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 GNU Bison NEWS
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.8.2 (2021-09-25) [stable]
 
   Fixed portability issues of bison on Cygwin.