maint: post-release administriviaHEADmaster

* 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 fe16b348..e70b4523 100644
--- a/.prev-version
+++ b/.prev-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.5.4
+2.6.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ed703123..780b6079 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.0 (2025-09-18) [alpha]
 
 ** New features:
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index dbffbaf6..ecabe303 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ update-release-year:
 		m4/libtool.m4
 
 # Set format of NEWS.
-old_NEWS_hash := d51e62d3a4268be1a7b418b089c528d0
+old_NEWS_hash := 6b55a9c35959c8c4918110ff839bff7d
 
 manual_title = Portable Dynamic Shared Object Management