XEmacs 21.4.16 Withdrawn
* XEmacs 21.4.16 Withdrawn
Due to a critical problem in parsing shy groups in regular
expressions, The XEmacs Team is withdrawing Release 21.4.16. The
defect in question can lead to infinite loops and/or unexplained
crashes in XEmacs. See, for example:
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200412/msg00195.html ,
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200412/msg00314.html and
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200502/msg00076.html .
The XEmacs 21.4.16 tarballs will be removed from their current
location at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/xemacs-21.4, effective
immediately.
XEmacs 21.4.17 will be released on February 6, 2005.
If, for some reason, you must run XEmacs 21.4.16, please apply the
patch posted in
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200501/msg00157.html ,
then rebuild and reinstall XEmacs.
The XEmacs Team regrets any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Vin Shelton
Release Engineer for Stable XEmacs
February 4, 2005