From 96829a9ff03a4bf50f28146d3f9290ddaab7128a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:20:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] post-release administrivia

* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
---
 .prev-version | 2 +-
 NEWS          | 3 +++
 cfg.mk        | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.prev-version b/.prev-version
index 38abeb202c..cc40bca69a 100644
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.6
+8.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 78445b9ab7..d8e23c46e0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.0 (2009-10-06) [beta]
 
 ** Bug fixes
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 633fdb08c0..5de2f37d50 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib,bison
 # Now that we have better tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes
 
-old_NEWS_hash = 0d22ab4ad3fedd9cf283b256b61e8080
+old_NEWS_hash = 785e51bc9af87e7eb004f9ba24a0ca27
 
 # Ensure that the list of O_ symbols used to compute O_FULLBLOCK is complete.
 dd = $(srcdir)/src/dd.c
-- 
2.47.3