User: stephent Date: 05/11/29 03:06:56 Modified: xemacs CHANGES-beta Log: more 21.5.24 release preparation. Revision Changes Path 1.233 +59 -0 XEmacs/xemacs/CHANGES-beta Index: CHANGES-beta =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/CHANGES-beta,v retrieving revision 1.232 retrieving revision 1.233 diff -u -p -r1.232 -r1.233 --- CHANGES-beta 2005/11/28 17:30:37 1.232 +++ CHANGES-beta 2005/11/29 02:06:56 1.233 ＠＠ -1,4 +1,63 ＠＠ to 21.5.24 "dandelion" +Major features + +-- New: Xft font support. -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Aidan Kehoe, Daniel Pittman, Clemens Fruhwirth, Eric Knauel, Matthias Neuebaur, Hrvoje Niksic, Olivier Galibert +-- New: incremental garbage collector. -- Marcus Crestani + +User-Visible Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements + +-- Fix: change_window_height must change the window width when requested. -- Aidan Kehoe +-- Fix: crashes printing ISO2022 coding systems. -- Ben Wing +-- Update: etags to upstream 17.15. -- Malcolm Purvis + +Build Infrastructure + +-- Fix build output directory structure on Windows. -- Marcus Crestani +-- Fix: configuration of native sound on Windows. -- Ben Wing +-- Fix: small bugs in configure of AC_INIT and PostgreSQL. -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- Improve: CVS behavior. -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Marcus Crestani, Malcolm Purvis +-- Improve: refactor make clean, nuke .elcs. -- Ben Wing + +Documentation + +-- Improve: Add 'Known Problems' to the Help menu. -- Malcolm Purvis +-- Improve: HELLO in Irish and Tajik. -- Aidan Kehoe +-- Improve: INSTALL. -- Stephen J. turnbull +-- Improve: consistency of symbol quoting in documentation. -- Ben Wing +-- Improve: docstrings. -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- Improve: reorganize option list from configure. -- Malcolm Purvis +-- Improve: texi document CVS branching. -- Ben Wing +-- Improve: texi documentation of DEFSYMBOL. -- +-- Improve: texi documentation of XEmacs Autoconf macros. -- Malcolm Purvis +-- Improve: update PROBLEMS, and install in etc. -- Malcolm Purvis + +Lisp API + +-- Improve: generalize describe-syntax-table to describe-char-table. -- Ben Wing +-- Improve: memory statistics reporting. -- Marcus Crestani + +Internal API and Implementation + +-- Fix: C++ build. -- Ben Wing, Marcus Crestani +-- Fix: Mule-ize canna_api module. -- Ben Wing, Stephen J. Turnbull +-- Fix: byte compile by conditional compilation. -- Ben Wing +-- Fix: compilation errors and warnings in GTK code. -- Malcolm Purvis +-- Fix: help on functions without documentation. -- Ben Wing +-- Fix: integer types for Berkeley db. -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Volker Zell +-- Fix: make modules build on Cygwin and Mac. -- Stephen J. Turnbull, Rick Rankin +-- Fix: quiet byte-compiler. -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- Fix: syntax error -- Marcus Crestani +-- Fix: uninitialized local variables. -- Stephen J. Turnbull +-- Fix: use princ, not prin1 in debug print. -- Ben Wing +-- Fix: use uint32_t declaration, fixing build on FreeBSD. -- Steve Youngs, Andrey Slusar +-- Fix: value of MAX_STRING_ASCII_BEGIN under MC_ALLOC. -- Ben Wing +-- Fix: warning elimination, mark UNUSED paramters -- Marcus Crestani, Stephen J. Turnbull +-- Improve: bignum support on mingwin. -- Ben Wing +-- Improve: lrecord uid handling. -- Ben Wing +-- Improve: refactor default_object_printer. -- Marcus Crestani +-- Improve: remove dead code in lwlib. Stephen J. Turnbull +-- Improve: reorganize lisp.h. -- Ben Wing +-- Improve: tabs widget. -- Stephen J. Turnbull to 21.5.23 "daikon" Major features