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 b93b4f20b0090880c92f89f38c54577f1832555d..80bf4d0f85695989cef9688ddae9925648d6f3bb 100644 (file)
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.71
+2.72

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3d63fd2d5168b5f19778b41b948c06476d67d401..2c75928dd30058f0aa1c278edf1b36df2df00fa4 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.72 (2023-12-22) [release]
 
 ** Backward incompatibilities

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index aef751a64f149ee181fc35955cb64d3041a09ac9..697f8be125d86cce9e68ee85a5dcc7aa58c39719 100644 (file)
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ update-release-year:
 .PHONY: update-release-year
 
 # Prevent incorrect NEWS edits.
-old_NEWS_hash = 18aef204e16f6fe9487ab79ca2556ab4
+old_NEWS_hash = 20f602e498b46edc50ce5bc31aeb58fc
 
 # Update autoconf-latest.tar.* symlinks during 'make stable/beta'.
 GNUPLOADFLAGS = --symlink-regex