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Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available (lists.gnu.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The first release candidate for Emacs 30.1, the extensible text editor, is now available at:

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.1-rc1.tar.xz

Please give it as much testing as you can. If no problems are reported, this will become Emacs 30.1 this Sunday.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

@4ffy any particular things of interest in 30? Any progress with the background garbage collection? More multi threading?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Emacs 30 is a more low-key release compared to heavy hitting features like native compilation in 28 and Tree-sitter in 29. Probably the headline change is replacing the libjansson based JSON parser with a homegrown one that is several times (~8x) faster, which will significantly benefit features like LSP. This will also mark the official release of the Android port, as well as the usual scattershot of improvements across the board. The NEWS file has the full changelog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

The most anticipated feature for me is the native support to install packages from vc repositories instead of just from package repos