Re: Emacs 27.1 released

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Nicolas Petton <nico@petton.fr> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Version 27.1 of the Emacs text editor is now available.

Dear Emacs Workers, thank you!

Strong letter to follow.^W^W^W^WI remain, as ever your fellow student
of history and probability, and long time Emacs fan,
Jay Sulzberger

> 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