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| author | dim <dim@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-18 20:54:12 +0000 |
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| committer | dim <dim@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-18 20:54:12 +0000 |
| commit | 58abb279f50d5ad9fbad30a39da04296664ec6cb (patch) | |
| tree | 50e46c29de9d928e0d098104d28f1c1e0e628384 /UPDATING | |
| parent | e1012e9afb73b834c089b15373d264e45a7b03f0 (diff) | |
| parent | a3786f65f1e2fa3a4e925fdb4b2b5544b9021bf9 (diff) | |
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Merge binutils 2.17.50 to head. This brings a number of improvements to
x86 CPU support, better support for powerpc64, some new directives, and
many other things. Bump __FreeBSD_version, and add a note to UPDATING.
Thanks to the many people that have helped to test this.
Obtained from: projects/binutils-2.17
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.x IS SLOW: ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.) 20110218: + GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD. This + is the last available version under GPLv2. It brings a number of new + features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE + 4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new + directives, and lots of other small improvements. See the ChangeLog + file in contrib/binutils for the full details. + +20110218: IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868 compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication. This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all |
