From e0a8c2a5c8250c7d906532c2d510c8d330125387 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 00:21:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS to describe new features.

And add a distcheck-hook to check that the NEWS file describes the
current package version.
---
 Makefile.am | 8 ++++++++
 NEWS        | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 60d7940..8ed1bdb 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -126,5 +126,13 @@ distcheck-hook:
 	      echo '       *** be the stub from a git checkout.  The "git" and "perl"'; \
 	      echo '       *** programs are required for ChangeLog generation to work.'; \
 	      $(TEST_DISTRIBUTION_OR_ERROR); } >&2
+	$(GENERIC_V) : 'CHECK   ' NEWS; \
+	  $(AWK) -F: 'NR == 1 && $$1 != "$(PACKAGE_VERSION)" \
+	    { print FILENAME ":" NR ":", $$0; exit 1}' \
+	    $(distdir)/NEWS || { \
+	      echo 'ERROR: *** First line of NEWS should match the package version'; \
+	      echo '       *** $(PACKAGE_VERSION), but that does not appear to be the case.'; \
+	      echo '       *** Remember to update NEWS before preparing a release.'; \
+	      $(TEST_DISTRIBUTION_OR_ERROR); } >&2
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/common/snippet/autotest.mk
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6433e2c..b1f9e59 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2.0.20a:
+	* Improve build system.
+	* Remove NOINSTGOB functionality as it seems pointless.
+	* Add support for dynamic GObject types.
+	* New and improved GOB2_CHECK macro.
+
 2.0.20:
 	* Require glib 2.4, and change use of the _take_ownership functions
 	  to _take_ functions
-- 
2.43.2