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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-04-16 06:32:23 -0600
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-04-16 06:32:23 -0600
commitbef627e9958aeaebbd6c00fc7be9b18bdc2c902a (patch)
treedc951442cdf82d055c6568e3d78ccb436a7de078
parent566a4c43721121f1f6ecd7c40e3c14a5bcad74e7 (diff)
downloadm4-bef627e9958aeaebbd6c00fc7be9b18bdc2c902a.tar.gz
Mention release of 1.4.13.
* NEWS: Update to match release on branch-1.4. * doc/m4.texinfo (History): Update release history. (copying): Finish conversion to GFDL 1.3, started 2008-11-04. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> (cherry picked from commit 19141fb1c466da0b97f5606a3c7ab53123262131)
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--NEWS2
-rw-r--r--doc/m4.texinfo12
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d4158158..895d1220 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2009-04-16 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+ Mention release of 1.4.13.
+ * NEWS: Update to match release on branch-1.4.
+ * doc/m4.texinfo (History): Update release history.
+ (copying): Finish conversion to GFDL 1.3, started 2008-11-04.
+
2009-03-23 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Exploit git submodule by adding appropriate symlinks.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4c6a76a7..c14107f8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ contains the following beta features that were deemed worth deferring until
** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.
-* Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.13 (2008-12-??) [stable]
+* Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.13 (2009-04-01) [stable]
Released by Eric Blake, based on git version 1.4.12.*
** The manual is now distributed under the terms of FDL 1.3.
diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo
index 486186e9..d641eebb 100644
--- a/doc/m4.texinfo
+++ b/doc/m4.texinfo
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999,
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the @acronym{GNU} Free Documentation License,
-Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
+Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no
Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section
entitled ``@acronym{GNU} Free Documentation License.''
@@ -416,12 +416,14 @@ addressed some long standing bugs in the venerable 1.4 release. Then in
@acronym{GNU} @code{m4} 1.4 that were floating around the net and
released 1.4.3 and 1.4.4. And in 2006, Eric Blake joined the team and
prepared patches for the release of 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, and 1.4.8.
-More bug fixes were incorporated in 2007, with the releases of 1.4.9 and
-1.4.10, closing the series with 1.4.11 in 2008.
+More bug fixes were incorporated in 2007, with releases 1.4.9 and
+1.4.10. Eric continued with some portability fixes for 1.4.11 and
+1.4.12 in 2008, and 1.4.13 in 2009.
Additionally, in 2008, Eric rewrote the scanning engine to reduce
-recursive evaluation from quadratic to linear complexity, released as M4
-1.6. The 1.x branch series remains open for bug fixes.
+recursive evaluation from quadratic to linear complexity. This was
+released as M4 1.6 in 2009. The 1.x branch series remains open for bug
+fixes.
Meanwhile, development was underway for new features for @code{m4},
such as dynamic module loading and additional builtins, practically