Fix subtle problems with linum-mode and invisible text

[gnu-emacs] / etc / NEWS

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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--- a/etc/NEWS
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ build with 'make V=1'.
 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
-be installed setgid.
+be installed setgid.  The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
 
 ---
 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
@@ -66,9 +66,7 @@ so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
 \f
 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
 
-** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
-This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
--pkg file is optional.
+** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
 
 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found).
@@ -201,6 +199,24 @@ Unicode standards.
 
 \f
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
+** package.el
+*** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
+This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
+-pkg file is optional.
+
+*** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
+The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
+
+*** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
+which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
+dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
+
+*** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
+packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
+
+*** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
+installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
+
 ** Shell
 
 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
@@ -219,6 +235,7 @@ If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
+*** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
 
 ** ido
 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
@@ -259,6 +276,14 @@ useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
 
 ** eww
 
+---
+*** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
+
++++
+*** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
+whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not.  The user can also
+customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
+
 +++
 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
@@ -364,6 +389,8 @@ The remainder were:
 
 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
 
+** New js.el option `js-indent-first-init'.
+
 ---
 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
 
@@ -442,6 +469,8 @@ allows to customize this.
 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
 
+** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
+
 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
 non-integer inputs.
@@ -531,6 +560,9 @@ command line's password prompt.
 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
 be added to the archive.
 
+** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
+notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
+
 ** Obsolete packages
 
 ---
@@ -582,9 +614,24 @@ when signaling a file error.  For example, it now reports "Permission
 denied" instead of "permission denied".  The old behavior was problematic
 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
 
++++
+** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
+now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
+If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
+word syntax, use `\sw' instead.
+
 \f
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
 
+** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
+
+** New finalizer facility for running code when objects
+   become unreachable.
+
+** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
+It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
+evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
+
 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
 
 ** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
@@ -722,6 +769,9 @@ Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
 or Windows Server 2003.  The built binaries still run on all versions
 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
 
++++
+** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
+
 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
 
 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.