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 23.1 released Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:01:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87skgeeuwt.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248924700 13789 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 03:31:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:31:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 05:31:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWMMe-0007w9-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:31:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWMMd-00045j-Mi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWLss-0001Cq-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWLsn-000192-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56517 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWLsn-00018e-IO; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:54949) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWLsm-0002Aq-W3; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 20F9557E266; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:01:22 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113372 Archived-At: 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.