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 Bison News
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-* Changes in version 2.5_rc1 (2011-05-01):
+* Changes in version 2.5.1 (????-??-??):
+
+** Future changes:
+
+  The next major release will drop support for K&R C.
+
+** yacc.c: YYBACKUP works as expected.
+
+** glr.c improvements:
+
+*** Location support is eliminated when not requested:
+
+  GLR parsers used to include location-related code even when
+  locations were not requested, and therefore not even usable.
+
+*** __attribute__ is preserved:
+
+  __attribute__ is no longer disabled when __STRICT_ANSI__ is defined
+  (i.e., when -std is passed to GCC).
+
+** lalr1.java: several fixes:
+
+  The Java parser no longer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if
+  the first token leads to a syntax error.  Some minor clean ups.
+
+** C++11 compatibility:
+
+  C and C++ parsers use nullptr instead of 0 when __cplusplus is
+  201103L or higher.
+
+** C++ locations:
+
+  The position and location constructors (and their initialize
+  methods) accept new arguments for line and column.  Several issues
+  in the documentation were fixed.
+
+** liby is no longer asking for "rpl_fprintf" on some platforms.
+
+** Several improvements have been made to the manual:
+
+  The layout for grammar excerpts was changed to a more compact
+  scheme.  Named references are motivated.  The description of the
+  automaton description file (*.output) is updated to the current
+  format.  Incorrect index entries were fixed.  Some other errors were
+  fixed.
+
+** Warnings during the build procedure have been eliminated.
+
+** Several portability problems in the test suite have been fixed:
+
+  This includes warnings with some compilers, unexpected behavior of
+  tools such as diff, warning messages from the test suite itself,
+  etc.
+
+* Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14):
 
 ** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes:
 
@@ -334,7 +388,7 @@ Bison News
 
     bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
 
-*** The `none' category now disables all Bison warnings.
+*** The `none' category now disables all Bison warnings:
 
   Previously, the `none' category disabled only Bison warnings for
   which there existed a specific -W/--warning category.  However,
@@ -343,6 +397,16 @@ Bison News
 
     bison -Wnone gram.y
 
+** Precedence directives can now assign token number 0:
+
+  Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence
+  directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has
+  produced an assertion failure.  For example:
+
+    %left END 0
+
+  This bug has been fixed.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
 
 ** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
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-Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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