6 This file presents the changes in recent SXEmacs versions. It
7 primarily documents user-visible (interface) changes, but also
8 includes internal changes of possible interest to the users. When
9 describing new features, we try to also document ways of reverting to
10 the old behavior, where applicable. If you dislike a recent change in
11 how SXEmacs behaves, this file might contain a remedy.
13 Use `C-c C-f' to move to the next equal level of outline, and
14 `C-c C-b' to move to previous equal level. `C-h m' will give more
15 info about the Outline mode. Many commands are also available through
18 Users who would like to know which capabilities have been introduced
19 in each release should look at the appropriate section of this file.
23 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.16 (Hillman Hunter)
24 =============================================
28 Nelson Ferreira -- 124 commits
30 Steve Youngs -- 62 commits
31 Horst G. Burkhardt III -- 6 commits
32 Evgeny Zajcev -- 3 commits
33 Ruediger Meier -- 3 commits
34 Sebastian Freundt -- 1 commit
36 ** Bugs closed in this release:
38 132, 141, 152, 155, 156, 158, 160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 169, 170, 171,
39 172, 173, 174, 176, 181
41 ** Multimedia fixes/updates -- Ferreira, Youngs.
43 SoX and FFmpeg support was brought back and mostly fixed. PulseAudio
44 has been brought back, and support for "media roles" was added.
46 ** Build chain fixes/updates -- Meier, Ferreira, Burkhardt, Youngs
48 A lot of work went into stamping out compiler warnings and errors to
49 give us a much cleaner/safer build.
51 ** FFI updates -- Zajcev, Youngs.
53 ** Don't reset the cursor upon exit on a TTY -- Youngs.
55 ** Contrib updates/fixes/additions -- Ferreira, Youngs.
57 ** Make docs compatible with Texinfo 5.x -- Youngs.
59 ** Support Unix user/group lookups -- Ferreira.
61 ** XDG compliance -- Youngs.
63 SXEmacs now looks for user files in locations that are much more
64 inline with modern standards and conventions.
66 `user-init-directory' is now ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/sxemacs or
67 ~/.config/sxemacs if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set.
69 User packages will now be searched for in ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/sxemacs
70 (~/.local/share/sxemacs).
72 The old legacy directory `~/.sxemacs' is still supported, and in fact
73 will still be used if the XDG directories don't exist and it (the
74 legacy dir) does. A user can also force use of the legacy directory
77 ** Add wildcard support to #'find-file et al. -- Youngs.
79 ** Fix coding cookies -- Youngs.
81 ** "In-tree builds" are no longer supported. -- Youngs.
83 If you want to build SXEmacs, do the right thing and build OUTSIDE of
86 ** TTY related fixes/updates -- Ferreira.
88 ** Various minor updates/tweaks/fixes -- Burkhardt, Ferreira, Youngs.
91 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.15 (Goggomobil)
92 =========================================
96 Nelson Ferreira -- 435 commits
98 Sebastian Freundt -- 87 commits
99 Steve Youngs -- 63 commits
100 Rudi Meier -- 12 commits
101 Evgeny Zajcev -- 7 commits
102 Horst G. Burkhardt III -- 4 commits
103 Aidan Kehoe -- 2 commits
104 JD Horelick -- 1 commit
106 ** Bugs closed in this release:
108 76, 78, 88, 106, 108, 112, 121, 122, 125, 126, 127, 128, 131, 134,
109 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
111 ** Coverity integrity scan fixes -- Ferreira.
113 Coverity (http://www.coverity.com/) offers source code integrity
114 analysis scans. These scans often uncover bugs and security issues
115 that would otherwise go unnoticed. When we first scanned the SXEmacs
116 code base with the Coverity scanner we had ourselves roughly 500
117 "defects". Nelson Ferreira has pretty much single-handedly fixed them
118 ALL!! Well done, Nelson and thanks a million!!!
120 ** Build related fixes/updates -- Ferreira, Freundt, Horelick, Meier,
123 Amongst the many, many, build chain updates I can also report that
124 SXEmacs will now build and run on OpenIndiana. Go us!
126 There were also fixes for: SuSe, PowerPC, MacOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD.
128 There were also many compiler warning fixes from Nelson and
131 ** FFI tweaks/fixes -- Keheo, Youngs, Zajcev.
133 ** Bitrot removal -- Burkhardt, Youngs.
135 Over the years things get old, obsolete, and forgotten. We've gone
136 through and cleaned house. Say goodbye to aRts, GTK1, tooltalk, and a
137 heap of rubbish in lib-src.
139 *** aRts -- Burkhardt.
141 *** tooltalk / CDE -- Youngs.
142 *** lib-src -- Youngs.
144 ** Whitespace cleanup -- Youngs.
146 Every file in the repository has had all trailing and otherwise
147 spurious whitespace removed/fixed. Obviously not an entirely critical
148 thing, but tidy is tidy. :-)
151 ** Support libpng 1.5.x -- Youngs.
154 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.14 (Geo)
155 ==================================
157 We switched to git! And this release cycle was all about updating the
158 build chain, version strings, and docs and whatnot from tla-isms to
161 You can now grab the SXEmacs sources via git with...
163 git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/sxemacs
166 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.12 (Fiat)
167 ===================================
169 ** Bugs closed in this release:
171 69, 86, 107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120
173 ** Build chain fixes and updates -- Ferreira, Freundt, Youngs.
175 *** Fix building without eye-candy (*bars, widgets, etc)
176 *** Begin work on getting SXEmacs built on Arm Linux
177 *** Fix NetBSD 5 build
178 *** Mac OS build fixes
180 ** Source tree reorganisation -- Ferreira.
182 Nelson put a lot of working into reorganising the SXEmacs source tree
183 hierarchy. There are now several subdirectories under `src'...
185 src/database -- has the database code
186 src/ent -- has the "Enhance Number Types" code
187 src/events -- has the "events" code
188 src/media -- has all the multimedia code
189 src/mem -- has memory related code
190 src/mule -- has the MULE stuff
191 src/ui -- has the UI code common to all toolkits
192 src/ui/Gtk -- has the old (non-working) GTK 1 code
193 src/ui/TTY -- has the TTY UI code
194 src/ui/X11 -- has the X11 UI code
195 src/ui/lwlib -- has the Lucid stuff
197 This was done with the view to making maintenance and debugging
198 easier, and also to simplify adding new features.
200 ** FFI improvements, updates, and enhancements -- Zajcev
203 * SXEmacs 22.1.11 was never released.
205 See ChangeLog.d/ChangeLog-22.1.11 for all the changes in the
206 22.1.11 dev cycle, and for why it was not released.
208 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.10 (Excalibur)
209 ========================================
211 ** Bugs closed in this release:
213 41, 65, 74, 75, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,
214 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104
216 ** Cool New Sexy Stuff -- Zajcev, Ferreira, Freundt, Youngs.
218 Of course every release must have some cool new stuff. Here's what's
219 new in this release...
221 *** User defined readers
222 *** It's possible to display video in a glyph object in a buffer.
223 *** SXEmacs is now a fairly decent image viewing/manipulation app.
225 There's an undo/redo stack, zoom in/out, rotate, chop/crop, red-eye
226 reduction. There is a whole swag of transformations supported:
227 charcoal, contrast, despeckle, edge, enhance, equalise, gausian blur,
228 negate, normalise, oil painting, radial blur, 3D button effect,
229 sharpen, solarise, and swirl.
231 Who needs The Gimp when you have SXEmacs!
233 *** Added some MacOS icons.
234 *** Support for sqlite3 via FFI
235 *** New way for SXEmacs to handle different file types.
237 It allows you to have #'find-file take different actions based on a
238 predicate. See the new variable `find-file-magic-files-alist'.
240 *** Enable PNG transparent backgrounds
242 Unfortunately this doesn't work if you use a background pixmap.
244 *** FFI callbacks implemented.
245 *** Dbus support via FFI (not completed)
247 This should be considered very much incomplete and experimental. Only
248 rudimentary support is there so far.
250 ** Build chain fixes/improvements -- Burkhardt, Ferreira, Freundt, Youngs.
252 Quite a few build chain related changes were made in this release,
255 *** Work around a bug in GCC 4.5.0
256 *** Powerpc/BSD cpu detection
257 *** A Freedesktop.org compliant sxemacs.desktop file is now installed.
258 *** Updated FFmpeg detection.
259 *** OpenSSL 1.0.0 detection. OpenSSL is no on by default.
260 *** Fix a link error when building with no MPQ
261 *** Fix a minor bison related issue (YYSTYPE)
262 *** Fix building with latest SoX
263 *** Fix --without-x builds
264 *** Fix many C compiler warnings and elisp byte-compiler warnings.
265 *** Fix install for non-FFI and non-Mule builds
266 *** Fix etags build for systems without getopt_long
267 *** Fix (hopefully) parallel builds
268 *** Fix BDWGC-enabled builds
270 ** Minor updates to BDWGC code -- Freundt.
272 ** Catch up with latest ffmpeg API changes -- Freundt.
274 ** Fix for latest ediff -- Ferreira.
276 Changes emacs-internal to escape-quoted.
278 ** Fix for subwindow resizing -- Zajcev.
280 ** Various additions/updates to the contrib directory -- Ferreira
282 ** FFI improvements -- Zajcev
284 ** ENT fixes -- Freundt.
286 ** TTY fixes -- Ferreira.
288 ** Cleaner dump file (less pollution from the build/src dir) -- Freundt, Youngs.
290 ** Improve #'file-basename -- Ferreira
292 It can now take a 2nd arg for extension stripping.
294 ** Misc doc fixes/updates -- Burkhardt, Ferreira, Freundt, Zajcev, Youngs.
296 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.9 (Edsel)
297 ===================================
299 ** Bugs closed in this release:
301 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51,
302 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62
304 See http://issues.sxemacs.org/ for the details.
306 ** Build chain fixes and improvements -- Freundt, Ferreira.
308 Better detection of ALSA, ffmpeg, libffi, libbind, and many other
309 various bits and pieces.
311 General build related fixes were made for MacOS, Solaris, HPUX, and of
314 ** New function, #'mapfam -- Freundt.
316 This new function is an extrememly powerful replacement for _all_ of
317 the current map functions. It not only can do the job of the
318 existing map functions, but can also convert any sequence to any
319 other sequence. Lots of other cool features as well, see its doc
320 string for full details.
322 ** Init file migration code removed -- Youngs.
324 We feel that it is better to NOT mess with other emacsen's set ups.
326 ** Compiler warning fixes -- Freundt.
328 ** PNG images optimised for size -- Burkhardt.
330 All of the PNG images that we ship have been optimised for size.
332 ** Re-work auto-autoloads loading a little -- Ferreira.
334 Priority is given to packages installed under ~/.sxemacs/ and care is
335 taken to eliminate those "foo-autoloads already loaded" warnings.
337 ** Support 256 colour terminals -- Ferreira.
339 Support for 256 colour terminals and colour resolution through
340 approximation for tty devices.
342 ** New FFI util, ffi-magic.el -- Youngs.
344 Uses libmagic to guess file type.
346 ** Cool new stuff in the contrib directory -- Youngs, Ferreira.
348 There are tla hook scripts, build scripts, and build-report scripts.
350 ** New garbage collector BDWGC -- Freundt.
352 SXEmacs can now use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector. It is
353 still experimental at this stage and there are known bugs (memory
354 leak). If you have plenty of RAM it is quite usable, and noticably
355 faster than non-BDWGC SXEmacsen. This new feature is not on by
356 default. To get it, configure with --with-experimental-features=all.
358 ** Support for BSD's MP removed -- Freundt.
360 ** Emodule search path/loading fixes -- Youngs.
362 Emodule load path has been made sane. #'load-module and
363 #'locate-module have both been vastly improved and both have
366 ** FFI improvements -- Youngs.
368 The FFI code has been improved so that it can be compatible with
369 XEmacs 21.5 for when they merge our FFI into their code base. Also
370 #'ffi-load and #'ffi-load-library no longer need to be given a file
371 extension as part of the arg to allow for different platforms having
372 different shlib extensions.
374 Also, some UI enhancements were added to ffi-curl.el and
377 ** Etags improvements -- Youngs.
379 A bit of "UI" has been added to etags.el, as well as some code
382 ** Various minor tweaks, fixes, and documentation -- Burkhardt, Ferreira,
383 Freundt, Wallington, Youngs.
386 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.8 (Daimler)
387 =====================================
389 ** Bugs closed in this release: 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31
391 You might notice a double up of bug numbers here from the previous
392 release. The index got reset and so some bug ID numbers were
395 ** Build chain fixes, improvements -- Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
397 We now have a libtool-based build chain.
399 ** Minor improvements to packages bootstrapping -- Youngs.
401 ** User's custom file renamed to custom-${USER}.el -- Youngs.
403 The old variant, custom.el is still used if that file exists.
405 ** Sync XEmacs 21.5's cus-*.el, autoload.el, subr.el -- Youngs.
407 Amongst other things, this sync brings custom-defines, many new custom
408 widgets, and an implementation of the `:inherit' face keyword.
410 ** Skiplist fixes -- Freundt.
412 ** Introduce custom printers -- Zajcev.
414 ** Update GPL licenced stuff to GPL version 3 -- Youngs.
416 ** Add a rc.d inspired init mechanism -- Ferreira.
418 ** Font lock improvements -- Ferreira.
420 ** Byte compile defcustom init values, saving lisp values for correct editing -- Kehoe.
422 Sync from XEmacs 21.5.
424 ** Improve interactivity of custom prompting -- Verna.
426 Sync from XEmacs 21.5.
428 ** Resize echo area when needed -- Aichner, Turnbull, Youngs.
430 Sync from XEmacs 21.5. Don't confuse this with rsz-minibuffer.el in
431 the packages, This is different, the minibuffer and echo area are 2
434 ** #'describe-function (C-h f) prints global keybindings for commands -- Kehoe, Youngs.
436 Sync from XEmacs 21.5.
438 ** New `%b' spec for #'format -- Freundt, Kehoe.
440 This is for converting between ints and bit vectors.
442 ** Sample init file updated -- Youngs.
444 ** Fix the bug exposed by our weak-tests.el -- Youngs.
446 ** Update the man page -- Youngs.
448 ** Support character classes in regexps -- Freundt.
450 ** Misc trivial changes such as doc fixes, typos, etc -- Burkhardt,
451 Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
454 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.7 (De Lorean)
455 =======================================
457 ** Bugs closed in this release: 13, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31
459 ** Much reworking of the build chain -- Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
461 Quite a bit has changed here, a few options have been changed, added,
462 or removed. So if you haven't been following the development it might
463 pay you to have a look at our configure's --help output.
465 ** Fix emodule loading on 64bit machines -- Freundt.
467 ** Security fix in movemail.c (mktemp()->mkstemp()) -- Youngs.
469 ** Etags synched up to upstream 17.32 -- Burkhardt, Youngs.
471 ** Updates/fixes to dllists/skiplists -- Freundt, Ferreira.
473 ** Lots of updates in the ENT area (Enhanced Number Types) -- Freundt.
475 Some stuff has been moved to an external emodule, "ASE" (Algebraic
476 Structures for ENT or "ASE Supersedes ENT"). Also directed graphs
477 have been introduced (sparse representation only so far). And
478 introduce heaps (dense, dynamic, and week).
480 ** cl.el meets C -- Freundt.
482 We've begun work on implementing the common lisp macros as an external
483 emodule. The main focus here is speed, and initial benchmarks are
484 _very_ exciting... The emod version of #'dotimes (#'cl:dotimes) can be
485 nearly 200 times faster than its elisp counterpart!
487 This isn't finished yet, but watch future releases.
489 ** package-suppress mechanism ported from XEmacs 21.5 -- Freundt, Youngs.
491 ** Asynchronous version of #'curl:download added called #'curl:download& -- Freundt.
493 ** Font-lock improvements, especially on TTYs -- Ferreira.
495 ** Fix info search path -- Ferreira.
497 ** Change default setting for progress guages to be off -- Youngs.
499 ** Multimedia updates/fixes -- Freundt, Youngs.
501 Lots of reworking has been done here, especially with PulseAudio,
502 ffmpeg, and threading of the audio jobs etc. Support for gstreamer
503 and xine has been dropped, and libmagic added.
505 ** New macro to define "toggle" variables #'define-toggle-variable -- Zajcev
507 I wouldn't normally list a single new macro in this file, but this one
508 deserves a mention. It sets up toggle variables, including
509 #'turn-on-VAR, #'turn-off-VAR, and #'toggle-VAR. Very nifty.
511 ** Many many compiler warnings have been fixed -- Freundt, Youngs.
513 Almost all byte-compiler warnings have been fixed in our build. And a
514 good deal of the warnings in the C code of a standard build has been
517 ** GC fixes/updates -- Freundt.
519 ** A contrib directory has been added to the tree -- Freundt.
521 So far there are patches in there to pop3.el, smtpmail.el, and
522 starttls.el which takes advantage of some of SXEmacs' cool native
523 features like OpenSSL.
525 Watch this space for more nifty things.
527 ** Minor misc fixes (typos etc) -- Zajcev, Burkhardt, Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
529 ** Documentation updates:
530 o sppm.texi -- Burkhardt, Youngs.
531 o lispref.texi -- Freundt, Youngs.
532 o tips.texi -- Freundt.
533 o building.texi -- Youngs.
534 o processes.texi -- Ferreira.
535 o internals.texi -- Freundt.
537 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.6 (Cadillac)
538 ======================================
540 ** ENT (Enhanced Number Types) updates and fixes -- Freundt, Ferreira.
542 ** MM (MultiMedia) updates and fixes -- Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
544 ** FFi (Foreign Function Interface) updates -- Freundt, Zajcev.
546 ** New ffi-gcrypt.el -- Freundt.
548 ffi-gcrypt.el brings GnuPG's libgcrypt bindings to SXEmacs.
550 ** Line/column numbers in modeline are now padded -- Ferreira.
552 ** New skiplists -- Freundt.
554 This is a basic implementation of Pugh's skip lists. Their efficiency
555 is overwhelming when compared to alists or plists. They also perform
556 better on insertion and removal than large hash-tables (due to the
557 resizing/rehashing which takes place). They can be created almost as
558 fast as lisp lists and thus beat hash-tables there, too.
560 ** Fix module (DSO) load paths -- Youngs.
562 ** SXEmacs maintainer turned 40 -- Mr and Mrs Youngs.
564 This is a recurring bug that was first discovered on June 19th, 1966.
566 ** Test suite updates/improvements -- Turnbull, Youngs.
568 ** Etags updates/fixes -- Ferreira, Youngs.
570 Sync to Francesco's version 17.20 etags. And major surgery on
571 etags.el to make it usable, fixing completion and support for the
574 ** Fix raw string parsing -- Kehoe.
576 A problem that arose in lisp-interaction-mode, where raw strings
577 were parsed as normal strings if you did a C-j after them, becase
578 forward-sexp couldn~t handle them.
580 ** Sync bytecomp-runtime.el with XEmacs 21.5 -- Youngs.
582 The significance of this is that SXEmacs now has all those cool
583 with,if,when,and-boundp macros for clean byte-compiler warning
586 ** OpenSSL updates/fixes/improvements -- Freundt.
588 A rewrite of the old handshake functions. SSL connections can be
589 established as before: open a network-stream, call ossl-ssl-handshake
590 on it and store the result. The new implementation provides also
591 support for certificate authorities (CA), for peer certificates and,
592 using the network-server-streams, secure listening sockets. This will
593 allow to connect/accept to/from servers/clients which require valid
596 ** New PulseAudio support -- Freundt.
598 PulseAudio is the successor to PolypAudio. Because there were so few
599 users using Polyp (think we counted 2 and they're both SXEmacs
600 developers) SXEmacs support for PolypAudio was replaced by PulseAudio
603 ** New Caching compiled regular expressions -- Freundt.
605 All you really need to do to use them is assign them (the regexp) to a
606 variable. Here's an example...
608 (let ((reg1 "^;+\\s-")
610 (while (and (re-search-forward reg1 nil t)
611 (re-search-forward reg2 nil t))
616 (while (and (re-search-forward "^;+\\s-" nil t)
617 (re-search-forward "\\s-+;+" nil t))
620 The former construct will store the compiled regular expressions in the
621 object property list of `reg1' and `reg2' on the first iteration of
622 `while', all following iterations will then use the already compiled
623 regexps. The latter construct will behave as before, the regular
624 expression is compiled and stored, but since the string is hard-coded in
625 the buffer, it will be newly generated (with empty object-plist of
626 course) during every cycle of the while loop.
628 ** Cleaner dump file -- Freundt, Youngs.
630 The portable dump file was getting polluted with things in the
631 packages load-path causing all sorts of undefined and unexpected
632 impossible to track down bugs. No longer!
634 ** Fix many many byte-compiler warnings in building core lisp -- Youngs.
636 ** Fix building without emodules -- Ferreira.
638 ** New Support emodules on MacOS -- Ferreira.
640 ** Fix BerkeleyDB detection on NetBSD -- Ferreira.
642 ** New SXEmacs icons added to dist -- Ferreira.
644 ** Major restructuring of the build chain and install layout -- Freundt.
646 SXEmacs is now pretty much a completely autotool'd project... automake,
647 autoheader, the whole 9 yards. And if that wasn't enough, we are now
648 also, to the best of our knowledge, reasonably FHS-compliant with our
651 The changes to the install directory hierarchies are:
653 now go to... before went to...
654 lisp share/sxemacs-22.1.6/lisp/ lib/sxemacs-22.1.6/lisp/
655 etc share/sxemacs-22.1.6/etc/ lib/sxemacs-22.1.6/etc/
656 info share/info/ lib/sxemacs-22.1.6/info/
657 headers include/sxemacs/22.1.6/ lib/sxemacs-22.1.6/<arch>/include/
659 Packages are now searched for in
661 $prefix/share/sxemacs/{{s,}xemacs,mule,site}-packages/
663 instead of $prefix/lib/sxemacs/.../
665 ** DnD dragged out and dropped on /dev/null -- Freundt.
667 ** Misc build fixes -- Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
669 ** Fix `tags' Makefile target -- Youngs.
671 ** Fix bug in `lib-complete' -- Freundt.
673 The bug was causing `find-library' to visit the .elc instead of the
674 .el if you were running SXEmacs in-place from the build tree.
676 ** Fix stack overflow crash in mapconcat -- Ferreira.
678 ** Large update of about.el -- Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
680 See: M-x about-sxemacs
682 ** Various documentation updates/fixes/improvements -- Freundt, Ferreira, Youngs.
685 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.5 (Bugatti)
686 =====================================
687 First up, this release has turned into a purely maintenance/bugfix
688 release. SXEmacs 22.1.4 had several build-related issues that this
691 ** version.sh fix -- Youngs.
693 Fix a problem with the wrong version being generated.
695 ** Autoconf fixes -- Youngs, Ferreira, Freundt.
697 Lots of changes to the autoconf configure script
699 - Recognise $CFLAGS environment variables
700 - X toolkit autodetection redone
701 - TTY autodetection fixed
702 - PostgreSQL detection properly reported
703 - Change allowed values for menubars, dialogs, widgets
704 menubars -- no athena or motif
707 - Set configure's "bugreport address" to
708 http://issues.sxemacs.org.
709 - Fix gdbm/berkdb detection
710 - Improve libc version detection
712 ** New Makefile target (build-report) -- Kuehl.
714 `make build-report' is a convenience target. It automatically
715 captures make output to files that `M-x build-rpt' knows about. It
716 also runs `make check'. The SXEmacs developers recommend that you use
717 this target to build SXEmacs.
719 ** PROBLEMS updated -- Kuehl, Freundt.
721 Document SELinux/libffi issues and GMP/mpfr Fedora issues.
723 ** pdump/ENT fix for *BSD -- Freundt.
725 ** Documentation updates/fixes -- Youngs, Ferreira, Freundt.
728 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.4 (Bentley Turbo)
729 ===========================================
731 ** Many more image formats via FFI/libWand -- Freundt.
733 FFI-enabled SXEmacs can load up libWand and thus display any image
734 format that libWand (ImageMagick) supports.
736 ** Lots of updates to the ENT (Enhanced Number Types) code -- Freundt.
738 ** Mule is on by default -- Youngs.
740 ** Embeddable keyboard macros -- Kuehl.
742 This means that the following sort of thing is possible:
745 C-x ( foo C-x e C-x )
750 ** Default widgets/dialogs to Athena instead of Motif -- Youngs.
752 ** OpenSSL updates -- Freundt.
754 Digest, encryption, and decryption routines that operate on files has
755 been added. Previously this was only available for buffers.
757 ** Build reports have been revamped -- Youngs, Freundt.
759 The SXEmacs build report no longer conflicts with the XEmacs
760 build-report.el. Plus ours also reports on shared lib dependencies
761 and config.h stuff. Sending from Gnus is also supported.
763 ** FFI updates/fixes -- Youngs, Zajcev, Freundt.
765 ** Ability to build postscript, pdf, and html docs -- Ferreira.
767 ** Double linked lists and bloom filters implemented -- Freundt.
769 Bloom filters are a space and time-efficient way to decide about the
770 membership of an element to a given set. Using lisp-lists or vectors,
771 one usually has to traverse the entire list or vector, before
772 membership can be decided. Using hash tables, membership decision is
773 in O(1) (bloom filters also decide in O(1)), but the hash-table's size
774 grows proportionally with the number n of elements, thus its space
775 complexity is O(n), whereas Bloom filters take a constant amount of
776 space regardless how many elements are in it.
778 ** Lightning fast recursive version of directory-files -- Freundt.
780 It's called `directory-files-recur' and in some situations it is even
781 faster than GNU's find(1).
783 ** Portuguese added to etc/HELLO -- Ferreira.
785 ** Massive improvements, enhancements for multimedia (audio) -- Freundt.
787 SXEmacs supports several "sound servers" like: OSS, NAS, ESD, Polypaudio,
788 ALSA, aRts, and Jack. And media streams can be handled by sndfile, ffmpeg,
789 sox, mad, xine, gstreamer. The SXEmacs developers recommend Polyp/ffmpeg
792 And yes, SXEmacs _can_ play mp3 files. :-)
794 ** Autoconf fixes/updates -- Youngs, Freundt.
796 All of the enable/disable options have been converted to with/without
797 options. This allows us to sort them into groups.
799 Also fixes were made to allow building on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
801 ** Big update for the FAQ -- Youngs, Freundt.
803 ** Server Sockets! -- Ferreira.
805 SXEmacs now has server sockets (Yay!). See
806 `open-network-server-stream'.
808 ** Compiler fixes (gcc 2.95) -- Freundt.
810 ** bug-reporter update -- Youngs.
812 `report-sxemacs-bug' now directs people to our BugZilla installation
813 at http://issues.sxemacs.org/
815 ** Documentation updates/fixes/improvements -- Youngs, Ferreira, Freundt.
818 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.3 (BMW)
819 =================================
821 ** OpenSSL updates, improvements, and fixes -- Freundt.
823 ** FFI updates, and fixes -- Zajcev.
825 FFI now defaults to "on" if libffi can be found at configure time. It
826 you don't want this, use: `--disable-ffi'.
828 FTP downloads with `curl:download' is working properly now. And with
829 HTTP transfers you can transfer just the HTTP header for a file if you
832 ** Extent/glyph fixes -- Sidwell, Kuehl.
834 ** 32 mouse buttons supported -- Youngs.
836 (global-set-key [(button32)] 'some-function) is valid in SXEmacs.
838 ** Modeline tweaks -- Ferreira.
840 Move line/column number indicators to left side (aka XE 21.5)
842 ** M-x uptime -- Youngs.
844 Every good OS has an uptime util, SXEmacs is no exception. Reports
845 uptime in various formats.
847 ** ia64 build fixes -- Lesjak.
849 ** `C-h n' will no longer find NEWS files from packages -- Youngs.
851 ** List of package mirrors updated -- Aichner, Skyttä.
853 ** Bootstrappable PUI -- Youngs.
855 SXEmacs no longer needs to have _any_ packages pre-installed before
856 PUI can be used. See (Info-goto-node "(sxemacs)Bootstrapping PUI").
858 ** Bignums, and a whole swag of sexy new number goodness -- Freundt.
860 Bignums, bigfloats, and ratios that you may know from XEmacs 21.5 are
861 now in SXEmacs. That and a whole lot more...
863 Features provided when all of the library demands are met:
866 (featurep 'bignum) <=> if MPZ from GMP or BSD MP is present
869 (featurep 'ratio) <=> if MPQ from GMP is present
872 (featurep 'bigfloat) <=> if MPF from GMP is present
874 (featurep 'bigfr) <=> if MPFR is present
876 (featurep 'bigc) <=> if MPC is present
878 (featurep 'number-types) <=> if one of the above features is
881 For complete details see: (Info-goto-node "(lispref)Enhanced Number Types")
883 ** Raw strings -- Kuehl.
885 SXEmacs tries to relieve backslashitis by implementing raw strings.
886 You'll imediately notice the benefit of raw strings when use them for
887 those hairy regexps. Consider the regular expression (from
890 "\\(?:^\\|[^\\]\\)\\(?:\\\\\\\\\\)*\\(\\\\[@A-Za-z]+\\)"
892 As a raw string it could be written as...
894 #r"\(?:^\|[^\]\)\(?:\)*\(\\[@A-Za-z]+\)"
896 Most of the SXEmacs core lisp code has been converted over to using
897 raw strings whereever appropriate.
899 ** Improved font-locking in a TTY -- Ferreira.
901 To illustrate this...
903 $ sxemacs -nw -vanilla
905 ...and look at the modeline. Now open a .c file and turn on
908 C-x C-f /path/to/file.c RET
909 M-x font-lock-mode RET
911 ** Compiler fixes -- Zajcev.
913 ** SXEmacs can no longer be built with a C++ compiler -- Youngs.
915 To build SXEmacs you will need a C compiler at least the equivalent of
916 GCC 2.95.3. Building with a C++ compiler is no longer supported.
918 ** Autoconf fixes, updates -- Freundt, Kuehl, Youngs.
920 All autoconf options now have a help string (for ./configure --help)
921 and the default setting for each option is noted.
923 ** PostgreSQL auto-detection improved -- Youngs.
925 If pg_config is in your $PATH, SXEmacs will add PostgreSQL support at
926 configure/build time.
928 ** Documentation (Texinfo) updates -- Freundt, Youngs.
930 The SXEmacs manual is now called "sxemacs" instead of "xemacs". C-h
931 C-i sxemacs RET to read it.
933 Most of the Texinfo docs now have been updated to say "SXEmacs"
934 whereever appropriate instead of "XEmacs".
936 ** GTK (version 1.2) build fixes -- Youngs.
939 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.2 (Audi)
940 ==================================
942 ** autoconf 2.59 compatible configure scripts -- Youngs, Purvis.
944 Many configure options have changed. Please run `./configure --help'
945 to see what the new options are.
947 ** Most win32 code is now gone -- Youngs, Freundt.
949 ** `describe-installation' report libc version on Slackware -- Youngs.
951 ** etags.c updated to Francesco's version 17.11 -- Youngs.
953 ** Support `ls --dired' properly -- Sperber.
955 ** FFI (Foreign Function Interface) updates -- Zajcev.
957 One of the most exciting things is that this version of SXEmacs can
958 download files from the internet _without_ the need of any XEmacs
959 packages being installed. If you have libcurl and enable FFI in
960 SXEmacs at build time, you can:
963 (curl:download "http://www.somedomain.com/path/file"
966 To put your mind at ease, libcurl is _NOT_ needed to build SXEmacs.
967 The above will work even if you install libcurl after
968 building/installing SXEmacs.
970 ** Don't echo GC messages for non-string GC'ing -- Zajcev.
972 This drastically reduces the number of "Garbage Collecting" messages
973 that you see in the echo area. Garbage collection is still happening,
974 it is just not in your face as much.
976 ** movemail.c security fixes -- Oskarsson.
978 ** PUI's *packages* buffer enhancements -- Koch.
980 ** Saner fallbacks for `backup-buffer' -- Youngs.
982 Based on an idea from JWZ, if the backup can't be written, try in
983 `auto-save-directory', and if that fails, fall back to $HOME.
985 ** OpenSSL support -- Freundt.
987 Of course. The OpenSSL library itself is actually separated into two
988 libraries: libcrypto and libssl. libcrypto is the part which comes to
989 elisp with the current API. libssl is planned for the near future.
991 With this interface/gateway we now have access to the wonderful world
992 of static cryptography (static here means no handshake/protocols/etc.).
996 - the OpenSSL PRNG = (pseudo) random number generator to provide
997 generating cryptographically secure randomness
999 - the OpenSSL MDs (message digests) to provide all sorts of hashing
1000 (we had an md5 implementation already)
1002 - the HMAC aka keyed hashing aka message authentication code to provide
1003 hashes secured by a password
1005 - the CIPHER engine (i.e. symmetric crypto systems) to provide
1006 encryption/decryption routines secured by a password
1008 - the PKEY engine (i.e. asymmetric crypto systems) to provide generation
1009 and distribution of private/public key pairs (as probably known by
1012 - the HYBRIDe engine aka PKCS aka public key crypto systems to provide
1013 encryption based on (foreign) public keys and decryption with own
1014 private keys to provide also digital signatures and verification (as
1015 probably known by gpg)
1017 ** Remove most of the generated files from the repo -- Youngs, Freundt.
1019 ** Allow suppression of WM decorations -- Turnbull.
1021 This makes balloon-help windows infinitely better behaved. Thank you
1024 ** Fontify *scratch* buffer according to user's settings -- Kehoe.
1026 ** Fix bug hanging SXEmacs when yanking > 260kb -- Kehoe.
1028 ** lispref manual updated for SXEmacs -- Freundt.
1030 ** PostgreSQL updates (mainly doc updates) -- Frenudt.
1033 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.1 (Aston Martin)
1034 ==========================================
1036 ** user-init-directory set to ~/.sxemacs -- Youngs.
1038 Symlinking this to your old ~/.xemacs directory is enough to get up
1039 and running with SXEmacs.
1041 ** Packages hierarchy default set to $prefix/lib/sxemacs -- Youngs.
1043 Symlinking this to your old $prefix/lib/xemacs directory is enough to
1044 get up and running with SXEmacs. SXEmacs will do this for you when
1045 you do `make install'.
1047 ** Rename items in the menubar -- Slusar, Youngs.
1049 ** Beginnings of FFI -- Zajcev.
1051 FFI is "Foreign Function Interface" and will allow access to functions
1052 and libraries outside of SXEmacs from within lisp. Not completed yet,
1053 but the basic infrastructure is in place.
1055 ** FreeBSD build fixes -- Slusar.
1057 ** M-x report-sxemacs-bug -- Youngs.
1059 For now, this is just a wrapper around report-xemacs-bug with the
1060 appropriate variables set to SXEmacs values.
1062 ** Fix etags.c -- Slusar.
1066 ** M-x build-report -- Youngs.
1068 Make it work for SXEmacs.
1070 ** Fix major bug in regex.c
1072 This fixed a whole swag of crashes involving regexps and
1075 ** Sync up with XEmacs 21.4 -- Various Developers.
1078 * Changes in SXEmacs 22.1.0 (Alfa Romeo)
1079 ========================================
1081 This is the first release of SXEmacs. It is a fork of XEmacs
1082 21.4.16. The vast majority of the changes between SXEmacs 22.1.0 and
1083 the code it descended from, XEmacs 21.4.16, are purely renaming
1084 "XEmacs" to "SXEmacs".