Add markers for 2.42 branch

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-11-15  Arsen Arsenović  <arsen@aarsen.me>
 
 	* intl: Remove directory.  Replaced with out-of-tree GNU

bfd/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-12-05  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	PR 31106

binutils/BRANCHES

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ binutils-2_38-branch
 binutils-2_39-branch
 binutils-2_40-branch
 binutils-2_41-branch
+binutils-2_42-branch
 
 Copyright (C) 2012-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 

binutils/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-12-04  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
 	* dwarf.c (display_debug_names): Handle empty .debug_names hash

binutils/NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+Changes in 2.42:
+
 * The objdump program has a new command line option -Z/--decompress which
   changes the behaviour of the -s/--full-contents option, forcing it to
   decompress the contents of any compressed section before they are displayed.

binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ How to perform a release.
 How to create the release branch.
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-Approx time to complete from here: 2 hours ....
+Approx time to complete from here: 2 hours ...
 
   2.5 If you have not built from the sources recently then now is the
       time to check that they still work...
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Approx time to complete from here: 2 hours ....
      the NEWS files in gas, ld, and binutils.  No need to update NEWS
      in the gold directory - it has its own release numbering.
 
-     Likewise for the ChangeLog files in: bfd, binutils, config, cpu,
+     Likewise for the ChangeLog files in: bfd, binutils, cpu,
      elfcpp, gas, gold, gprof, include, ld, libctf, opcodes and toplevel.
 
      Add a note of the name of the new branch to binutils/BRANCHES.

cpu/ChangeLog

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+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-07-03  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	2.41 Branch Point.

elfcpp/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-07-03  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	2.41 Branch Point.

gas/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-11-30  Jose E. Marchesi  <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
 
 	* config/tc-bpf.h (DOUBLESLASH_LINE_COMMENTS): Define.

gas/NEWS

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 -*- text -*-
+
+Changes in 2.42:
+
 * Experimental support in GAS to synthesize CFI for ABI-conformant,
   hand-written asm using the new command line option --scfi=experimental on
   x86-64.  Only System V AMD64 ABI is supported.

gold/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-11-17  YunQiang Su  <yunqiang.su@cipunited.com>
 
 	* configure.tgt (mips targets): Set targ_extra_size=64.

gprof/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-11-15  Arsen Arsenović  <arsen@aarsen.me>
 
 	* aclocal.m4: Regenerate.

include/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-11-28  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>
 
 	* sha1.h (sha1_process_bytes_fn): New typedef.

ld/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-12-21  Rainer Orth  <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
 
 	* emulparams/elf_i386.sh (LIBPATH_SUFFIX, LIBPATH_SUFFIX_SKIP)

ld/NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+Changes in 2.42:
+
 * Add -z mark-plt/-z nomark-plt options to x86-64 ELF linker to mark PLT
   entries with DT_X86_64_PLT, DT_X86_64_PLTSZ and DT_X86_64_PLTENT dynamic
   tags.  Also added --enable-mark-plt configure option to mark PLT entries

libctf/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-11-15  Arsen Arsenović  <arsen@aarsen.me>
 
 	* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Define to empty to suppress a check in

opcodes/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-01-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* 2.42 branch point.
+
 2023-11-15  Arsen Arsenović  <arsen@aarsen.me>
 
 	* aclocal.m4: Regenerate.