Mercurial > hg > xemacs-beta
changeset 3886:06ff7065a7fe
[xemacs-hg @ 2007-03-29 18:15:08 by stephent]
Draft CHANGES for 21.5.28
author | stephent |
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date | Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:15:08 +0000 |
parents | ecad1119e5b3 |
children | 328ed8d54bff |
files | CHANGES-beta |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/CHANGES-beta Wed Mar 28 21:51:22 2007 +0000 +++ b/CHANGES-beta Thu Mar 29 18:15:08 2007 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,134 @@ +Brief summary of Changes to 21.5.28 "fuki" + +Major Features and Backward Incompatible Changes + +-- fix: Buffer overflow in doc.c -- Aidan Kehoe, Fabrice Popineau +-- fix: Buffer overrun in init_native_sound -- Jerry James +-- fix: Check for missing dimensions for default face and window -- Aidan Kehoe, Mike Sperber +-- fix: Crash in PNG error handler -- Stephen J. Turnbull, ???? +-- fix: Crash in device-matching-specifier-list -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- fix: Float formats overflow output buffer -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: ISO 2022 decoding kludges -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Make snarf-documentation robust to nonconforming DOC files -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Sanity checks before accessing frame in x_set_frame_properties -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: init_native_sound is called on a msprinter device -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Non-existent charset ID is specified for a mule-to-unicode call -- Aidan Kehoe + +User-Visible Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements + +-- improve: sync etags to pot version 17.26; improve version report -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Steve Youngs +-- fix: Avoid delays in TTY-only builds by checking dispatch event queue -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Avoid looking up variable bindings during GC -- Nix +-- fix: Buffer overruns in gnuclient and gnuslib -- Jerry James +-- fix: Find modules correctly -- Ville Skyttä, Mike Sperber, Stephen Turnbull +-- fix: Get X11 window property correctly on 64-bit platforms -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Mike Fabian, Takashi Iwai +-- fix: Handle coding system in file insertion in buffer properly -- Mike Sperber +-- fix: Info broke invariant `(equal buffer-file-truename (file-truename buffer-file-name))' -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Nelson Ferreira +-- fix: Lots of tweaking of Windows read-only handling -- Vin Shelton, Benson Margulies +-- fix: Make --unmapped work again -- Malcolm Purvis +-- fix: Make copying of char tables work -- Olivier Galibert, Stephen J. Turnbull +-- fix: Prevent C-z in a gnuclient frame from suspending the process -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Regex for finding command nodes -- Jeff Miller +-- fix: Reversion should check buffer-file-coding-system -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Syntax of guillemets -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Window configuration should not restore window position unless requested -- Nix +-- improve: Better version info in etags -- Stephen Turnbull, Steve Youngs +-- improve: Case table, syntax table information for Cyrillic, Greek -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Face initialization from X resources -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Give x-compose-map an entry for sharp S -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Handling of Asian "full-width" characters on TTY -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Language environment detection from locale -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Look harder for X11 locale-specific app-defaults files -- Malcolm Purvis +-- improve: Make read-quoted-char terminate, not error, on non-character keys -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Support non-ISO Cyrillic keysyms -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Try to rationalize resources of Xft in lwlib -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- improve: Use short list fixed string registries, not long list pruned by regexp for X11 fonts -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: charsets-in-region now in C -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: what-cursor-position gives Unicode and Mule information on non-ASCII -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: Add raw string support like SXEmacs -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: Find C source files for Lisp primitives -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: Just-in-time definition of Unicode characters and X keysyms -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: Minibuffer resizing in core -- Adrian Aichner +-- update: New package download sites -- Adrian Aichner +-- update: Sync etags to pot_etags_version 17.19 -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- update: Sync pop[ch] to Emacs -- Jerry James +-- update: Update to 2003 version of ISO 8859-7 table -- Aidan Kehoe + +Build Infrastructure + +-- fix: Allow lowercase file names in mswin SDK -- Benson Margulies +-- fix: Avoid using Motif for cygwin -- Dr. Volker Zell +-- fix: C is not C++ -- Robert Pluim +-- fix: Check for u_int*_t typedefs -- Dr. Volker Zell +-- fix: Correct help strings, remove obsolete configure.* files -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- fix: Don't call ichar_to_unicode on non-MULE -- Mike Sperber +-- fix: Enable SYSTEM_MALLOC on ppc64, alpha and ia64 systems -- Malcolm Purvis +-- fix: Make user-defined directories work in configure -- Mike Sperber +-- fix: Register --enable and --with forms with the option checking list -- Malcolm Purvis +-- fix: Remove Autoconf 2.13-isms -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- fix: Revert workaround for now-fixed Cygwin bug of missing d_ino field -- Dr. Volker Zell +-- fix: Typo in configure shell syntax -- Jerry James +-- fix: Use $EGREP, not egrep -- Malcolm Purvis +-- fix: Use new Cygwin XPM lib name -- Rick Rankin +-- fix: Work around m4_cdr change -- Malcolm Purvis +-- fix: `config.status --recheck' bug in Autoconf 2.60/2.61 -- Malcolm Purvis +-- fix: char type correctness -- Vin Shelton, Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: configure debugger init files correctly -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- improve: Conditionalize GCC warnings on version -- Jerry James +-- improve: Create $srcdir/src/depend if missing -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- improve: Detect Intel Macs, use POSIX-style write barrier in NewGC -- Marcus Crestani +-- improve: Refactor Canna detection -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- improve: Setup kit configuration -- Vin Shelton +improvement -- debugger init sources can use XCOMM convention +-- new: Check for utilities that are not on "normal" Solaris PATH -- Stephen J. Turnbul, S L Baur + +Documentation + +-- fix: Improve docstrings -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Make manual conform to reality -- Malcolm Purvis, Robert Pluim, Aidan Kehoe, Stephen J. Turnbull +-- fix: New compatibility alias string-to-char-list -- Vin Shelton, Ville Skyttä +-- fix: Typo fixes in manual -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Update FSF address -- Jerry James, Stephen Turnbull +-- fix: Update copyrights -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- improve: Small rephrasing in TUTORIAL.de -- Adrian Aichner, hroptatyr +-- new: Describe X errors when using ssh in PROBLEMS -- Malcolm Purvis +-- new: Describe XFree86 crash in PROBLEMS -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Aidan Kehoe +-- new: Describe how X11R7 loses x11/bitmaps/gray in PROBLEMS -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- update: Addresses in files and ChangeLogs -- Adrian Aichner, Stepohen J. Turnbull + +Lisp API + +-- fix: Catch error in cloning language environment -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Make shell-command use requested output buffer -- Jerry James +-- improve: Make `split-char' available in no-mule -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: New unicode-type property of Unicode coding systems -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: Reorganize Mule lisp -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: ccl-compile-mule-to-unicode, ccl-compile-unicode-to-mule, ccl-dump-mule-to-unicode, ccl-dump-unicode-to-mule -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: deprecate set-charset-registry, charset-registry -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: font-lock-keywords-alist, font-lock-removed-keywords-alist, font-lock-add-keywords, font-lock-update-removed-keyword-alist, font-lock-remove-keywords -- Aidrian Aichner +-- new: set-charset-registries, charset-registries -- Aidan Kehoe +-- update: Sync font-lock-add-keywords and font-lock-remove-keywords from GNU Emacs. -- Adrian Aichner + +Internal API and Implementation + +-- fix: Dead code elimination -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- fix: Eliminate buffer overflows and NULL pointer references -- Jerry James, Adrian Aichner +-- fix: Memory leaks -- Jerry James +-- fix: Mule correctness with strings passed to warning functions -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Syntax errors -- Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Typo in string_direct_data_description -- Marcus Crestani +-- fix: Use defined APIs -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Aidan Kehoe +-- fix: Warning elimination -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- improve: Cache Xrm coding system -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: GCPRO correctness -- Aidan Kehoe +-- improve: NewGC fault handling -- Marcus Crestani +-- improve: 21-bit Mule chars to support JIT charsets -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: Silence-Message macro in test-harness.el -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- new: Test for ISO-2022 decoder not choking on invalid UTF-8 -- Aidan Kehoe +-- new: Test for copy-syntax-table bug -- Stephen Turnbull, Ralf Angeli +-- new: Test raw strings -- Aidan Kehoe +-- update: Get Unicode tables with permissive license -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Mike Fabian + to 21.5.27 "fiddlesticks" Major Features and Backward Incompatible Changes