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..4a6a8097dcd38770c6280fa75c848985902530ed 100644 (file)
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.71
+2.72d

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7fed5d1d4442af274a6c1295d5f299578cc2466c..14bfad6ec675b4f54d661c9bb6e8339aed4f81df 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.72d (2023-11-30) [beta]
 
 ** Backward incompatibilities

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index aef751a64f149ee181fc35955cb64d3041a09ac9..27d2e9ee9d5a2c4f9dbc3d469e6ee48191f68930 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 = 81984f33d5e88cf9bfc962b22a2156f4
 
 # Update autoconf-latest.tar.* symlinks during 'make stable/beta'.
 GNUPLOADFLAGS = --symlink-regex