maint: prepare for 1.17 release.

* configure.ac (AC_INIT): 1.17.
(APIVERSION): also 1.17. (Yikes.)
* m4/amversion.m4: likewise (auto-updated).
* HACKING: tweak release info some more.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 81071189cc225ff7da2e80e471cd65ef56ad9cfb..23e8271dd2c0128d698fe85aa626bb1151b7bc4b 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -443,12 +443,13 @@
 * Some hints for debugging test failures or trying to understand the
   (complex) test infrastructure.
 
-  - You may want a simple test just to exercise the setup; t/amassign.sh
-  is such a test. For a simple test that runs automake twice (sometimes
-  useful in finding concurrency failures), try t/nodef.sh.
-
   - The t/ax/ dir contains most of the test infrastructure files.
 
+  - You may want to try a simple test just to exercise the setup;
+  t/amassign.sh is such a test. For a simple test that runs automake
+  twice (sometimes useful in finding concurrency failures), try
+  t/nodef.sh.
+
   - To trace the (complex) test initialization code, change the set -e
   to set -ex (or whatever you wish) in t/ax/test-init.sh.
   Automake itself enables -x for the *.log and test-suite.log files,
@@ -528,13 +529,7 @@
 * Check NEWS; in particular, ensure that all the relevant differences
   with the last release are included.
 
-* Create an announcement message with "make announcement".  Edit the
-  generated 'announcement' file appropriately, in particularly filling
-  in by hand any "TODO" left in there.  It's useful to do this early,
-  because carefully writing the announcement can easily bring to light
-  things that still need to be worked on.
-
-* Update the version number in configure.ac.  Leading up to a release,
+* Update the AC_INIT version number in configure.ac.  Leading up to a release,
   say 1.17, pretests should be numbered from 1.16.90. Even numbers
   (1.16.90, 1.16.92, ...) should be the pretest releases; odd numbers
   (1.16.91, 1.16.93, ...) should be only the development versions.
@@ -542,6 +537,15 @@
   Before 1.17 (July 2024), we used suffixed letters for pretests,
   as is traditional, but deficient sorting algorithms did not like that.
 
+* If making a minor or major release (1.x), also update APIVERSION
+  in configure.ac.
+
+* Create an announcement message with "make announcement".  Edit the
+  generated 'announcement' file appropriately, in particularly filling
+  in by hand any "TODO" left in there.  It's useful to do this early,
+  because carefully writing the announcement can easily bring to light
+  things that still need to be worked on.
+
 * Run these commands, in this order (as mentioned, adjust -j as desired):
     make bootstrap
     make -j12 check keep_testdirs=yes
@@ -556,8 +560,8 @@
   because that command will remove *all* the files that are not tracked
   by git!  Run git status first to ensure all removals are ok.
 
-* Create the automated part of the announcement with the announce-gen
-  script that is part of gnulib:
+* Create additional info for the announcement with the announce-gen
+  script that is part of gnulib (it requires the release tarball):
     pkg=automake
     prever=1.16.92
     newver=1.16.94

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 13c9f59aeb50c65e73291562427ff58c7ad97ce1..ac40404efe3972775df62cc1109c1ec683e63f79 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([GNU Automake], [1.16.93], [bug-automake@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([GNU Automake], [1.17], [bug-automake@gnu.org])
 
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([bin/automake.in])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([lib])
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ AC_SUBST([RELEASE_YEAR])
 
 # The API version is the base version.  We must guarantee
 # compatibility for all releases with the same API version.
-APIVERSION=1.16
+APIVERSION=1.17
 AC_SUBST([APIVERSION])
 
 AC_SUBST([pkgvdatadir], ["\${datadir}/$PACKAGE-$APIVERSION"])

diff --git a/m4/amversion.m4 b/m4/amversion.m4
index 1aa37724a408a25a011c38f30a25e697cda78fe5..739cee48046a65f437eb40ab44ecd6c82e178f44 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/amversion.m4
+++ b/m4/amversion.m4
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 # generated from the m4 files accompanying Automake X.Y.
 # (This private macro should not be called outside this file.)
 AC_DEFUN([AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION],
-[am__api_version='1.16'
+[am__api_version='1.17'
 dnl Some users find AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION and mistake it for a way to
 dnl require some minimum version.  Point them to the right macro.
-m4_if([$1], [1.16.93], [],
+m4_if([$1], [1.17], [],
       [AC_FATAL([Do not call $0, use AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([$1]).])])dnl
 ])
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ m4_define([_AM_AUTOCONF_VERSION], [])
 # Call AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION and AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION so they can be traced.
 # This function is AC_REQUIREd by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
 AC_DEFUN([AM_SET_CURRENT_AUTOMAKE_VERSION],
-[AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION([1.16.93])dnl
+[AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION([1.17])dnl
 m4_ifndef([AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION],
   [m4_copy([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION], [AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION])])dnl
 _AM_AUTOCONF_VERSION(m4_defn([AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION]))])