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<h2>News</h2>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <h3>2020-09-02</h3>
+ <em>SXEmacs 22.1.17 "Hudson Custom Eight" 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 "Hillman Hunter" has been released!</em>
<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
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