comparison CHANGES-beta @ 5756:6325dc8d791c

Update CHANGES-beta.
author Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>
date Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:01:30 +0900
parents 99e10b10008c
children a1f281776176
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1 # DO NOT PUT A VERSION MARKER HERE, ADDED AT RELEASE 1 # DO NOT PUT A VERSION MARKER HERE, ADDED AT RELEASE
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3 Major Features, Bugfixes, and Backward Incompatible Changes
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5 -- Fix: Convert assert on menubar syntax errors to log warning and skip the menu -- Jerry James
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7 User-Visible Bug Fixes and Improvements
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9 -- Fix: Remove a reference to 'efs-ftp-path from #'file-remote-p -- Mike Sperber
10 -- Improve: Allow :visible in menu specs; document -- Jerry James
11 -- Improve: Allow a string the LHS of a syntax-alist entry in `font-lock-defaults' to be a string (sync to GNU Emacs) -- Mike Sperber
12 -- Improve: Make #'byte-compile-if suppress spurious warnings from `(if (fboundp ...' or `(if (boundp ...' constructs (port of Dave Love patch to Emacs) -- Mike Sperber
13 -- Improve: Silence warnings about throws out of #'post-command-hook' -- Mike Sperber
14 -- New: Support bignums with MPIR -- Jerry James
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16 Build Infrastructure and Source Tree
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18 -- Fix: Change several Mule-specific constructs to generic ones in core Lisp (paragraphs.el); fixes --without-mule build from tarballs -- Stephen Turnbull
19 -- Fix: Fix Windows portability issues -- Vin Shelton, Jerry James, Mats Lidell
20 -- Fix: Reverse sense of #if for insert-data-in-exec build -- Jerry James
21 -- Fix: Silence syntax warnings -- Jerry James
22 -- Improve: Update autoconf helpers to latest upstream version -- Jerry James
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24 Documentation
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26 -- Improve: Bignum documentation -- Jerry James
27 -- Improve: Port texi files to Texinfo 5, fix style -- Jerry James
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29 Lisp API
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31 -- Fix: Add optional ID-FORMAT to #'file-attributes (GNU compatibility); add tests -- Mats Lidell, Vin Shelton
32 -- Fix: Make #'apply-partially more intelligent about constructing compiled functions when making closures; add tests -- Aidan Kehoe
33 -- Improve: Add optional WHEN and DOCSTRING arguments to #'define-obsolete-function-alias, #'define-compatible-function-alias, #'define-obsolete-variable-alias, #'define-compatible-variable-alias (GNU compatibility) -- Stephen Turnbull, Mike Sperber, Jeff Sparkes
34 -- New: Add #'font-lock-extend-region-functions' from GNU Emacs, use it -- Mike Sperber
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36 Internal API and Implementation
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38 -- Fix: Canonicalize some ratios -- Jerry James
39 -- Fix: Change integer arithmetic to fixnums in check_valid_xbm_inline; adjust test to changed error -- Jerry James
40 -- Fix: Initialization of bignums from long longs -- Jerry James
41 -- Fix: Replace AC_FUNC_FSEEKO with HAVE_FSEEKO in config.h.in -- Jerry James
42 -- Improve: Add mp-specific allocation functions -- Jerry James
43 -- Improve: Prepare for large file support -- Jerry James
44 -- Improve: Reimplement #'process-synchronize-point as a label in #'call-process-internal -- Aidan Kehoe
45 -- Improve: Support for statically linked modules -- Jerry James
46 -- Improve: Use make_fixnum instead of make_integer where size is known to fit in many places -- Jerry James
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48 Testing and Debugging
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50 -- New: Add tests for #'file-attributes -- Mats Lidell
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3 to XEmacs 21.5.33 "horseradish" 53 to XEmacs 21.5.33 "horseradish"
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5 Major Features, Bugfixes, and Backward Incompatible Changes 55 Major Features, Bugfixes, and Backward Incompatible Changes
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84 -- Improve: Move dbxrc.in (back?) to ./src. -- Marcus Crestani 134 -- Improve: Move dbxrc.in (back?) to ./src. -- Marcus Crestani
85 -- Improve: Prefer dlopen() to dyld() in configure on Mac OS X. -- Aidan Kehoe 135 -- Improve: Prefer dlopen() to dyld() in configure on Mac OS X. -- Aidan Kehoe
86 -- Improve: Refactor check for Xaw3d. -- Stephen Turnbull 136 -- Improve: Refactor check for Xaw3d. -- Stephen Turnbull
87 -- Improve: Remove unused include of process.h from Cygwin. -- Vin Shelton 137 -- Improve: Remove unused include of process.h from Cygwin. -- Vin Shelton
88 -- Improve: gnuclient to fall back to /tmp to search for socket. -- Aidan Kehoe 138 -- Improve: gnuclient to fall back to /tmp to search for socket. -- Aidan Kehoe
89 -- New: Support DESTDIR. -- Jerry James 139 -- New: Support DESTDIR. -- Jerry Jerry James
90 -- New: Support building texinfo.info in native builds. -- Vin Shelton 140 -- New: Support building texinfo.info in native builds. -- Vin Shelton
91 141
92 Documentation 142 Documentation
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94 -- Fix: #'eq-hash docstring. -- Aidan Kehoe 144 -- Fix: #'eq-hash docstring. -- Aidan Kehoe