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@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ specially.
 ** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are
 no longer created during installation.
 
+** Emacs can be compiled with zlib support.  If this library is present
+(which it normally is on most systems), the function
+`zlib-decompress-region' becomes available, which can decompress gzip-
+and zlib-format compressed data.
+
 ---
 ** Emacs for NS (OSX, GNUStep) can be built with ImageMagick support.
 pkg-config is required to find ImageMagick libraries.
@@ -53,6 +58,10 @@ pkg-config is required to find ImageMagick libraries.
 
 ** Key ? also describes prefix bindings like C-h.
 
++++
+** `cache-long-line-scans' has been renamed to `cache-long-scans'
+because it affects caching of paragraph scanning results as well.
+
 +++
 ** `apropos-variable' is now `apropos-user-option'
 `apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
@@ -127,6 +136,11 @@ You can change the default by customizing the variable blink-cursor-blinks.
 Also timers for blinking are stopped when no blinking is done, so Emacs does
 not consume CPU cycles.
 
+** New command `frameset-to-register' is now bound to `C-x r f', replacing
+`frame-configuration-to-register'.  It offers similar functionality, plus
+some enhancements, like the ability to restore deleted frames.  Command
+`frame-configuration-to-register' is still available, but unbound.
+
 \f
 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
@@ -229,6 +243,13 @@ The default separator is changed to allow surrounding spaces around the comma.
 
 ** Calendar and Diary
 
+*** New faces: `calendar-weekday-header', `calendar-weekend-header',
+`calendar-month-header'.
+
+*** New option `calendar-day-header-array'.
+
+*** The variable `calendar-font-lock-keywords' is obsolete.
+
 +++
 *** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command
 `diary-from-outlook'.
@@ -273,9 +294,9 @@ on the given date.
 auto-saves of the desktop.
 
 *** `desktop-restore-frames', enabled by default, allows saving and
-restoring the window/frame configuration.  Additional options
+restoring the frame/window configuration (frameset).  Additional options
 `desktop-restore-in-current-display', `desktop-restore-reuses-frames'
-and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen' allow further customization.
+and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen' offer further customization.
 
 ** Dired
 
@@ -326,6 +347,8 @@ directory, respectively.
 `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
 next or previous frame.  `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
 
+*** New commands to speed up, slow down, or reverse animation.
+
 ---
 *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
 When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
@@ -428,6 +451,7 @@ New features include:
   archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items;
 - reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority;
 - extensive customizability of operation and display, including numerous faces.
+The Todo mode user manual describes all commands and most user options.
 To support some of these features, a new file format is used, which is
 incompatible with the old format; however, you can convert old todo and done
 item files to the new format on initializing the first new todo file, or at any
@@ -582,6 +606,9 @@ in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
 \f
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
++++
+** New function `define-error'.
+
 ** New hook `tty-setup-hook'.
 
 +++
@@ -658,6 +685,8 @@ Emacs uses `image-default-frame-delay'.
 *** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
 and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
 
+*** You can change the speed of animated images.
+
 ** Changes in encoding and decoding of text
 
 ---
@@ -691,7 +720,7 @@ These attributes are only meaningful for coding-systems of type
 with the same interpretation as the returned value of `visited-file-modtime'.
 
 ** time-to-seconds is not obsolete any more.
-** New function special-form-p.
+** New functions special-form-p and macrop.
 ** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
 text-property on the first char.
 
@@ -871,6 +900,10 @@ treated as images.
 *** ImageMagick images now support the :max-width and :max-height
 keywords.
 
+*** Some data types aren't auto-detected by ImageMagick.  Adding
+:format to `create-image' may help if the content type is in the
+new variable `image-format-suffixes'.
+
 ** Minibuffer
 
 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the