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@@ -199,6 +199,16 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
diagnosed as obsolete, and replaced with AC_CONFIG_HEADERS by
autoupdate.
+- The obsolete macros AC_DIAGNOSE, AC_FATAL, AC_WARNING, and
+ _AC_COMPUTE_INT are now replaced with modern equivalents by
+ autoupdate.
+
+- The macro AC_OBSOLETE is obsolete. Autoupdate will replace it with
+ m4_warn([obsolete], [explanation]). If possible, macros using
+ AC_OBSOLETE should be converted to use AU_DEFUN or AU_ALIAS instead,
+ which enables autoupdate to replace them, but this has to be done by
+ hand and is not always possible.
+
- AC_FC_LINE_LENGTH now documents the maximum portable length of
"unlimited" Fortran source code lines to be 250 columns, not 254.