Location: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://arch.sxemacs.org/2008/
Revision: sxemacs--main--22.1.9--patch-143
Archive: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Creator: Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 3 02:43:38 EST 2008
Standard-date: 2008-06-02 16:43:38 GMT
Modified-files: etc/NEWS
New-patches: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/sxemacs--main--22.1.9--patch-143
Summary: Update NEWS for upcoming release
Keywords: admin, documentation
* etc/NEWS: Update for 22.1.9 release.
* added files
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+* Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.9 (Edsel)
+===================================
+
+** Bugs closed in this release: 32 - 40, 42, 45 - 51, 53 - 62.
+
+** Build chain fixes and improvements -- Freundt, Ferreira.
+
+Better detection of ALSA, ffmpeg, libffi, libbind, and many other
+various bits and pieces.
+
+General build related fixes were made for MacOS, Solaris, HPUX, and of
+course, Linux.
+
+** New function, #'mapfam -- Freundt.
+
+This new function is an extrememly powerful replacement for _all_ of
+the current map functions. It not only can do the job of the
+existing map functions, but can also convert any sequence to any
+other sequence. Lots of other cool features as well, see its doc
+string for full details.
+
+** Init file migration code removed -- Youngs.
+
+We feel that it is better to NOT mess with other emacsen's set ups.
+
+** Compiler warning fixes -- Freundt.
+
+** PNG images optimised for size -- Burkhardt.
+
+All of the PNG images that we ship have been optimised for size.
+
+** Re-work auto-autoloads loading a little -- Ferreira.
+
+Priority is given to packages installed under ~/.sxemacs/ and care is
+taken to eliminate those "foo-autoloads already loaded" warnings.
+
+** Support 256 colour terminals -- Ferreira.
+
+Support for 256 colour terminals and colour resolution through
+approximation for tty devices.
+
+** New FFI util, ffi-magic.el -- Youngs.
+
+Uses libmagic to guess file type.
+
+** Cool new stuff in the contrib directory -- Youngs, Ferreira.
+
+There are tla hook scripts, build scripts, and build-report scripts.
+
+** New garbage collector BDWGC -- Freundt.
+
+SXEmacs can now use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector. It is
+still experimental at this stage and there are known bugs (memory
+leak). If you have plenty of RAM it is quite usable, and noticably
+faster than non-BDWGC SXEmacsen. This new feature is not on by
+default. To get it, configure with --with-experimental-features=all.
+
+** Support for BSD's MP removed -- Freundt.
+
+** Emodule search path/loading fixes -- Youngs.
+
+Emodule load path has been made sane. #'load-module and
+#'locate-module have both been vastly improved and both have
+completion.
+
+** FFI improvements -- Youngs.
+
+The FFI code has been improved so that it can be compatible with
+XEmacs 21.5 for when they merge our FFI into their code base. Also
+#'ffi-load and #'ffi-load-library no longer need to be given a file
+extension as part of the arg to allow for different platforms having
+different shlib extensions.
+
+Also, some UI enhancements were added to ffi-curl.el and
+ffi-taglib.el.
+
+** Etags improvements -- Youngs.
+
+A bit of "UI" has been added to etags.el, as well as some code
+optimising.
+
+** Various minor tweaks, fixes, and documentation -- Burkhardt, Ferreira,
+ Freundt, Wallington, Youngs.
+
+
* Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.8 (Daimler)
=====================================
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