Re: XEmacs 21.5.23 "daikon" is released.

Stephen J. Turnbull, XEmacs 21.5 Beta Engineer wrote: >Oops. Looks like my announcement generating scripts broke, and the >whole "brief list of changes" went missing. I'll fix that, but all > the information is in the ChangeLogs, so I won't spam the list with a > repost. Or, please give it a day and look at > > http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.5.23.html > >Better yet, download the release, check out CHANGES-beta, then build >and M-x build-report! > >Steve > > >* XEmacs 21.5.23 "daikon" is released. > "daikon" is the twenty-fourth in the VEGETABLE series. > > >The successor to XEmacs 21.5.22 "cucumber", "daikon" adds mouse pointers >generated from any color image format supported by XEmacs (adding the >modern GIF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF formats to the increasingly rare XPM >format already supported). Support for building with arbitrary precision >arithmetic (GMP), and the Berkeley db, PostgreSQL, and LDAP databases >has been provided for native Windows NT builds. Unexec support for _LP64 >architectures was fixed (at least for FreeBSD). > >A number of LISP APIs and commands have been synced to conform to GNU's >(unreleased) Emacs 22. Garbage collection now triggers on a threshold >relative to total memory allocated, which reduces the frequency. > > gc-cons-threshold also got raised to 2 million. maybe it should be higher; 2MB isn't much these days :)

ben