Fix portability problem on OpenBSD 4.7.

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@@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ Bison News
   use of the %error-verbose directive is deprecated in favor of
   %define parse.error "verbose".
 
+** Semantic predicates
+
+  The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of
+  the form %?{ BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION }, which cause syntax errors (as for
+  YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately
+  in GLR parsers, rather than being deferred.  The result is that they
+  allow the programmer to prune possible parses based on the values of
+  runtime expressions.
+
 * Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??):
 
 ** Named References Support
@@ -272,7 +281,10 @@ Bison News
   the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to
   override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided.
 
-* Changes in version 2.4.3 (????-??-??):
+* Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
+
+** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
+   grammar rules that are useless in the parser due to conflicts.
 
 ** Problems with spawning M4 on at least FreeBSD 8 and FreeBSD 9 have
    been fixed.
@@ -287,6 +299,8 @@ Bison News
    errors in Bison 2.5.  They will remain warnings, which should be
    sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
 
+** Minor documentation fixes.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
 
 ** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks