Release: bump VERSION_DEVEL.
PO: update template.
Release: update news.
Merge remote branch 'origin/master' into release/unstable
PO: update template.
Release: update news.
Merge remote branch 'origin/release/unstable' into HEAD
Release: bump VERSION.
Issue3571: Stop \lyricmode { \skip 1.*3 } from failing.

The problem was that the lexer preferred to match ".*" as a word since
the matched pattern was longer than the explicit pattern matching ".".
The word pattern is now amended so that it does not compete with the
single-character patterns.
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