GNU Binutils 2.44 Released

Version 2.44 of the GNU Binutils package has been released. Perhaps themost significant change is the absence of the "gold" linker, which isdeprecated and about to disappear entirely. Gold appeared in 2008 with some fanfare as a fasterlinker, but it has suffered from a lack of maintenance in recent years.This release also includes some architecture-specific assemblerimprovements, and some (non-gold) linker enhancements.