27-branch)
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block gdb_version_block %}
-Linaro GDB 7.12 (gdb-7.12-branch)
+Linaro GDB 8.0 (gdb-8.0-branch)
 
 {{ urlind(8,"https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-10/msg00007.html") }}
 {% endblock %}
@@ -75,6 +76,24 @@ Linaro GDB 7.12 (gdb-7.12-branch)
 {% block news %}
 
 {% call format("news") -%}
+Previous MinGW hosted version of Linaro GCC C preprocessor failed to convert character set used for string, character constants, etc.  This is fixed in this release.
+{% endcall %}
+
+{% call format("newscont") -%}
+Linaro bugzilla #3040 : CC1 and cc1plus cannot convert UTF-8.
+{% endcall %}
+
+{{ urlind(6,"https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3040") }}
+
+{% call format("news") -%}
+The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05 snapshot added support for -mpure-code option to ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M targets.  This option ensures functions are put into sections that contain only code and no data.
+{% endcall %}
+
+{% call format("news") -%}
+The GDB version was upgraded from GDB 8.0.
+{% endcall %}
+
+{% call format("news") -%}
 Previous versions of the Linaro GCC 6 toolchain, when -static -E/—dynamic-list are passed to the linker, might create executables with dynamic sections which aren’t supported by run-time. This was exhibited in Perf Tools build system and has been fixed upstream and backported into Linaro Binutils 2.27 branch.
 {% endcall %}
 
@@ -283,7 +302,7 @@ Fix the generation of alignment frags in code sections for AArch64.
 {{ urlind(6,"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20364") }}
 
 {% call format("news") -%}
-Performance related backports from the following snapshots have been included: Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.07, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.09, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.12, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03 and Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.04.
+Performance related backports from the following snapshots have been included: Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.07, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.09, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.12, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.04, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.06 and Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.07 .
 
 See the following Linaro GCC snapshots:
 {% endcall %}
@@ -299,5 +318,8 @@ See the following Linaro GCC snapshots:
 {{ urlind(6,"http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.02/") }}
 {{ urlind(6,"http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.03/") }}
 {{ urlind(6,"http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.04/") }}
+{{ urlind(6,"http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.05/") }}
+{{ urlind(6,"http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.06/") }}
+{{ urlind(6,"http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.07/") }}
 
 {% endblock %}