Bump Emacs version to 29.3.50

* README:
* configure.ac:
* nt/README.W32:
* msdos/sed2v2.inp:
* etc/NEWS: Bump Emacs version to 29.3.50.

5 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 877ebb3c642..b972a53e9f3 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Copyright (C) 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
-This directory tree holds version 29.3 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 29.3.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
 
 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 473ae06833c..f2a7463dfe8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ dnl  along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
 dnl Note this is parsed by (at least) make-dist and lisp/cedet/ede/emacs.el.
-AC_INIT([GNU Emacs], [29.3], [bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org], [],
+AC_INIT([GNU Emacs], [29.3.50], [bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org], [],
   [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/])
 
 dnl Set emacs_config_options to the options of 'configure', quoted for the shell,
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 3f94b0d4634..4695bcc5334 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,33 @@ You can narrow news to a specific version by calling 'view-emacs-news'
 with a prefix argument or by typing 'C-u C-h C-n'.
 
 
+* Installation Changes in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* Startup Changes in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* Changes in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* Editing Changes in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.4
+
+
+* Changes in Emacs 29.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
+
+
 * Changes in Emacs 29.3
 Emacs 29.3 is an emergency bugfix release intended to fix several
 security vulnerabilities described below.
diff --git a/msdos/sed2v2.inp b/msdos/sed2v2.inp
index 8e6f42ebee4..34b382df8fe 100644
--- a/msdos/sed2v2.inp
+++ b/msdos/sed2v2.inp
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 /^#undef PACKAGE_NAME/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_NAME ""/
 /^#undef PACKAGE_STRING/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_STRING ""/
 /^#undef PACKAGE_TARNAME/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""/
-/^#undef PACKAGE_VERSION/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_VERSION "29.3"/
+/^#undef PACKAGE_VERSION/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_VERSION "29.3.50"/
 /^#undef SYSTEM_TYPE/s/^.*$/#define SYSTEM_TYPE "ms-dos"/
 /^#undef HAVE_DECL_GETENV/s/^.*$/#define HAVE_DECL_GETENV 1/
 /^#undef SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED/s/^.*$/#define SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED 1/
diff --git a/nt/README.W32 b/nt/README.W32
index 83ef00b8eba..a1838f66988 100644
--- a/nt/README.W32
+++ b/nt/README.W32
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Copyright (C) 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
-		Emacs version 29.3 for MS-Windows
+		Emacs version 29.3.50 for MS-Windows
 
   This README file describes how to set up and run a precompiled
   distribution of the latest version of GNU Emacs for MS-Windows.  You