Re: Emacs 23.1 released

[Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>]

2009/7/30 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>:
> GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released.  It is available on the GNU ftp site
> at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/.  See http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a
> list of mirrors.
>
> The MD5 check-sums for the tarballs are:
>
>  a620d4452769d04ad8864d662f34f8dd  emacs-23.1.tar.gz
>  17f7f0ba68a0432d58fa69d05a2225be  emacs-23.1.tar.bz2
>
> Here are some new features of Emacs 23.  See etc/NEWS for a complete
> list.
>
>  - Improved Unicode support (the internal character representation is
>   now based on UTF-8).
>
>  - Font rendering with Fontconfig and Xft.
>
>  - Support for using X displays and text terminals in one session,
>   and for running as a daemon.
>
>  - Shift-selection.
>
>  - Smarter minibuffer completion.
>
>  - Per-buffer text scaling.
>
>  - Directory-local variables.
>
>  - New packages for:
>    * viewing PDF and postscript files (Doc view mode)
>    * connecting to processes via D-Bus (dbus)
>    * using the GNU Privacy Guard (EasyPG)
>    * displaying line numbers in the fringe (Linum mode)
>    * editing XML documents with on-the-fly validation (nXML mode)
>    * editing Ruby programs (Ruby mode)
>    * display-based word wrapping (Visual Line mode)
>
> Please send bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.  You can use the
> function M-x report-emacs-bug to do this.  Mac OS X users should note
> that the Carbon port has been removed; see the file nextstep/README for
> information about the new Cocoa port.
>
> Many thanks to the rest of the Emacs development team for their hard
> work; and to the numerous users who contributed suggestions and bug
> reports.  Happy hacking.
>
>
>

Does this mean that Emacs now has the highest known version number?

-- 
Deniz Dogan