GDB 14.2 released!

[Joel Brobecker]

            GDB 14.2 released!

Release 14.2 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available.  GDB is
a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, 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.
GDB is free (libre) software.

You can download GDB from the GNU HTTPS server in the directory:

        https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/?C=M;O=D

The vital stats:

  Size   sha256sum                                                         Name
  23MiB  2d4dd8061d8ded12b6c63f55e45344881e8226105f4d2a9b234040efa5ce7772  
gdb-14.2.tar.xz
  40MiB  2de5174762e959a5e529e20c20d88a04735469d8fffd98f61664e70b341dc47c  
gdb-14.2.tar.gz

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        https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/

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GDB 14.2 brings the following fixes and enhancements over GDB 14.1:

* PR symtab/31112 (DLL export forwarding is broken)

* PR c++/31128 (gdb crashes when trying to print a global variable stub without 
a running inferior)

* PR tdep/31254 ([gdb/tdep, arm] FAIL: gdb.threads/staticthreads.exp: up 10)

* PR gdb/31256 (Crash with basic 'list .')

* PR python/31366 (Frame.static_link() segfaults)

GDB 14.1 includes the following changes and enhancements:

* Removed features, removed configurations:

  ** GDB no longer support AiX 4.x, 5.x and 6.x. The minimum version
     supported is AiX 7.1.

  ** GDB/MI version 1 support has been removed

* Initial built-in support for Debugger Adapter Protocol (DAP)

* GDB now recognizes the NO_COLOR environment variable

* Initial support for integer types larger than 64 bits

* Breakpoints can now be inferior-specific

* New convenience function "$_shell", to execute a shell command and
  return its result.

* Python support

  ** New class gdb.Thread

  ** New class gdb.unwinder.FrameId

  ** New class gdb.ValuePrinter

  ** New gdb.Inferior.arguments attribute, holding the command-line
     arguments to the inferior, if known

  ** New gdb.Inferior.main_name attribute, holding the name of
     the inferior's 'main', if known.

  ** New gdb.Breakpoint.inferior attribute

  ** New gdb.Progspace.symbol_file attribute

  ** New gdb.Progspace.executable_filename attribute

  ** New function gdb.execute_mi(COMMAND, [ARG]...)

  ** New function gdb.block_signals()

  ** New method gdb.Frame.static_link

  ** New gdb.Inferior 'clear_env', 'set_env' and 'unset_env' methods

  ** New gdb.Type now has the 'is_array_like' and 'is_string_like'
     methods

  ** New gdb.Value 'assign' method

  ** New gdb.Value 'to_array' method

  ** New gdb.Progspace 'objfile_for_address' method

  ** New methods added to the gdb.PendingFrame class, with behavior
     which is the same as the corresponding methods on gdb.Frame.

  ** gdb.LazyString now implements the __str__ method

  ** New event gdb.ThreadExitedEvent

  ** New event gdb.ExecutableChangedEvent

  ** New event gdb.NewProgspaceEvent

  ** New event gdb.FreeProgspaceEvent

  ** The frame-id passed to gdb.PendingFrame.create_unwind_info
     now use either an integer or a gdb.Value object for each of its
     'sp', 'pc', and 'special' attributes.

  ** The Disassembler API from the gdb.disassembler module has been
     extended to include styling support

  ** gdb.parse_and_eval now has a new "global_context" parameter,
     allowing the request to only examine global symbols.

  ** The name argument passed to gdb.unwinder.Unwinder.__init__ must
     now be of type 'str' otherwise a TypeError will be raised.

  ** The gdb.unwinder.Unwinder.enabled attribute can now only accept
      values of type 'bool'.  Changing this attribute will now
      invalidate GDB's frame-cache.

  ** It is now no longer possible to sub-class the
     gdb.disassembler.DisassemblerResult type.

* Remote protocol

  ** Support for enabling or disabling individual remote target features

* GDB/MI support

  ** New 'no-history' stop reason

  ** Support for inferior-specific breakpoints

  ** The bkpt tuple, which appears in breakpoint-created notifications,
     and in the result of the -break-insert command can now include an
     optional 'inferior' field for both the main breakpoint, and each
     location, when the breakpoint is inferior-specific.

  ** Trying to create a thread-specific breakpoint using a non-existent
     thread ID now results in an error

  ** New "simple-values-ref-types" -list-feature value indicating how
     the --simple-values option in various commands take reference types
     into account.

* Enhanced AArch64 support

  ** Initial support for Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) and for Scalable
     Matrix Extension 2 (SME2)

  ** The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth' Pointer Authentication feature
     is now deprecated in favor of the 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth_v2'
     feature string

* Enhanced Ada support

  ** Support for the Ada 2022 target name symbol ('@')

  ** Support for the The Ada 2022 'Enum_Rep and 'Enum_Val attributes

* Miscellaneous

  ** The 'list' command now accepts '.' as an argument, telling GDB
     to print the location around the point of execution within
     the current frame

  ** New '%V' output format for printf and dprintf commands.

  ** The printf command now limits the size of strings fetched from
     the inferior to the value of the 'max-value-size' setting.

  ** Support for extending at configure time the default value of
     the 'debug-file-directory' GDB parameter via the new
     --additional-debug-dirs=PATHs configure option.

  ** New command "info main"

  ** New command "set tui mouse-events [on|off]" (on by default)

  ** New command "set always-read-ctf on|off" (off by default)

  ** Various new debug and maitenance commands

For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the gdb/NEWS
file, available at:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gdb/NEWS;hb=gdb-14.2-release

-- 
Joel Brobecker