[ESS] off topic: Emacs 24.1 is out
Stephen Eglen
S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Sun Jun 10 14:50:01 CEST 2012
Emacs 24.1 annoucement below. Stephen
From: Chong Yidong <cyd at gnu.org>
Subject: Emacs 24.1 released
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
To: emacs-devel at gnu.org
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:01:16 +0800
GNU Emacs 24.1 has been released. It is available on the GNU ftp site
at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/. See http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a
list of mirrors.
The SHA1 check-sums for the tarballs are:
f064396724a27c83b79b2d890d188abebaa5975e emacs-24.1.tar.gz
ab22d5bf2072d04faa4aebf819fef3dfe44aacca emacs-24.1.tar.bz2
Here are some new features in Emacs 24.1. See etc/NEWS for a complete
list.
- New packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages) for
downloading and installing extensions. A default package archive is
hosted by GNU and maintained by the Emacs developers.
- Support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including
right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
- Support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp.
- Improvements to the Custom Themes system (M-x customize-themes).
- Unified and improved completion system in many modes and packages.
- Support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3,
ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2.
Please send bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs at gnu.org. You can use the
command M-x report-emacs-bug to do this.
Many thanks to the Emacs development team for their hard work; and to
the numerous users and testers who have contributed suggestions and bug
reports. Happy hacking.
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