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-*- text -*-
+* PE targets no longer make use of the long section names PE extension to
+ the COFF format when generating executable images, by default. The old
+ (slightly non-conformant) behaviour can still be invoked by using the
+ new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option.
+
* --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries. In the
latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED