diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-03-20  Joel E. Denny  <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu>
+
+	Version 2.4.2.
+	* NEWS (2.4.2): Set version and date.  For the recent test suite
+	portability fixes, don't be so optimistic about their success
+	given the lack of feedback on the affected platforms.
+
 2010-02-22  Joel E. Denny  <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu>
 
 	tests: fix maintainer-xml-check for recent changes.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -236,12 +236,12 @@ Bison News
   determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
   error or upon parser return.  This bug has been fixed.
 
-* Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
+* Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
 
 ** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
    in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
-   RHEL4, and Tru64 have been fixed.  As part of those fixes, fatal
-   Bison errors no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
+   RHEL4, and Tru64 have been addressed.  As a result, fatal Bison
+   errors should no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
    affected platforms.
 
 ** `%prec IDENTIFIER' requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.