[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release GCC 5.3-2016.02 [Corrected Links]

[Ryan Arnold]

The Linaro Binary Toolchain
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The Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.02 Release is now available.

Notice: All Linaro GCC 5 series toolchain users should migrate to the
latest version of the Linaro GCC 5 toolchain in order to mitigate
potential security exposure to CVE-2015-7545. See the NEWS section
below for details.

Download release packages from:

http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.02/
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/5.3-2016.02/

Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/

Previous releases are at:

http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/

Host Requirements
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Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS
releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that
the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See
the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a
minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API.

https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869

Package Versions
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Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.02

FSF glibc 2.21 (release/2.21)

Linaro newlib 2.1.0-2014.09 (linaro_newlib-branch)

Linaro binutils 2.25 (linaro_binutils-2_25-branch)

FSF GDB 7.10 (gdb-7.10-branch)

Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:

http://git.linaro.org/?a=project_list&s=toolchain%2F&btnS=Search

NEWS for Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.02
================================

* Applied fix for CVE-2015-7545 - A stack-based buffer overflow in
glibc's getaddrinfo() was corrected in glibc 2.23 and backported into
glibc 2.21.

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00416.html

* ARMv8.1 Instruction Support - ARMv8.1 instructions support was checked
into GCC and binutils. It has been backported into Linaro GCC 5.3
and Linaro binutils 2.25.

* Backported -Bsymbolic-functions into Linaro binutils 2.25.

* Performance related backports from Linaro GCC 5.2-2015.11, Linaro GCC
5.2-2015.12, and Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.01-1 have been included.

See the following Linaro GCC snapshots:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.2-2015.11/
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2015.12/
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.01-1/


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