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 21.4.6 "Common Lisp"
27 - Changing coding system marks buffer as modified.
28 - More file/directory dialogs available on Windows.
29 - In replace-regexp, subexpression replacement supported.
30 - Motif bug causes intermittent crashes. Patch Motif: see PROBLEMS.
31 - Common subexpression optimization caused an illegal pointer
32 reference in regexp replace; fixed.
33 - Autosave files are now saved in current coding system (where file
34 coding supported). This resolves the "doubled escape" bug common
35 in Japanese mail files, but increases the chance that autosave
36 files will contain garbage (because the buffer contents cannot be
37 saved correctly in the current coding system).
38 - Failure to save certain customizations fixed.
39 - Ability to customize fonts improved, especially the "cannot
41 - Window loop now properly iterates over multiple devices; some
42 problems with wrong window being selected (eg, with gnuclient)
44 - Certain infloops in password prompts, etc, fixed.
45 - Make space for symbols defined in modules in Lisp symbol tables
46 - Errors due to failure to conform to pop-up menu API in GTK fixed.
47 - Cygwin URL handling in shell calls fixed.
48 - Inability to select directories fixed.
49 - Initial VC.NET support.
50 - New node on "packaging" for library developers in Lispref.
51 - Fix incorrect ctime to Lisp conversion.
53 - Many typo fixes and small documentation enhancements.
54 - New section of examples of glyph usage in Lispref.
55 - Make `truncate-partial-width-windows' effect buffer-local.
56 - Suppress bogus focus changes.
57 - Fix custom's handling of font size and family.
58 - Fix comboreloc crash (common on Linux when making first frame).
59 - Default --with-ipv6-cname=no.
60 - From 21.4.5 "Civil Service (Windows)":
61 - Fixed a scrollbar problem when selecting the frame with focus.
62 - Fixed `mswindows-shell-execute' under cygwin.
63 - Added a new function `mswindows-cygwin-to-win32-path' for JDE.
64 - Added support for dialog-based directory selection.
65 - The installer version has been updated to the 21.5 netinstaller. The
66 21.5 installer now does proper dde file association and adds uninstall
68 - Handle leak fix from Mike Alexander.
69 - New release build script.
71 to XEmacs 21.4.5 "Civil Service"
73 - Now installs arch-specific files relative to $execdir, not $prefix.
74 - New configure.ac guards against autoconf 2.5x, not yet supported.
75 - (**) configure.ac added to auto-mode-alist.
76 - Synch configure.usage with configure.in.
77 - Add GTK defaults in several places.
78 - Fix Lisp syntax in several files.
79 - call-process-internal reads files as 'binary, now writes 'binary too.
82 - Correct case for XEmacs file names under msw (Cygwin is pedantic).
83 - Fix progress gauge flashing under OpenMotif.
84 - Texinfo syntax corrections in Info sources.
85 - Bug reporting now politically correct.
86 - Now detects xpm-nox on Cygwin.
87 - Conditionalize `-msw.c against Cygwin and MSVC5 deficiencies.
88 - .9 files now recognized as manpages (shadowed by ChangeLog and .scm).
89 - Fix "gc in window proc" and "setitimer" crashes on msw.
90 - Quote null arguments correctly on msw.
91 - Fix pty allocation on SCO Unix.
92 - Eliminate a few warnings.
94 to XEmacs 21.4.4 "Artificial Intelligence"
96 - (**) There is a bug in "window procedures" under MS Windows only.
97 Non-debug builds print a warning on stderr, and you may want to
98 consider XEmacs unstable (save and restart) if you see it (debug
100 - Printing the selection is implemented for MS Windows
101 - C-g now works on MS Windows
102 - Kinsoku (text wrapping for Asian scripts) fixes
103 - "Scrolling with no scrollbar" crash on MS Windows fixed
104 - Case conversion works for Cyrillic
105 - Help is available with C-x s
106 - M-x locate-library completes library names
107 - (**) `replace-match' supports FSF-style match subexpressions
108 - `compose-mail' is supported in about.el
109 - (**) Renaming custom.el to inhibit loading it works
110 - (**) "Reset to standard" works with "set" and "saved" Custom
112 - `Unbalanced parentheses' bug when dealing with mixed comment
113 styles in c++/java/etc. mode fixed
114 - Byte-compiler optimization fixes
115 - Dired can handle directory names with unusual characters
116 - Popup menus work with popup-menu-titles turned off
117 - (**) M-? now invokes Help
118 - Data corruption in network streams on MS Windows fixed
119 - A few improvements and bug fixes in GTK support.
121 - (**) EsounD support is no longer autodetected; you must explicitly
122 request it. EsounD does evil things with signals and XEmacs
123 cannot protect itself from the race conditions created.
124 - (**) The "excessively long startup when not networked" (often on
125 Red Hat Linux) problem is addressed with a configure option that
126 defeats IPv6 host name canonicalization, `--with-ipv6-cname=no'.
127 See also the discussion in PROBLEMS.
128 - Better detection of Cygwin Perl
129 - Support for old Cygwin betas dropped
130 - Better support for Windows Millenium Edition
131 - --with-widgets=no no longer autodetects Athena
132 - Self tests work if directory is a symlink
133 - Use ld reported by gcc, not gcc itself, to link
134 - TAR define added to src/Makefile
136 - Many small and medium documentation fixes, including an improved
137 etc/sample.init.el, German tutorial, CCL fonts documentation
138 - etc/xemacs-ja.1 replaced with new translation
141 to XEmacs 21.4.3 "Academic Rigor"
143 - Restore include of src/events-mod.h.
144 - Detect Windows native sound under Cygwin
145 - Restore patch for building --with-scrollbars=no
147 - Update package docs
149 - Misc comment fixes in source
151 to XEmacs 21.4.2 "Developer-Friendly Unix APIs"
153 - (**) Stop shifted motion from making active region persist if no motion.
154 - (**) MS Windows: Printer support now (optionally) adds headers/footers.
155 - (**) MS Windows: Critical-quit works.
156 - (**) GTK: Face editor changes can apply to GTK too.
157 - Fix hang in Customize menu on Windows platforms.
158 - Fix crash with xlc -O3 on AIX.
159 - make-charset handles short-name correctly.
161 - Trivial sign-compare warning fix.
162 - MS Windows: nt/*.mak version string fix and assorted build cleanups.
163 - GCC 3.0 link error from cruft fixed.
164 - make-stds.info builds again with makeinfo 3.12
166 - Remove CVS keywords from build-report.el.
167 - Miscellaneous documentation fixes.
168 - Add photos, update descriptions in about.el.
169 - Update copyright notice on splash screen.
170 - FTP mirror site updates
172 to XEmacs 21.4.1 "Copyleft"
174 - Temporary fix to crash in map-keymap applied.
175 - Crash in Motif builds on closing frame fixed.
177 - Descriptions of workarounds for crashes and hangs related to ESD
178 (don't configure it) and Athena3d (how to configure it properly)
181 - about.el overhauled, a few new hackers' entries or photos added,
182 and old ones updated.
184 - Typo fix in etc\sample.init.el.
185 - Typos fixed in a number of documents.
187 to XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor"
189 - Initial release of 21.4 series. See NEWS for changes since the last
190 stable release, 21.1.