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    <h2>News</h2>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2020-09-02</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.17 &quot;Hudson Custom Eight&quot; has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.17 Highlights</u>
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 183 184
        </li>
        <li>
          Packaging Infrastructure (PUI) -- Youngs.

The big change here is that SXEmacs now uses FFI and libcurl to
download packages whenever possible.  EFS can still be used for FTP
download sites but at present we only have a single HTTPS site
available.  This means that, for the time being, FFI and libcurl are
mandatory requirements for using PUI for remote package installs.  I
see that as a feature, not a bug. ;-)

The old "Pre-Release" packages have been removed.

The index file has been renamed to "package-index"
        </li>
        <li>
          FFI -- Youngs.

ffi-curl.el was extended and improved so that it could be used as a
transport backend for PUI.  As a result, the following forms are valid
and available for use:

          <pre>
      (file-exists-p "http://example.com/filename")
      (file-readable-p "http://example.com/filename")
      (insert-file-contents-literally "http://example.com/filename")
      (copy-file "http://example.com/filename" "/local/file")
      (expand-file-name "http://example.com/filename")
      (file-name-directory "http://example.com/filename")
      (file-name-nondirectory "http://example.com/filename")
          </pre>

ffi-magic.el was rewritten, bringing in most of file(1)'s features and
capabilities.  See the doc string of #'magic:file for the new options
and example usage.

Also see:

          <pre>
     #'magic:file-audio-p
     #'magic:file-video-p
     #'magic:file-image-p
     #'magic:file-text-p
          </pre>

ffi-magic.el can also be used to enable automatic coding system
detection.  In-file coding cookies and local variables sections are
honoured, as is explicitly setting the coding system.  IOW, the magic
auto-detection only kicks in if the coding system isn't already set
some other way.  To get the magic, add this form to your init...

          <pre>
     (require 'ffi-magic)
     (magic:find-file-magic-alist-enable)
          </pre>

ffi-wand.el no longer supports PDF.  This was because certain versions
of libWand would cause crashes on PDF files, and the versions that
didn't the performance and user experience was flakey at best.
        </li>
        <li>
          Build Chain -- Youngs

Better, more reliable and robust libffi detection

config.{guess,sub} updated

Use a distro-agnostic way of detecting glibc version

Clean up all warnings from the autogen.sh script
        </li>
        <li>
          Internals / elisp -- Youngs, Ferreira

Use the system malloc in all cases instead of the old, crusty,
in-house malloc we had.

A way to prevent certain OpenSSL ciphers from being used.  This was
done because some ciphers have been known to causes crashes and data
corruption.

A couple of tweaks for GNU compat reasons with

          <pre>
  #'eval-after-load
  #'define-obsolete-variable-alias
  #'define-obsolete-function-alias
          </pre>

info.el updated to correctly handle UTF-8 info docs (note that some
MULE packages are still needed for the complete user experience)

#'directory-files and #'directory-files-recur were updated and fixed
so that now they do what their doc strings say they can. ;-)
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2016-05-06</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.16 &quot;Hillman Hunter&quot; has been released!</em>
      <p>
        <u>22.1.16 Higlights</u>
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 132, 141, 152, 155, 156, 158,
          160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176,
          181  
        </li>
        <li>
          Multimedia fixes/updates -- Ferreira, Youngs.<br />
          SoX and FFmpeg support was brought back and mostly fixed.
          PulseAudio has been brought back, and support for "media
          roles" was added. 
        </li>
        <li>
          Build chain fixes/updates -- Meier, Ferreira, Burkhardt,
          Youngs<br />
          A lot of work went into stamping out compiler warnings and
          errors to give us a much cleaner/safer build.
        </li>
        <li>
          FFI updates -- Zajcev, Youngs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Don't reset the cursor upon exit on a TTY -- Youngs.<br />
          Since the beginning of time, whenever you exited emacs on a
          TTY you'd find that your cursor had been reset to a horrible
          great big block.  We thought that you'd probably prefer to
          have the cursor you were using before you started SXEmacs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Contrib updates/fixes/additions -- Ferreira, Youngs.<br />
          Of note here is the rewritten 'git-for-steve.sh' script.  It
          is designed for SXEmacs developers, both old and new, to
          help get everything super organised in their git repo and
          fast-track them to contributing and hacking.
        </li>
        <li>
          Make docs compatible with Texinfo 5.x -- Youngs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Support Unix user/group lookups -- Ferreira.
        </li>
        <li>
          XDG compliance -- Youngs.<br />
          SXEmacs now looks for user files in locations that are much
          more inline with modern standards and conventions.<br />
          <br />
          `user-init-directory' is now ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/sxemacs or 
          ~/.config/sxemacs if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set.<br />
          <br />
          User packages will now be searched for in
          ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/sxemacs (~/.local/share/sxemacs).<br />
          <br />
          The old legacy directory `~/.sxemacs' is still supported,
          and in fact will still be used if the XDG directories don't
          exist and it (the legacy dir) does.  A user can also force
          use of the legacy directory if they so choose.
        </li>
        <li>
          Add wildcard support to #'find-file et al. -- Youngs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Fix coding cookies -- Youngs.
        </li>
        <li>
          &quot;In-tree builds&quot; are no longer supported. --
          Youngs.
        </li>
        <li>
          TTY related fixes/updates -- Ferreira.
        </li>
        <li>
          Various minor updates/tweaks/fixes -- Burkhardt, Ferreira,
          Youngs. 
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2012-06-16</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.15 &quot;Goggomobil&quot; has been released!</em>
      <p>
        <u>22.1.15 Higlights</u>
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 76, 78, 88, 106, 108, 112, 121,
          122, 125, 126, 127, 128, 131, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139,
          140
        </li>
        <li>
          Coverity integrity scan fixes -- Ferreira.<br />
          <a href="https://www.coverity.com/">Coverity</a> offers
          source code integrity analysis scans.  These scans often
          uncover bugs and security issues that would otherwise go
          unnoticed.  When we first scanned the SXEmacs code base
          with the Coverity scanner we had ourselves roughly 500
          &quot;defects&quot;.  Nelson Ferreira has pretty much
          single-handedly fixed them ALL!!  Well done, Nelson and
          thanks a million!!!
        </li>
        <li>
          Build related fixes/updates -- Ferreira, Freundt, Horelick,
          Meier, Youngs.<br />
          With fixes for:
          <ul>
            <li>SuSe</li>
            <li>PowerPC</li>
            <li>MacOS</li>
            <li>FreeBSD</li>
            <li>NetBSD</li>
            <li>OpenIndiana</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>
          Bitrot removal -- Burkhardt, Youngs.<br />
          We got rid of some stuff too, including: aRts, GTKv1,
          tooltalk, and a bunch of stuff from lib-src.
        </li>
        <li>
          Whitespace cleansing -- Youngs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Support libpng 1.5.x -- Youngs.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2011-03-14</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.14 &quot;Geo&quot; has been released!</em>
      <p>
        <u>22.1.14 Highlights</u>
      </p>
      <p>
        This release cycle was all about upating all of the versioning
        information and the build chain to be compatible with git.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2010-11-05</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs switches to git</em>
      <p>
        People have been asking for it ever since we started this
        project.  Well, it is now a reality&hellip; The SXEmacs
        sources are now kept in a git repository.
      </p>
      <p>
        The migration went very smoothly, a lot smoother than I was
        anticipating.  Which was nice.  There was one downside,
        however&hellip; History.  We lost all of the history up to
        this point.  Technically, it's not <em>completely</em> lost.
        It is just not in the git repo.  You can still get all the
        history you could ever want by leeching the tla repos.  And
        don't forget that when we first forked from XEmacs we lost all
        of the XEmacs CVS history.  That never caused any problems or
        issues, so I don't expect it to this time.
      </p>
      <p>
        As of right now, the SXEmacs git repo is open for business.
        You can get our latest sources with&hellip;
      </p>
      <code>git clone https://git.sxemacs.org/sxemacs</code>
      <p>
        That URL is deliberately <strong>not</strong> a hyperlink
        because you can only get to that URL with a git client.
      </p>
      <p>
        Till next time&hellip;<br />
        Steve.
      </p>
    </div>      
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2010-11-04</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.12 &quot;Fiat&quot; has been released!</em>
      <p>
        <u>22.1.12 Highlights</u>
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 69, 86, 107, 109, 110, 111,
          113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120
        </li>
        <li>
          Build chain fixes and updates -- Ferreira, Freundt, Youngs.
          <ul>
            <li>Fix building without eye-candy (*bars, widgets, etc)</li>
            <li>Begin work on getting SXEmacs built on Arm Linux</li>
            <li>Fix NetBSD 5 build</li>
            <li>Mac OS build fixes</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>FFI improvements, updates, and enhancements -- Zajcev</li>
        <li>
          Source tree reorganisation -- Ferreira.  Nelson put a lot of
          working into reorganising the SXEmacs source tree hierarchy.
          This was done with the view to making maintenance and debugging
          easier, and also to simplify adding new features.  There are
          now several subdirectories under src&hellip;
        </li>
      </ul>
      <blockquote>
      <table border="0">
        <tbody>
          <tr align="left">
            <th>New src hierarchy</th>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/database</td>
            <td>has the database code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/ent</td>
            <td>has the &quot;Enhance Number Types&quot; code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/events</td>
            <td>has the &quot;events&quot; code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/media</td>
            <td>has all the multimedia code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/mem</td>
            <td>has memory related code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/mule</td>
            <td>has the MULE stuff</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/ui</td>
            <td>has the UI code common to all toolkits</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/ui/Gtk</td>
            <td>has the old (non-working) GTK 1 code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/ui/TTY</td>
            <td>has the TTY UI code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/ui/X11</td>
            <td>has the X11 UI code</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>src/ui/lwlib</td>
            <td>has the Lucid stuff</td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
    </blockquote>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2010-10-22</h3>
      <em>We Are Still ALIVE!!</em>
      <p>
        Contrary to popular opinion, this project is still very much
        alive and kicking.  Sure, sometimes we take extended breaks,
        but we always come back to &quot;tinker&quot;. :-)  A lot has
        been going on in the lives of us mortal develpers during this
        last year.  The unfortunate thing for SXEmacs was that not
        much of the goings on were SXEmacs-related.  Which is why
        you've not seen much in the way of activity here for the last
        year.
      </p>
      <p>
        A few of the more notible SXEmacs-related things that did
        happen in the last 12 months have been&hellip;
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          We moved to a new hosting provider.  All of SXEmacs,
          (including website, issue tracker, mailing lists, downloads,
          and the main source repo), is now served up to you by the
          awesome folks at
          <a href="https://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi" target="_blank">Dreamhost</a>.
        </li>
        <li>
          We skipped a version!  Erm, long story, short&hellip; it was
          to do with the move to the new host, and it was simply
          best for Steve's sanity and tla revision numbering to just
          skip a version.  So 22.1.12 is now the current development
          version.  There is a 
          <a href="/changes/ChangeLog-22.1.11" target="_blank">ChangeLog for 22.1.11</a>
          if you want to take a look at what went on during that dev
          cycle. 
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="/people/njsf.html" target="_blank">Nelson</a> has
          been the busiest of us.  One of the things he has been
          working on has been a huge re-organisation of the src
          directory.  Instead of all of the C source being lumped into
          a single directory, it is now split into logical
          sub-directories.  It is now much tidier, and a lot easier to
          maintain and work with.
        </li>
      </ul>
      <p>
        That's about it on the news front.  Hopefully we'll be able to
        cut a new release some time fairly soon.  My hope is for
        before the end of the year.
      </p>
      <p>
        Till next time&hellip;<br />
        Steve.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2009-10-11</h3>
      <em>Website updates</em>
      <p>
        The SXEmacs website has undergone a bit of work recently.
        Hopefully it'll make your stay more enjoyable, and you'll want
        to come back again and again.  Bring your friends!
      </p>
      <p>
        Some of the new stuff&hellip;
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>&quot;Google&quot; Friends widget</li>
        <li>A &quot;Twitter Ticker&quot; tracking emacs related tweets</li>
        <li>Google Ads.  Hey, we gotta eat.  Please click em</li>
        <li>New screenshot &quot;thumbnails&quot; page</li>
        <li>Some cosmetic updates to maintain consistent look/feel</li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2009-05-12</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.10 &quot;Excalibur&quot; has been released!</em>
      <p>
        <u>22.1.10 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 41, 65, 74, 75, 79, 80, 81, 82,
          83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100,
          101, 102, 104
        </li>
        <li>
          Cool New Sexy Stuff.  Of course every release must have some
          cool new stuff.  Here's what's new in this release&hellip;
          <ul>
            <li>
              User defined readers
            </li>
            <li>
              It's possible to display video in a glyph object in a buffer.
            </li>
            <li>
              SXEmacs is now a fairly decent image
              viewing/manipulation app. There's an undo/redo stack,
              zoom in/out, rotate, chop/crop, red-eye reduction.
              There is a whole swag of transformations supported:
              charcoal, contrast, despeckle, edge, enhance, equalise,
              gausian blur, negate, normalise, oil painting, radial
              blur, 3D button effect, sharpen, solarise, and
              swirl. Who needs The Gimp when you have SXEmacs!
            </li>
            <li>
              Added some MacOS icons.
            </li>
            <li>
              Support for sqlite3 via FFI
            </li>
            <li>
              New way for SXEmacs to handle different file types. It
              allows you to have #'find-file take different actions
              based on a predicate.  See the new variable
              `find-file-magic-files-alist'.
            </li>
            <li>
              Enable PNG transparent backgrounds.  Unfortunately this
              doesn't work if you use a background pixmap. 
            </li>
            <li>
              FFI callbacks implemented.
            </li>
            <li>
              Dbus support via FFI (not completed). This should be
              considered very much incomplete and experimental.  Only
              rudimentary support is there so far.
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>
          Build chain fixes/improvements.  Quite a few build chain
          related changes were made in this release, including&hellip;
          <ul>
            <li>Work around a bug in GCC 4.5.0</li>
            <li>Powerpc/BSD cpu detection</li>
            <li>A Freedesktop.org compliant sxemacs.desktop file is now installed.</li>
            <li>Updated FFmpeg detection.</li>
            <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0 detection.  OpenSSL is no on by default.</li>
            <li>Fix a link error when building with no MPQ</li>
            <li>Fix a minor bison related issue (YYSTYPE)</li>
            <li>Fix building with latest SoX</li>
            <li>Fix --without-x builds</li>
            <li>Fix many C compiler warnings and elisp byte-compiler warnings.</li>
            <li>Fix install for non-FFI and non-Mule builds</li>
            <li>Fix etags build for systems without getopt_long</li>
            <li>Fix (hopefully) parallel builds</li>
            <li>Fix BDWGC-enabled builds</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Minor updates to BDWGC code.</li>
        <li>Catch up with latest ffmpeg API changes.</li>
        <li>Fix for latest ediff.</li>
        <li>Fix for subwindow resizing.</li>
        <li>FFI improvements.</li>
        <li>ENT fixes.</li>
        <li>TTY fixes.</li>
        <li>Cleaner dump file (less pollution from the build/src dir).</li>
        <li>
          Improve #'file-basename. It can now take a 2nd arg for
          extension stripping.
        </li>
        <li>Misc doc fixes/updates.</li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2009-05-11</h3>
      <em>Chat with the developers</em>
      <p>
        Do you have a SXEmacs problem that can't wait for email to go
        back and forth?  Or do you have some amazing new feature you'd
        like to see in SXEmacs but can't wait to tell someone?  Or
        perhaps you just wanna shoot the breeze?  Well your troubles
        are over&hellip;
      </p>
      <p>
        The SXEmacs web site now offers real-time chat with the
        developers.  See the &quot;SXEmacs Chat&quot; menu entry on
        each page, or follow <a href="irc.html">this link</a>.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2008-09-27</h3>
      <em>News RSS feed back up!</em>
      <p>
        Yep, that's right.  After years of no news RSS, it has finally
        been fixed.  Many thanks and kudos to Hynek Schlawack for the
        sexy new Python script that RSS-ifies the entries on the
        SXEmacs news page.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2008-09-24</h3>
      <em>Mailing list subscriptions fixed!</em>
      <p>
        Subscribing to the mailing lists is now working again.  Please
        accept our deepest apologies for taking so long to get this
        issue sorted out.  It was some corruption in the affected
        lists' config.pck and the backups were corrupt as well.
        Removing the lists and then recreating them solved the
        problem.  The original member db remained intact, as did the
        archives, so all being well everthing should just work.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2008-09-21</h3>
      <em>Updated items in the shop!</em>
      <p>
        You've seen the blood-dripping beta logo, now you can get that
        on your T-shirt, or coffee mug, even on a courier bag, or wall
        clock.  Go check out <a href="store.html">the shop</a>!
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2008-09-19</h3>
      <em>Behind the scenes updates to SXEmacs website</em>
      <p>
        We've made a few changes under the hood at the SXEmacs
        website.  Pretty much all of the HTML has been re-written from
        the ground up.  And if Steve did it right, you shouldn't
        notice a thing. :-)  Almost all of the changes made were
        designed to do 2 things&hellip;
      </p>
      <ol>
        <li>Preserve look/feel across entire site</li>
        <li>
          Easier maintenance for the
          <a href="mailto:webmaster@sxemacs.org">webmaster</a>
        </li>
      </ol>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2008-09-16</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs website offers retail therapy</em>
      <p>
        Do you need retail therapy?  We can help.  We've just
        added two outlets for your frustrations.  One for the
        memorabilia junkie at our
        <a href="store.html">SXEmacs Store</a>.  And one for
        those special occasions at our
        <a href="amazon.html">Amazon Store</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
        Be sure to check them both out, and spend up big! :-) All
        the proceeds go to keeping the SXEmacs Project running.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2008-06-06</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.9 "Edsel" has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.9 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,
          39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56,
          57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. See our
          <a href="https://issues.sxemacs.org/">Issue Tracker</a> for
          the details.
        </li>
        <li>
          New garbage collector BDWGC.  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.
        </li>
        <li>
          Support 256 colour terminals.  Support for 256 colour
          terminals and colour resolution through approximation
          for tty devices.
        </li>
        <li>
          New function, #'mapfam.  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.
        </li>
        <li>
          New FFI util, ffi-magic.el.  Uses libmagic to guess file
          type.
        </li>
        <li>
          Cool new stuff in the contrib directory.  There are tla
          hook scripts, build scripts, and build-report scripts.
        </li>
        <li>
          Build chain fixes and improvements.  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.
        </li>
        <li>
          Init file migration code removed. We feel that it is
          better to NOT mess with other emacsen's set ups.
        </li>
        <li>
          Compiler warning fixes.
        </li>
        <li>
          PNG images optimised for size.
        </li>
        <li>
          Re-work auto-autoloads loading a little.  Priority is
          given to packages installed under ~/.sxemacs/ and care
          is taken to eliminate those "foo-autoloads already
          loaded" warnings.
        </li>
        <li>
          Support for BSD's MP removed.
        </li>
        <li>
          Emodule search path/loading fixes.  Emodule load path
          has been made sane.  #'load-module and #'locate-module
          have both been vastly improved and both have completion.
        </li>
        <li>
          FFI improvements. 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.
        </li>
        <li>
          Etags improvements.  A bit of "UI" has been added to
          etags.el, as well as some code optimising.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2008-02-01</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.8 "Daimler" has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.8 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31.
          The reason for the apparent double up of closed bugs
          from the previous release is because our bug index got
          reset during a rebuild.
        </li>
        <li>
          SXEmacs now has a libtool based build chain.
        </li>
        <li>
          Bootstrapping packages is now a little more friendly and
          foolproof (hopefully).
        </li>
        <li>
          User cutomisations are now saved to
          ~/.sxemacs/custom-${USER}.el if the old style custom.el
          doesn't exist.
        </li>
        <li>
          custom-defines.el files.  These are like
          auto-autoload.el files, but for defcustom's etc.
        </li>
        <li>
          Support for :inherit face keyword.
        </li>
        <li>
          A new rc.d style init mechanism. (the normal
          ~/.sxemacs/init.el is still supported of course)
        </li>
        <li>
          New resize echo area. (not to be confused with
          rsz-minibuffer.el) 
        </li>
        <li>
          #'describe-function now reports global keybindings for
          commands. 
        </li>
        <li>
          New %b spec for #'format for converting between ints and
          bit vectors.
        </li>
        <li>
          Various minor doc fixes, typos, and other trivial
          things.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2007-11-27</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs switches to GPLv3</em>
      <p>
        Most of the source code in SXEmacs is licenced under the
        GNU General Public Licence (GPL).  Today SXEmacs switched
        to the latest version of the GPL, GPLv3.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2007-08-24</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.7 "De Lorean" has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.7 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Bugs closed in this release: 13, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28,
          31 (see <a href="https://issues.sxemacs.org/">issue tracker</a>)
        </li>
        <li>
          Much reworking of the build chain. Quite a bit has
          changed here, a few options have been changed, added, or
          removed.  So if you haven't been following the
          development it might pay you to have a look at our
          configure's --help output.
        </li>
        <li>
          Fix emodule loading on 64bit machines.
        </li>
        <li>
          Security fix in movemail.c (mktemp()->mkstemp()).
        </li>
        <li>
          Etags synched up to upstream 17.32.
        </li>
        <li>
          Updates/fixes to dllists/skiplists.
        </li>
        <li>
          Lots of updates in the ENT area (Enhanced Number
          Types).  Some stuff has been moved to an external
          emodule, "ASE" (Algebraic Structures for ENT or "ASE
          Supersedes ENT").  Also directed graphs have been
          introduced (sparse representation only so far).  And
          introduce heaps (dense, dynamic, and week).
        </li>
        <li>
          cl.el meets C.  We've begun work on implementing the
          common lisp macros as an external emodule.  The main
          focus here is speed, and initial benchmarks are _very_
          exciting... The emod version of #'dotimes (#'cl:dotimes)
          can be nearly 200 times faster than its elisp
          counterpart!  This isn't finished yet, but watch future
          releases.
        </li>
        <li>
          package-suppress mechanism ported from XEmacs 21.5.
        </li>
        <li>
          Asynchronous version of #'curl:download added called
          #'curl:download&amp;.
        </li>
        <li>
          Font-lock improvements, especially on TTYs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Fix info search path.
        </li>
        <li>
          Change default setting for progress guages to be off.
        </li>
        <li>
          Multimedia updates/fixes.  Lots of reworking has been
          done here, especially with PulseAudio, ffmpeg, and
          threading of the audio jobs etc.  Support for gstreamer
          and xine has been dropped, and libmagic added.
        </li>
        <li>
          New macro to define "toggle" variables
          #'define-toggle-variable.  I wouldn't normally list a
          single new macro in this file, but this one deserves a
          mention.  It sets up toggle variables, including
          #'turn-on-VAR, #'turn-off-VAR, and #'toggle-VAR.  Very
          nifty. 
        </li>
        <li>
          Many many compiler warnings have been fixed.  Almost all
          byte-compiler warnings have been fixed in our build.
          And a good deal of the warnings in the C code of a
          standard build has been fixed as well.
        </li>
        <li>
          GC fixes/updates.
        </li>
        <li>
          A contrib directory has been added to the tree.  So far
          there are patches in there to pop3.el, smtpmail.el, and
          starttls.el which takes advantage of some of SXEmacs'
          cool native features like OpenSSL.  Watch this space for
          more nifty things.
        </li>
        <li>
          Documentation updates: sppm, lispref, tips, building,
          processes, and internals manuals.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-12-11</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs Release Archive Mirror</em>
      <p>
        I'm very happy to announce that the kind folks at 
        <a href="http://www.planetmirror.com">Planet Mirror</a>
        are providing mirroring service for us.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-12-06</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.6 "Cadillac" has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.6 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Enhanced Number Types (ENT) fixes and updates.
        </li>
        <li>
          Multimedia fixes and updates.
        </li>
        <li>
          New ffi-gcrypt.el bringing GnuPG's libgrypt bindings to
          SXEmacs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Line and column numbers in the modeline are now padded
          for improved readability.
        </li>
        <li>
          New skiplists.  This is a basic implementation of
          Pugh's skip lists.  Their efficiency is overwhelming
          when compared to alists or plists.  They also perform
          better on insertion and removal than large hash-tables
          (due to the resizing/rehashing which takes place).
          They can be created almost as fast as lisp lists and
          thus beat hash-tables there, too.
        </li>
        <li>
          Module (DSO) load paths were fixed.
        </li>
        <li>
          Test suite improvements and updates.
        </li>
        <li>
          Etags fixes.  The Makefile Etags targets work now and
          etags.el has been fixed to work with the include
          directive and tags completion is working.
        </li>
        <li>
          Fix a problem with raw string parsing.
        </li>
        <li>
          Sync bytecomp-runtime.el with XE 21.5 to take advantage
          of the *-f?boundp macros.
        </li>
        <li>
          OpenSSL updates/fixes/improvements, providing support
          for certificate authorities (CA), for peer certificates
          and, using the network-server-streams, secure listening
          sockets.  This will allow to connect/accept to/from
          servers/clients which require valid peer certificates.
        </li>
        <li>
          New PulseAudio support replacing PolypAudio.
        </li>
        <li>
          New caching compiled regular expressions.
        </li>
        <li>
          Fix many build related issues.
        </li>
        <li>
          Major restructuring of the build chain.  SXEmacs is now
          a completely autotooled project, using aclocal,
          automake, autoheader, autoconf.
        </li>
        <li>
          Move to a FHS-compliant install hierarchy.
        </li>
        <li>
          Drag 'n' Drop has been removed.
        </li>
        <li>
          Fix bug in lib-complete that was causing find-function
          to visit .elc files if running inplace.
        </li>
        <li>
          Fix stack overflow bug in mapconcat.
        </li>
        <li>
          Update about.el, see: <code>M-x about-sxemacs</code>.
        </li>
        <li>
          Lots of documentation updates, fixes, and improvements.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-05-13</h3>
      <em>The documentation is now online</em>
      <p>
        As of today, the <strong>127278</strong> lines of
        documentation that comes with SXEmacs is available for
        browsing online.  You'll see a link in the menu on each
        page here.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-05-07</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.5 "Bugatti" has been released!</em>
      <p>
        There were a few build-related problems with the last
        release so this is primarily a maintenence/bugfix release.
      </p>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.5 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          version.sh was sometimes generating an incorrect
          version.
        </li>
        <li>
          Autoconf fixes and updates.  Most of the changes in this
          release were centered around our autoconf scripts.
          <dl>
            <dd>- Recognise $CFLAGS environment variables</dd>
            <dd>- X toolkit autodetection redone</dd>
            <dd>- TTY autodetection fixed</dd>
            <dd>- PostgreSQL detection properly reported</dd>
            <dd>- Change allowed values for menubars, dialogs,
              widgets</dd>
            <dd>
              <dl>
                <dd>menubars -- no athena or motif</dd>
                <dd>dialogs  -- no lucid</dd>
                <dd>widgets  -- no lucid</dd>
              </dl>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              - Set configure's "bugreport address" to
              https://issues.sxemacs.org. 
            </dd>
            <dd>- Fix gdbm/berkdb detection</dd>
            <dd>- Improve libc version detection</dd>
          </dl>
        </li>
        <li>
          New convenience Makefile target, "build-report".  This
          target is especially designed to make life easier for
          sending in build reports.  Basically it saves make
          output to the appropriate place and also ensures that a
          make check is run.
        </li>
        <li>
          A SELinux/libffi quirk and a GMP/mpfr issue has been
          noted in PROBLEMS.
        </li>
        <li>
          A pdump/ENT bug on *BSD has been fixed.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-05-01</h3>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.4 "Bentley Turbo" has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.4 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Server sockets! Welcome to the brave new world of
          SXEmacs listening for TCP and UDP connections, with all
          the fix-ins for creating network servers. Yes, now you
          can have SXEmacs be your web server. See
          `open-network-server-stream'. 
        </li>
        <li>
          SXEmacs audio.  SXEmacs supports several "sound servers"
          like: OSS, NAS, ESD, Polypaudio, ALSA, aRts, and Jack.
          And media streams can be handled by sndfile, ffmpeg,
          sox, mad, xine, gstreamer.  The SXEmacs developers
          recommend Polyp/ffmpeg whenever possible.  And yes,
          SXEmacs <u>can</u> play mp3 files. :-) 
    </li>
      <li>
        Autoconf updates.  The big one here is that all enable
        and disable options have been converted to with and
        without options.
      </li>
      <li>
        A recursive implementation of `directory-files', called
        `directory-files-recur' has been added.  It is lightning
        fast... in some situations, even faster than find(1)
      </li>
      <li>
        Double linked lists and bloom filters have been
        implemented.
      </li>
      <li>
        OpenSSL digest, encryption, and decryption routines have
        been added for files.  Previously this could only be
        done with buffers.
      </li>
      <li>
        Athena is now the default toolkit used instead of
        Motif.
      </li>
      <li>
        Embeddable keyboard macros.  You can execute a keyboard
        macro while you are in the middle of defining a keyboard
        macro.
      </li>
      <li>
        Mule is on by default.  You can turn it off using the
        --without-mule configure option.
      </li>
      <li>
        Display any image format that is supported by
        ImageMagick's libWand.  Requires FFI-enabled SXEmacs and
        libWand.
      </li>
      <li>
        Lots of updates and improvements to ENT (Enhanced Number
        Types).
      </li>
      <li>
        Build report updates.  The SXEmacs version no longer
        conflicts with the XEmacs build.el.  It also displays a
        lot more interesting info.  And can even use Gnus to
        send the reports.
      </li>
      <li>
        `report-sxemacs-bug' now directs people to the SXEmacs
        issue tracker at
        <a href="https://issues.sxemacs.org/">https://issues.sxemacs.org/</a>
      </li>
      <li>
        SXEmacs now builds clean on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
      </li>
    </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-04-11</h3>
      <p>
        This news page is now also published as a
        <a href="rss/news.rss">RSS feed</a>.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-02-13</h3>
      <p>
        SXEmacs web site finally gets some content that doesn't leave
        you wondering what the hell this SXEmacs thing is anyway.
        Also, as you can see, the news items are now on their own
        page.  And we've created an RSS feed to the commit logs to the
        mainline repo.  There's a link in the menu of each page.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2006-01-08</h3>
      <p>
        There's a problem with SXEmacs 22.1.3 and installing on BSD
        systems.  A virtually empty auto-autoloads.el file was being
        installed which made SXEmacs unusable.  This tiny
        <a href="http://ftp.sxemacs.org/pub/sxemacs/sxemacs-22.1.3-bsdfix.diff">patch</a>
        fixes it.
      </p>
      <p>
        We are also aware of some problems with building on Solaris 9.
        We are working on fixing those problems and will post a patch
        as soon as it is ready.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-12-22</h3>
      <p>
        Has it really been <u>that</u> long since the last bit of news
      or release?  We have a new release!  And just in time for
      Christmas, too. :-)
    </p>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.3 has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.3 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Enhanced number types -- SXEmacs now has all sorts
          of enhanced number types.  Things like bignum,
          bigfloat, fractions, mpfr-floats, complex-numbers,
          gaussian-numbers, residue classes and residue
          class rings.
        </li>
        <li>
          Raw Strings -- SXEmacs supports Python-like raw
          strings.  This will cut back dramatically on the
          backslashitis that elisp hackers suffer from.
        </li>
        <li>
          FFI -- Downloading HTTP headers is now possible,
          and FTP transfers have been fixed.
        </li>
        <li>
          Mouse -- You can now bind up to 32 mouse buttons.
          <code>
            (global-set-key [(button32)] 'some-function)
          </code>
          And you thought you had enough trouble trying to
          remember all the key bindings... :-)
        </li>
        <li>
          Uptime -- Try <code>M-x uptime</code> and
          <code>C-u M-x uptime</code>
        </li>
        <li>
          Bootstrapping PUI -- SXEmacs no longer needs to
          have any packages pre-installed before the package
          tools (PUI) are usable.  As long as you have a
          FFI-enabled SXEmacs and libcurl (very likely) you
          can "bootstrap" PUI by choosing a download site
          and running <code>M-x pui-bootstrap</code>
        </li>
        <li>
          Improved font-locking in a TTY -- To illustrate,
          fire up a vanilla SXEmacs (sxemacs -vanilla) and
          look at the modeline.  Then open a .c file and
          turn on font-lock (M-x font-lock-mode).
        </li>
        <li>
          Autoconf fixes -- All configure options have help
          strings and state what the default setting is.
          PostgreSQL detection has been improved and
          simplified.  Most users shouldn't need to specify
          the pgsql prefix in `--with-site-prefixes' to get
          PostgreSQL support.
        </li>
        <li>
          Building SXEmacs with C++ Compiler -- This is no
          longer supported.  To build SXEmacs you will need
          an ANSI-compatible C compiler of at least GCC
          2.95.3 equivalence.
        </li>
        <li>
          Documentation (Texinfo) -- Have all been updated
          to mention "SXEmacs" instead of "XEmacs" where
          appropriate.  The main SXEmacs manual is now
          sxemacs.info.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-05-18</h3>
      <p>
        Wow, it's been a while since I updated this page.  Sorry 'bout
        that.  My excuse is that I hate doing HTML and I'm a lazy
        bastard.  Anyway, a lot's been going on since, most notably:
      </p>
      <em>SXEmacs 22.1.2 has been released!</em>
      <p>
      <u>22.1.2 Highlights</u>
    </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          FFI -- This is our "Foreign Function Interface".  In a
          nutshell, it is a way to bring any function from any
          external library to lisp.  As an example, this version
          of SXEmacs can download files from the internet
      <u>without</u> the need for any XEmacs lisp packages
      such as EFS.  It uses libcurl.  Note that libcurl is
      <u>not</u> needed to build SXEmacs.
    </li>
      <li>
        OpenSSL -- SXEmacs can be linked with OpenSSL
        libcrypto and libssl to provide a comprehensive
        gateway to cryptographic and related functions.
        Note, this is still experimental.
      </li>
      <li>
        GC -- Garbage Collection.  SXEmacs still garbage
        collects as much as it always had, it is just now it
        doesn't print messages to the echo area as often as
        it used to.
      </li>
      <li>
        Autoconf -- The SXEmacs autoconf scripts are all
        autoconf version 2.59 compatible.
      </li>
      <li>
        Etags -- Updated to upstream version 17.11 of
        etags.c 
      </li>
      <li>
        Win32 -- Most of the win32 code is now gone.
      </li>
      <li>
        Security -- A potential vulnerability has been fixed
        in movemail.c
      </li>
    </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-02-20</h3>
      <p>
        Added "Developer Pages" section.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-02-18</h3>
      <p>
        Our BugZilla issue tracker is now online and ready for use
        (see the link in the menu).  It's actually been operational
        for a while but I forgot to mention it. :-)
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-02-03</h3>
      <p>
        We now have Autoconf 2.59 compatible configuration scripts.
        The preliminary work is in sxemacs--main--22.1.2--patch-3 (see
        the <a href="download.html">download page</a> for how to get
        this via tla).
      </p>
      <p>
        Take care with it.  Many of the configure options have
        changed.  And at this stage, we are expecting breakage as
        it is very difficult to test all configurations.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-01-31</h3>
      <p>
        It is with great pride and pleasure that the SXEmacs Team
        brings you another SXEmacs release.
      </p>
      <p>
        Today, SXEmacs 22.1.1 was released.  Source tarballs are
        available from our
        <a href="download.html">download page</a>.  And you can
        view the changes in this release
        <a href="changes/ChangeLog-22.1.1"> here</a>.
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-01-12</h3>
      <p>
        With thanks to the wonderful folks at
        <a href="http://www.tux.org/"> Tux.Org</a>, I am very pleased
        to announce that we now have an FTP site!  Check it out:
        <a href="ftp://ftp.sxemacs.org/pub/sxemacs/">ftp.sxemacs.org</a>
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-01-05</h3>
      <p>
        The sxemacs-devel mailing list is now available via Gmane.
        This is great because it means less load on my mail server.
        There is a downside (from my point of view) however.  I can
        no longer keep accurate records of numbers of developers
        etc.  So...
      </p>
      <p>
        If you want to be "counted" as a SXEmacs developer,
        could you please subscribe to the list in the normal
        way.  If you'd rather read/post via Gmane, that's cool,
        just mark your "real" subscription as "no delivery".
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2005-01-02</h3>
      Let me introduce you to our core team:
      <ul>
        <li>Steve Youngs (Project Lead)</li>
        <li>Erik Arneson</li>
        <li><a href="people/lg.html">Evgeny Zajcev</a></li>
        <li>Hynek Schlawack</li>
        <li>Nick Granado</li>
        <li>Peter Brown</li>
        <li><a href="people/hroptatyr.html">Sebastian Freundt</a></li>
      </ul>
      <p/>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h3>2004-12-31</h3>
      <p>
        Today, SXEmacs was announced to the world on the XEmacs and
        GNU/Emacs mailing lists.  See the
        <a href="list-archives/html/sxemacs-devel/2004-12/msg00065.html">original post</a>.
      </p>
    </div>
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