update some release-related administrivia

* .prev-version: Record that the previous release was 1.8.8.1.
* NEWS: Fill in the date for the previous release.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/.prev-version b/.prev-version
index 6259340..34b153e 100644
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.8
+1.8.8.1
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a9958ec..efeb258 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (????-??-??) [stable]
 
 
-* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8 (????-??-??) [stable]
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8.1 (2007-12-17) [stable]
 
 FIXME: fill in details
+
+========================================================================
+
+Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
+Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
+Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
+Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 9fb4045..c683451 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ gnulib_dir = /gnulib
 # Now that we have better (check.mk) tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes
 
-old_NEWS_hash = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  -
+old_NEWS_hash = 8a99df976725b4f21b1fcaba8afc00de  -