From 74cfb901fd827c2b882f0de3910fef9e2020ede1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Marcotte <lmarcotte@inverse.ca>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:20:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Updated for the 2.2.9a release

---
 NEWS    | 6 ++++++
 Version | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2fdff56544..e2d50e2a83 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2.2.9a (2014-09-29)
+-------------------
+
+Bug fixes
+ - correctly skip unallowed characters (#2936)
+
 2.2.9 (2014-09-26)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/Version b/Version
index 7ba76e50cf..d8abd9c859 100644
--- a/Version
+++ b/Version
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 
 MAJOR_VERSION=2
 MINOR_VERSION=2
-SUBMINOR_VERSION=9
+SUBMINOR_VERSION=9a