# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1659014047 14400
# Node ID efb29ba0a6678551a5f2122798f42594c1ff19ed
# Parent  231f2abf869506dd689e42d723d00ef6a10ea7de
bump stable branch version after release

* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set version to 7.2.1.
(OCTAVE_PATCH_VERSION): Now 1.
* NEWS.7.md: Create section for a future 7.3 release.

diff -r 231f2abf8695 -r efb29ba0a667 configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Thu Jul 28 09:10:28 2022 -0400
+++ b/configure.ac	Thu Jul 28 09:14:07 2022 -0400
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 ### Initialize Autoconf
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
-AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [7.2.0], [https://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave],
+AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [7.2.1], [https://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave],
         [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/])
 
 ### Declare version numbers
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 OCTAVE_MAJOR_VERSION=7
 OCTAVE_MINOR_VERSION=2
-OCTAVE_PATCH_VERSION=0
+OCTAVE_PATCH_VERSION=1
 
 dnl PACKAGE_VERSION is set by the AC_INIT VERSION argument.
 OCTAVE_VERSION="$PACKAGE_VERSION"
diff -r 231f2abf8695 -r efb29ba0a667 etc/NEWS.7.md
--- a/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Jul 28 09:10:28 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Jul 28 09:14:07 2022 -0400
@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
-Summary of bugs fixed for version 7.2.0 (2022-07-28):
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 7.3.0 (tbd):
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
 For (bug #XXXXX) see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?XXXXX
 
 ### Improvements and fixes
 
+### GUI
+
+### Build system / Tests
+
+### Documentation
+
+
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 7.2.0 (2022-07-28):
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+### Improvements and fixes
+
 - Avoid out-of-bounds indexing when checking for broadcastable inplace operators (bug #38466).
 - `hdl2struct.m`: Fix saving of `uibuttongroups` (bug #62266).
 - Fix `ls` with glob patterns on Windows (bug #62282).