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 d3bdbdf1fdaecae544df2a889f92ae49320ee31b..6259340971be0b8ae802c9a8fe00277c89f85629 100644 (file)
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7
+1.8

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ce0daaddfe43730d81b2bc2d9d0a8080ff9f5789..104c9506abb172f6a975399b16dba0b22fb8cf9f 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8 (2016-04-26) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 0fd675e545655562bbe35f6a4a4e23bf7bfd4d0d..6f75c0f27508cf0f255ff271dc06556cecaea0ff 100644 (file)
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib
 # Now that we have better tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes
 
-old_NEWS_hash = a0dd634b3c42fe877ba42dcc5a9b31f8
+old_NEWS_hash = 8856cfaaa524d2f64231c21b004a5c1a
 
 sc_obs_header_regex = \
   \<(STDC_HEADERS|HAVE_(LIMITS|STRING|UNISTD|STDLIB)_H)\>