maint: update copyright years

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@@ -6,13 +6,22 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 *** Obsolete features
 
-  Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2).
-  Support for yystype and yyltype (instead of YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE)
-  is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875).
-  Support for YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875).
+  Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2): use YYERROR.
+
+  Support for yystype and yyltype is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875):
+  use YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE.
+
+  Support for YYLEX_PARAM and YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison
+  1.875): use %lex-param, %parse-param, or %param.
 
 ** Warnings
 
+*** Carets
+
+  Version 2.7 introduced caret errors, for a prettier output.  These are now
+  activated by default.  The old format can still be used by invoking Bison
+  with -fno-caret (or -fnone).
+
 *** Enhancements of the -Werror option
 
   The -Werror=CATEGORY option is now recognized, and will treat specified
@@ -195,6 +204,28 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a
   factory invoked by the user actions).
 
+*** The epilogue is no longer affected by internal #defines
+
+  The glr.c skeleton uses defines such as #define yylval (yystackp->yyval) in
+  generated code.  These weren't properly undefined before the inclusion of
+  the user epilogue, so functions such as the following were butchered by the
+  preprocessor expansion:
+
+    int yylex (yy::parser::semantic_type *yylval);
+
+  This is has been fixed: yylval, ynerrs, yychar, and yylloc are now valid
+  identifiers for user-provided variables.
+
+** Renamed %define variables
+
+  The following variables have been renamed for consistency.  Backward
+  compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
+
+    lr.default-reductions      -> lr.default-reduction
+    lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
+    namespace                  -> api.namespace
+    stype                      -> api.value.type
+
 ** Variable api.token.prefix
 
   The variable api.token.prefix changes the way tokens are identified in
@@ -211,14 +242,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still
   uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above).
 
-** Renamed %define variables
-
-  The following variables have been renamed for consistency.  Backward
-  compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
 
-    lr.default-reductions      -> lr.default-reduction
-    lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
-    namespace                  -> api.namespace
 
 ** Variable parse.error
 
@@ -2253,7 +2277,7 @@ Output file does not redefine const for C++.
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.