new smarter skeleton/scanner generation

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@@ -3,14 +3,20 @@ changes between releases of flex.
 
 See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
 
-* version 2.5.21 version 2002-9-17
+* after version 2.5.21
+
+** flex tries its best to output only the relevant portions of the
+   skeleton when generating a scanner, thus avoiding as much
+   conditional compilation as possible
+
+* version 2.5.21 released 2002-9-17
 
 ** one of the tests in the test suite broke the dist target
 
 * version 2.5.20 released 2002-9-16
 
 ** A flex scanner has the ability to save the DFA tables to a file,
-   and load them at runtime when needed.
+   and load them at runtime when needed; see the manual for details
 
 ** Added %option bison-bridge (--bison-bridge)