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<h2>News</h2>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <h3>2016-05-06</h3>
+ <em>SXEmacs 22.1.16 "Hillman Hunter" 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>
+ "In-tree builds" 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 "Goggomobil" 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
+ "defects". 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 "Geo" 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>
As of right now, the SXEmacs git repo is open for business.
You can get our latest sources with…
</p>
- <code>git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/sxemacs</code>
+ <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.
(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="http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi" target="_blank">Dreamhost</a>.
+ <a href="https://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi" target="_blank">Dreamhost</a>.
</li>
<li>
We skipped a version! Erm, long story, short… it was
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="http://issues.sxemacs.org/">Issue Tracker</a> for
+ <a href="https://issues.sxemacs.org/">Issue Tracker</a> for
the details.
</li>
<li>
<ul>
<li>
Bugs closed in this release: 13, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28,
- 31 (see <a href="http://issues.sxemacs.org/">issue tracker</a>)
+ 31 (see <a href="https://issues.sxemacs.org/">issue tracker</a>)
</li>
<li>
Much reworking of the build chain. Quite a bit has
</dl>
</dd>
<dd>
- - Set configure's "bugreport aliress" to
- http://issues.sxemacs.org.
+ - Set configure's "bugreport address" to
+ https://issues.sxemacs.org.
</dd>
<dd>- Fix gdbm/berkdb detection</dd>
<dd>- Improve libc version detection</dd>
<li>
`report-sxemacs-bug' now directs people to the SXEmacs
issue tracker at
- <a href="http://issues.sxemacs.org/">http://issues.sxemacs.org/</a>
+ <a href="https://issues.sxemacs.org/">https://issues.sxemacs.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
SXEmacs now builds clean on FreeBSD and NetBSD.