[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release GCC 4.9-2016.02

[Ryan Arnold]

The Linaro Binary Toolchain
============================

The Linaro GCC 4.9-2016.02 Release is now available.

Notice: All Linaro GCC 4.9 series toolchain users should migrate to
the latest version of the Linaro GCC 4.9 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/4.9-2016.02/
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2016.02/

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
==================

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 4.9-2016.02

FSF eglibc 2.19 (eglibc.git/linaro_eglibc-2_19)

Linaro newlib 2.1.0-2014.09 (linaro_newlib-branch)

Linaro binutils 2.24 (linaro_binutils-2_24-branch)

FSF GDB 7.10 (gdb-7.10-branch)

Linaro Linux Version 3.17-2014.10 (linux-linaro-3.17-2014.10)

Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:

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

NEWS for Linaro GCC 4.9-2016.02
================================

* The armv8l-linux-gnueabihf targetted toolchain is now built using
--with-mode=thumb (like all of the other cross toolchains) rather than
the default which is ARM mode.

* Applied fix for CVE-2015-7545 - A stack-based buffer overflow in
glibc's getaddrinfo() was corrected in glibc 2.23 and backported into
Linaro eglibc 2.19 (linaro_eglibc-2_19).

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

* See the following Linaro GCC snapshot:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.9-2015.10/


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Ryan S. Arnold | Linaro Toolchain Engineering Manager
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