+/* Capsule summary of the various releases of Lucid Emacs/XEmacs and
+ FSF/GNU Emacs. Provided here for use in cross-referencing version
+ releases and dates in comments, esp. in the authorship comments at
+ the beginning of each file. More information about history can be
+ found in the beginning of the Internals Manual and in the About page.
+
+
+-- A time line for Lucid Emacs/XEmacs is
+
+version 19.0 shipped with Energize 1.0, April 1992.
+version 19.1 released June 4, 1992.
+version 19.2 released June 19, 1992.
+version 19.3 released September 9, 1992.
+version 19.4 released January 21, 1993.
+version 19.5 was a repackaging of 19.4 with a few bug fixes and
+ shipped with Energize 2.0. Never released to the net.
+version 19.6 released April 9, 1993.
+version 19.7 was a repackaging of 19.6 with a few bug fixes and
+ shipped with Energize 2.1. Never released to the net.
+version 19.8 released September 6, 1993.
+version 19.9 released January 12, 1994.
+version 19.10 released May 27, 1994.
+version 19.11 (first XEmacs) released September 13, 1994.
+version 19.12 released June 23, 1995.
+version 19.13 released September 1, 1995.
+version 19.14 released June 23, 1996.
+version 20.0 released February 9, 1997.
+version 19.15 released March 28, 1997.
+version 20.1 (not released to the net) April 15, 1997.
+version 20.2 released May 16, 1997.
+version 19.16 released October 31, 1997.
+version 20.3 (the first stable version of XEmacs 20.x) released
+ November 30, 1997.
+version 20.4 released February 28, 1998.
+
+
+-- A time line for GNU Emacs version 19 is
+
+version 19.7 (beta) (first beta release) released ??????; prob. late May 1993.
+version 19.8 (beta) released May 27, 1993.
+version 19.9 (beta) released May 27, 1993.
+version 19.10 (beta) released May 30, 1993.
+version 19.11 (beta) released June 1, 1993.
+version 19.12 (beta) released June 2, 1993.
+version 19.13 (beta) released June 8, 1993.
+version 19.14 (beta) released June 17, 1993.
+version 19.15 (beta) released June 19, 1993.
+version 19.16 (beta) released July 6, 1993.
+version 19.17 (beta) released late July, 1993.
+version 19.18 (beta) released August 9, 1993.
+version 19.19 (beta) released August 15, 1993.
+version 19.20 (beta) released November 17, 1993.
+version 19.21 (beta) released November 17, 1993.
+version 19.22 (beta) released November 28, 1993.
+version 19.23 (beta) released May 17, 1994.
+version 19.24 (beta) released May 16, 1994.
+version 19.25 (beta) released June 3, 1994.
+version 19.26 (beta) released September 11, 1994.
+version 19.27 (beta) released September 14, 1994.
+version 19.28 (first ``official'' release) released November 1, 1994.
+version 19.29 released June 21, 1995.
+version 19.30 released November 24, 1995.
+version 19.31 released May 25, 1996.
+version 19.32 released July 31, 1996.
+version 19.33 released August 11, 1996.
+version 19.34 released August 21, 1996.
+version 19.34b released September 6, 1996.
+
+
+-- A time line for GNU Emacs version 20 is
+
+version 20.1 released September 17, 1997.
+version 20.2 released September 20, 1997.
+version 20.3 released August 19, 1998.
+
+
+-- A time line for GNU Emacs version 18 and older is
+
+GNU Emacs version 15 (15.34) was released sometime in 1984 or 1985 and
+ shared some code with a version of Emacs written by James Gosling (the
+ same James Gosling who later created the Java language).
+GNU Emacs version 16 (first released version was 16.56) was released on
+ July 15, 1985. All Gosling code was removed due to potential copyright
+ problems with the code.
+version 16.57: released on September 16, 1985.
+versions 16.58, 16.59: released on September 17, 1985.
+version 16.60: released on September 19, 1985. These later version 16's
+ incorporated patches from the net, esp. for getting Emacs to work under
+ System V.
+version 17.36 (first official v17 release) released on December 20, 1985.
+ Included a TeX-able user manual. First official unpatched version that
+ worked on vanilla System V machines.
+version 17.43 (second official v17 release) released on January 25, 1986.
+version 17.45 released on January 30, 1986.
+version 17.46 released on February 4, 1986.
+version 17.48 released on February 10, 1986.
+version 17.49 released on February 12, 1986.
+version 17.55 released on March 18, 1986.
+version 17.57 released on March 27, 1986.
+version 17.58 released on April 4, 1986.
+version 17.61 released on April 12, 1986.
+version 17.63 released on May 7, 1986.
+version 17.64 released on May 12, 1986.
+version 18.24 (a beta version) released on October 2, 1986.
+version 18.30 (a beta version) released on November 15, 1986.
+version 18.31 (a beta version) released on November 23, 1986.
+version 18.32 (a beta version) released on December 7, 1986.
+version 18.33 (a beta version) released on December 12, 1986.
+version 18.35 (a beta version) released on January 5, 1987.
+version 18.36 (a beta version) released on January 21, 1987.
+January 27, 1987: The Great Usenet Renaming. net.emacs is now comp.emacs.
+version 18.37 (a beta version) released on February 12, 1987.
+version 18.38 (a beta version) released on March 3, 1987.
+version 18.39 (a beta version) released on March 14, 1987.
+version 18.40 (a beta version) released on March 18, 1987.
+version 18.41 (the first ``official'' release) released on March 22, 1987.
+version 18.45 released on June 2, 1987.
+version 18.46 released on June 9, 1987.
+version 18.47 released on June 18, 1987.
+version 18.48 released on September 3, 1987.
+version 18.49 released on September 18, 1987.
+version 18.50 released on February 13, 1988.
+version 18.51 released on May 7, 1988.
+version 18.52 released on September 1, 1988.
+version 18.53 released on February 24, 1989.
+version 18.54 released on April 26, 1989.
+version 18.55 released on August 23, 1989. This is the earliest version
+ that is still available by FTP.
+version 18.56 released on January 17, 1991.
+version 18.57 released late January, 1991.
+version 18.58 released ?????.
+version 18.59 released October 31, 1992.
+
+*/
+