summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2024-03-24 08:19:29 -0400
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2024-03-24 08:19:29 -0400
commit8d8253f89915f1d9b45791d46cf974c6bdcc1457 (patch)
tree7fd4053630dab49c518b77a4d45b0b52e7674b14
parente95a8622263d8182e80777f87b7ca52cedbd1b28 (diff)
downloademacs-8d8253f89915f1d9b45791d46cf974c6bdcc1457.tar.gz
* etc/NEWS: Update for Emacs 29.3
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS34
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 06086e9bdfb..3f94b0d4634 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -16,31 +16,27 @@ You can narrow news to a specific version by calling 'view-emacs-news'
with a prefix argument or by typing 'C-u C-h C-n'.
-* Installation Changes in Emacs 29.3
-
-
-* Startup Changes in Emacs 29.3
-
-
* Changes in Emacs 29.3
+Emacs 29.3 is an emergency bugfix release intended to fix several
+security vulnerabilities described below.
-
-* Editing Changes in Emacs 29.3
+** Arbitrary Lisp code is no longer evaluated as part of turning on Org mode.
+This is for security reasons, to avoid evaluating malicious Lisp code.
-
-* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.3
+** New buffer-local variable 'untrusted-content'.
+When this is non-nil, Lisp programs should treat buffer contents with
+extra caution.
-
-* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.3
+** Gnus now treats inline MIME contents as untrusted.
+To get back previous insecure behavior, 'untrusted-content' should be
+reset to nil in the buffer.
-
-* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.3
+** LaTeX preview is now by default disabled for email attachments.
+To get back previous insecure behavior, set the variable
+'org--latex-preview-when-risky' to a non-nil value.
-
-* Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.3
-
-
-* Changes in Emacs 29.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
+** Org mode now considers contents of remote files to be untrusted.
+Remote files are recognized by calling 'file-remote-p'.
* Installation Changes in Emacs 29.2