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 * XEmacs Release Notes
 ======================
+** Major Differences Between 19.15 and 19.16
+============================================
+Many bugs have been fixed.  XEmacs 19.16 is a bug-fix release only.  No
+new features have been added.
+-- shell-command did not respect its output-buffer argument.
+-- When using CVS in conjunction with frame-icon, an error
+would occur when a frame was iconified.
+-- dired did not properly protect its data structures durin
+garbage collection.
+-- y-or-n-p-minibuf could crash XEmacs 19.15.
+-- overlay-lists did not always return a pair of lists.
+-- Starting with the -nw option did not prevent XEmacs 19.15 from
+attempting to connect to a tooltalk server.
+-- XEmacs 19.15 could not be built on a DUNIX4.0 system.
+-- appt.el did not respect the user's hooks.
+-- outline-mode did not work in a tty-only XEmacs 19.15.
+-- MD5 checksum generation did not work on a 64-bit machine.
+-- XEmacs 19.15 ignored the user's mail path.
+-- The rcompile package checked for ange-ftp instead of efs.
+-- vc-directory did not work.
+-- Sometimes clicking on a modeline did not advance to the
+next or previous buffer as it should have.
+-- The variable enable-local-variables was sometimes ignored.
+-- pending-del did not respect the user's hooks.
+-- CRiSP mode was synchronized with FSF emacs.
+-- The performance of font-lock was improved.
+-- There were numerous holes in the garbage collection.
+-- There were 2 minor bugs with using XEmacs 19.15 on a tty.
+-- XEmacs 19.15 ignored certain dead_key events.
+-- XEmacs 19.15 had minor fontification problems with java.
+-- mark-pop did not always restore the mark properly.
+-- smtpmail.el had a couple of minor bugs.
+-- telnet-mode did not always respond to the telnet prompt.
+-- gomoku was broken in XEmacs 19.15.
+-- recover-all files did not work in XEmacs 19.15.
+-- transient-mark-mode and skeleton.el did not work together.
+-- Footnotes were not properly formatted in info.
+--  Configuration of XEmacs 19.15 did not work on Sequent
+computers, because they do not have a working version of alloca.
+-- In XEmacs 19.15 it was impossible to compile with Lucid
+scrollbars without Motif.
+-- XEmacs 19.15 would erroneously report an internal error on
+certain types of minibuffer input.
+-- When using virtual screens with your X server, sometimes
+iconify-frame would cause XEmacs 19.15 to lose one of the frames.
+-- server-kill-buffer always returned nil.
+-- The :filter keyword on a menubar could crash XEmacs 19.15.
+-- psgml-mode did not respect the user's hooks.
+-- Many bugs in efs mode were fixed.
+-- sh-script.el could hang XEmacs.
+-- Options could not be saved after fonts were changed in
+XEmacs 19.15.
+-- read-from-string could not read "1.".
+-- dired was confused about where chown lives on Linux.
+-- Edebug did not work on floating point numbers.
+-- first-change-hook saved the wrong buffer, so unwinding the
+stack could result in the wrong buffer's being restored.
+-- pcl-cvs was incompatible with live-icon.
+-- save-buffer deactivated the zmacs region.
+-- When running a sub-process, if the standard error could
+not be opened, the error was reported incorectly.
+-- shell-command-on-region had a bogus test for the active
+region.
+-- get-frame-for-buffer ignored relevant properties.
+-- make-database did not correctly expand its filename
+argument.
+-- A few minor improvements were made to the optimizer in the
+byte-compiler.
+-- kill-region could get confused when the beginning of the
+region was after the end of the region.
+-- movemail was upgraded to the same version which shipped
+with XEmacs 20.2; this version understands Linux file locking.
+-- The regexp cache size was too small.
+-- The "save as" dialog was buggy.
+-- Minor bugs in sendmail mode.
+-- tm did not understand the png image format.
+-- set-text-properties only removed the first text property.
+-- add-log.el has been upgraded to the version supported by
+FSF emacs 20.1.
+-- When tags-loop-continue was called inappropriately, the
+wrong error message resulted.
+-- Frame creation was buggy, and could crash XEmacs.
+-- PNG support did not work on Linux.
+-- Asynchronous process output did not always work.
+-- x-compose.el did not support the degree sign or the
+grave keysym.
+-- mh-invisible-headers did not work.
+-- Creating a tty frame could crash XEmacs 19.15.
+-- detach-extent could crash XEmacs.
+-- The minibuffer could get the read-only attribute.
+-- When the mouse was in the right side of the frame, its
+position could be reported incorrectly.
+-- lib-complete didn't work with compressed files.
+-- getloadavg.c was brought into sync with the XEmacs 20.2
+version.
 ** Major Differences Between 19.14 and 19.15
 ============================================
 Many bugs have been fixed.  An effort has been made to eradicate all
 XEmacs crashes, although we are not quite done yet.  The overall
 -- TM (Tools for Mime) now comes with XEmacs.  This provides MIME
 (Multi-purpose Internet Multi-media Extensions?) support for Mail
 and News.  The primary author is Morioka Tomohiko.
 -- There is a new way to customize faces and (some) variables.
 Try it with `M-x customize RET', or from the Options->Customize menu.
 Documented in <URL:info:custom>.
 -- The AUC TeX environment for editing and running TeX is now bundled.
 (Per Abrahamsen.)

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