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Release History

Version Release date Significant changes
24.2 August 27, 2012 Bugfix release
24.1 June 10, 2012 Emacs Lisp Package Archive, Themes, optional GTK+3, support for bi-directional input, org-mode included
23.4 January 29, 2012 Fixes a security flaw.
23.3 March 10, 2011 Improved functionality for using Emacs with version control systems.
23.2 May 8, 2010 New tools for using Emacs as an IDE, including navigation across a project and automatic Makefile generation. New major mode for editing JavaScript source. The cursor is hidden while the user is typing.
23.1 July 29, 2009 Xft support (anti-aliased fonts are now supported on X ), better Unicode support, new modes and packages for viewing PDF and PostScript files (Doc-view mode), connecting to processes through D-Bus (dbus), connecting to the GNU Privacy Guard (EasyPG), editing XML documents (nXML mode), editing Ruby programs (Ruby mode), and more. On Mac OS X, the use of the Carbon GUI libraries was replaced by use of the more modern Cocoa GUI libraries.
22.3 September 5, 2008 GTK+ toolkit support, enhanced mouse support, a new keyboard macro system, improved Unicode support, and drag-and-drop operation on X, plus many new modes and packages including a graphical user interface to GDB, Python mode, the mathematical tool Calc, and the remote file editing system Tramp ("Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol").
22.2 March 26, 2008 New support for the Bazaar, Mercurial, Monotone, and Git version control systems; New major modes for editing CSS, Vera, Verilog, and BibTeX style files; Improved scrolling support in Image mode
22.1 June 2, 2007 Support for the GTK+ graphical toolkit; Support for Drag-and-drop on X; Support for Mac OS X Carbon UI
21.1 October 20, 2001 Support for displaying colors and some other attributes on terminals; Built-in horizontal scrolling; Sound support; Wheel mouse support; Improved menu-bar layout; Support for images, toolbar, and tooltips; Unicode support;
20.1 September 17, 1997 Multi-lingual support
19.34 August 22, 1996 font-lock mode
19.28 November 1, 1994 Support for multiple frames using the X Windowing System; New interface for version control systems, called VC; New hexl mode, which is a hexadecimal editing mode
18.24 October 2, 1986
17.36 December 20, 1985 Backup file version numbers
16.56 July 15, 1985
15.10 April 11, 1985
13.0? March 20, 1985

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