maint: 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 ef216a5..86a9588 100644
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.8
+4.9
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b3db3bc..c6adcda 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU sed NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 4.9 (2022-11-06) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 5fdbe9f..43b3679 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export VERBOSE = yes
 # 836832 6e
 export XZ_OPT = -6e
 
-old_NEWS_hash = 0d8ee2e693cfd7d9eca3def373e20561
+old_NEWS_hash = 31db53b519338cc4b1527a682e88493f
 
 # Many m4 macros names once began with 'jm_'.
 # Make sure that none are inadvertently reintroduced.