It's not noted in the NEWS, but the NetBSD Project introduced almost 100 commits in the binutils-gdb repository this year, improving the hardware support, reach

It's not noted in the NEWS, but the NetBSD Project introduced almost 100 commits in the binutils-gdb repository this year, improving the hardware support, reaching feature parity with generic features, adding support for gdbserver (the first and so far the only one out of BSDs). There are reports of this work on blog.netbsd.org