Hi! Version 27.1 of the Emacs text editor is now available. For more information on Emacs, see: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs You can retrieve the source from your nearest GNU mirror by using one of the following links: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.gz You can get the PGP signatures at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz.sig https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.gz.sig The tarball is signed with the following GPG key, which can be found on public PGP key servers: D405AA2C862C54F17EEE6BE0E8BCD7866AFCF978 To retrieve the key from a PGP key server, evaluate gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys D405AA2C862C54F17EEE6BE0E8BCD7866AFCF978 You can choose a mirror explicitly from the list at: https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html Mirrors may take some time to update; the main GNU ftp server is at: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ Emacs 27.1 has a wide variety of new features, including: - Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers - Text shaping with HarfBuzz - Native support for JSON parsing - Better support for Cairo drawing - Portable dumping used instead of unexec - Support for XDG conventions for init files - Additional early-init initialization file - Lexical-binding is used by default - Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line - Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick There are many more changes; for a summary see the etc/NEWS file, which you can view from Emacs with `C-h n'. For the complete list of changes and the people who made them, see the various ChangeLog files in the source distribution. For a summary of all the people who have contributed to Emacs, see the etc/AUTHORS file. The online manuals and website will be updated shortly. Printed copies of the Emacs manual are available for purchase from the Free Software Foundation's online store at: https://shop.fsf.org/product/emacs-manual/ Regards, Nico