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diff --git a/announce-gen b/announce-gen
index 5bb15ed..1daedd4 100755 (executable)
--- a/announce-gen
+++ b/announce-gen
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use Getopt::Long;
 use Digest::MD5;
 use Digest::SHA1;
 
-(my $VERSION = '$Revision: 1.8 $ ') =~ tr/[0-9].//cd;
+(my $VERSION = '$Revision: 1.9 $ ') =~ tr/[0-9].//cd;
 (my $ME = $0) =~ s|.*/||;
 
 END
@@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ EOF
            }
          else
            {
+             # Be careful that this regexp cannot match version numbers
+             # in NEWS items -- they might well say `introduced in 4.5.5',
+             # and we don't want that to match.
              $line =~ /^[^ *].*\Q$prev_version\E/o
                and last;
              print $line;