# HG changeset patch # User stephent # Date 1117185177 0 # Node ID bc570264072fd167d26a17889f9b72ae575c3288 # Parent 7e764bfc145d7075822266c1d160f65b538a7d7d [xemacs-hg @ 2005-05-27 09:12:57 by stephent] prep for release diff -r 7e764bfc145d -r bc570264072f CHANGES-beta --- a/CHANGES-beta Thu May 26 21:51:49 2005 +0000 +++ b/CHANGES-beta Fri May 27 09:12:57 2005 +0000 @@ -1,8 +1,74 @@ +to 21.5.21 "corn" + +Major features + +-- New: An alternative memory allocator. (Marcus Crestani) + +User-Visible Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements + +-- Fix: Calculations in font-spatial-to-canonical. (Ralf Angeli) +-- Fix: Honor coding system argument when creating a file. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Fix: Prevent stripping of items from Command menu. (Ralf Angeli) +-- Fix: Selection handling on Win32. (Fabrice Popineau) +-- Improve: Better defaults for mail-user-agent. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Improve: Deprecate use of Emacs X resource class. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Improve: Initialize fontlock properly in *scratch*. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Improve: Make %backup%~ honor auto-save-directory. (Steve Youngs, + Jamie Zawinski) +-- Improve: Recognize some constructed Unicode keysyms. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Improve: Synch dired features from GNU Emacs. (Mike Sperber, + Richard Stallman, Luc Teirlinck, Stefan Monnier, Andreas Schwab) +-- Improve: Syntax and case mapping for ISO 8859 parts 14-16. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Improve: Warn about unbound Unicode keysyms. (Aidan Kehoe) + +Build Infrastructure + +-- Fix: Asserts can't contain active code. (Melvin Hadasht) +-- Fix: Avoid "head -#", coreutils doesn't like it. (Vin Shelton) +-- Fix: Build for non-DEBUG_XEMACS native Windows build. (Marcus Crestani) +-- Fix: Cater to OpenBSD /bin/sh. (Malcolm Purvis) +-- Fix: Check $ac_cv_build not $canonical for libossaudio. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Fix: Define elfw(type) for unexec on Alpha and amd64 for FreeBSD. + (Andrey Slusar) +-- Fix: Make get-user-response available regardless of config. (Mike Sperber) +-- Fix: Make srcdir absolute, include X header, terminate lines. + (Malcolm Purvis) +-- Fix: Remove do-nothing --no-gnu-linker in Solaris builds. (Vin Shelton) +-- Fix: Specifying optimization flags implies optimization. (Stephen Turnbull) +-- Fix: Use HAVE_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST, not SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED. (Volker Zell) +-- Fix: configure needs to include X11/Intrinsic.h to check for Xaw. + (Robert Delius Royar, Aidan Kehoe, Jerry James) +-- Fix: egetenv needs process.h in device-x.c. (Marcus Crestani) +-- New: Conditionally compile insert-data-in-exec. (Marcus Crestani) + +Documentation + +-- Fix: Add "--with" prefix in docstrings in configure.ac. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Fix: Documentation typos. (Aidan Kehoe, Adrian Aichner) +-- Improve: Mention and deprecate atomic extents in docstring. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Improve: Texinfo docs. (Aidan Kehoe, Stephen Turnbull, Ben Wing) + +Lisp API + +-- Improve: Use override-redirect to suppress WM decorations. + (Stephen Turnbull) +-- New: More stats for show-memory-usage. (Marcus Crestani) + +Internal API and Implementation + +-- Fix: Argument count in issue_call_trapping_problems_warning. + (Stephen Turnbull) +-- Fix: Avoid use of nonexistent insert-for-yank. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Fix: Buffer overflow in pdump backtrace array. (Jerry James) +-- Fix: Control-1 handling in CCL. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- Fix: fakemail for FreeBSD >= 4. (Andrey Slusar) +-- Improve: Dynamic diagnostic backtrace for KKCC. (Marcus Crestani) + to 21.5.20 "cilantro" Major Features --- New: Handle various X selection targets properly. (Aidan Kehoe) +-- New: Handle various X selection targets properly. (Aidan Kehoe) User-Visible Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements