post-release administrivia

* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/.prev-version b/.prev-version
index 9f55b2c..8c50098 100644
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0
+3.1
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4dca710..42d9358 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU diffutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.1 (2011-08-10) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index c62f966..7ed3778 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib
 # Now that we have better tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes
 
-old_NEWS_hash = e94e58f12fe046969201ab9de3166237
+old_NEWS_hash = e043ee82ed8f0fdd75d0ba808730e689
 
 # Tell maint.mk's syntax-check rules that diff gets config.h directly or
 # via diff.h or system.h.