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[xemacs-hg @ 2004-10-22 02:14:13 by stephent] Pre-release update, no patch
author stephent
date Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:14:14 +0000
parents 1072ab44c134
children f152e0bc4ff6
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1 to 21.5.18 "chestnut"
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3 Major Features
4
5 -- Improve: GTK support gets many fixes and improvements - Purvis.
6 -- Improve: pdump gets data in executable support, -si option - Galibert.
7 -- New: GTK gets default gtkrc - Purvis.
8 -- New: bignum support - James (lead), Sivakumar, Turnbull.
9
10 User-Visible Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements
11
12 -- Fix: 'no-conversion is special in eol detection - Turnbull.
13 -- Fix: `display-completion-list' does not overflow window - Grundmann.
14 -- Fix: X error handler must not call stderr_out - Clements.
15 -- Fix: bogus error in `apropros' - Turnbull.
16 -- Fix: bogus error in `package-require' - Youngs.
17 -- Fix: buffer editing by `call-process-region' - Aichner.
18 -- Fix: coredump from bogus position computation in syntax cache - Euler.
19 -- Fix: coredump from redisplay wrapping in signal.c - James.
20 -- Fix: coredump in giflib - Hines.
21 -- Fix: etags.el correctly handles tags with name fields - Grundmann.
22 -- Fix: prevent minibuffer from hijacking marks - Sperber.
23 -- Fix: respect `allow-deletion-of-last-visible-frame' - Zajcev.
24 -- Fix: sync revert-buffer to 21.4 - Turnbull, Sparapani.
25 -- Improve: error message formatting - Gatzemeier.
26 -- Improve: etags.el optimized for exuberant ctags - Grundmann.
27 -- Improve: isearch-abort preserves interim successes - Turnbull, Zawinski.
28 -- Improve: package info reporting - Youngs.
29 -- Improve: window configuration handling - Rychter.
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31 Build Infrastructure
32
33 -- Fix: 64-bit support - Purvis, SuSE.
34 -- Fix: configure.in syntax, logic - Turnbull, James, Purvis.
35 -- Fix: make install went interactive - Aichner.
36 -- Fix: rebuild finder-inf.el - Turnbull.
37 -- Improve: Makefile diagnostics - Turnbull.
38 -- Improve: Windows build support - Aichner.
39 -- Improve: configure compiler warning setup - James, Purvis.
40 -- Improve: configure diagnostics - Turnbull.
41 -- Improve: configure feature detection - Purvis, James, Turnbull.
42 -- Improve: configure report - Turnbull, James.
43 -- Improve: icc support - James.
44 -- Improve: install procedure - Galibert.
45 -- New: configure supports Playstation2 - Myrkraverk.
46 -- New: support for parallel builds - Purvis.
47
48 Documentation
49
50 -- Improve: about.el version reporting - Turnbull.
51 -- Improve: comments and docstrings - Turnbull, Aichner, Gatzemeier.
52 -- New: lispref.texi documents bignum support - Turnbull, James.
53 -- New: lispref.texi documents text field support - James.
54 -- Update: FAQ - Turnbull.
55 -- Update: NEWS - Turnbull.
56 -- Update: PACKAGES - Koch.
57 -- Update: about.el - Turnbull.
58 -- Update: internals.texi - James, Turnbull.
59 -- Update: lispref.texi - Turnbull, Okahata.
60 -- Update: menus to XEmacs config file reality - Turnbull.
61
62 Lisp API
63
64 -- Improve: pixel position reporting - Okahata.
65
66 Internal API and Implementation
67
68 -- Fix: C macro definition for icc - James.
69 -- Fix: C++ build problems - James, Verna.
70 -- Fix: Cygwin bug workaround conditionalized - James.
71 -- Fix: Lisp internal type manipulation - James.
72 -- Fix: bogus CVS conflict in package-ui.el - Aichner.
73 -- Fix: callproc.c vestiges removed - James.
74 -- Fix: format conversions in pdump report - Turnbull.
75 -- Fix: function argument usage - James.
76 -- Fix: incomplete macro in external widget support - Golubev.
77 -- Fix: lwlib GC handling - James.
78 -- Fix: lwlib computation of widget changes - James.
79 -- Fix: mark unused parameters - James, Wing.
80 -- Fix: remove duplicate functions - Turnbull.
81 -- Fix: remove unused variables - James.
82 -- Fix: specifier validation - James.
83 -- Fix: update byte compiler function database - James.
84 -- Fix: warning suppression - James, Gatzemeier.
85 -- Fix: workaround Darwin's distaste for ISO 8859/2 filenames.
86 -- Improve: custom database save - Aichner, Niksic.
87 -- Improve: itimer implementation - James, Jones, Buchholz, Yamaoka.
88 -- Improve: test-harness.el Assert macro - James.
89 -- New: LTDL support in ELLs - James.
90 -- Update: INSTALL Canna, Make descriptions - James, Purvis.
91 -- Update: SERVICE sync with upstream - James.
92 -- Update: derived.el, subr.el, cl*.el sync to Emacs 21.3 - James.
93 -- Update: etags sync with upstream v17.6 - James.
94
95 Quality Assurance Infrastructure
96
97 -- Fix: regression tests using most-negative-fixnum - James.
98 -- Improve: faster Mule tests - Turnbull.
99 -- New: Uno support - James.
100 -- New: regression tests - Turnbull, Youngs, Yamaoka, Shelton, James.
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1 to 21.5.17 "chayote" 102 to 21.5.17 "chayote"
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3 Build 104 Build
4 105
5 -- New: configure reports cc and libc versions - Kletnieks, Turnbull. 106 -- New: configure reports cc and libc versions - Kletnieks, Turnbull.