Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for
creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU
assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the
GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for
copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying
information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for
the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed
information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes
of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings
from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for
converting addresses to file and line).
* Thu Nov 27 2025 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.40-21.1
- Fix a potential illegal memory access when linking a corrupt input file. (RHEL-130652)
* Thu Feb 22 2024 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.40-21
- Run x86_64 assembler tests for znver5 architecture extension. (RHEL-23798)
* Tue Feb 13 2024 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.40-20
- Add support for AMD's znver5 architecture extension. (RHEL-23798)
* Fri Feb 09 2024 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.40-19
- Spec File: Restore the SElinux context to %{_libdir}. (RHEL-22818)
- [2.40-18: was a failed attempt to fix RHEL-22818]
* Thu Jan 11 2024 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.40-17
- Spec File: Do not use of the system zlib by default. (RHEL-19373)
- Spec File: Do not check the mtime of ld.bfd. (RHEL-21303)
* Tue Dec 12 2023 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.40-16
- Disable building static libraries with LTO. (RHEL-18800)