+* Texinfo Support:
+
+ - The rules to build PDF and DVI files from Texinfo input now use the
+ '--build-dir' option, to keep the auxiliary files used by texi2dvi
+ and texi2pdf around without cluttering the build directory, and to
+ make it possible to run the "dvi" and "pdf" recipes in parallel.
+
+* Automatic remake rules and 'missing' script:
+
+ - The 'missing' script does not try anymore to update the timestamp
+ of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
+ remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
+ of it). It just give a useful warning, and in some cases also a tip
+ about how to obtain such a tool.
+
+ - The missing script has thus become useless as a (poor) way to work
+ around the sketched-timestamps issues that can happen for projects
+ that keep generated files committed in their VCS repository. Such
+ projects are now encouraged to write a custom "fix-timestamps.sh"
+ script to avoid such issues; a simple example is provided in the
+ "CVS and generated files" chapter of the automake manual.
+
+* Recursive targets:
+
+ - The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse
+ in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS). This can be done by
+ specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new
+ 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro.
+
+ - Any failure in the recipe of the "tags", "ctags", "cscope" or
+ "cscopelist" targets in a subdirectory is now propagated to the
+ top-level make invocation.
+
+* Improvements to aclocal and related rebuilds rules:
+
+ - The Autoconf-provided macro AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR is now traced by
+ aclocal, and can be used to declare the local m4 include directory.
+ Formerly, one had to specify it with an explicit '-I' option to the
+ 'aclocal' invocation.
+
+ - The special make variable ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is deprecated; future
+ Automake versions will warn about its use, and later version will
+ remove support for it altogether.
+