NEWS: Automake 2.0 will assume "rm -f" without args work

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@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@
 
 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
 
+  - Makefile recipes generated by Automake 2.0 will expect to use an
+    'rm' program that doesn't complain when called without any non-option
+    argument if the '-f' option is given (so that commands like "rm -f"
+    and "rm -rf" will act as a no-op, instead of raising usage errors).
+    Accordingly, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will expand new shell code checking
+    that the default 'rm' program in PATH satisfies this requirement, and
+    aborting the configure process if this is not the case.  This behavior
+    of 'rm' is very widespread in the wild, and it will be required in the
+    next POSIX version:
+    <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542>
+
   - Automake 2.0 will require Autoconf 2.70 or later (which is still
     unreleased at the moment of writing, but is planned to be released
     before Automake 2.0 is).
@@ -87,6 +98,26 @@ New in 1.13.3:
   - Byte-compilation of Emacs lisp files could fail spuriously on Solaris,
     when /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh were used as shell.
 
+* Testsuite work:
+
+  - The test cases no longer have the executable bit set.  This should
+    make it clear that they are not meant to be run directly; as
+    explained in t/README, the can only be run through the custom
+    'runtest' script, or by a "make check" invocation.
+
+  - The testsuite has seen the introduction of a new helper function
+    'run_make', and several related changes.  These serve a two-fold
+    purpose:
+
+      1. Removing brittleness due to the use of "make -e" in test cases.
+
+      2. Seamlessly allowing the use of parallel make ("make -j...") in
+         the test cases, even where redirection of make output is involved
+         (see automake bug#11413 for a description of the subtle issues in
+         this area).
+
+   - Some other minor, miscellaneous changes and fixlets.
+
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 New in 1.13.2:
@@ -1592,8 +1623,8 @@ New in 1.9:
     tar-pax.  The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
     filenames that are too long for tar-v7.  (PR/414)
 
-  - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
-    trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
+  - Variables augmented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
+    trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 columns
     (adding trailing backslashes).  In previous versions, a long series
     of
       VAR += value1