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+Changes in 2.43:
+
+* Add support for LoongArch DT_RELR (compressed R_LARCH_RELATIVE).
+
+* Put .got .got.plt in the relro to make it read-only after relocation.
+
+* Add -z isa-level-report=[none|all|needed|used] to the x86 ELF linker
+ to report needed and used x86-64 ISA levels.
+
+* Add --rosegment option which changes the -z separate-code option so that
+ only one read-only segment is created (instead of two). (The option name
+ is misleading, but it matches the name used by LLD and GOLD).
+
+* Add --section-ordering-file <FILE> option to add extra mapping of input
+ sections to output sections.
+
+* Add -plugin-save-temps to store plugin intermediate files permanently.
+
+Changes in 2.42:
+
+* Add -z mark-plt/-z nomark-plt options to x86-64 ELF linker to mark PLT
+ entries with DT_X86_64_PLT, DT_X86_64_PLTSZ and DT_X86_64_PLTENT dynamic
+ tags. Also added --enable-mark-plt configure option to mark PLT entries
+ by default.
+
+* Support Intel APX relocations.
+
+* On RISC-V, add ld target option --[no-]check-uleb128. Should rebuild the
+ objects by binutils 2.42 and up if enabling the option and get warnings,
+ since the non-zero addend of SUB_ULEB128 shouldn't be generated from .uleb128
+ directives.
+
+* Add support for the KVX instruction set.
+
+* A new linker script sorting directive has been added: REVERSE. This reverses
+ the order of the sorting. It may be combined with either SORT_BY_NAME or
+ SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY.
+
+* Added --warn-execstack-objects to warn about executable stacks only when an
+ input object file requests one. Also added --error-execstack and
+ --error-rxw-segments options to convert warnings about executable stacks and
+ segments into errors.
+
+ Also added --enable-error-execstack=[yes|no] and
+ --enable-error-rwx-segments=[yes|no] configure options to set the default for
+ converting warnings into errors.
+
+* On LoongArch, various linker relaxation bugs are fixed; the most notable
+ of which is BZ 30944 (incorrect .balign semantics).
+
+* On LoongArch, the LoongArch ABI v2.30 (LoongArch ELF psABI v20231219) is
+ now implemented. This includes new relocation types, and changed
+ semantics for PC-relative relocations handling the higher half of 64-bit
+ offsets.
+
+* On LoongArch, link-time TLS optimization and TLS relaxation are now
+ supported.
+
+Changes in 2.41:
+
+* The linker now accepts a command line option of --remap-inputs
+ <PATTERN>=<FILE> to relace any input file that matches <PATTERN> with
+ <FILE>. In addition the option --remap-inputs-file=<FILE> can be used to
+ specify a file containing any number of these remapping directives.
+
+* The linker command line option --print-map-locals can be used to include
+ local symbols in a linker map. (ELF targets only).
+
+* For most ELF based targets, if the --enable-linker-version option is used
+ then the version of the linker will be inserted as a string into the .comment
+ section.
+
+* The linker script syntax has a new command for output sections: ASCIZ "string"
+ This will insert a zero-terminated string at the current location.
+
+* Add command-line option, -z nosectionheader, to omit ELF section
+ header.
+
+Changes in 2.40:
+
* The linker has a new command line option to suppress the generation of any
warning or error messages. This can be useful when there is a need to create
a known non-working binary. The option is -w or --no-warnings.
that selects the default compression algorithm
for --enable-compressed-debug-sections.
+* Remove support for -z bndplt (MPX prefix instructions).
+
Changes in 2.39:
* The ELF linker will now generate a warning message if the stack is made
other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.
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