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@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 Bison News
 ----------
 
-* Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??):
+* Changes in version 2.5.1 (????-??-??):
+
+** Some portability problems in the test suite have been fixed.
+
+** Minor improvements have been made to the manual.
+
+** YYBACKUP works as expected.
+
+* Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14):
 
 ** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes:
 
@@ -21,12 +29,12 @@ Bison News
   When no ambiguity is possible, original symbol names may be used
   as named references:
 
-    if_stmt : 'if' cond_expr 'then' then_stmt ';'
+    if_stmt : "if" cond_expr "then" then_stmt ';'
     { $if_stmt = mk_if_stmt($cond_expr, $then_stmt); }
 
   In the more common case, explicit names may be declared:
 
-    stmt[res] : 'if' expr[cond] 'then' stmt[then] 'else' stmt[else] ';'
+    stmt[res] : "if" expr[cond] "then" stmt[then] "else" stmt[else] ';'
     { $res = mk_if_stmt($cond, $then, $else); }
 
   Location information is also accessible using @name syntax.  When
@@ -40,7 +48,7 @@ Bison News
 
   IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm.  That
   is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
-  with the full language recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
+  with the full language-recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
   nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1).  This reduction
   in parser states is often an order of magnitude.  More importantly,
   because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate
@@ -125,7 +133,7 @@ Bison News
   except that the manner in which Bison processes multiple definitions
   for the same NAME differs.  Most importantly, -F and --force-define
   quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not.  For further
-  details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual.
+  details, see the section `Bison Options' in the Bison manual.
 
 *** Variables renamed:
 
@@ -142,7 +150,7 @@ Bison News
   The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
   for backward compatibility.
 
-*** Values no longer need to be quoted in grammar file:
+*** Values no longer need to be quoted in the grammar file:
 
   If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
   within quotations marks.  For example,
@@ -183,8 +191,8 @@ Bison News
 
   Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC
   macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT.  You are encouraged
-  to use it.  If, for instance, your location structure has "first"
-  and "last" members, instead of
+  to use it.  If, for instance, your location structure has `first'
+  and `last' members, instead of
 
       # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N)                             \
         do                                                                 \
@@ -266,7 +274,7 @@ Bison News
     in order to detect a syntax error.  Because no unexpected token or
     expected tokens can then be reported, the verbose syntax error
     message described above is suppressed, and the parser instead
-    reports the simpler message, "syntax error".  Previously, this
+    reports the simpler message, `syntax error'.  Previously, this
     suppression was sometimes erroneously triggered by %nonassoc when a
     lookahead was actually required.  Now verbose messages are
     suppressed only when all previous lookaheads have already been
@@ -302,7 +310,7 @@ Bison News
 
 ** -W/--warnings fixes:
 
-*** Bison now properly recognizes the "no-" versions of categories:
+*** Bison now properly recognizes the `no-' versions of categories:
 
   For example, given the following command line, Bison now enables all
   warnings except warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
@@ -313,7 +321,7 @@ Bison News
 
   Previously, conflict reports were independent of Bison's normal
   warning system.  Now, Bison recognizes the warning categories
-  "conflicts-sr" and "conflicts-rr".  This change has important
+  `conflicts-sr' and `conflicts-rr'.  This change has important
   consequences for the -W and --warnings command-line options.  For
   example:
 
@@ -327,22 +335,32 @@ Bison News
   expected number of conflicts is not reported, so -W and --warning
   then have no effect on the conflict report.
 
-*** The "none" category no longer disables a preceding "error":
+*** The `none' category no longer disables a preceding `error':
 
   For example, for the following command line, Bison now reports
   errors instead of warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
 
     bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
 
-*** The "none" category now disables all Bison warnings.
+*** The `none' category now disables all Bison warnings:
 
-  Previously, the "none" category disabled only Bison warnings for
+  Previously, the `none' category disabled only Bison warnings for
   which there existed a specific -W/--warning category.  However,
   given the following command line, Bison is now guaranteed to
   suppress all warnings:
 
     bison -Wnone gram.y
 
+** Precedence directives can now assign token number 0:
+
+  Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence
+  directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has
+  produced an assertion failure.  For example:
+
+    %left END 0
+
+  This bug has been fixed.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
 
 ** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
@@ -1504,7 +1522,7 @@ End:
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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