News
2020-09-02
SXEmacs 22.1.17 "Hudson Custom Eight" has been released!
22.1.17 Highlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 183 184
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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"
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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:
(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")
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:
#'magic:file-audio-p
#'magic:file-video-p
#'magic:file-image-p
#'magic:file-text-p
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...
(require 'ffi-magic)
(magic:find-file-magic-alist-enable)
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.
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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
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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
#'eval-after-load
#'define-obsolete-variable-alias
#'define-obsolete-function-alias
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. ;-)
2016-05-06
SXEmacs 22.1.16 "Hillman Hunter" has been released!
22.1.16 Higlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 132, 141, 152, 155, 156, 158,
160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176,
181
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Multimedia fixes/updates -- Ferreira, Youngs.
SoX and FFmpeg support was brought back and mostly fixed.
PulseAudio has been brought back, and support for "media
roles" was added.
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Build chain fixes/updates -- Meier, Ferreira, Burkhardt,
Youngs
A lot of work went into stamping out compiler warnings and
errors to give us a much cleaner/safer build.
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FFI updates -- Zajcev, Youngs.
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Don't reset the cursor upon exit on a TTY -- Youngs.
Since the beginning of time, whenever you exited emacs on a
TTY you'd find that your cursor had been reset to a horrible
great big block. We thought that you'd probably prefer to
have the cursor you were using before you started SXEmacs.
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Contrib updates/fixes/additions -- Ferreira, Youngs.
Of note here is the rewritten 'git-for-steve.sh' script. It
is designed for SXEmacs developers, both old and new, to
help get everything super organised in their git repo and
fast-track them to contributing and hacking.
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Make docs compatible with Texinfo 5.x -- Youngs.
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Support Unix user/group lookups -- Ferreira.
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XDG compliance -- Youngs.
SXEmacs now looks for user files in locations that are much
more inline with modern standards and conventions.
`user-init-directory' is now ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/sxemacs or
~/.config/sxemacs if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set.
User packages will now be searched for in
${XDG_DATA_HOME}/sxemacs (~/.local/share/sxemacs).
The old legacy directory `~/.sxemacs' is still supported,
and in fact will still be used if the XDG directories don't
exist and it (the legacy dir) does. A user can also force
use of the legacy directory if they so choose.
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Add wildcard support to #'find-file et al. -- Youngs.
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Fix coding cookies -- Youngs.
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"In-tree builds" are no longer supported. --
Youngs.
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TTY related fixes/updates -- Ferreira.
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Various minor updates/tweaks/fixes -- Burkhardt, Ferreira,
Youngs.
2012-06-16
SXEmacs 22.1.15 "Goggomobil" has been released!
22.1.15 Higlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 76, 78, 88, 106, 108, 112, 121,
122, 125, 126, 127, 128, 131, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139,
140
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Coverity integrity scan fixes -- Ferreira.
Coverity offers
source code integrity analysis scans. These scans often
uncover bugs and security issues that would otherwise go
unnoticed. When we first scanned the SXEmacs code base
with the Coverity scanner we had ourselves roughly 500
"defects". Nelson Ferreira has pretty much
single-handedly fixed them ALL!! Well done, Nelson and
thanks a million!!!
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Build related fixes/updates -- Ferreira, Freundt, Horelick,
Meier, Youngs.
With fixes for:
- SuSe
- PowerPC
- MacOS
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenIndiana
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Bitrot removal -- Burkhardt, Youngs.
We got rid of some stuff too, including: aRts, GTKv1,
tooltalk, and a bunch of stuff from lib-src.
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Whitespace cleansing -- Youngs.
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Support libpng 1.5.x -- Youngs.
2011-03-14
SXEmacs 22.1.14 "Geo" has been released!
22.1.14 Highlights
This release cycle was all about upating all of the versioning
information and the build chain to be compatible with git.
2010-11-05
SXEmacs switches to git
People have been asking for it ever since we started this
project. Well, it is now a reality… The SXEmacs
sources are now kept in a git repository.
The migration went very smoothly, a lot smoother than I was
anticipating. Which was nice. There was one downside,
however… History. We lost all of the history up to
this point. Technically, it's not completely lost.
It is just not in the git repo. You can still get all the
history you could ever want by leeching the tla repos. And
don't forget that when we first forked from XEmacs we lost all
of the XEmacs CVS history. That never caused any problems or
issues, so I don't expect it to this time.
As of right now, the SXEmacs git repo is open for business.
You can get our latest sources with…
git clone https://git.sxemacs.org/sxemacs
That URL is deliberately not a hyperlink
because you can only get to that URL with a git client.
Till next time…
Steve.
2010-11-04
SXEmacs 22.1.12 "Fiat" has been released!
22.1.12 Highlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 69, 86, 107, 109, 110, 111,
113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120
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Build chain fixes and updates -- Ferreira, Freundt, Youngs.
- Fix building without eye-candy (*bars, widgets, etc)
- Begin work on getting SXEmacs built on Arm Linux
- Fix NetBSD 5 build
- Mac OS build fixes
- FFI improvements, updates, and enhancements -- Zajcev
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Source tree reorganisation -- Ferreira. Nelson put a lot of
working into reorganising the SXEmacs source tree hierarchy.
This was done with the view to making maintenance and debugging
easier, and also to simplify adding new features. There are
now several subdirectories under src…
New src hierarchy |
src/database |
has the database code |
src/ent |
has the "Enhance Number Types" code |
src/events |
has the "events" code |
src/media |
has all the multimedia code |
src/mem |
has memory related code |
src/mule |
has the MULE stuff |
src/ui |
has the UI code common to all toolkits |
src/ui/Gtk |
has the old (non-working) GTK 1 code |
src/ui/TTY |
has the TTY UI code |
src/ui/X11 |
has the X11 UI code |
src/ui/lwlib |
has the Lucid stuff |
2010-10-22
We Are Still ALIVE!!
Contrary to popular opinion, this project is still very much
alive and kicking. Sure, sometimes we take extended breaks,
but we always come back to "tinker". :-) A lot has
been going on in the lives of us mortal develpers during this
last year. The unfortunate thing for SXEmacs was that not
much of the goings on were SXEmacs-related. Which is why
you've not seen much in the way of activity here for the last
year.
A few of the more notible SXEmacs-related things that did
happen in the last 12 months have been…
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We moved to a new hosting provider. All of SXEmacs,
(including website, issue tracker, mailing lists, downloads,
and the main source repo), is now served up to you by the
awesome folks at
Dreamhost.
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We skipped a version! Erm, long story, short… it was
to do with the move to the new host, and it was simply
best for Steve's sanity and tla revision numbering to just
skip a version. So 22.1.12 is now the current development
version. There is a
ChangeLog for 22.1.11
if you want to take a look at what went on during that dev
cycle.
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Nelson has
been the busiest of us. One of the things he has been
working on has been a huge re-organisation of the src
directory. Instead of all of the C source being lumped into
a single directory, it is now split into logical
sub-directories. It is now much tidier, and a lot easier to
maintain and work with.
That's about it on the news front. Hopefully we'll be able to
cut a new release some time fairly soon. My hope is for
before the end of the year.
Till next time…
Steve.
2009-10-11
Website updates
The SXEmacs website has undergone a bit of work recently.
Hopefully it'll make your stay more enjoyable, and you'll want
to come back again and again. Bring your friends!
Some of the new stuff…
- "Google" Friends widget
- A "Twitter Ticker" tracking emacs related tweets
- Google Ads. Hey, we gotta eat. Please click em
- New screenshot "thumbnails" page
- Some cosmetic updates to maintain consistent look/feel
2009-05-12
SXEmacs 22.1.10 "Excalibur" has been released!
22.1.10 Highlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 41, 65, 74, 75, 79, 80, 81, 82,
83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100,
101, 102, 104
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Cool New Sexy Stuff. Of course every release must have some
cool new stuff. Here's what's new in this release…
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User defined readers
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It's possible to display video in a glyph object in a buffer.
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SXEmacs is now a fairly decent image
viewing/manipulation app. There's an undo/redo stack,
zoom in/out, rotate, chop/crop, red-eye reduction.
There is a whole swag of transformations supported:
charcoal, contrast, despeckle, edge, enhance, equalise,
gausian blur, negate, normalise, oil painting, radial
blur, 3D button effect, sharpen, solarise, and
swirl. Who needs The Gimp when you have SXEmacs!
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Added some MacOS icons.
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Support for sqlite3 via FFI
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New way for SXEmacs to handle different file types. It
allows you to have #'find-file take different actions
based on a predicate. See the new variable
`find-file-magic-files-alist'.
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Enable PNG transparent backgrounds. Unfortunately this
doesn't work if you use a background pixmap.
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FFI callbacks implemented.
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Dbus support via FFI (not completed). This should be
considered very much incomplete and experimental. Only
rudimentary support is there so far.
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Build chain fixes/improvements. Quite a few build chain
related changes were made in this release, including…
- Work around a bug in GCC 4.5.0
- Powerpc/BSD cpu detection
- A Freedesktop.org compliant sxemacs.desktop file is now installed.
- Updated FFmpeg detection.
- OpenSSL 1.0.0 detection. OpenSSL is no on by default.
- Fix a link error when building with no MPQ
- Fix a minor bison related issue (YYSTYPE)
- Fix building with latest SoX
- Fix --without-x builds
- Fix many C compiler warnings and elisp byte-compiler warnings.
- Fix install for non-FFI and non-Mule builds
- Fix etags build for systems without getopt_long
- Fix (hopefully) parallel builds
- Fix BDWGC-enabled builds
- Minor updates to BDWGC code.
- Catch up with latest ffmpeg API changes.
- Fix for latest ediff.
- Fix for subwindow resizing.
- FFI improvements.
- ENT fixes.
- TTY fixes.
- Cleaner dump file (less pollution from the build/src dir).
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Improve #'file-basename. It can now take a 2nd arg for
extension stripping.
- Misc doc fixes/updates.
2009-05-11
Chat with the developers
Do you have a SXEmacs problem that can't wait for email to go
back and forth? Or do you have some amazing new feature you'd
like to see in SXEmacs but can't wait to tell someone? Or
perhaps you just wanna shoot the breeze? Well your troubles
are over…
The SXEmacs web site now offers real-time chat with the
developers. See the "SXEmacs Chat" menu entry on
each page, or follow this link.
2008-09-27
News RSS feed back up!
Yep, that's right. After years of no news RSS, it has finally
been fixed. Many thanks and kudos to Hynek Schlawack for the
sexy new Python script that RSS-ifies the entries on the
SXEmacs news page.
2008-09-24
Mailing list subscriptions fixed!
Subscribing to the mailing lists is now working again. Please
accept our deepest apologies for taking so long to get this
issue sorted out. It was some corruption in the affected
lists' config.pck and the backups were corrupt as well.
Removing the lists and then recreating them solved the
problem. The original member db remained intact, as did the
archives, so all being well everthing should just work.
2008-09-21
Updated items in the shop!
You've seen the blood-dripping beta logo, now you can get that
on your T-shirt, or coffee mug, even on a courier bag, or wall
clock. Go check out the shop!
2008-09-19
Behind the scenes updates to SXEmacs website
We've made a few changes under the hood at the SXEmacs
website. Pretty much all of the HTML has been re-written from
the ground up. And if Steve did it right, you shouldn't
notice a thing. :-) Almost all of the changes made were
designed to do 2 things…
- Preserve look/feel across entire site
-
Easier maintenance for the
webmaster
2008-09-16
SXEmacs website offers retail therapy
Do you need retail therapy? We can help. We've just
added two outlets for your frustrations. One for the
memorabilia junkie at our
SXEmacs Store. And one for
those special occasions at our
Amazon Store.
Be sure to check them both out, and spend up big! :-) All
the proceeds go to keeping the SXEmacs Project running.
2008-06-06
SXEmacs 22.1.9 "Edsel" has been released!
22.1.9 Highlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,
39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. See our
Issue Tracker for
the details.
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New garbage collector BDWGC. SXEmacs can now use the
Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector. It is still
experimental at this stage and there are known bugs
(memory leak). If you have plenty of RAM it is quite
usable, and noticably faster than non-BDWGC SXEmacsen.
This new feature is not on by default. To get it,
configure with --with-experimental-features=all.
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Support 256 colour terminals. Support for 256 colour
terminals and colour resolution through approximation
for tty devices.
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New function, #'mapfam. This new function is an
extrememly powerful replacement for _all_ of the current
map functions. It not only can do the job of the
existing map functions, but can also convert any
sequence to any other sequence. Lots of other cool
features as well, see its doc string for full details.
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New FFI util, ffi-magic.el. Uses libmagic to guess file
type.
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Cool new stuff in the contrib directory. There are tla
hook scripts, build scripts, and build-report scripts.
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Build chain fixes and improvements. Better detection of
ALSA, ffmpeg, libffi, libbind, and many other various
bits and pieces. General build related fixes were made
for MacOS, Solaris, HPUX, and of course, Linux.
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Init file migration code removed. We feel that it is
better to NOT mess with other emacsen's set ups.
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Compiler warning fixes.
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PNG images optimised for size.
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Re-work auto-autoloads loading a little. Priority is
given to packages installed under ~/.sxemacs/ and care
is taken to eliminate those "foo-autoloads already
loaded" warnings.
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Support for BSD's MP removed.
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Emodule search path/loading fixes. Emodule load path
has been made sane. #'load-module and #'locate-module
have both been vastly improved and both have completion.
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FFI improvements. The FFI code has been improved so that
it can be compatible with XEmacs 21.5 for when they
merge our FFI into their code base. Also #'ffi-load and
#'ffi-load-library no longer need to be given a file
extension as part of the arg to allow for different
platforms having different shlib extensions. Also, some
UI enhancements were added to ffi-curl.el and
ffi-taglib.el.
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Etags improvements. A bit of "UI" has been added to
etags.el, as well as some code optimising.
2008-02-01
SXEmacs 22.1.8 "Daimler" has been released!
22.1.8 Highlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31.
The reason for the apparent double up of closed bugs
from the previous release is because our bug index got
reset during a rebuild.
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SXEmacs now has a libtool based build chain.
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Bootstrapping packages is now a little more friendly and
foolproof (hopefully).
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User cutomisations are now saved to
~/.sxemacs/custom-${USER}.el if the old style custom.el
doesn't exist.
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custom-defines.el files. These are like
auto-autoload.el files, but for defcustom's etc.
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Support for :inherit face keyword.
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A new rc.d style init mechanism. (the normal
~/.sxemacs/init.el is still supported of course)
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New resize echo area. (not to be confused with
rsz-minibuffer.el)
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#'describe-function now reports global keybindings for
commands.
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New %b spec for #'format for converting between ints and
bit vectors.
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Various minor doc fixes, typos, and other trivial
things.
2007-11-27
SXEmacs switches to GPLv3
Most of the source code in SXEmacs is licenced under the
GNU General Public Licence (GPL). Today SXEmacs switched
to the latest version of the GPL, GPLv3.
2007-08-24
SXEmacs 22.1.7 "De Lorean" has been released!
22.1.7 Highlights
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Bugs closed in this release: 13, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28,
31 (see issue tracker)
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Much reworking of the build chain. Quite a bit has
changed here, a few options have been changed, added, or
removed. So if you haven't been following the
development it might pay you to have a look at our
configure's --help output.
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Fix emodule loading on 64bit machines.
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Security fix in movemail.c (mktemp()->mkstemp()).
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Etags synched up to upstream 17.32.
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Updates/fixes to dllists/skiplists.
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Lots of updates in the ENT area (Enhanced Number
Types). Some stuff has been moved to an external
emodule, "ASE" (Algebraic Structures for ENT or "ASE
Supersedes ENT"). Also directed graphs have been
introduced (sparse representation only so far). And
introduce heaps (dense, dynamic, and week).
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cl.el meets C. We've begun work on implementing the
common lisp macros as an external emodule. The main
focus here is speed, and initial benchmarks are _very_
exciting... The emod version of #'dotimes (#'cl:dotimes)
can be nearly 200 times faster than its elisp
counterpart! This isn't finished yet, but watch future
releases.
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package-suppress mechanism ported from XEmacs 21.5.
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Asynchronous version of #'curl:download added called
#'curl:download&.
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Font-lock improvements, especially on TTYs.
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Fix info search path.
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Change default setting for progress guages to be off.
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Multimedia updates/fixes. Lots of reworking has been
done here, especially with PulseAudio, ffmpeg, and
threading of the audio jobs etc. Support for gstreamer
and xine has been dropped, and libmagic added.
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New macro to define "toggle" variables
#'define-toggle-variable. I wouldn't normally list a
single new macro in this file, but this one deserves a
mention. It sets up toggle variables, including
#'turn-on-VAR, #'turn-off-VAR, and #'toggle-VAR. Very
nifty.
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Many many compiler warnings have been fixed. Almost all
byte-compiler warnings have been fixed in our build.
And a good deal of the warnings in the C code of a
standard build has been fixed as well.
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GC fixes/updates.
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A contrib directory has been added to the tree. So far
there are patches in there to pop3.el, smtpmail.el, and
starttls.el which takes advantage of some of SXEmacs'
cool native features like OpenSSL. Watch this space for
more nifty things.
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Documentation updates: sppm, lispref, tips, building,
processes, and internals manuals.
2006-12-11
SXEmacs Release Archive Mirror
I'm very happy to announce that the kind folks at
Planet Mirror
are providing mirroring service for us.
2006-12-06
SXEmacs 22.1.6 "Cadillac" has been released!
22.1.6 Highlights
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Enhanced Number Types (ENT) fixes and updates.
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Multimedia fixes and updates.
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New ffi-gcrypt.el bringing GnuPG's libgrypt bindings to
SXEmacs.
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Line and column numbers in the modeline are now padded
for improved readability.
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New skiplists. This is a basic implementation of
Pugh's skip lists. Their efficiency is overwhelming
when compared to alists or plists. They also perform
better on insertion and removal than large hash-tables
(due to the resizing/rehashing which takes place).
They can be created almost as fast as lisp lists and
thus beat hash-tables there, too.
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Module (DSO) load paths were fixed.
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Test suite improvements and updates.
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Etags fixes. The Makefile Etags targets work now and
etags.el has been fixed to work with the include
directive and tags completion is working.
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Fix a problem with raw string parsing.
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Sync bytecomp-runtime.el with XE 21.5 to take advantage
of the *-f?boundp macros.
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OpenSSL updates/fixes/improvements, providing support
for certificate authorities (CA), for peer certificates
and, using the network-server-streams, secure listening
sockets. This will allow to connect/accept to/from
servers/clients which require valid peer certificates.
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New PulseAudio support replacing PolypAudio.
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New caching compiled regular expressions.
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Fix many build related issues.
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Major restructuring of the build chain. SXEmacs is now
a completely autotooled project, using aclocal,
automake, autoheader, autoconf.
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Move to a FHS-compliant install hierarchy.
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Drag 'n' Drop has been removed.
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Fix bug in lib-complete that was causing find-function
to visit .elc files if running inplace.
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Fix stack overflow bug in mapconcat.
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Update about.el, see:
M-x about-sxemacs
.
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Lots of documentation updates, fixes, and improvements.
2006-05-13
The documentation is now online
As of today, the 127278 lines of
documentation that comes with SXEmacs is available for
browsing online. You'll see a link in the menu on each
page here.
2006-05-07
SXEmacs 22.1.5 "Bugatti" has been released!
There were a few build-related problems with the last
release so this is primarily a maintenence/bugfix release.
22.1.5 Highlights
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version.sh was sometimes generating an incorrect
version.
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Autoconf fixes and updates. Most of the changes in this
release were centered around our autoconf scripts.
- - Recognise $CFLAGS environment variables
- - X toolkit autodetection redone
- - TTY autodetection fixed
- - PostgreSQL detection properly reported
- - Change allowed values for menubars, dialogs,
widgets
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- menubars -- no athena or motif
- dialogs -- no lucid
- widgets -- no lucid
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- Set configure's "bugreport address" to
https://issues.sxemacs.org.
- - Fix gdbm/berkdb detection
- - Improve libc version detection
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New convenience Makefile target, "build-report". This
target is especially designed to make life easier for
sending in build reports. Basically it saves make
output to the appropriate place and also ensures that a
make check is run.
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A SELinux/libffi quirk and a GMP/mpfr issue has been
noted in PROBLEMS.
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A pdump/ENT bug on *BSD has been fixed.
2006-05-01
SXEmacs 22.1.4 "Bentley Turbo" has been released!
22.1.4 Highlights
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Server sockets! Welcome to the brave new world of
SXEmacs listening for TCP and UDP connections, with all
the fix-ins for creating network servers. Yes, now you
can have SXEmacs be your web server. See
`open-network-server-stream'.
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SXEmacs audio. SXEmacs supports several "sound servers"
like: OSS, NAS, ESD, Polypaudio, ALSA, aRts, and Jack.
And media streams can be handled by sndfile, ffmpeg,
sox, mad, xine, gstreamer. The SXEmacs developers
recommend Polyp/ffmpeg whenever possible. And yes,
SXEmacs can play mp3 files. :-)
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Autoconf updates. The big one here is that all enable
and disable options have been converted to with and
without options.
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A recursive implementation of `directory-files', called
`directory-files-recur' has been added. It is lightning
fast... in some situations, even faster than find(1)
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Double linked lists and bloom filters have been
implemented.
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OpenSSL digest, encryption, and decryption routines have
been added for files. Previously this could only be
done with buffers.
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Athena is now the default toolkit used instead of
Motif.
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Embeddable keyboard macros. You can execute a keyboard
macro while you are in the middle of defining a keyboard
macro.
-
Mule is on by default. You can turn it off using the
--without-mule configure option.
-
Display any image format that is supported by
ImageMagick's libWand. Requires FFI-enabled SXEmacs and
libWand.
-
Lots of updates and improvements to ENT (Enhanced Number
Types).
-
Build report updates. The SXEmacs version no longer
conflicts with the XEmacs build.el. It also displays a
lot more interesting info. And can even use Gnus to
send the reports.
-
`report-sxemacs-bug' now directs people to the SXEmacs
issue tracker at
https://issues.sxemacs.org/
-
SXEmacs now builds clean on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
2006-04-11
This news page is now also published as a
RSS feed.
2006-02-13
SXEmacs web site finally gets some content that doesn't leave
you wondering what the hell this SXEmacs thing is anyway.
Also, as you can see, the news items are now on their own
page. And we've created an RSS feed to the commit logs to the
mainline repo. There's a link in the menu of each page.
2006-01-08
There's a problem with SXEmacs 22.1.3 and installing on BSD
systems. A virtually empty auto-autoloads.el file was being
installed which made SXEmacs unusable. This tiny
patch
fixes it.
We are also aware of some problems with building on Solaris 9.
We are working on fixing those problems and will post a patch
as soon as it is ready.
2005-12-22
Has it really been that long since the last bit of news
or release? We have a new release! And just in time for
Christmas, too. :-)
SXEmacs 22.1.3 has been released!
22.1.3 Highlights
-
Enhanced number types -- SXEmacs now has all sorts
of enhanced number types. Things like bignum,
bigfloat, fractions, mpfr-floats, complex-numbers,
gaussian-numbers, residue classes and residue
class rings.
-
Raw Strings -- SXEmacs supports Python-like raw
strings. This will cut back dramatically on the
backslashitis that elisp hackers suffer from.
-
FFI -- Downloading HTTP headers is now possible,
and FTP transfers have been fixed.
-
Mouse -- You can now bind up to 32 mouse buttons.
(global-set-key [(button32)] 'some-function)
And you thought you had enough trouble trying to
remember all the key bindings... :-)
-
Uptime -- Try
M-x uptime
and
C-u M-x uptime
-
Bootstrapping PUI -- SXEmacs no longer needs to
have any packages pre-installed before the package
tools (PUI) are usable. As long as you have a
FFI-enabled SXEmacs and libcurl (very likely) you
can "bootstrap" PUI by choosing a download site
and running
M-x pui-bootstrap
-
Improved font-locking in a TTY -- To illustrate,
fire up a vanilla SXEmacs (sxemacs -vanilla) and
look at the modeline. Then open a .c file and
turn on font-lock (M-x font-lock-mode).
-
Autoconf fixes -- All configure options have help
strings and state what the default setting is.
PostgreSQL detection has been improved and
simplified. Most users shouldn't need to specify
the pgsql prefix in `--with-site-prefixes' to get
PostgreSQL support.
-
Building SXEmacs with C++ Compiler -- This is no
longer supported. To build SXEmacs you will need
an ANSI-compatible C compiler of at least GCC
2.95.3 equivalence.
-
Documentation (Texinfo) -- Have all been updated
to mention "SXEmacs" instead of "XEmacs" where
appropriate. The main SXEmacs manual is now
sxemacs.info.
2005-05-18
Wow, it's been a while since I updated this page. Sorry 'bout
that. My excuse is that I hate doing HTML and I'm a lazy
bastard. Anyway, a lot's been going on since, most notably:
SXEmacs 22.1.2 has been released!
22.1.2 Highlights
-
FFI -- This is our "Foreign Function Interface". In a
nutshell, it is a way to bring any function from any
external library to lisp. As an example, this version
of SXEmacs can download files from the internet
without the need for any XEmacs lisp packages
such as EFS. It uses libcurl. Note that libcurl is
not needed to build SXEmacs.
-
OpenSSL -- SXEmacs can be linked with OpenSSL
libcrypto and libssl to provide a comprehensive
gateway to cryptographic and related functions.
Note, this is still experimental.
-
GC -- Garbage Collection. SXEmacs still garbage
collects as much as it always had, it is just now it
doesn't print messages to the echo area as often as
it used to.
-
Autoconf -- The SXEmacs autoconf scripts are all
autoconf version 2.59 compatible.
-
Etags -- Updated to upstream version 17.11 of
etags.c
-
Win32 -- Most of the win32 code is now gone.
-
Security -- A potential vulnerability has been fixed
in movemail.c
2005-02-20
Added "Developer Pages" section.
2005-02-18
Our BugZilla issue tracker is now online and ready for use
(see the link in the menu). It's actually been operational
for a while but I forgot to mention it. :-)
2005-02-03
We now have Autoconf 2.59 compatible configuration scripts.
The preliminary work is in sxemacs--main--22.1.2--patch-3 (see
the download page for how to get
this via tla).
Take care with it. Many of the configure options have
changed. And at this stage, we are expecting breakage as
it is very difficult to test all configurations.
2005-01-31
It is with great pride and pleasure that the SXEmacs Team
brings you another SXEmacs release.
Today, SXEmacs 22.1.1 was released. Source tarballs are
available from our
download page. And you can
view the changes in this release
here.
2005-01-12
With thanks to the wonderful folks at
Tux.Org, I am very pleased
to announce that we now have an FTP site! Check it out:
ftp.sxemacs.org
2005-01-05
The sxemacs-devel mailing list is now available via Gmane.
This is great because it means less load on my mail server.
There is a downside (from my point of view) however. I can
no longer keep accurate records of numbers of developers
etc. So...
If you want to be "counted" as a SXEmacs developer,
could you please subscribe to the list in the normal
way. If you'd rather read/post via Gmane, that's cool,
just mark your "real" subscription as "no delivery".
2005-01-02
Let me introduce you to our core team:
2004-12-31
Today, SXEmacs was announced to the world on the XEmacs and
GNU/Emacs mailing lists. See the
original post.