From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 29.3 released Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:09:50 +0300 Message-ID: <86y19q1nht.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86edbzyavw.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40425"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lynn Winebarger Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 06 18:10:30 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rt8cf-000AFt-5g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rt8c6-0006hU-1E; Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rt8c3-0006hF-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rt8c3-0000jP-I7; Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:09:51 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=vjkVDxsmp9ZgHKcJI3lda8L5nJaQlEYqHlXgyL8WZno=; b=JLYaOhll2yep3FWe7XX4 5EqTF+mZOWaAQv5qB4iTo4Ji3jKrhONOWuG6RWVEHgkdqUw80IBOylsbi0ZtCnf7Qm+9jsKvDZwEl cRoDcCig1ZslhpsrihRaIxuz9Fzjwk97FhAotr798NXDHwGY5u8j1VYJ23msMjSmtYDJjIbGGyVQY d5yzb++MdDUQVNJjq6Dv5E0EoRMeEpxsqCZ92YL3sjnXZAKSVnSH6Mj35CJ+8HUAga8kBs1N+r7tJ tXL7tJtXjkZUAXWM1jI226diBsnE++X/mWn6BUIypO4UizjYnRSHdiIAhYiXb32v8kNyFruZ/YA0d LmFfPUwPAv/Gjg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Lynn Winebarger on Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:45:58 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:317573 Archived-At: > From: Lynn Winebarger > 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 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.