Bump version to 3.7, and add NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ba9914c96e66f6a5ad1a56d90a6e414f85628cbe..fa7f42f2c28f629360509b188cbbebc38bf4e10a 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,14 +7,31 @@ Recode NEWS - User visible changes
 
 :Copyright: © 1993-1999, 2000, 2001, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-Version 3.7-beta2
-=================
+Version 3.7
+===========
 
-:Author: François Pinard, 2008-03.
+:Author: François Pinard, 2008-03; Reuben Thomas, 2018-01.
 
 + Recode does no include libiconv anymore, but uses an external iconv
-  library if one was available at installation time.
+  library if one was available at installation time.  The -x: option
+  to the program, or a new flag to the library recode_new_outer
+  function, inhibits the initialisation and usage of iconv.
 + Many internal changes, for correcting reported bugs.
++ Long ago, I renamed GNU recode to Free recode: the permission for
+  using the GNU prefix mandated a level of obedience to the FSF that
+  once went overboard, in my opinion.  After that change, I realized
+  that some people read Free as a four letter word!  To be peaceful,
+  this version changes the name again, to merely Recode.  recode
+  (no capital) still names the executable program specifically, or
+  the distribution archive itself.
++ make check accepts a LIMIT= option, for limiting tests to one or a
+  few cases.  See tests/Makefile.am.
++ PO files have been updated from the Translation Project.
++ The test system has been overhauled.  Tests now run much faster, and
+  require Python and Cython.
++ Overhauled build system, now using gnulib for portability.  This reduces
+  the amount of code in the Recode tree considerably.
+
 
 Version 3.6
 ===========

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 38f0cde64afff45e28fb5a4b735da4bafdbc2c03..abc053f35c4674812c71ac4f25848c41168ed492 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.69)
-AC_INIT(recode, 3.7-beta2, [rrt@sc3d.org])
+AC_INIT(recode, 3.7, [rrt@sc3d.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/recode.c)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

diff --git a/doc/version.texi b/doc/version.texi
index 265e4b23ef9bdb1c37fd36af3b08758fe26e0e74..06f2ca662cc75505360a5cfd2e68d3fdff870a9f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/version.texi
+++ b/doc/version.texi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@set UPDATED 12 March 2008
-@set UPDATED-MONTH March 2008
-@set EDITION 3.7-beta2
-@set VERSION 3.7-beta2
+@set UPDATED 13 Jan 2018
+@set UPDATED-MONTH Jan 2018
+@set EDITION 3.7
+@set VERSION 3.7