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Emacs 27.1 released

([Development] Aug 11, 2020 15:29 UTC (Tue) (corbet))


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

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[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

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[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/741722/

[2] https://lwn.net/ml/emacs-devel/87a6z2ds3y.fsf@petton.fr/

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