XEmacs 21.2.36 "Notos"

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to 21.2.36 "Notus"
-- Fix build problems on AIX 4.3 -- Martin Buchholz
-- Fix build problems on HP-UX 10.20 -- Alexandre Oliva and Martin Buchholz
-- Fix build problems on SunOS 4.1.4 -- Martin Buchholz
-- Fix build problems on IA64/Linux -- Martin Buchholz
-- Fix build problems on Alpha/Linux -- Steve Baur
-- Fix build problems on Unixware -- Martin Buchholz
-- Support pty input lines longer than 512 bytes on HP-UX 10.20. -- Martin Buchholz
-- `equal' of hash tables is now the same as `eq'. -- Martin Buchholz
-- ucs fixes - Daiki Ueno
-- Lots of little doc fixes. -- Martin Buchholz
-- Process-signaling code rewritten -- Martin Buchholz
-- pty allocation code rewritten -- Martin Buchholz
-- The byte compiler generates more efficient code -- Martin Buchholz
-- build-report fixes -- Adrian Aichner
-- next-window/next-frame functions rewritten -- Martin Buchholz
-- Windows fixes -- Jonathan Harris
-- Multiple info buffer support -- Golubev I. N.
-- regex crash fixes -- Yoshiki Hayashi
-- Widget/windows fixes -- Andy Piper
-- structured lisp errors -- Ben Wing
-- allow modules to define their own lisp object types -- Andrew Begel

to 21.2.35 "Nike"
-- You now again build XEmacs in a directory containing a predefined
   CPP symbol -- Martin Buchholz
-- Minor fixes for Postgres integration -- Martin Buchholz
-- Many fixes for DEC OSF 4.0 -- Martin Buchholz
-- More C++ compilation support (for quality control) -- Martin Buchholz
-- XEmacs can now be built with XFree86 4.0 -- Martin Buchholz
-- Fix lots of byte-compiler warnings -- Martin Buchholz
-- Many documentation fixes -- Adrian Aichner
-- support for S390 has been added -- Andreas Jaeger, Martin Schwidefsky
-- clean up Windows includes/defines -- Ben Wing
-- numerous configure/GCC-warning fixes -- Martin Buchholz
-- generalize selection support to arbitrary types -- Alastair Houghton
-- MS Windows printer improvements -- Kirill Katsnelson
-- MinGW fixes -- Craig Lanning
-- NT process fixes -- Mixe Alexander, Adrian Aichner
-- new key-value weak hashtable type -- Andy Piper/Olivier Galibert
-- migrate .emacs to .xemacs/init.el -- Mike Sperber
-- new file compat.el for cleaner compatibility functions -- Ben Wing

to 21.2.34 "Molpe"
-- Lots of changes to GUI, Windows, font-lock code, Ben Wing
-- Lots of changes to GUI, Windows code, Andy Piper
-- Various fixes, Karl Hegbloom
-- User manual documentation updates, Yoshiki Hayashi
-- Dumping fixes, Yoshiki Hayashi
-- Define C-x BS to backward-kill-sentence, Yoshiki Hayashi

to 21.2.33 "Melpomene"
-- Yet more progress gauge and gutter redisplay fixes from Andy Piper
-- glyph error checking from Andy Piper
-- Proper implementation of string glyphs makes them Mule safe (IKEYAMA Tomonori)
-- Bug fixes from the usual suspects
-- --with-clash-detection now defaults to `yes', at least for betas.
-- Autoconf support for detecting how to #include header files
   with names containing preprocessor constants, Didier Verna.
-- LDAP documentation updated, Oscar Figueiredo.
-- clash-detection code cleaned and audited, Yoshiki and Martin
-- Fix hangs on DEC OSF 4.0 when (process-send-string) sends strings
   longer than 252 bytes.
-- Fix non-ANSI macro hacking to allow compilation by Irix native compiler.
-- redisplay fixes, IKEYAMA Tomonori
-- Code cleaning, Mike Alexander
-- Pdump + Windows support, Mike Alexander
-- Sound code cleanup, Jan Vroonhof
-- yes-or-no-p-dialog-box no longer gives unpredictable results with
   focus follows mouse, Martin Buchholz

to 21.2.32 "Kastor & Polydeukes"
-- Internal Postgres RDBMS support from Steve Baur
-- Improve gutter useability
-- Fix window geometry with gutters
-- Fix async updates so that they only occur when necessary
-- Gutter documentation from Stephen Turnbull
-- redisplay-gutter-area fixes from Andy Piper
-- pdump file in MS-Windows executable from Mike Alexander
-- Miscellaneous fixes from Andy Piper
-- Windows and menubar changes from Ben Wing
-- dumper changes from Olivier Galibert

to 21.2.31 "Iris"
-- Make XEmacs work on Windows again.

to 21.2.30 "Hygeia"
-- Make (find-tag-other-window) always use other window,
   even if tag is found in buffer of current window, Samuel Mikes
-- Make configure complain about broken compiler versions (Jan Vroonhof, Yoshiki Hayashi, Bill Perry)
-- `write-region' now deals properly with non-ASCII file names, Martin Buchholz
-- `file-truename' now respects file-name-coding-system, Martin Buchholz
-- arm configure support fixed.
-- non-ASCII string handling performance boost, Martin Buchholz
-- Garbage collector performance boost, Martin Buchholz
-- Lisp engine performance boost, Martin Buchholz
-- New ldap API (Oscar Figueiredo)
-- (- 0) is now optimized to 0, not (-), Martin Buchholz
-- More gutter tabs fixes, Andy Piper

to 21.2.29 "Hestia"
-- Fix compile errors on pre-X11R6 systems, introduced in 21.2.28.
-- Fix autodetection of Berkeley DB on Linux Glibc 2 systems.
   (but more work needed)
-- Allow non-symbols (anything compared with `eq') in object plists.
-- Cleanup of property frobbing code.
-- Various AIX 4 fixes, including port of PDUMP.
-- Unconditionally define _POSIX_C_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
-- MS-Windows redisplay and font fixes from Jonathan Harris.
-- various fixes from Craig Lanning, Daiki Ueno.
-- Asynchronous widget updates from Andy Piper.
-- More widget fixes from Andy Piper.
-- Don't use rel_alloc on glibc systems, including Linux
-- Upgrade etags.c to version 13.44, Francesco Potorti
-- etags does a better job of finding the exact match first, Kyle Jones
-- Portable dumper now described in Internals manual, Olivier and Martin
-- Object Plist documentation in lispref updated, Martin Buchholz
-- Just use standard `const' everywhere, instead of CONST
-- More pdump changes, Olivier Galibert

to 21.2.28 "Hermes"
-- Add configure support for NetWinders, Sean MacLennan
-- Make the "Load .emacs" menu item work again, Kirill Katsnelson
-- Make --without-x work again.
-- Detect Xaw3d and friends using #include <Xaw3d/FOO.h>
-- Experimental Drag-N-Drop now defaults to "no" until there is again
   active development.
-- SGI dumping fixes should make XEmacs work again on Irix 6.
-- More warning flags on by default when building with gcc.
-- process coding changes, Kirill Katsnelson
-- help now knows how to print macro arglists, Yoshiki Hayashi
-- Windows printing support, Kirill Katsnelson
-- Obscure crash fixes, Martin Buchholz
-- Memory leak fixes, Martin Buchholz
-- We now always use our own realpath(), never the system-provided one.
-- More gutter/tab widget changes, Andy Piper
-- Crash fix when using dead processes, Gunnar Evermann (fix PR#1061)
-- Pdump stability fixes, Olivier Galibert
-- New coding system alias implementation, Ben Wing and Martin Buchholz
-- New internal data conversion infrastructure, Ben Wing and Martin Buchholz
-- IPv6 support, URA Hiroshi
-- Runtime Athena mismatch warnings added, Daniel Pittman
-- Removal of old MSDOS support, Kirill Katsnelson
-- Correctly define Latin-3 and Latin-4 character syntax as "w".
-- Auto-define all X-defined keysyms as self-inserting, not just Latin-1.
-- Workaround egcs-20000131 c++ compiler bug
-- Byte-optimize (length "foo") to 3.
-- (define-key ctl-x-4-map "p" global-map) no longer causes stack overflow crash.
-- Partially implement dontusethis-set-symbol-value-handler.
-- Fix bug: (getf nil t t) ==> Lisp nesting exceeds `max-lisp-eval-depth'
-- lib-src partially C++ized, Zack Weinberg.

to 21.2.27 "Hera"
-- Dynamic layout for widgets from Andy Piper
-- Vertical tab widgets for MS-Windows from Andy Piper
-- pdump fixes for MS-Windows from Big K
-- config.sub, config.guess major upgrade, Marcus Thiessel
-- gdbinit renamed to .gdbinit
-- dbxrc renamed to .dbxrc
-- Mail locking overhaul, Michael Sperber
-- Info-visit-file can now be used non-interactively, Martin Buchholz
-- FAQ updates, Sandra Wambold
-- Document lisp-level error handling, Hrvoje Niksic
-- Windows changes, Kirill Katsnelson
-- Portable dumper ported to Windows, Kirill Katsnelson
-- idlwave-mode added, Carsten Dominik
-- Info changes, Yoshiki Hayashi and Didier Verna.
-- Again support BSD/OS 2.0
-- minibuf.* changes, Yoshiki Hayashi
-- hyper-apropos changes, Yoshiki Hayashi
-- buffers tab has its own face, Andy Piper
-- modeline scrolling changes, Didier Verna

to 21.2.26 "Millenium"
-- Fix unpredictable results, perhaps even crashes, if using the
   `return from debugger feature' and errors in `eval' or `funcall'.
-- fix for Tab widgets causing X errors in XMapWindow().

to 21.2.25 "Hephaestus"
-- the LATEST.IS.* file has been renamed to LATEST-IS-*.
-- the CVS tag to checkout the latest tarball is `r21-2-latest-beta'.
-- 3 crashes in mapcar1 have been fixed.
-- lwlib arg passing cleanup
-- yet more widget and tab fixes
-- yet another Tab sync
-- specifier copying fix for widgets
-- preparation for proper layouts
-- native widgets used for some custom widgets
-- (+ 1) is no longer incorrectly compiled
-- char-before no longer has performance penalty
-- xpm again works on Windows
-- native Windows fixes from Adrian Aichner
-- Mule fixes from Yoshiki Hayashi
-- properly detect Athena widgets headers and libs, preventing crashes
   from misdetection and from libraries and headers that don't match,
   from Daniel Pittman

to 21.2.24 "Hecate"
-- Tabs fixes from Andy Piper
-- Widget leak fixes from Andy Piper
-- (coding-system-list) deals properly with coding system aliases, Shenghuo ZHU
-- configure support for ESD sound rewritte, Martin Buchholz
-- directory separator fix from Mike Alexander
-- Windows process support cleanup, Adrian Aichner
-- NT now encapsulates fstat to get correct file mod time, Adrian Aichner

to 21.2.23 "Hebe"
-- MS-Windows selection fixes from Mike Alexander
-- MS-WIndows process handling fixes from Mike Alexander
-- Subwindow GC fix from Andy Piper
-- Various minor fixes from Andy Piper
-- Rewrite module configure support, Martin Buchholz
-- Various Windows fixes, Martin Buchholz, Adrian Aichner, Andy Piper
-- HP native compiler compilation fixes, Martin Buchholz
-- Workarounds for Cygnus compiler bugs, Martin Buchholz
-- Workarounds for Cygwin broken header files, Martin Buchholz
-- itimers work again, Kyle Jones
-- random code cleanup, Martin Buchholz
-- various redisplay fixes, Andy Piper, Jan Vroonhof
-- various fixes from Hrvoje Niksic, Yoshiki Hayashi

to 21.2.22 "Mercedes"
-- ESD Sound support from Robert Bihlmeyer
-- 10% faster redisplay from Jan Vroonhof
-- Fixes from Jeff Miller, Alexandre Oliva and Yoshiki Hayashi
-- "If you've got problems, read PROBLEMS!" from Robert Pluim
-- Completely revamped GPM support from William Perry
-- Lstream code now uses size_t, ssize_t consistently, Martin Buchholz
-- Fix `make install' if prefix != exec_prefix, Martin Buchholz
-- Fix compile warnings and C++ compilation, Martin Buchholz
-- Fix detection of coding: cookie in -*- first line.
-- More xim-xlib work by Kazuyuki Ienaga
-- Fix crash in abbrev.c (abbrev_location), Eric Darve

to 21.2.20 "Yoko"
-- UTF-8 & file-coding magic cookie fix from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- bug fixes from Adrian Aichner, Sean MacLennan, and Jeff Miller
-- glyph widget support under X/Athena from Andy Piper
-- tab widget support under X (all variants) from Andy Piper
-- many gutter, redisplay & widget fixes from Andy Piper
-- mswindows mousewheel support from Mike Woolley
-- combo box support under X/Motif from Andy Piper
-- buffer tab grouping from Andy Piper
-- layout widget support from Andy Piper
-- partial display line scrolling support from Andy Piper
-- cleanup patches from Gleb Arshinov
-- hash table FSF API sync from Martin Buchholz
-- widget cleanup from Martin Buchholz
-- process-environment fix for nt from Julian Back
-- widget to frame fix from Jan Vroonhof
-- animated glyph support from Andy Piper
-- glyph redisplay improvements from Andy Piper
-- color cells allocation fix from Lee Kindness
-- recover file fix for windows nt
-- mingw install fix from Craig Lanning
-- recognize keypad keys under MS-Windows from Jonathan Harris
-- Switch gui dialogs to native widgets from Andy Piper
-- fixes from Yoshiki Hayashi and Norbert Koch

to 21.2.19 "Shinjuku"
-- various fixes from Gunnar Evermann
-- XIM fixes from Kazuyuki IENAGA
-- keymap fix from Katsumi Yamaoka
-- Microsoft build fixes from Adrian Aichner
-- documentation update from Adrian Aichner
-- rect.el rewrite from Didier Verna
-- custom comment fields from Didier Verna
-- various fixes from Karl Hegbloom
-- filling fix from Yoshiki Hayashi
-- miscellaneous changes from Jeff Miller and Didier Verna
-- configure hacking from Steve Baur
-- various fixes from Bob Weiner
-- Mule synching from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- various fixes from Steve Baur
-- LDAP configure changes from Gregory Neil Shapiro
-- gutter implementation from Andy Piper
-- tab widgets in gutter from Andy Piper
-- Custom themes, API part. See etc/custom/theme-examples from Jan Vroonhof

to 21.2.18 "Toshima"
-- miscellaneous fixes from Steve Baur
-- miscellaneous fixes from Didier Verna
-- various bug fixes from Karl Hegbloom
-- miscellaneous fixes from Bob Weiner
-- fix for XIM server crashing and taking down XEmacs from Kazuyuki IENAGA
-- valid-image-instantiator-format-p tightened up by Andy Piper.
-- glyph widget support under X/Motif from Andy Piper
-- Make docdir configurable, update package searching rules from Michael
   Sperber
-- Fix for Japanese word/character movements from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- lrecord struct header size fix from Olivier Galibert

to 21.2.17 "Chiyoda"
-- miscellaneous bug fixes from Steve Baur
-- font menu fix from Robert Pluim
-- ldap API update from Oscar Figueiredo
-- Fix thai-xtis charset width from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- CCL engine fix from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- mswindows build fixes from Norbert Koch
-- miscellaneous fixes from Andy Piper
-- automated tests for mswindows from Adrian Aichner
-- tree-view and tab-control widget glyph support from Andy Piper

to 21.2.16 "Sumida"
-- miscellaneous fixes from Hrvoje Niksic and Olivier Galibert
-- make selection more mswindows conformant.
-- Make customize use specifiers from Jan Vroonhof
-- Cyrillic CCL crash fix from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- DEC OSF Build fix and miscellaneous Lisp fix from Steve Baur
-- raw-text coding system synch from MORIOKA Tomohiko

to 21.2.15 "Sakuragawa"
-- new self tests from Oscar Figueiredo and Hrvoje Niksic
-- Miscellaneous bug fixes from Yoshiki Hayashi, Jerry James, Hirokazu FUKUI,
   Hrvoje Niksic, MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- LDAP internationalization from Oscar Figueiredo
-- DEC OSF build fixes from Steve Baur
-- Documentation fixes from Mike McEwan, Vin Shelton and Gunnar Evermann
-- Build fixes from Jan Vroonhof
-- Miscellaneous fixes from Hrvoje Niksic
-- Documentation updates from Hrvoje Niksic and Albert Chin-A-Young
-- mule-charset.el synch with Mule from Steve Baur
-- miscellaneous build and cosmetic fixes from Steve Baur
-- font-menu for mswindows from Andy Piper
-- select rationalisation for window systems from Andy Piper
-- reinstate sheap adjustment + mingw32 fixes from Andy Piper

to 21.2.14 "Dionysos"
-- mingw32 port from Andy Piper
-- fix for Solaris build lossage from Hrvoje Niksic
-- THAI/Cyrillic-KOI8, Vietnamese, Ethiopic support from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- miscellaneous bug fixes from Gunnar Evermann
-- Internal purespace cleanup from Olivier Galibert
-- documentation updates from Hrvoje Niksic
-- dump time tuning from Hrvoje Niksic
-- miscellaneous bug fixes from Giacomo Boffi
-- font hacking from Jan Vroonhof
-- Czech language support from David Sauer
-- `delete-key-deletes-forward' now defaults to t
-- `locate-file' update from Hrvoje Niksic
-- MS Windows build fixes from Adrian Aichner
-- LDAP updates from Oscar Figueiredo
-- miscellaneous bug fixes from Colin Rafferty and Kai Haberzettl
-- disable display of images in buffers by file format
-- miscellaneous Mule fixes from Olivier Galibert
-- documentation updates from Albert Chin-A-Young
-- documentation updates from Gunnar Evermann and Stephen Turnbull
-- MS Windows build fix from Norbert Koch
-- miscellaneous MS Windows fixes from Andy Piper
-- redisplay bug fixes from Jan Vroonhof
-- miscellaneous bug fixes from Robert Pluim, MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- many, many bug fixes and enhancements from Hrvoje Niksic and Olivier
   Galibert
-- miscellaneous bug fixes from Martin Buchholz
-- Miscellaneous MS Windows fixes from Philip Aston
-- lots of new tests from Hrvoje Niksic

to 21.2.13 "Demeter"
-- Build fixes from Martin Buchholz
-- experimental splash screen rewrite from Didier Verna
-- Various patches from Jan Vroonhof and Andy Piper
-- alist.el synched up with APEL 9.13 from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- MS Window build fixes from Jonathan Harris
-- UCS-4/UTF-8 support from MORIOKA Tomohiko

to 21.2.12 "Clio"
-- event-stream unification for MS Windows from Andy Piper
-- Determine best visual to use to avoid flashing from IENAGA Kazuyuki
-- Fix for new Berkeley DB library from Paul Keusemann/Gregory Neil Shapiro
-- Various package-ui fixes from Jan Vroonhof
-- Fix for doubled font-locking during buffer reversion
-- KFM browsing support from Neal Becker
-- info fix from Didier Verna
-- Build bug fixes from Martin Buchholz
-- Various Documentation updates
-- X-Face support for MS Windows native build from Gleb Arshinov

to 21.2 beta11 "Calliope"
-- Dialog box fix from Jan Vroonhof
-- unified mswindows and tty event loops from Andy Piper
-- miscellaneous patches from Gleb Arshinov
-- miscellaneous patches from Charles Waldman and Adrian Aichner
-- Mule dump time files remerged from mule-base package
-- Documentation fixes from Jan Vroonhof
-- 24bit color image fix from Kazuo OISHI
-- various build fixes from Martin Buchholz

to 21.2 beta10 "Boreas"
-- package UI fix from Jan Vroonhof
-- MS Windows NT process fix from Gleb Arshinov

to 21.2 beta9 "Athena"
-- parameterize replace-match function from Didier Verna
-- X-Face support under mswindows from Andy Piper
-- doc fixes from Adrian Aichner
-- about patchlet from Marcus Thiessel
-- isearch doc fixes from Didier Verna
-- interlaced gif fix from Gunnar Evermann
-- isearch improvements from Didier Verna
-- eldap connection fix from William Perry
-- package-get site fix from Robert Pluim
-- loadable modules fix from Damon Lipparelli
-- ldap fixes from Oscar Figueiredo
-- loadable modules from J. Kean Johnston
-- runwhatever from Charles Wilson
-- redisplay fixes for glyphs from Andy Piper
-- progress gauge widgets implentation from Andy Piper
-- W3 works again due to font.el being fixed
-- Another mule xemacs crash fixed
-- Images in widgets, warning fixes and gui_item cleanup from Andy Piper
-- package admin fixes under mswindows from Charles Waldman
-- miscellaneous mswindows build fixes from Jonathan Harris
-- help-echo fix from Hrvoje Niksic
-- x font path support from Jim Radford
-- MSVC compile fixes from Damon Lipparelli

to 21.2 beta8 "Artemis"
-- A bunch of Mule fixes from Martin Buchholz

to 21.2 beta7 "Ares"
-- mswindows modeline crash fix from Jonathan Harris
-- picon glyph fix from Gunnar Evermann
-- widgets-in-buffers and subwindow support from Andy Piper
-- movemail pop support under mswindows from Fabrice Popineau
-- ldap fixes from Oscar Figueiredo
-- fns cleanup from Hrvoje Niksic
-- menubar fixes from Didier Verna
-- mswindows accelerator fix from Jonathan Harris
-- dired mule fix from Didier Verna
-- sound doc cleanup from Charles Waldman
-- new display table functionality from Hrvoje Niksic
-- minor cleanups
-- package fixes from Jan Vroonhof
-- subwindow support fixes from Martin Buchholz

to 21.2 beta6 "Apollo"
-- mswindows compile fixes from Martin Buchholz, Andy Piper, Greg
   Klanderman and Adrian Aichner
-- Synch with XEmacs 21.0.60
-- mega-patch fixes from Martin Buchholz
-- md5 fixes and testsuite from Hrvoje Niksic
-- database fix from Hrvoje Niksic

to 21.2 beta5 "Aphrodite"
-- synch with XEmacs 21.0.58
-- bytecode interpreter rewritten
-- byte compiler fixes
-- hash table implementation rewritten
-- basic lisp functions rewritten
-- spelling fixes
-- garbage collector tuned a little
-- various global code changes for consistency
-- automated test suite
-- major internals manual updates
-- lisp reference updates

to 21.2 beta4 "Aglaophonos"
-- isearch keymap fix from Katsumi Yamaoka
-- directory_files cleanup from Hrvoje Niksic
-- C implementation of base64 from Hrvoje Niksic
-- C implementation of `buffer-substring-no-properties' from Hrvoje Niksic
-- Experimental fix for spurious `file has changed on disk' message from
   Charles Waldman
-- Fix for etags.el hook calling from Malcolm Box
-- User-name-completion fix for MS Windows NT from Greg Klanderman

to 21.2 beta3 "Aglaia"
-- case sensitiveness improvements from Didier Verna
-- Bug fixes from 21.0
-- Word selection on mouse click on quotes from Hrvoje Niksic
-- WAVE support for NAS from Raymond Toy

to 21.2 beta2 "Aether"
-- Synched with 21.0-pre14 "Poitou"
-- isearch improvements from Hrvoje Niksic
-- bytecompiler fix from Martin Buccholz
-- shadow.el speedup from Martin Buchholz
-- clash detection update from Jan Vroonhof
-- Indirect buffers from Hrvoje Niksic
-- ~user completion cleanup from Greg Klanderman
-- New face property from Didier Verna
-- ~user completion and fixes from Greg Klanderman
-- casefiddle.c speedup from Martin Buchholz

to 21.2 beta1 "Aeolus"
-- Synch with 21.0-pre6
-- Removal of ancient obsolete symbols courtesy of Altrasoft
-- Fix version numbers

Fork at 21.0 pre5 "Zhong Wei"