Begin post-4.2 development

Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst

@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ For example:
 
 .. code-block:: cmake
 
-  cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10...4.1)
+  cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10...4.2)
 
 This uses the ``<min>...<max>`` syntax to enable the ``NEW`` behaviors
-of policies introduced in CMake 4.1 and earlier while only requiring a
+of policies introduced in CMake 4.2 and earlier while only requiring a
 minimum version of CMake 3.10.  The project is expected to work with
 both the ``OLD`` and ``NEW`` behaviors of policies introduced between
 those versions.

Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+0-sample-topic
+--------------
+
+* This is a sample release note for the change in a topic.
+  Developers should add similar notes for each topic branch
+  making a noteworthy change.  Each document should be named
+  and titled to match the topic name to avoid merge conflicts.

Help/release/index.rst

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ CMake Release Notes
   This file should include the adjacent "dev.txt" file
   in development versions but not in release versions.
 
+.. include:: dev.txt
+
 Releases
 ========
 

Source/CMakeVersion.cmake

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # CMake version number components.
 set(CMake_VERSION_MAJOR 4)
 set(CMake_VERSION_MINOR 2)
-set(CMake_VERSION_PATCH 0)
-set(CMake_VERSION_RC 0)
+set(CMake_VERSION_PATCH 20251009)
+#set(CMake_VERSION_RC 0)
 set(CMake_VERSION_IS_DIRTY 0)
 
 # Start with the full version number used in tags.  It has no dev info.