3 This file briefly describes all changes to XEmacs in the OXYMORON
4 series of releases. In principle there should be no user interface
5 changes listed here, since this is intended to be a stable series. In
6 practice, some bugfixes do involve user-visible changes. In general
7 users should be happy about them, but they may affect workarounds you
8 have put in place. So those that do are noted here with (**).
10 Also, the MS Windows platform support is not fully mature, and the GTK
11 platform support is explicitly experimental. In those cases
12 improvements that provably do not affect other platforms are accepted.
13 The platform affected is noted, and the change is flagged (**).
15 Fixing a critical bug is not considered a "user interface change" in the
16 sense that there should be no way for it to interfere with you getting
19 Where there are many changes, they will be grouped into run-time,
20 build-time, and "documentation and data" changes.
22 For more details, including developers involved and dates, see the
23 ChangeLogs, or use CVS diff to view the patches.
25 to XEmacs 21.4.7 "Economic Science"
27 - Fix: prevent migration code from trashing .emacs -- Stephen J. Turnbull
28 - Fix: XmProcessTraversal crash -- Stephen J. Turnbull
29 - Fix: crash in GTK popup menu -- William M. Perry
30 - Fix: dll_load to avoid incorrect symbol binding -- Andrew Begel
31 - Fix: emodules_load to avoid multiple loading of same module -- Jerry James
32 - Fix: recover gracefully from XOpenDevice failure -- Mike Sperber
34 - (**) Fix: write-region-pre-hook obeys coding-system argument -- Stephen J.
36 - (**) Improve: GTK selection handling -- Eric Gillespie, Jr.
37 - (**) New: auto-modes: .siv, .sieve, GNUmakefile, Xdefaults -- Ville Skyttä,
39 - Fix: default Info-auto-generate-directory to 'if-outdated. -- Adrian
41 - Fix: generic-print-region passes correct arguments Nevin Kapur, Björn
42 Torkelsson, Adrian Aichner
43 - Fix: regenerate info dir when missing -- Mike Sperber
44 - Fix: truncate menu item to width -- Adrian Aichner
45 - Update: GNU synchs: assq-delete-all, function-interactive, describe-mode
46 -- John Paul Wallington
48 - Fix: "--with-widgets" means "=yes", and autodetect athena. -- Jan Vroonhof
49 - Fix: add -Wno-shadow for GTK -- William M. Perry
50 - Fix: make moduledir option work -- Mike Fabian
51 - Fix: native Windows build dependencies with pdump -- Adrian Aichner
52 - Fix: clean up name space after automated tests -- Stephen J. Turnbull
53 - Improve: native Windows build -- Jonathan Harris
54 - Fix: typo in macro definition -- Martin Buchholz
56 - Fix: typos -- Adrian Aichner, Steve Youngs, Charles Waldman
57 - Improve: Packages node -- Stephen J. Turnbull
58 - Improve: comments and docstrings -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Christoph Wedler,
59 Valdis Kletnieks, John H. Palmieri
60 - Improve: etc/BETA -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Jarl Friis
61 - New: External Client Widget Internals node -- Stephen J. Turnbull
62 - New: FAQ: Unicode support via Mule-UCS. -- Stephen J. Turnbull
63 - New: FAQ: remote files -- Stephen J. Turnbull
64 - New: Glyph, graphics examples node -- Darryl Okahata
65 - New: TUTORIAL.se -- Mats Lidell
66 - New: The User's View [of packages] node -- Stephen J. Turnbull
67 - New: autoconfiscate MacOS/X "Darwin" -- Greg Parker, Martin Buchholz
68 - New: s/linux.h for 64-bit libs -- Andreas Jaeger
69 - Update: photos -- Hrvoje Niksic
70 - Update: Files node: remote file editing, EFS, TRAMP -- Stephen J. Turnbull
71 - Update: URLs in FAQ -- Adrian Aichner, Stephen J. Turnbull
72 - Update: package-index.LATEST.pgp -- Steve Youngs
74 to XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp"
76 - Changing coding system marks buffer as modified.
77 - More file/directory dialogs available on Windows.
78 - In replace-regexp, subexpression replacement supported.
79 - Motif bug causes intermittent crashes. Patch Motif: see PROBLEMS.
80 - Common subexpression optimization caused an illegal pointer
81 reference in regexp replace; fixed.
82 - Autosave files are now saved in current coding system (where file
83 coding supported). This resolves the "doubled escape" bug common
84 in Japanese mail files, but increases the chance that autosave
85 files will contain garbage (because the buffer contents cannot be
86 saved correctly in the current coding system).
87 - Failure to save certain customizations fixed.
88 - Ability to customize fonts improved, especially the "cannot
90 - Window loop now properly iterates over multiple devices; some
91 problems with wrong window being selected (eg, with gnuclient)
93 - Certain infloops in password prompts, etc, fixed.
94 - Make space for symbols defined in modules in Lisp symbol tables
95 - Errors due to failure to conform to pop-up menu API in GTK fixed.
96 - Cygwin URL handling in shell calls fixed.
97 - Inability to select directories fixed.
98 - Initial VC.NET support.
99 - New node on "packaging" for library developers in Lispref.
100 - Fix incorrect ctime to Lisp conversion.
102 - Many typo fixes and small documentation enhancements.
103 - New section of examples of glyph usage in Lispref.
104 - Make `truncate-partial-width-windows' effect buffer-local.
105 - Suppress bogus focus changes.
106 - Fix custom's handling of font size and family.
107 - Fix comboreloc crash (common on Linux when making first frame).
108 - Default --with-ipv6-cname=no.
109 - From 21.4.5 "Civil Service (Windows)":
110 - Fixed a scrollbar problem when selecting the frame with focus.
111 - Fixed `mswindows-shell-execute' under cygwin.
112 - Added a new function `mswindows-cygwin-to-win32-path' for JDE.
113 - Added support for dialog-based directory selection.
114 - The installer version has been updated to the 21.5 netinstaller. The
115 21.5 installer now does proper dde file association and adds uninstall
117 - Handle leak fix from Mike Alexander.
118 - New release build script.
120 to XEmacs 21.4.5 "Civil Service"
122 - Now installs arch-specific files relative to $execdir, not $prefix.
123 - New configure.ac guards against autoconf 2.5x, not yet supported.
124 - (**) configure.ac added to auto-mode-alist.
125 - Synch configure.usage with configure.in.
126 - Add GTK defaults in several places.
127 - Fix Lisp syntax in several files.
128 - call-process-internal reads files as 'binary, now writes 'binary too.
131 - Correct case for XEmacs file names under msw (Cygwin is pedantic).
132 - Fix progress gauge flashing under OpenMotif.
133 - Texinfo syntax corrections in Info sources.
134 - Bug reporting now politically correct.
135 - Now detects xpm-nox on Cygwin.
136 - Conditionalize `-msw.c against Cygwin and MSVC5 deficiencies.
137 - .9 files now recognized as manpages (shadowed by ChangeLog and .scm).
138 - Fix "gc in window proc" and "setitimer" crashes on msw.
139 - Quote null arguments correctly on msw.
140 - Fix pty allocation on SCO Unix.
141 - Eliminate a few warnings.
143 to XEmacs 21.4.4 "Artificial Intelligence"
145 - (**) There is a bug in "window procedures" under MS Windows only.
146 Non-debug builds print a warning on stderr, and you may want to
147 consider XEmacs unstable (save and restart) if you see it (debug
149 - Printing the selection is implemented for MS Windows
150 - C-g now works on MS Windows
151 - Kinsoku (text wrapping for Asian scripts) fixes
152 - "Scrolling with no scrollbar" crash on MS Windows fixed
153 - Case conversion works for Cyrillic
154 - Help is available with C-x s
155 - M-x locate-library completes library names
156 - (**) `replace-match' supports FSF-style match subexpressions
157 - `compose-mail' is supported in about.el
158 - (**) Renaming custom.el to inhibit loading it works
159 - (**) "Reset to standard" works with "set" and "saved" Custom
161 - `Unbalanced parentheses' bug when dealing with mixed comment
162 styles in c++/java/etc. mode fixed
163 - Byte-compiler optimization fixes
164 - Dired can handle directory names with unusual characters
165 - Popup menus work with popup-menu-titles turned off
166 - (**) M-? now invokes Help
167 - Data corruption in network streams on MS Windows fixed
168 - A few improvements and bug fixes in GTK support.
170 - (**) EsounD support is no longer autodetected; you must explicitly
171 request it. EsounD does evil things with signals and XEmacs
172 cannot protect itself from the race conditions created.
173 - (**) The "excessively long startup when not networked" (often on
174 Red Hat Linux) problem is addressed with a configure option that
175 defeats IPv6 host name canonicalization, `--with-ipv6-cname=no'.
176 See also the discussion in PROBLEMS.
177 - Better detection of Cygwin Perl
178 - Support for old Cygwin betas dropped
179 - Better support for Windows Millenium Edition
180 - --with-widgets=no no longer autodetects Athena
181 - Self tests work if directory is a symlink
182 - Use ld reported by gcc, not gcc itself, to link
183 - TAR define added to src/Makefile
185 - Many small and medium documentation fixes, including an improved
186 etc/sample.init.el, German tutorial, CCL fonts documentation
187 - etc/xemacs-ja.1 replaced with new translation
190 to XEmacs 21.4.3 "Academic Rigor"
192 - Restore include of src/events-mod.h.
193 - Detect Windows native sound under Cygwin
194 - Restore patch for building --with-scrollbars=no
196 - Update package docs
198 - Misc comment fixes in source
200 to XEmacs 21.4.2 "Developer-Friendly Unix APIs"
202 - (**) Stop shifted motion from making active region persist if no motion.
203 - (**) MS Windows: Printer support now (optionally) adds headers/footers.
204 - (**) MS Windows: Critical-quit works.
205 - (**) GTK: Face editor changes can apply to GTK too.
206 - Fix hang in Customize menu on Windows platforms.
207 - Fix crash with xlc -O3 on AIX.
208 - make-charset handles short-name correctly.
210 - Trivial sign-compare warning fix.
211 - MS Windows: nt/*.mak version string fix and assorted build cleanups.
212 - GCC 3.0 link error from cruft fixed.
213 - make-stds.info builds again with makeinfo 3.12
215 - Remove CVS keywords from build-report.el.
216 - Miscellaneous documentation fixes.
217 - Add photos, update descriptions in about.el.
218 - Update copyright notice on splash screen.
219 - FTP mirror site updates
221 to XEmacs 21.4.1 "Copyleft"
223 - Temporary fix to crash in map-keymap applied.
224 - Crash in Motif builds on closing frame fixed.
226 - Descriptions of workarounds for crashes and hangs related to ESD
227 (don't configure it) and Athena3d (how to configure it properly)
230 - about.el overhauled, a few new hackers' entries or photos added,
231 and old ones updated.
233 - Typo fix in etc\sample.init.el.
234 - Typos fixed in a number of documents.
236 to XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor"
238 - Initial release of 21.4 series. See NEWS for changes since the last
239 stable release, 21.1.