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diff --git a/etc/NEWS.27 b/etc/NEWS.27 index 9232a308c57..e47f408be98 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS.27 +++ b/etc/NEWS.27 @@ -15,18 +15,6 @@ in older Emacs versions. 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'. -Temporary note: -+++ indicates that all relevant manuals in doc/ have been updated. ---- means no change in the manuals is needed. -When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it -applies, and please also update docstrings as needed. - - -* Installation Changes in Emacs 27.2 - - -* Startup Changes in Emacs 27.2 - * Changes in Emacs 27.2 @@ -40,24 +28,35 @@ If set to a non-nil value which isn't a function, resize the mini frame using the new function 'fit-mini-frame-to-buffer' which won't skip leading or trailing empty lines of the buffer. - -* Editing Changes in Emacs 27.2 ++++ +** Update IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat. +In June 2021, the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project moved +their official IRC channels from the Freenode network to Libera.Chat +in the aftermath of the changes in Freenode's governance structure and +policies in May and June 2021. The decision-making process took into +account the feedback received from the community against a set of +criteria devised by a working group drawn from both GNU and the FSF +to gauge a chat network's acceptability to software freedom activists. - -* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 27.2 +For the original announcement and the follow-up update, including more +details, see: -** Tramp +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-06/msg00005.html +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-06/msg00007.html -*** The user option 'tramp-completion-reread-directory-timeout' is now obsolete. +Given the relocation of GNU and FSF's official IRC channels, as well +as #emacs and various other Emacs-themed channels (see the link below) +to Libera.Chat, IRC-related references in the Emacs repository have +now been updated to point to Libera.Chat. - -* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 27.2 +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg00000.html -* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 27.2 +* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 27.2 - -* Lisp Changes in Emacs 27.2 +** Tramp + +*** The user option 'tramp-completion-reread-directory-timeout' is now obsolete. * Changes in Emacs 27.2 on Non-Free Operating Systems @@ -990,7 +989,6 @@ the entire list as before. An integer value limits the list length *** 'vc-git-stash' is now bound to 'C' in the stash headers. --- *** Some stash keybindings are now available in the stash button. 'vc-git-stash' and 'vc-git-stash-snapshot' can now be run using 'C' and 'S' respectively, including when there are no stashes. @@ -2726,7 +2724,7 @@ days there are in a month in a specific year), 'date-ordinal-to-time' (that computes the date of an ordinal day), 'decoded-time-add' (for doing computations on a decoded time structure), 'make-decoded-time' (for making a decoded time structure with only the given keywords -filled out), and 'encoded-time-set-defaults' (which fills in nil +filled out), and 'decoded-time-set-defaults' (which fills in nil elements as if it's midnight January 1st, 1970) have been added. *** In the DST slot, 'encode-time' and 'parse-time-string' now return -1 |