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@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ by setting `autoload-timestamps' to nil.
 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing.  As a side effect, it provides
 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
 
++++
 ** New configure option --with-modules.
 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
 
@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
 \f
 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
 
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 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
@@ -230,12 +232,6 @@ the `network-security-level' variable.
 puny.el library, so that one can visit web sites like
 "http://méxico.icom.museum".
 
-** If Emacs isn't built with TLS support, an external TLS-capable
-program is used instead.  This program used to be run in --insecure
-mode by default, but has now changed to be secure instead, and will
-fail if you try to connect to non-verifiable hosts.  This is
-controlled by the `tls-program' variable.
-
 +++
 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
 
@@ -378,6 +374,17 @@ current package keywords are recognized.  Set the new option
 It's meant for use together with `compile':
 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
 
+** Desktop
+
+---
+*** The desktop format version has been upgraded from 206 to 208.
+Although Emacs 25.1 can read a version 206 desktop, earlier Emacsen
+cannot read a version 208 desktop.  To upgrade your desktop file, you
+must explicitly request the upgrade, by C-u M-x desktop-save.  You are
+recommended to do this as soon as you have firmly upgraded to Emacs
+25.1 (or later).  Should you ever need to downgrade your desktop file
+to version 206, you can do this with C-u C-u M-x desktop-save.
+
 +++
 ** New function `bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
@@ -856,6 +863,13 @@ See the doc string of `sh-indent-after-continuation' for details.
 ---
 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
 
+---
+*** If Emacs isn't built with TLS support, an external TLS-capable
+program is used instead.  This program used to be run in --insecure
+mode by default, but has now changed to be secure instead, and will
+fail if you try to connect to non-verifiable hosts.  This is
+controlled by the `tls-program' variable.
+
 ** URL
 
 +++
@@ -1498,11 +1512,14 @@ details.
 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.
++++
+** New function `macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macro expansion.
 
-** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
++++
+** Some "x-*" functions were obsoleted and/or renamed:
 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
@@ -1510,6 +1527,7 @@ evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
 
++++
 ** New function `string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
 `string-lessp'.
 
@@ -1533,12 +1551,15 @@ emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8").  This is needed because
 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
 
++++
 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
 
++++
 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
 called interactively.
 
++++
 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
 
 +++