* XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. "Honest Recruiter" is the ninth in the OXYMORON series. This is an important bug-fix release. Relative to XEmacs 21.4.7 "Economic Science", "Honest Recruiter" fixes the bug introduced in 21.4.7 which caused loss of process output, crippling packages like pcl-cvs, and a long-standing bug where you need to do M-y twice to rotate the kill-ring to the second-most-recent kill. See the summary of changes and detailed ChangeLogs below. Also, because of the short interval between the release of 21.4.7 and 21.4.8, you will very likely be interested in reviewing the changes included in 21.4.7. The announcement for 21.4.7 is available at http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.7.html 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, 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 21.4.8 is "gamma" software. The usual "no warranty" disclaimer (see etc/WARRANTY, sections 10 and 11) applies. However, we are now experimenting with a level of stability intermediate between "beta" and "stable", dubbed "gamma". At this point all the developers and our beta testers trust the 21.4 code base with all their editing needs. Many have found it sufficiently stable that they've moved on to the development branch again in search of some excitement. After several months of testing, XEmacs 21.4.8 has been shown sufficiently stable to be recommended to all users. However, there still remain a few outstanding problems with fontlock that must be fixed before we retire 21.1. We now have identified the problems and we hope to resolve these, and merge in a few remaining variances with the Windows branch, for 21.4.9. * 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-21.4.8.tar.gz tarball contains the full contents of the xemacs-21.4.8-{src,elc,info}.tar.gz tarballs.) If you already have a 21.4.7 source tree, a patchkit is available in xemacs-21.4.7-21.4.8.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 definitely preferred to the mainline for Windows users. Due to travel by the maintainer, any release of 21.4.8 as a binary for Windows is likely to lag by some weeks. However, the current netinstaller release, "21.4.7 for Windows [1]", already contains a fix for the process output loss bug, and the "yank-pop twice" bug did not affect the Windows platforms. Therefore, 21.4.7 for Windows [1] is strongly recommended as the binary installation 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 21.4.8, use the release tag "r21-4-8". 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 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" -- Fix: "yank-pop twice" bug -- Jerry James, Stephen J. Turnbull -- Fix: broken process input from race condition patch -- Nix -------- ChangeLog entries from ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * info/.cvsignore: New file from 21.5. -------- ChangeLog entries from lib-src/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from lisp/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; This patch is based on Jerry James's patch and analysis. * select.el (get-clipboard): (get-selection): Update docstrings. (get-clipboard-foreign): (get-selection-foreign): New function for use as `interprogram-paste-function's. * simple.el (interprogram-paste-function): Change default to `get-clipboard-foreign'; improve docstring. (interprogram-cut-function): Improve dosctring. -------- ChangeLog entries from lwlib/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from man/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from netinstall/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from nt/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from src/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. 2002-05-07 Nix <nix(a)esperi.demon.co.uk&gt; Supersedes 2002-04-17 patch. * process.h (PROCESS_LIVE_P): Use the process status as evidence of health, not the state of the input stream. (PROCESS_READABLE_P): Say if the process is readable from. (It may be dead nonetheless.) (CHECK_READABLE_PROCESS): Test for that condition. * process.c (create_process): Use PROCESS_READABLE_P. (read_process_output, set_process_filter): Likewise. * process.c (Fprocess_input_coding_system): Use CHECK_READABLE_PROCESS. (Fset_process_input_coding_system, Fprocess_coding_system): Likewise. This code is #if 0'd, this is not the time to add new functions: * process.c (Fprocess_readable_p): Report readability status. * process.c (Qprocess_readable_p): New, associated symbol... * process.c (syms_of_process): ... initialize it. -------- ChangeLog entries from tests/ChangeLog -------- 2002-05-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" is released. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN