[binutils-gdb] Add in NEWS about dropping AIX 7.1 support.

Aditya Kamath via Gdb-cvs <[email protected]>
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c116c67be27fad91095a2bb13bc0bd48f4e4d623

commit c116c67be27fad91095a2bb13bc0bd48f4e4d623
Author: Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 18 08:27:38 2026 -0500

    Add in NEWS about dropping AIX 7.1 support.
    
    The minimum supported version of AIX for GDB will be 7.2 TL5 as mentioned in the below link.
    
    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-support-lifecycle-information
    
    Approved-By: Ulrich Weigand <[email protected]>

Diff:
---
 gdb/NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index da74c248c54..d491db67b76 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ qExecAndArgs
      deprecated since GDB 10.  Users who need to control the size of a
      memory port's internal buffer can use the 'setvbuf' procedure.
 
+* Removed targets and native configurations 
+
+  GDB no longer supports AIX 7.1.  The minimum supported
+  AIX version is now AIX 7.2 TL5.  GDB will only support
+  DWARF debugging in AIX, going forward.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 17
 
 * Debugging Linux programs that use x86-64 or x86-64 with 32-bit pointer
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