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 GNU Bison NEWS
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
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 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.7.2 (2020-09-05) [stable]
 
   This release of Bison fixes all known bugs reported for Bison in MITRE's