1 Tasks needed before the next release.
3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
8 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
14 LANG Translator Status
23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
25 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
27 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS
29 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
30 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
32 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
33 Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related
36 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
37 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
39 ** libxpm is loaded too soon
40 Since the multi-tty merge, libxpm is loaded before the init files because
41 of changes in toolbar setup; that prevents using image-library-alist in
42 .emacs to select the desired XPM library. Reported by Takashi Hiromatsu.
43 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02191.html
45 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
47 ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process)
48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html
50 ** undefined reference getopt_long
51 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
52 from 2007-08-27. Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
53 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
58 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that?
59 It is a dangerous design.
60 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
62 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
65 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
66 "can't turn off font-lock"
67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
69 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
70 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
72 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
73 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
74 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
76 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
79 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
82 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
83 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
85 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
86 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
88 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake. Those features should not
89 be part of Gnus. They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
90 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
91 minimized. I don't know what is left to do here.
93 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
95 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
97 ** multi-tty does not work correctly.
98 If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an
99 X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame
100 when trying to do a C-z. This worked with server.el version 1.136, it
102 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html
103 Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with
104 server.el version 1.136.
105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html
107 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented?
108 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html
110 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el?
111 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html
113 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop
114 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html
116 ** `make bootstrap; make install' dumps another emacs
117 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00311.html
119 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
121 ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console
122 Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be
123 considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console.
124 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html
126 ** unicode-merge issues:
128 *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
129 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
130 The temacs sizes are comparable.
131 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
133 ** font-backend problems:
135 *** Xresource pane.menubar.*font no longer takes effect
136 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00314.html
137 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01683.html
139 *** font-lock faces use different font with font-backend
140 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00651.html
142 *** font height problems with font-backend
143 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00620.html
148 ** Document multi-tty features
149 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
150 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
152 ** Document new font backend
154 ** Document XEmbed support
156 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
158 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
159 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
160 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
161 likewise in the respective language.
163 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
164 names of the people who have checked it.
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