X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/cee137ac85d553fd6a0cd28e78509ec7cb7a5e04..305fa3c4d07be54c68d4d28d2ae47f3d95a2ee61:/admin/FOR-RELEASE diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE index 2bb317a9b0..db8f8c6f57 100644 --- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE @@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ Tasks needed before the next release. ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. -** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS. - ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc. ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. @@ -24,15 +22,16 @@ sk Miroslav Vaško No response Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08. -** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME -and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons. +** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS. + +** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS. These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the attention of Windows users to fixing them. -** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind +** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem. @@ -41,21 +40,27 @@ to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem. * BUGS -** spurious scrolling bug -RMS has seen this too, happening during idle time, but cannot reproduce it. +See the copy of this file on the EMACS_22_BASE branch. -** lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Apr 11: before-string in overlay -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00153.html +** rcyeske@gmail.com, April 22: Failure to build on OpenBSD macppc. +OpenBSD compilation works on i386. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00932.html -** cyd@stupidchicken.com, Apr 12: display margin errors on a tty -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00272.html +** Spurious redisplay bug not fixed. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00443.html +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00732.html -* DOCUMENTATION +** michael.ewe@arcor.de, Apr 24: 22.0.98 not starting on Solaris 10/I386 +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01113.html -** A couple of manuals (flymake, newsticker) don't have an "@insertcopying" -line in the title page, so the copyright doesn't appear when they're -processed. (I'd say the same about widget, but that doesn't have a -title page.) +** coldwell@redhat.com, May 18: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem +This seems to be caused by a binary incompatible change for the malloc +implementation in glibc. The problem would occur when emacs is built +on one system and used on another. See +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344#c60 +for a possible complete explanation. + +* DOCUMENTATION ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.