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 GNU Bison NEWS
 
-* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+* Noteworthy changes in release 3.8.1 (2021-09-11) [stable]
 
   The generation of prototypes for yylex and yyerror in Yacc mode is
   breaking existing grammar files.  To avoid breaking too many grammars, the