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 0f0fefae5..5904f7ade 100644
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.1
+7.2
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4d948b491..1292896d6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 7.2 (2009-03-31) [stable]
 
 ** New features
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 29a03a77c..1828484c5 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ gnulib_dir = /gnulib
 # Now that we have better (check.mk) tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes
 
-old_NEWS_hash = fa6cba1740b3f385520c1b54d90859ca
+old_NEWS_hash = 323729e8ee5a0a21816811bc6ef87c9a
 
 # Ensure that the list of O_ symbols used to compute O_FULLBLOCK is complete.
 dd = $(srcdir)/src/dd.c