XEmacs 21.2.47 "Zephir" is released. The CVS tag for the release is r21-2-47 (or the "moving tag" r21-2-latest-beta). Tarballs are available in the usual place ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/xemacs-21.2. There are no PGP signatures for this release. 21.2.47 "Zephir" contains a few changes to 21.2.46 "Urania". See the individual ChangeLogs for details. However, its primary purpose is practice for me in creating a distribution, uploading it, and announcing it, preparatory to the release of 21.4.0. If you have time, I would appreciate it if a few people would verify that the tarballs can be downloaded, the CVS tags can be used for checkout, and that the resulting source trees can be built. There will be another pre-release April 15 Japan time, containing a few last-minute patches and the release documentation omitted from this prerelease, followed by the release of 21.4.0 late on the 15th UTC. Important notice for CVS users: The CVS Repository structure has been rationalized thanks to Michael Sperber. The development code is now on the trunk. There are several active branches, each with per-release tags of the form "r21-1-14" (major-minor-patchlevel), and a branch tag which always gives the tip: Branch Branch tag Release tag Development branch (new, 21.5): none (on trunk) r21-5-xx "Gamma" prerelease (old 21.2, now 21.4): release-21-4 r21-2-xx "Stable" release (21.1): release-21-1 r21-1-xx Note that the "gamma" code has branched off from the trunk as "release-21-4," but the individual tags for its prereleases are "r21-2-xx." To update an existing CVS checkout to the trunk (development), use the -A flag to cvs update, or simply checkout with no -r flag. To update or checkout to one of the other branches, use the -r flag with the appropriate branch tag. http://cvs.xemacs.org/ has more information. It is in the process of being updated, so some information about tags may be inaccurate for a few days. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."