From 60fa7a04a01d91272f7bfcf43f153323580c25c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: roypen <roypen@outlook.com>
Date: Apr 07 2020 15:40:56 +0000
Subject: Created file with release notes for Binutils 2.33.

Added menu entry with link to development section.
Issue #411

Signed-off-by: roypen <roypen@outlook.com>

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diff --git a/modules/release-notes/nav.adoc b/modules/release-notes/nav.adoc
index 32e2a24..60bb186 100644
--- a/modules/release-notes/nav.adoc
+++ b/modules/release-notes/nav.adoc
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ include::{partialsdir}/entities.adoc[]
 *** xref:developers/Development_Tools.adoc[Development Tools]
 *** xref:developers/Development_C.adoc[C]
 *** xref:developers/Containers.adoc[Containers]
+*** xref:developers/Development_Binutils.adoc[Binutils]
 *** xref:developers/Development_Boost.adoc[Boost]
 *** xref:developers/Development_D.adoc[D]
 *** xref:developers/Development_Erlang.adoc[Erlang]
diff --git a/modules/release-notes/pages/developers/Development_Binutils.adoc b/modules/release-notes/pages/developers/Development_Binutils.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ce84cd
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+++ b/modules/release-notes/pages/developers/Development_Binutils.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+
+include::{partialsdir}/entities.adoc[]
+
+[[sect-binutils]]
+
+
+= Binutils
+[[back]]
+== GNU Binutils 2.33	
+Fedora 32 comes with GNU Binutils based on 2.33.1 release. This release brings a lot of bug fixes, improvements to the linker, as well as support for the CTF debug format. 
+
+=== New Features and Bug Fixes:
+
+
+== Assembler:
+    
+    * Adds support for the Arm Scalable Vector Extension version 2
+      (SVE2) instructions, the Arm Transactional Memory Extension (TME)
+      instructions and the Armv8.1-M Mainline and M-profile Vector
+      Extension (MVE) instructions.
+
+    * Adds support for the Arm Cortex-A76AE, Cortex-A77 and Cortex-M35P
+      processors and the AArch64 Cortex-A34, Cortex-A65, Cortex-A65AE,
+      Cortex-A76AE, and Cortex-A77 processors.
+
+    * Adds a .float16 directive for both Arm and AArch64 to allow
+      encoding of 16-bit floating point literals.
+
+    * For MIPS, Add -m[no-]fix-loongson3-llsc option to fix (or not)
+      Loongson3 LLSC Errata.  Add a --enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=[yes|no]
+      configure time option to set the default behavior. Set the default
+      if the configure option is not used to "no".
+
+
+== Linker:
+
+    * The Cortex-A53 Erratum 843419 workaround now supports a choice of
+      which workaround to use.  The option --fix-cortex-a53-843419 now
+      takes an optional argument --fix-cortex-a53-843419[=full|adr|adrp]
+      which can be used to force a particular workaround to be used.
+      See --help for AArch64 for more details.
+
+    * Add support for GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI and
+      GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC  in ELF GNU program properties
+      in the AArch64 ELF linker. 
+
+    * Add -z force-bti for AArch64 to enable GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI
+      on output while warning about missing GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI 
+      on inputs and use PLTs protected with BTI.
+
+    * Add -z pac-plt for AArch64 to pick PAC enabled PLTs.
+
+== Utilities:
+
+    * Add `--source-comment[=<txt>]` option to objdump which if present,
+      provides a prefix to source code lines displayed in a disassembly.
+
+    * Add `--set-section-alignment` <section-name>=<power-of-2-align>
+      option to objcopy to allow the changing of section alignments.
+
+    * Add `--verilog-data-width` option to objcopy for verilog targets to
+      control width of data elements in verilog hex format.
+
+    * The separate debug info file options of readelf (--debug-dump=links
+      and --debug-dump=follow) and objdump (--dwarf=links and
+      --dwarf=follow-links) will now display and/or follow multiple
+      links if more than one are present in a file.  (This usually
+      happens when gcc's -gsplit-dwarf option is used).
+
+
+    * Add support for dumping types encoded in the Compact Type Format
+      to objdump and readelf. 
+
+See the link:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-10/msg00006.html[upstream release announcement] for more detailed information about this release.
+
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