# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1699207118 18000
# Node ID 39a11fb58ae2372104aa3e97cc1adf7a4bdc13f2
# Parent  a24310cdbc07cd771a0dc75fba573f430d9e4006
bump stable branch version after release

* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set version to 8.4.1.
(OCTAVE_PATCH_VERSION): Now 1.
* NEWS.8.md: Create section for a future 8.5 release.

diff -r a24310cdbc07 -r 39a11fb58ae2 configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Sun Nov 05 12:45:54 2023 -0500
+++ b/configure.ac	Sun Nov 05 12:58:38 2023 -0500
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 ### Initialize Autoconf
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
-AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [8.4.0], [https://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave],
+AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [8.4.1], [https://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave],
         [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/])
 
 ### Declare version numbers
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 OCTAVE_MAJOR_VERSION=8
 OCTAVE_MINOR_VERSION=4
-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 a24310cdbc07 -r 39a11fb58ae2 etc/NEWS.8.md
--- a/etc/NEWS.8.md	Sun Nov 05 12:45:54 2023 -0500
+++ b/etc/NEWS.8.md	Sun Nov 05 12:58:38 2023 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 8.5.0 (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 8.4.0 (2023-11-05):
 ----------------------------------------------------