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@@ -2,15 +2,72 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
-** Future changes
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  Buffer overruns, complaints from Flex, and portability issues in the test
+  suite have been fixed.
+
+** Spaces in %lex- and %parse-param (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
+
+  Trailing end-of-lines in %parse-param or %lex-param would result in
+  invalid C++.  This is fixed.
+
+** Spurious spaces and end-of-lines
+
+  The generated files no longer end (nor start) with empty lines.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.1 (2012-07-30) [stable]
+
+ Bison no longer executes user-specified M4 code when processing a grammar.
+
+** Future Changes
+
+  In addition to the removal of the features announced in Bison 2.6, the
+  next major release will remove the "Temporary hack for adding a semicolon
+  to the user action", as announced in the release 2.5.  Instead of:
+
+    exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
+
+  write:
+
+    exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+*** Type names are now properly escaped.
+
+*** glr.cc: set_debug_level and debug_level work as expected.
+
+*** Stray @ or $ in actions
+
+  While Bison used to warn about stray $ or @ in action rules, it did not
+  for other actions such as printers, destructors, or initial actions.  It
+  now does.
+
+** Type names in actions
+
+  For consistency with rule actions, it is now possible to qualify $$ by a
+  type-name in destructors, printers, and initial actions.  For instance:
+
+    %printer { fprintf (yyo, "(%d, %f)", $<ival>$, $<fval>$); } <*> <>;
+
+  will display two values for each typed and untyped symbol (provided
+  that YYSTYPE has both "ival" and "fval" fields).
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2012-07-19) [stable]
+
+** Future Changes
 
   The next major release of Bison will drop support for the following
   deprecated features.  Please report disagreements to bug-bison@gnu.org.
 
-*** K&C parsers
+*** K&R C parsers
 
   Support for generating parsers in K&R C will be removed.  Parsers
-  generated for C supprt ISO C90, and are tested with ISO C99 and ISO C11
+  generated for C support ISO C90, and are tested with ISO C99 and ISO C11
   compilers.
 
 *** Features deprecated since Bison 1.875
@@ -32,12 +89,12 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   because existing versions of ylwrap (e.g., Automake 1.12.1) do not support
   it.
 
-** Headers
+** Generated Parser Headers
 
 *** Guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
 
   The generated headers are now guarded, as is already the case for C++
-  parsers (lalr1.cc).  For intance, with --defines=foo.h:
+  parsers (lalr1.cc).  For instance, with --defines=foo.h:
 
     #ifndef YY_FOO_H
     # define YY_FOO_H
@@ -94,10 +151,19 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
     # define BAR_FOO_H                  # define BAR_FOO_H
 
     /* Enabling traces.  */             /* Enabling traces.  */
-    # ifndef YYDEBUG                    # ifndef YYDEBUG
-    #  define YYDEBUG 0                 #  define YYDEBUG 0
-    # endif                             # endif
-    # if YYDEBUG                        # if YYDEBUG
+    # ifndef YYDEBUG                  | # ifndef BAR_DEBUG
+                                      > #  if defined YYDEBUG
+                                      > #   if YYDEBUG
+                                      > #    define BAR_DEBUG 1
+                                      > #   else
+                                      > #    define BAR_DEBUG 0
+                                      > #   endif
+                                      > #  else
+    #  define YYDEBUG 0               | #   define BAR_DEBUG 0
+                                      > #  endif
+    # endif                           | # endif
+
+    # if YYDEBUG                      | # if BAR_DEBUG
     extern int bar_debug;               extern int bar_debug;
     # endif                             # endif
 
@@ -1292,7 +1358,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
   - a single argument only can be added,
   - their types are weak (void *),
-  - this context is not passed to anciliary functions such as yyerror,
+  - this context is not passed to ancillary functions such as yyerror,
   - only yacc.c parsers support them.
 
   The new %parse-param/%lex-param directives provide a more precise control.
@@ -1790,9 +1856,11 @@ along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  LocalWords:  struct yystype DJGPP lex param Haible NUM alloca YYSTACK NUL goto
  LocalWords:  YYMAXDEPTH Unescaped UCNs YYLTYPE's yyltype typedefs inline Yaccs
  LocalWords:  Heriyanto Reenable dprec Hilfinger Eggert MYEOF Folle Menezes EOF
- LocalWords:  Lackovic define's itemset Groff Gettext malloc NEWS'ed YYDEBUG
+ LocalWords:  Lackovic define's itemset Groff Gettext malloc NEWS'ed YYDEBUG YY
  LocalWords:  namespaces strerror const autoconfiguration Dconst Autoconf's FDL
- LocalWords:  Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ
+ LocalWords:  Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ ylwrap endif yydebug YYTOKEN YYLSP ival hh
+ LocalWords:  extern YYTOKENTYPE TOKENTYPE yytokentype tokentype STYPE lval pdf
+ LocalWords:  lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp
 
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