From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs 24.1 released Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:01:16 +0800 Message-ID: <87k3zfk0bn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339318896 3777 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2012 09:01:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:01:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 11:01:35 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sde1f-0001rM-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sde1f-0004lS-0G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sde1c-0004kt-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sde1a-0000eW-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sde1U-0000e1-7e; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [155.69.16.175] (port=40079 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sde1S-0001We-Uh; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:01:23 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150869 Archived-At: GNU Emacs 24.1 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 SHA1 check-sums for the tarballs are: f064396724a27c83b79b2d890d188abebaa5975e emacs-24.1.tar.gz ab22d5bf2072d04faa4aebf819fef3dfe44aacca emacs-24.1.tar.bz2 Here are some new features in Emacs 24.1. See etc/NEWS for a complete list. - New packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages) for downloading and installing extensions. A default package archive is hosted by GNU and maintained by the Emacs developers. - Support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. - Support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp. - Improvements to the Custom Themes system (M-x customize-themes). - Unified and improved completion system in many modes and packages. - Support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3, ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2. Please send bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You can use the command M-x report-emacs-bug to do this. Many thanks to the Emacs development team for their hard work; and to the numerous users and testers who have contributed suggestions and bug reports. Happy hacking.