Re: Emacs 29.3 released

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:45:58 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 10:16 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Version 29.3 of Emacs, the extensible text editor, should now
> > be available from your nearest GNU mirror:
> > [....]
> > Emacs 29.3 is an emergency bugfix release; it includes no new features
> > except a small number of changes intended to resolve security
> > vulnerabilities uncovered in Emacs 29.2.  See the file etc/NEWS in the
> > tarball; you can view it from Emacs by typing 'C-h n', or by clicking
> > Help->Emacs News from the menu bar.
> >
> Given the conservative nature of changes in minor releases, is it safe
> to assume the configure script options for a major release won't
> change in a minor release after X.1?

They shouldn't, not unless we discover some serious bug in those
options.

> You've been explicit here about no new features being added, but it
> would be nice to know in general if I can just use the same
> configure options from one minor release to the next without missing
> out on something new.

There are no changes in the configure script in Emacs 29.3.  You can
review all the changes by looking at the logs, whether Git logs or
ChangeLog.4 file in the top-level directory.