branch master updated: * NEWS: add 7.0.3 news. * README-hacking: update

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commit fedb753999c6837d8367329484c6d0aaf3445052
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Mar 26 13:35:41 2023 +0100

    * NEWS: add 7.0.3 news.
    * README-hacking: update
---
 ChangeLog      |  5 +++++
 NEWS           | 14 ++++++++++++++
 README-hacking |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0d9494248c..974d21e4b1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2023-03-26  Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+       * NEWS: add 7.0.3 news.
+       * README-hacking: update
+
 2023-03-26  Patrice Dumas  <pertusus@free.fr>
 
        linemacro implementation for the perl Parser
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fe9c5c02df..07c1ef0850 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -62,6 +62,20 @@ See the manual for detailed information.
 * info
  . do not use "/index" as a possible file extension for Info files
 
+
+
+7.0.3 (26 March 2023)
+This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes.
+
+* texi2any
+  . fix performance regression when Perl binary extension (XS) modules
+    are not being used (e.g. with TEXINFO_XS=omit)
+
+* info
+  . further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII to avoid text
+    disappearing from nodes
+  . avoid possible freeze at start of a file with `-v nodeline=pointers'
+
 
 7.0.2 (22 January 2023)
 This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes.
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 03581a10dc..ef5a7ac4cd 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -302,9 +302,9 @@ Update version number:
 
 (cd tp ; maintain/regenerate_file_lists.pl) # list all test results
 
-For release-7.0 series only - need to update result of
+For release/7.0 series only - need to update result of
 test_scripts/layout_formatting_epub_nodes.sh test (delete this note
-once we are on release-7.1)
+once we are on release/7.1)
 
 - Official releases only:
 version and date in NEWS.