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@@ -90,8 +90,10 @@ error, its exit status is 1.
 
 ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
 
+** Internationalization changes
+
 +++
-** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
+*** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
 
 See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
 initial documentation.
@@ -117,6 +119,20 @@ Note that some advanced display features, such as overlay strings and
 `display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when
 bidirectional text is reordered for display.
 
++++
+*** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts.
+If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by
+default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
+thin 1-pixel space.  In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
+display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
+them at all.  To change how these characters are displayed, customize
+the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
+
+On character terminals these methods are used for characters that
+cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
+
+*** There are two new input methods for Persian/Farsi: farsi and farsi-translit.
+
 ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
 Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
 
@@ -154,18 +170,6 @@ off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips.
 with Xft.  To change font, use the X resource font, for example:
 Emacs.pane.menubar.font:  Courier-12
 
-+++
-** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts.
-If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by
-default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
-thin 1-pixel space.  In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
-display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
-them at all.  To change how these characters are displayed, customize
-the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
-
-On character terminals these methods are used for characters that
-cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
-
 ** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
 
 ** On Nextstep/OSX, the menu bar can be hidden by customizing
@@ -267,9 +271,17 @@ default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
 ** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
 the remote file-name cache is used for read access.
 
++++
+** The use of a "mode: minor" specification in a file local variables section
+to enable a minor-mode is deprecated.  Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode)".
+
 ** The standalone programs lib-src/digest-doc and sorted-doc have been
 replaced with Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
 
+---
+** The standalone program `fakemail' has been removed.
+If you need it, feedmail.el ought to provide a superset of the functionality.
+
 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
 
 
@@ -377,9 +389,15 @@ $ESHELL nor variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
 
 ** comint and modes derived from it use the generic completion code.
 
-** The compile.el mode can be used without font-lock-mode.
+** Compilation mode
+
+*** Compilation mode can be used without font-lock-mode.
 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
 
+*** `compilation-filter-start' is let-bound to the start of the text
+inserted by the compilation filter function, when calling
+compilation-filter-hook.
+
 ** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
 
 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
@@ -447,8 +465,21 @@ You can get a comparable behavior with:
 
 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
 
++++
+*** Diary entries can contain non-printing `comments'.
+See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
+
++++
+*** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
+See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
+
++++
 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
 
+---
+*** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
+may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
+
 ---
 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package
 by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed.  Use appt-activate.
@@ -654,6 +685,9 @@ on a D-Bus without simultaneously registering a property or a method.
 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
 
+*** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
+default value to "".
+
 ** VC and related modes
 
 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.