Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support.

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 * Changes in version ?.? (????-??-??):
 
+** In the GLR defines file, unexpanded M4 macros in the yylval and yylloc
+   declarations have been fixed.
+
 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
 
   Bison used to prepend a trailing semicolon at the end of the user
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     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
 
-  This prevents the future support for languages than do not use `;'
-  as C/C++/Java do.  Yet some grammars still depend on this `feature'.
-  Bison 2.4.1 restores the previous behavior to leave more time for
-  grammars depending on the old behavior to be adjusted.  Future
-  release of Bison will disable this feature.
+  Some grammars still depend on this `feature'.  Bison 2.4.1 restores
+  the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
+  neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
+  are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
+  behavior to be adjusted.  Future releases of Bison will disable this
+  feature.
+
+** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
 
 * Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):