maint: post-release administrivia

* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

diff --git a/.prev-version b/.prev-version
index 292b23912d3d7608765609252537eefaa3b0b0b6..5e1b8b06fe336fa667619e6629ab06276d060591 100644 (file)
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.68b
+2.69

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 86f728ae6694df497d4eaba9e60920fbe9810120..61e3bd2b1b9578bf5b422603bf42314db4ed85e0 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.69 (2012-04-24) [stable]
 
 ** Autoconf now requires perl 5.6 or better (but generated configure

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index e79ff5563a036b9e6845c99bed5cbf39f08b5bd4..23ebe4ef19ad6d1a560a04edf4e30232042c5d25 100644 (file)
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ update-copyright-env = \
   UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH=72
 
 # Prevent incorrect NEWS edits.
-old_NEWS_hash = 54ad39275441a2a3fcbe6182da4f84fb
+old_NEWS_hash = 8532b4ed4fb456eb71071a5cf8c258d4
 
 exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_undesirable_word_seq = \
   ^(maint\.mk|build-aux/texinfo\.tex)$$