Some of the new stuff…

• "Google" Friends widget
• A "Twitter Ticker" tracking emacs related tweets
• Google Ads. Hey, we gotta eat. Please click em
• New screenshot "thumbnails" page
• Some cosmetic updates to maintain consistent look/feel

• Bugs closed in this release: 41, 65, 74, 75, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104
• Cool New Sexy Stuff. Of course every release must have some cool new stuff. Here's what's new in this release…
  • User defined readers
  • It's possible to display video in a glyph object in a buffer.
  • SXEmacs is now a fairly decent image viewing/manipulation app. There's an undo/redo stack, zoom in/out, rotate, chop/crop, red-eye reduction. There is a whole swag of transformations supported: charcoal, contrast, despeckle, edge, enhance, equalise, gausian blur, negate, normalise, oil painting, radial blur, 3D button effect, sharpen, solarise, and swirl. Who needs The Gimp when you have SXEmacs!
  • Added some MacOS icons.
  • Support for sqlite3 via FFI
  • New way for SXEmacs to handle different file types. It allows you to have #'find-file take different actions based on a predicate. See the new variable `find-file-magic-files-alist'.
  • Enable PNG transparent backgrounds. Unfortunately this doesn't work if you use a background pixmap.
  • FFI callbacks implemented.
  • Dbus support via FFI (not completed). This should be considered very much incomplete and experimental. Only rudimentary support is there so far.
• Build chain fixes/improvements. Quite a few build chain related changes were made in this release, including…
  • Work around a bug in GCC 4.5.0
  • Powerpc/BSD cpu detection
  • A Freedesktop.org compliant sxemacs.desktop file is now installed.
  • Updated FFmpeg detection.
  • OpenSSL 1.0.0 detection. OpenSSL is no on by default.
  • Fix a link error when building with no MPQ
  • Fix a minor bison related issue (YYSTYPE)
  • Fix building with latest SoX
  • Fix --without-x builds
  • Fix many C compiler warnings and elisp byte-compiler warnings.
  • Fix install for non-FFI and non-Mule builds
  • Fix etags build for systems without getopt_long
  • Fix (hopefully) parallel builds
  • Fix BDWGC-enabled builds
• Minor updates to BDWGC code.
• Catch up with latest ffmpeg API changes.
• Fix for latest ediff.
• Fix for subwindow resizing.
• FFI improvements.
• ENT fixes.
• TTY fixes.
• Cleaner dump file (less pollution from the build/src dir).
• Improve #'file-basename. It can now take a 2nd arg for extension stripping.
• Misc doc fixes/updates.

The SXEmacs web site now offers real-time chat with the developers. See the "SXEmacs Chat" menu entry on each page, or follow this link.

1. Preserve look/feel across entire site
2. Easier maintenance for the webmaster

Be sure to check them both out, and spend up big! :-) All the proceeds go to keeping the SXEmacs Project running.

• Bugs closed in this release: 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. See our Issue Tracker for the details.
• New garbage collector BDWGC. SXEmacs can now use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector. It is still experimental at this stage and there are known bugs (memory leak). If you have plenty of RAM it is quite usable, and noticably faster than non-BDWGC SXEmacsen. This new feature is not on by default. To get it, configure with --with-experimental-features=all.
• Support 256 colour terminals. Support for 256 colour terminals and colour resolution through approximation for tty devices.
• New function, #'mapfam. This new function is an extrememly powerful replacement for _all_ of the current map functions. It not only can do the job of the existing map functions, but can also convert any sequence to any other sequence. Lots of other cool features as well, see its doc string for full details.
• New FFI util, ffi-magic.el. Uses libmagic to guess file type.
• Cool new stuff in the contrib directory. There are tla hook scripts, build scripts, and build-report scripts.
• Build chain fixes and improvements. Better detection of ALSA, ffmpeg, libffi, libbind, and many other various bits and pieces. General build related fixes were made for MacOS, Solaris, HPUX, and of course, Linux.
• Init file migration code removed. We feel that it is better to NOT mess with other emacsen's set ups.
• Compiler warning fixes.
• PNG images optimised for size.
• Re-work auto-autoloads loading a little. Priority is given to packages installed under ~/.sxemacs/ and care is taken to eliminate those "foo-autoloads already loaded" warnings.
• Support for BSD's MP removed.
• Emodule search path/loading fixes. Emodule load path has been made sane. #'load-module and #'locate-module have both been vastly improved and both have completion.
• FFI improvements. The FFI code has been improved so that it can be compatible with XEmacs 21.5 for when they merge our FFI into their code base. Also #'ffi-load and #'ffi-load-library no longer need to be given a file extension as part of the arg to allow for different platforms having different shlib extensions. Also, some UI enhancements were added to ffi-curl.el and ffi-taglib.el.
• Etags improvements. A bit of "UI" has been added to etags.el, as well as some code optimising.

• Bugs closed in this release: 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31. The reason for the apparent double up of closed bugs from the previous release is because our bug index got reset during a rebuild.
• SXEmacs now has a libtool based build chain.
• Bootstrapping packages is now a little more friendly and foolproof (hopefully).
• User cutomisations are now saved to ~/.sxemacs/custom-${USER}.el if the old style custom.el doesn't exist.
• custom-defines.el files. These are like auto-autoload.el files, but for defcustom's etc.
• Support for :inherit face keyword.
• A new rc.d style init mechanism. (the normal ~/.sxemacs/init.el is still supported of course)
• New resize echo area. (not to be confused with rsz-minibuffer.el)
• #'describe-function now reports global keybindings for commands.
• New %b spec for #'format for converting between ints and bit vectors.
• Various minor doc fixes, typos, and other trivial things.