* NEWS: Add mentions of various new things.

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Stan Shebs
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* New native configurations
HP-UX 10.20 hppa*-*-hpux10.20
HP-UX 11.x hppa*-*-hpux11.0*
M68K Linux m68*-*-linux*
* New targets
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Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf*
Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-*
* Readline 2.2
GDB now uses readline 2.2.
* HP-UX Support
Thanks to a major code donation from HP, GDB now has much more
extensive support for HP-UX. Added features include shared library
support, kernel threads and hardware watchpoints for 11.00, support
for HP's ANSI C and C++ compilers, and compatibility mode for xdb
commands.
* Catchpoints
HP's donation includes the new concept of catchpoints, which is a
generalization of the old catch command. On HP-UX, it is now possible
to catch exec, fork, and vfork, as well as library loading.
* Debugging Across Forks
On HP-UX, you can choose which process to debug when a fork() happens
in the inferior.
* TUI
HP has donated a curses-based terminal user interface (TUI). To get
it, build with --enable-tui.
* GDB Remote protocol
For 64 bit targets, the memory packets ("M" and "m") can now contain a