Emacs 27.1 released
([Development] Aug 11, 2020 15:29 UTC (Tue) (corbet))
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Version 27.1 of the Emacs editor is out. New features include support for arbitrary-sized integers, [1]HarfBuzz support, improved drawing with Cairo, and the obligatory new JSON parser.
From :
Nicolas Petton <nico-AT-petton.fr>
To :
"Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel-AT-gnu.org>
Subject :
Emacs 27.1 released
Date :
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:00:01 +0200
Message-ID :
<87a6z2ds3y.fsf__10299.715241284$1597107909$gmane$org@petton.fr>
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Hi!
Version 27.1 of the Emacs text editor is now available.
For more information on Emacs, see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
You can retrieve the source from your nearest GNU mirror by using one
of the following links:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.gz
You can get the PGP signatures at
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz.sig
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.gz.sig
The tarball is signed with the following GPG key, which can be found on
public PGP key servers:
D405AA2C862C54F17EEE6BE0E8BCD7866AFCF978
To retrieve the key from a PGP key server, evaluate
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys D405AA2C862C54F17EEE6BE0E8BCD7866AFCF978
You can choose a mirror explicitly from the list at:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
Mirrors may take some time to update; the main GNU ftp server is at:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
Emacs 27.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:
- Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers
- Text shaping with HarfBuzz
- Native support for JSON parsing
- Better support for Cairo drawing
- Portable dumping used instead of unexec
- Support for XDG conventions for init files
- Additional early-init initialization file
- Lexical-binding is used by default
- Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line
- Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick
There are many more changes; for a summary see the etc/NEWS file, which
you can view from Emacs with `C-h n'.
For the complete list of changes and the people who made them, see the
various ChangeLog files in the source distribution. For a summary of
all the people who have contributed to Emacs, see the etc/AUTHORS file.
The online manuals and website will be updated shortly.
Printed copies of the Emacs manual are available for purchase from the
Free Software Foundation's online store at:
https://shop.fsf.org/product/emacs-manual/
Regards,
Nico
--
If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package,
see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/741722/
[2] https://lwn.net/ml/emacs-devel/87a6z2ds3y.fsf@petton.fr/
From :
Nicolas Petton <nico-AT-petton.fr>
To :
"Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel-AT-gnu.org>
Subject :
Emacs 27.1 released
Date :
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:00:01 +0200
Message-ID :
<87a6z2ds3y.fsf__10299.715241284$1597107909$gmane$org@petton.fr>
Archive-link :
[2]Article
Hi!
Version 27.1 of the Emacs text editor is now available.
For more information on Emacs, see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
You can retrieve the source from your nearest GNU mirror by using one
of the following links:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.gz
You can get the PGP signatures at
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz.sig
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.gz.sig
The tarball is signed with the following GPG key, which can be found on
public PGP key servers:
D405AA2C862C54F17EEE6BE0E8BCD7866AFCF978
To retrieve the key from a PGP key server, evaluate
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys D405AA2C862C54F17EEE6BE0E8BCD7866AFCF978
You can choose a mirror explicitly from the list at:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
Mirrors may take some time to update; the main GNU ftp server is at:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
Emacs 27.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:
- Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers
- Text shaping with HarfBuzz
- Native support for JSON parsing
- Better support for Cairo drawing
- Portable dumping used instead of unexec
- Support for XDG conventions for init files
- Additional early-init initialization file
- Lexical-binding is used by default
- Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line
- Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick
There are many more changes; for a summary see the etc/NEWS file, which
you can view from Emacs with `C-h n'.
For the complete list of changes and the people who made them, see the
various ChangeLog files in the source distribution. For a summary of
all the people who have contributed to Emacs, see the etc/AUTHORS file.
The online manuals and website will be updated shortly.
Printed copies of the Emacs manual are available for purchase from the
Free Software Foundation's online store at:
https://shop.fsf.org/product/emacs-manual/
Regards,
Nico
--
If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package,
see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/741722/
[2] https://lwn.net/ml/emacs-devel/87a6z2ds3y.fsf@petton.fr/