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@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
-** Future changes
+** WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
 
-  Bison will stop adding a semicolon at the end of the actions:
+  Bison will stop adding a semicolon at the end of the actions (as announced
+  in the release 2.5):
 
     foo.y:2.22: warning: a ';' might be needed at the end of action code
      exp: "num" { $$ = $1 }
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   for its own code, especially the definition of variables after statements.
   The generated C parsers still aim at C90.
 
-** Incompatible changes
+** Backward incompatible changes
 
 *** Obsolete features
 
@@ -41,6 +42,11 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   This is has been fixed: yylval, yynerrs, yychar, and yylloc are now valid
   identifiers for user-provided variables.
 
+*** stdio.h is no longer needed when locations are enabled (yacc.c)
+
+  Changes in Bison 2.7 introduced a dependency on FILE and fprintf when
+  locations are enabled.  This is fixed.
+
 ** Diagnostics reported by Bison
 
   Most of these features were contributed by Théophile Ranquet and Victor
@@ -284,6 +290,12 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   It used to be an error only if used in non GLR mode, _and_ if there are
   reduce/reduce conflicts.
 
+** Token numbering has changed to preserve the user-defined order
+
+  When declaring %token A B, the numbering for A is inferior to B. Up to now,
+  when declaring associativity at the same time, with %left (or %right,
+  %precedence, %nonassoc), B was inferior to A.
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.7 (2012-12-12) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
@@ -294,6 +306,8 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 ** Diagnostics are improved
 
+  Contributed by Théophile Ranquet.
+
 *** Changes in the format of error messages
 
   This used to be the format of many error reports:
@@ -379,6 +393,8 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 ** Graph improvements in DOT and XSLT
 
+  Contributed by Théophile Ranquet.
+
   The graphical presentation of the states is more readable: their shape is
   now rectangular, the state number is clearly displayed, and the items are
   numbered and left-justified.
@@ -820,7 +836,9 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   These features are experimental.  More user feedback will help to
   stabilize them.
 
-** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling:
+** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling
+
+  Contributed by Joel E. Denny.
 
   Canonical LR, IELR, and LALR can suffer from a couple of problems
   upon encountering a syntax error.  First, the parser might perform