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@@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ Unicode standards.
 
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 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
+
+** New `xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' config.
+
+** The `save-place' variable is replaced by a `save-place-mode'.
+
 ** Midnight-mode
 *** `midnight-mode' is a proper minor mode.
 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
@@ -250,6 +255,17 @@ by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
 
 ** package.el
 
+*** New "external" package status.
+An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
+not from `package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
+`package-directory-list'.  They are treated much like built-in
+packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
+are not considered for upgrades.
+
+The effect, is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
+package inside `package-directory-list' and the package menu will
+always respect that.
+
 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
 priority (as per `package-archive-priorities') only that one is
 listed. This can be configured with `package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
@@ -547,6 +563,11 @@ allows to customize this.
 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
 
+---
+*** `log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
+"Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes".  Set `log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
+nil to disable this.
+
 ** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
 
 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
@@ -630,6 +651,9 @@ to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
 
+*** Custom variable `eudc-options-file' defaults to
+"~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
+
 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
 command line's password prompt.
@@ -685,6 +709,11 @@ a typographically-correct documents.
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 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
 
+** `indirect-function' does not signal `void-function' any more.
+This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
+symbol-function was changed not to signal `void-function' any more.
+*** As a consequence, the second arg of `indirect-function' is now obsolete.
+
 ** Comint, term, and compile do not set the EMACS env var any more.
 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
 
@@ -736,6 +765,8 @@ behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'.
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 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
 
+** The default value of `load-read-function' is now `read'.
+
 ** New hook `pre-redisplay-functions', a bit easier to use than pre-redisplay-function.
 
 ** The second arg of `looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
@@ -811,6 +842,9 @@ name.  The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
 +++
 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
 
+** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
+directory at point.
+
 ---
 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to