Emacs 28.1 released

[Posted April 6, 2022 by corbet]

Version 28.1 of the Emacs editor has been released. The announcement says little about what's in this release, but there are a lot of details in the NEWS file. Significant changes include native compilation of ELisp files, support for running the editor in a seccomp() sandbox, improved emoji support, and much more. Wayland support did not make it into this release, but is already merged for version 29.

Emacs 28.1 released

Posted Apr 7, 2022 6:28 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (6 responses)

Often LWN includes the release notes as the full article. That would have been useful here, since the NEWS file is not served with a MIME type that lets you view it in the browser.

Emacs 28.1 released

Posted Apr 7, 2022 7:39 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

> since the NEWS file is not served with a MIME type that lets you view it in the browser.

Seems to work fine here in Firefox. There does not seem to be a Content-Type at all in the response though.

Emacs 28.1 released

Posted Apr 7, 2022 7:47 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

I recommend the open-in-browser WebExtension for overriding what web servers return for MIME types:

https://github.com/Rob--W/open-in-browser

NEWS file

Posted Apr 7, 2022 11:42 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

Out of curiosity, which browser failed to show the NEWS file for you? I can't reproduce a problem with Firefox or Chromium.

NEWS file

Posted Apr 7, 2022 12:43 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (1 responses)

Safari on iPhone prompts to download the file. That's not unreasonable if it's not served with a MIME type that indicates it can be shown in the browser.

NEWS file

Posted Apr 7, 2022 14:53 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

> Safari on iPhone

I was going to say something rude about this, but checking the HTTP 1.1 spec, it appears that this is technically correct (the best kind of correct?), although everyone else's behaviour is permissible and typically better *in practice*.

> If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream".

Emacs 28.1 released

Posted Apr 10, 2022 18:42 UTC (Sun) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595) [Link]

It displays in Fennec F-Droid (Firefox) on Android.

Emacs 28.1 released

Posted Apr 8, 2022 17:58 UTC (Fri) by mjanonis (subscriber, #156982) [Link] (1 responses)

Hooray! Great work by the Emacs devs. Can't wait for stable Wayland support.

Emacs 28.1 released

Posted Apr 12, 2022 6:46 UTC (Tue) by abbe (subscriber, #137089) [Link]

That's available via --with-pgtk (pure GTK) in the master branch.

Emacs 28.1 released

Posted Apr 11, 2022 12:33 UTC (Mon) by hickinbottoms (subscriber, #14798) [Link]

A very nice commentary on what the NEWS file actually means is regularly provided by Emacs writer Mickey Petersen: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-28-1

There are a number of things in NEWS that I wouldn't realise the utility of, which that commentary explains very well indeed.