XEmacs XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released

goto announcement, summary, changes

To: xemacs-announce@xemacs.org
From: "Stephen J. Turnbull, XEmacs 21.4 Release Manager" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Subject: XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.
Organization: The XEmacs Project

*       XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.
   "Native Windows TTY Support" is the twelfth in the OXYMORON series.

Relative to XEmacs 21.4.10 "Military Intelligence", "Native Windows
TTY Support" includes more menubar options for browse-url as the only
user interface change.

With this release, we believe that XEmacs 21.4 is more stable than the
21.1 series, and plan to promote the 21.4 series to "stable", and
retire 21.1, in the very near future.  Please do your best to find
bugs and problems in this release, and report them using M-x
report-xemacs-bug.  We will continue to fix bugs and make safe
improvements in 21.4, but plan to concentrate development effort on
getting 21.5 ready for a public release.  There will be no more
releases of 21.1, but we will continue to support users who prefer
21.1 in a number of ways.  Details are deferred to the "stability"
announcement.

Linux users: note that Linux now defaults to use of the portable
dumper.  A nasty crash in unexec (non-pdump) builds related to glibc
2.3.x has been worked around, but its cause is still unclear.
However, the annoying bug where XEmacs failed to find its dumpfile
when the executable is invoked via a symlink is fixed.  If you still
wish to turn off the portable dumper, use --pdump=no as an option to
configure.

A deadlock in Xt timers that manifested in gdb-mode has been fixed for
all X platforms.

A few other minor fixes, documentation patches, and the like are
included.  See CHANGES-release and the ChangeLogs for details.

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 (now of mostly historical interest),

	     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 21.4.11 is "stable" software. 

The usual "no warranty" disclaimer (see etc/WARRANTY, sections 10 and
11) applies.  However, after many months of testing, XEmacs 21.4.11
has been shown sufficiently stable to be recommended to all users.  If
there are no serious problems discovered in the next week or so,
XEmacs 21.4.11 will be officially promoted to "stable."

* 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-21.4.11.tar.gz tarball contains the full contents of the
xemacs-21.4.11-{src,elc,info}.tar.gz tarballs.)

If you already have a 21.4.10 source tree, a patchkit is available in
xemacs-21.4.10-21.4.11.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 preferred to the mainline 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 21.4.11, use the release
tag "r21-4-11".  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.

Changes in XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support"

goto announcement, summary, changes

(**) More menubar options for browse-url (Ville Skyttä)
Fix: Can't find dumpfile of symlinked xemacs (Vin Shelton)
Fix: Deadlock in Xt timers (Stephen Turnbull)
Fix: mmap crash (glibc 2.3.x) in build (Wolfram Gloger)
Fix: Restore layout patch (Andy Piper)
Fix: Minor bugs (Ben Wing)
New: Berkeley db 4.1 support (Greg Allen)
New: Dynamic initialization of auto-mode-alist (Ville Skyttä)
New: Print memory check results in crash (Ben Wing)
Build: Default pdump on for Linux (Stephen Turnbull)
Build: Native Windows utilities build right (Ben Wing)
Build: Mule regexp tests (Daiki Ueno, Stephen Turnbull)
Docs: regex/alloca PROBLEM (Stephen Turnbull)
Docs: Lesstif PROBLEM (Frank McIngvale)
Docs: Examples, corrections, and oxymorons (Katsumi Yamaoka, John Paul Wallington, Stephen Turnbull, Giacomo Boffi, Ville Skyttä, Ilya Golubev, Andy Piper, Ben Wing)

ChangeLogs for XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support"

goto announcement, summary, changes

ChangeLog Entries from ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from lib-src/ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from lisp/ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from lwlib/ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from man/ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from netinstall/ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from nt/ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from src/ChangeLog
ChangeLog Entries from tests/ChangeLog

ChangeLog Entries from ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

2003-01-02  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* configure.in (Generate Installation): 
	* configure.usage (--use-union-type): 
	* PROBLEMS (XEmacs crashes mysteriously):
	Deprecate --use-union-type for production builds.

2002-12-16  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* PROBLEMS (Running): Document general regex.c/alloca crash.

2002-12-05  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* etc/OXYMORONS (21.4.11): Inadvertant contrib from Andy.

2002-12-04  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* configure.in: Move pdump default for Darwin to opsys default area.

2002-11-15  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* configure.in (getaddrinfo): Disable for hpux11*, not hpux11.

2002-11-12  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* configure.in: Default pdump on for Linux.
	Improve "broken compiler" panic message per V. Kletnieks.

2002-11-12  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* PROBLEMS (Running/Linux): Lesstif 0.93.36 info, from F. McIngvale.

2002-10-30  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>

	* etc/TUTORIAL.ja: Typo fix.

2002-10-31  John Paul Wallington  <jpw@shootybangbang.com>

	* info/dir (File): button1 on a highlighted word doesn't 
	follow that cross-reference.

2002-11-11  Stephen J. Turnbull  <steve@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

	* etc/Emacs.ad (Emacs.bold-italic.attributeFont): Per G. Boffi.

2002-11-04  Giacomo Boffi  <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it>

	* etc/sample.Xdefaults (Emacs.bold-italic.attributeFont): New.

ChangeLog Entries from lib-src/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

2002-12-14  Ben Wing  <ben@xemacs.org>

	* config.values.in: Typo fix.

ChangeLog Entries from lisp/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

2002-12-27  Ville Skyttä  <scop@xemacs.org>

	* files.el (auto-mode-alist): Remove redundant entries for modes
	that live in packages.
	(interpreter-mode-alist): Ditto.

2002-03-17  Ville Skyttä  <ville.skytta@xemacs.org>

	* menubar-items.el (default-menubar): Sync with current
	browse-url-xemacs.el.

ChangeLog Entries from lwlib/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

ChangeLog Entries from man/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

2003-01-02  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* internals/internals.texi (How Lisp Objects Are Represented in	C):
	Deprecate --use-union-type except for static error checking.

2002-12-27  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* internals/internals.texi (Regression Testing XEmacs): Hints for
	test design.

2002-10-29  Ville Skyttä  <scop@xemacs.org>

	* xemacs-faq.texi (Top):
	The canonical location for FAQ on the website is /FAQ/.

2002-11-12  Ilya N. Golubev  <gin@mo.msk.ru>

	* xemacs/custom.texi (Face Customization):
	(Faces):
	Document face-frob-from-locale-first variable.

ChangeLog Entries from netinstall/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

ChangeLog Entries from nt/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

2002-12-14  Ben Wing  <ben@xemacs.org>

	* minitar.c:
	* xemacs.mak (DEPEND):
	* xemacs.mak (CFLAGS_NO_LIB): New.
	* xemacs.mak (ETAGS_DEPS):
	* xemacs.mak (LIB_SRC_TOOLS):
	Various couple problems.

ChangeLog Entries from src/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

2002-12-14  Ben Wing  <ben@xemacs.org>

	* callint.c: Declaration error.
	* dumper.c (pdump):
	* dumper.c (pdump_load): Warning fix.
	* process.c: GCPRO error.
	* glyphs.c (unmap_subwindow):
	* glyphs.c (map_subwindow): Parenthesizing errors with ! and &&.
	* event-stream.c (maybe_kbd_translate): Wrong argument to
	character_to_event().

	* alloc.c (garbage_collect_1):
	* emacs.c:
	* emacs.c (debug_can_access_memory):
	* emacs.c (fatal_error_signal):
	* emacs.c (mswindows_handle_hardware_exceptions):
	* emacs.c (main_1):
	* emacs.c (main):
	* emacs.c (assert_failed):
	* emacs.c (syms_of_emacs):
	* lisp.h:
	* print.c:
	* print.c (std_handle_out_va):
	* print.c (write_string_to_stdio_stream):
	* print.c (write_fmt_string):
	* print.c (printing_badness):
	* print.c (printing_major_badness):
	* print.c (print_internal):
	* print.c (debug_print_no_newline):
	* print.c (debug_backtrace):
	Be more defensive in handling bad values when printing.  Add code
	from trunk involving inhibit_non_essential_printing_operations.
	When going down or in debug_print(), don't do external conversion
	and such and try really, really hard when printing to avoid core
	dumping.  Add force-debugging-signal, debug_break().

2002-12-12  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* dumper.c (pdump_load): Include sysdep.h; retry with truename.
	Analysis and original patch by Vin Shelton <acs@xemacs.org>.

2002-12-02  Greg Allen  <greg_allen@westlb-systems.co.uk>

	* database.c: Fix open_database. Berkeley DB API has changed in
	4.1. see: http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/upgrade.4.1/fop.html

2002-11-26  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* specifier.c (Fvalid_specifier_type_p): Typo in comment.

2002-11-13  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* event-Xt.c (Xt_timeout):
	(Xt_timeout_callback):
	(emacs_Xt_add_timeout):
	(emacs_Xt_remove_timeout):
	(Xt_timeout_to_emacs_event):
	Turn completed_timeouts from a stack into a queue.  Fixes
	deadlocks <15829.21626.171573.994716@sinisa.nasamreza.org>.

2002-11-07  Wolfram Gloger  <wg@malloc.de>

	* alloc.c (reinit_alloc_once_early): Disable mmap in Doug Lea malloc.
	* emacs.c (main): Assert that mmap'd allocation is disabled.

2002-10-14  Andy Piper  <andy@xemacs.org>

	* glyphs-widget.c (layout_query_geometry): add in fiddle
	factor. Include border text in width layout calculation.
	(layout_layout): use BORDER_FIDDLE_FACTOR instead of 10.

ChangeLog Entries from tests/ChangeLog

goto announcement, summary, changes


2003-01-03  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released.

2002-12-27  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>

	* automated/regexp-tests.el (Mule character class): New test
	cases.  Based on draft patch by Daiki Ueno <daiki@xemacs.org>.

goto announcement, summary, changes

Conform with <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Automatically validated by PSGML