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[xemacs-hg @ 2002-08-30 08:25:48 by youngs] Don't look now, but 21.5.9 is on its way out the door! Don't forget what good 'ol Ma used to say... "Eat your brussels sprouts, little Johnny, so you can grow up big and strong."
author youngs
date Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:26:22 +0000
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1 to 21.5.9 "brussels sprouts"
2
3 The main thrust of this release is the new GC algorithms. If you want
4 to test this out configure with '--use-kkcc'.
5
6 There are of course, the usual swag of bug fixes, typo fixes, and
7 document updates.
8
9 -- Add an extra element to the version string that can be used to
10 include a date in the version string - Youngs.
11 -- Improve help string for --with-widgets configure option - Skyttä.
12 -- Define runtime & build problems, and rewrite "Hannibal Lecter"
13 stuff in PROBLEMS - Turnbull.
14 -- Add builtin and constant faces to font-lock-face-list - Skyttä.
15 -- Japanese language fixes - Yamaoka.
16 -- Fix find-library to allow Mule XEmacsen to find compressed
17 libraries - Youngs.
18 -- New alias for 'delete-indentation' (join-line) - Wallington.
19 -- Support docstring for define-derived-mode - Turnbull
20 -- Doc fix for keybindings in term.texi and misc.texi - Skyttä.
21 -- Bring package list up to date in packages.texi - Skyttä.
22 -- Document purecopy as a no-op - Josefsson.
23 -- New document chapter "Regression Testing XEmacs" - Turnbull.
24 -- Add "USE_KKCC" option to ./nt/xemacs.mak - Aichner.
25 -- New GC algorithms implemented (Turn them on with --use-kkcc
26 configure option) - Sperber, Crestani, Kaltenbach, Bush.
27 -- Define HAVE_WCHAR_H for native Win32 builds - Harris.
28 -- Fix x_locate_pixmap_file make sure path is not 0 - MacLennan.
29 -- Fix memory leak - Verna.
30 -- Add missing call to 'xfree (newname)' in 'make_coding_system_1
31 - Verna.
32 -- Fix --with-mule --with-gtk builds - Barta.
33 -- Make SEPCHAR a required arg to Fsplit_string_by_char - Palmer.
34 -- Make locate_file indicate success with nonnegative return if MODE
35 is nonnegative - James.
36 -- Fix splitting window horizontally not splitting evenly - James.
37 -- ORDINARY_LINK OK for Linux - James.
38 -- Don't bogusly reinitialise ascii_character property in
39 maybe_define_x_key_as_self_inserting_character - Astapov.
40 -- Add warning to SOE_DEBUG about not using until debugging functions
41 are rewritten - Turnbull.
42 -- Update 'do_autoload' to GCPRO both arguments - Turnbull.
43 -- Update automated tests so they don't barf if required packages
44 aren't present - Turnbull.
45 -- Organise NSIG setting code for SVR4 in a better way - James.
46 -- Various typo fixes - Skyttä, Turnbull, James.
47
48
1 to 21.5.8 "broccoli" 49 to 21.5.8 "broccoli"
2 50
3 Lots of fixes and changes. This release is primarily been done to 51 Lots of fixes and changes. This release is primarily been done to
4 make way for the new GC stuff from Mike Sperber. 52 make way for the new GC stuff from Mike Sperber.
5 53
9 57
10 -- New configure option "--use-kkcc" for the upcoming new GC 58 -- New configure option "--use-kkcc" for the upcoming new GC
11 algorithms - Sperber. 59 algorithms - Sperber.
12 -- Identify "--with-modules" as an autodetected configure option - 60 -- Identify "--with-modules" as an autodetected configure option -
13 James. 61 James.
14 -- Add a couple of configuration questions to PROBLEMS - Turnball. 62 -- Add a couple of configuration questions to PROBLEMS - Turnbull.
15 -- Test for wchar.h in configure - Sperber. 63 -- Test for wchar.h in configure - Sperber.
16 -- Update package-index files - Youngs. 64 -- Update package-index files - Youngs.
17 -- s/Xemacs/XEmacs/ doc fixes - Aichner. 65 -- s/Xemacs/XEmacs/ doc fixes - Aichner.
18 -- Sync make-docfile.c with GNU - James. 66 -- Sync make-docfile.c with GNU - James.
19 -- Updates to gutter-items - Palmieri. 67 -- Updates to gutter-items - Palmieri.
31 -- Updates to lwlib-Xm.c - Piper. 79 -- Updates to lwlib-Xm.c - Piper.
32 -- Various doc fixes to the TeXinfo docs - Aichner. 80 -- Various doc fixes to the TeXinfo docs - Aichner.
33 -- GC fixes - Sperber. 81 -- GC fixes - Sperber.
34 -- Updates to lisp.h, symbols.c for DSO's - James. 82 -- Updates to lisp.h, symbols.c for DSO's - James.
35 -- Fix to mswindows_need_event - Alexander. 83 -- Fix to mswindows_need_event - Alexander.
36 -- Declare Fcdr_safe to be callable from C - Turnball. 84 -- Declare Fcdr_safe to be callable from C - Turnbull.
37 -- Ffunctionp return nil for autoloaded macros & keymaps - Niksic. 85 -- Ffunctionp return nil for autoloaded macros & keymaps - Niksic.
38 -- Subwindow fixes - Ueno. 86 -- Subwindow fixes - Ueno.
39 -- Include wchar.h only if available, define wclsen if not - Sperber. 87 -- Include wchar.h only if available, define wclsen if not - Sperber.
40 -- Fixes to Fstart_process_internal - Sperber. 88 -- Fixes to Fstart_process_internal - Sperber.
41 -- Fixes to init_ralloc for pdump - Sperber. 89 -- Fixes to init_ralloc for pdump - Sperber.