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@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** New value for %define variable: api.pure full
+
+  The %define variable api.pure requests a pure (reentrant) parser. However,
+  for historical reasons, using it in a location-tracking Yacc parser resulted
+  in an yyerror function that did not take a location as a parameter. With this
+  new value, the user may request a better pure parser, where yyerror does take
+  a location as a parameter (in location-tracking parsers).
+
+  The use of "%define api.pure true" is deprecated in favor of this new
+  "%define api.pure full".
+
 ** Changes in the format of error messages
 
   This used to be the format of many error reports:
@@ -56,6 +67,17 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
   Two nodes were added to the documentation: Xml and Graphviz.
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  Warnings about uninitialized yylloc in yyparse have been fixed.
+
+** Documentation
+
+  The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts resolution
+  have been fixed and extended.
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.5 (2012-11-07) [stable]
 
   We consider compiler warnings about Bison generated parsers to be bugs.