From 0078b8a5a38f2cce0fd3f0994210f2cad5ec23b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 14:23:23 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] version 1.9

* NEWS: Record release date.
---
 NEWS | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9ab0581..3fb3ac4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
-* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.9 (2018-01-07) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
-- 
2.30.2