* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. "Native Windows TTY Support" is the twelfth in the OXYMORON series. Relative to XEmacs 21.4.10 "Military Intelligence", "Native Windows TTY Support" includes more menubar options for browse-url as the only user interface change. With this release, we believe that XEmacs 21.4 is more stable than the 21.1 series, and plan to promote the 21.4 series to "stable", and retire 21.1, in the very near future. Please do your best to find bugs and problems in this release, and report them using M-x report-xemacs-bug. We will continue to fix bugs and make safe improvements in 21.4, but plan to concentrate development effort on getting 21.5 ready for a public release. There will be no more releases of 21.1, but we will continue to support users who prefer 21.1 in a number of ways. Details are deferred to the "stability" announcement. Linux users: note that Linux now defaults to use of the portable dumper. A nasty crash in unexec (non-pdump) builds related to glibc 2.3.x has been worked around, but its cause is still unclear. However, the annoying bug where XEmacs failed to find its dumpfile when the executable is invoked via a symlink is fixed. If you still wish to turn off the portable dumper, use --pdump=no as an option to configure. A deadlock in Xt timers that manifested in gdb-mode has been fixed for all X platforms. A few other minor fixes, documentation patches, and the like are included. See CHANGES-release and the ChangeLogs for details. The first release in this series, XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor", contained a large number of improvements and extensions to the current stable version, XEmacs 21.1.14. For more information about the OXYMORON series, see etc/NEWS, the initial release announcement http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.0.html and the release planning page (now of mostly historical interest), http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/Public-21.2/ For general information about XEmacs, the developers, and the user community, see our home page, http://www.xemacs.org/ * XEmacs 21.4.11 is "stable" software. The usual "no warranty" disclaimer (see etc/WARRANTY, sections 10 and 11) applies. However, after many months of testing, XEmacs 21.4.11 has been shown sufficiently stable to be recommended to all users. If there are no serious problems discovered in the next week or so, XEmacs 21.4.11 will be officially promoted to "stable." * Availability Anonymous ftp: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/xemacs-21.4 See http://www.xemacs.org/Install/. (Note that the tarball breakdown is slightly different from that implied for 21.1. For 21.4, the xemacs-21.4.11.tar.gz tarball contains the full contents of the xemacs-21.4.11-{src,elc,info}.tar.gz tarballs.) If you already have a 21.4.10 source tree, a patchkit is available in xemacs-21.4.10-21.4.11.patch.gz. This does not update .elcs or .infos, they will be rebuilt when you make XEmacs. If you have an earlier version, you can repeatedly apply patchkits. Also, if you don't have the packages yet, see http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html. Windows branch and installers: The Windows branch continues to have a few changes not yet included in the mainline. It is preferred to the mainline for Windows users. Anonymous (pserver) CVS: Anonymous CVS is available. We are very grateful to the staff at our host, SunSITE.dk, for a lot of help and quick reponse to all our requests. If you haven't used XEmacs CVS recently, we moved the repository before the 21.4.6 release. The repository structure is the same as before, so it should be possible to reuse an existing checked-out CVS tree. Take care that your Root is set correctly to CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs On platforms with a Bourne shell and find available, something like for r in `find . -name Root`; do echo $CVSROOT > $r; done will convert your entire tree. Tags are also the same; to update to release 21.4.11, use the release tag "r21-4-11". To set a sticky tag which will always update to the current release, use the branch tag "release-21-4". For more details, see http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/cvsaccess.html Unique branch and release tags are assigned to the Windows branch. See Andy Piper's announcements and release notes for details. * Brief summary of Changes to XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" -- (**) More menubar options for browse-url -- Ville Skyttä -- Fix: Can't find dumpfile of symlinked xemacs -- Vin Shelton -- Fix: Deadlock in Xt timers -- Stephen Turnbull -- Fix: mmap crash (glibc 2.3.x) in build -- Wolfram Gloger -- Fix: Restore layout patch -- Andy Piper -- Fix: Minor bugs -- Ben Wing -- New: Berkeley db 4.1 support -- Greg Allen -- New: Dynamic initialization of auto-mode-alist -- Ville Skyttä -- New: Print memory check results in crash -- Ben Wing -- Build: Default pdump on for Linux -- Stephen Turnbull -- Build: Native Windows utilities build right -- Ben Wing -- Build: Mule regexp tests -- Daiki Ueno, Stephen Turnbull -- Docs: regex/alloca PROBLEM -- Stephen Turnbull -- Docs: Lesstif PROBLEM -- Frank McIngvale -- Docs: Examples, corrections, and oxymorons -- Katsumi Yamaoka, John Paul Wallington, Stephen Turnbull, Giacomo Boffi, Ville Skyttä, Ilya Golubev, Andy Piper, Ben Wing -------- ChangeLog Entries from ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. 2003-01-02 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in (Generate Installation): * configure.usage (--use-union-type): * PROBLEMS (XEmacs crashes mysteriously): Deprecate --use-union-type for production builds. 2002-12-16 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * PROBLEMS (Running): Document general regex.c/alloca crash. 2002-12-05 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * etc/OXYMORONS (21.4.11): Inadvertant contrib from Andy. 2002-12-04 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in: Move pdump default for Darwin to opsys default area. 2002-11-15 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in (getaddrinfo): Disable for hpux11*, not hpux11. 2002-11-12 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in: Default pdump on for Linux. Improve "broken compiler" panic message per V. Kletnieks. 2002-11-12 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * PROBLEMS (Running/Linux): Lesstif 0.93.36 info, from F. McIngvale. 2002-10-30 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org&gt; * etc/TUTORIAL.ja: Typo fix. 2002-10-31 John Paul Wallington <jpw(a)shootybangbang.com&gt; * info/dir (File): button1 on a highlighted word doesn't follow that cross-reference. 2002-11-11 Stephen J. Turnbull <steve(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; * etc/Emacs.ad (Emacs.bold-italic.attributeFont): Per G. Boffi. 2002-11-04 Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi(a)polimi.it&gt; * etc/sample.Xdefaults (Emacs.bold-italic.attributeFont): New. -------- ChangeLog Entries from lib-src/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. 2002-12-14 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; * config.values.in: Typo fix. -------- ChangeLog Entries from lisp/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. 2002-12-27 Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org&gt; * files.el (auto-mode-alist): Remove redundant entries for modes that live in packages. (interpreter-mode-alist): Ditto. 2002-03-17 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org&gt; * menubar-items.el (default-menubar): Sync with current browse-url-xemacs.el. -------- ChangeLog Entries from lwlib/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. -------- ChangeLog Entries from man/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. 2003-01-02 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * internals/internals.texi (How Lisp Objects Are Represented in C): Deprecate --use-union-type except for static error checking. 2002-12-27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * internals/internals.texi (Regression Testing XEmacs): Hints for test design. 2002-10-29 Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org&gt; * xemacs-faq.texi (Top): The canonical location for FAQ on the website is /FAQ/. 2002-11-12 Ilya N. Golubev <gin(a)mo.msk.ru&gt; * xemacs/custom.texi (Face Customization): (Faces): Document face-frob-from-locale-first variable. -------- ChangeLog Entries from netinstall/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. -------- ChangeLog Entries from nt/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. 2002-12-14 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; * minitar.c: * xemacs.mak (DEPEND): * xemacs.mak (CFLAGS_NO_LIB): New. * xemacs.mak (ETAGS_DEPS): * xemacs.mak (LIB_SRC_TOOLS): Various couple problems. -------- ChangeLog Entries from src/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. 2002-12-14 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; * callint.c: Declaration error. * dumper.c (pdump): * dumper.c (pdump_load): Warning fix. * process.c: GCPRO error. * glyphs.c (unmap_subwindow): * glyphs.c (map_subwindow): Parenthesizing errors with ! and &&. * event-stream.c (maybe_kbd_translate): Wrong argument to character_to_event(). * alloc.c (garbage_collect_1): * emacs.c: * emacs.c (debug_can_access_memory): * emacs.c (fatal_error_signal): * emacs.c (mswindows_handle_hardware_exceptions): * emacs.c (main_1): * emacs.c (main): * emacs.c (assert_failed): * emacs.c (syms_of_emacs): * lisp.h: * print.c: * print.c (std_handle_out_va): * print.c (write_string_to_stdio_stream): * print.c (write_fmt_string): * print.c (printing_badness): * print.c (printing_major_badness): * print.c (print_internal): * print.c (debug_print_no_newline): * print.c (debug_backtrace): Be more defensive in handling bad values when printing. Add code from trunk involving inhibit_non_essential_printing_operations. When going down or in debug_print(), don't do external conversion and such and try really, really hard when printing to avoid core dumping. Add force-debugging-signal, debug_break(). 2002-12-12 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * dumper.c (pdump_load): Include sysdep.h; retry with truename. Analysis and original patch by Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt;. 2002-12-02 Greg Allen <greg_allen(a)westlb-systems.co.uk&gt; * database.c: Fix open_database. Berkeley DB API has changed in 4.1. see: http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/upgrade.4.1/fop.html 2002-11-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * specifier.c (Fvalid_specifier_type_p): Typo in comment. 2002-11-13 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * event-Xt.c (Xt_timeout): (Xt_timeout_callback): (emacs_Xt_add_timeout): (emacs_Xt_remove_timeout): (Xt_timeout_to_emacs_event): Turn completed_timeouts from a stack into a queue. Fixes deadlocks <15829.21626.171573.994716(a)sinisa.nasamreza.org&gt;. 2002-11-07 Wolfram Gloger <wg(a)malloc.de&gt; * alloc.c (reinit_alloc_once_early): Disable mmap in Doug Lea malloc. * emacs.c (main): Assert that mmap'd allocation is disabled. 2002-10-14 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * glyphs-widget.c (layout_query_geometry): add in fiddle factor. Include border text in width layout calculation. (layout_layout): use BORDER_FIDDLE_FACTOR instead of 10. -------- ChangeLog Entries from tests/ChangeLog -------- 2003-01-03 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. 2002-12-27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * automated/regexp-tests.el (Mule character class): New test cases. 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