identifiers: dashes are letters.

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   for any NAME and VALUE.  Omitting `=VALUE' on the command line is
   equivalent to omitting `"VALUE"' in the declaration.
 
+** %define variables renamed.
+
+  The following %define variables
+
+    api.push_pull
+    lr.keep_unreachable_states
+
+  have been renamed to
+
+    api.push-pull
+    lr.keep-unreachable-states
+
+  The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
+  for backward compatibility.
+
+** Symbols names
+
+  Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and variables
+  (e.g. push-pull), symbol names may include dashes in any position,
+  similarly to periods and underscores.  This is GNU extension over
+  POSIX Yacc whose use is reported by -Wyacc, and rejected in Yacc
+  mode (--yacc).
+
 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
 
   Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
@@ -70,6 +93,29 @@ Bison News
 
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
 
+** %code is now a permanent feature.
+
+  A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:
+
+    %{CODE%}
+
+  To provide a more flexible alternative, Bison 2.3b introduced the
+  %code directive with the following forms for C/C++:
+
+    %code          {CODE}
+    %code requires {CODE}
+    %code provides {CODE}
+    %code top      {CODE}
+
+  These forms are now considered permanent features of Bison.  See the
+  %code entries in the section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
+  manual for a summary of their functionality.  See the section
+  "Prologue Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the
+  advantages of %code over the traditional Yacc prologue directive.
+
+  Bison's Java feature as a whole including its current usage of %code
+  is still considered experimental.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):
 
 ** In the GLR defines file, unexpanded M4 macros in the yylval and yylloc