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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7454a4bfa0..e48d7438e2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ Major new features: * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with - --enable-standard-branch-protection. This includes branch target + --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard + flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc, + in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture extensions respectively for the protection to be effective, |