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Subject: XEmacs 20.3-beta10 "Athens" is released
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Get it from
	ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/beta/xemacs-20.3/

This should be a squeaky clean build after configuration.  No DOC string
messages, no errors on bytecompilation, and rebuilding autoloads should
work with a Latin-1 XEmacsen.  If it isn't for you, please report it.

The major new feature is image-mode.el from MORIOKA Tomohiko.
Finally, C-x C-f something.jpg Does The Right Thing.  There are other
new features, see the NEWS file and the list of changes below.

There is a strange on-again/off-again bug whereby a single symbol gets 
a property list of integer `0'.  This causes code breakage where there
is code doing a `mapatoms' and a `get' on each symbol.  The special
function `test-atoms' can tell you which one that might be.

$ src/xemacs -batch -f test-atoms
$ 

There are none in my current build, this morning I was getting in a
pair of symbols (alternating by build) in isearch.el.

At Ben Wing's direction, I was going to remove the LOSING_BYTECODE code
which apparently allows some strange feature where compiled bytecode
objects can be referenced as a vector.  *A lot* of code breaks (at a
minimum EFS, AUCTeX, W3, Ilisp, Hyperbole, Edebug, CC-mode, strokes and
VM), so I backed it out at the last minute, and now have no intention
of ever taking it out.  Removing this feature is just not important
enough (to me) to justify breaking this much code.

The xoobr program's configuration is incomplete and `make distclean'
doesn't work, thus you might have to remove the Linux/ELF object code
left there before building if you download the full kit.

Next beta due next weekend, probably not Saturday as altair is
scheduled for surgery on Saturday (new motherboard).

The patches are in
	xemacs-20.3-b9-20.3-b19.patch.gz
See etc/BETA for patching instructions.  BEWARE of patch programs more 
recent than 2.1 as the required parameters have changed.

The full kit is divided into 4 pieces:
	xemacs-20.3-b10.tar.gz
The primary Lisp/C/etc. sources.

	xemacs-20.3-b10-info.tar.gz
The info tree if you do not have a recent patched version of makeinfo.

	xemacs-20.3-b10-elc.tar.gz
Fresh bytecompiled lisp.  Unlike beta5, this no longer contains the
LEIM .elcs.

	xemacs-20.3-b10-LEIM.tar.gz
Quail input method.  Not all of Quail is functional yet.  If there is
no .elc file the corresponding .el does not work in this beta.


to 20.3 beta10 "Athens"
-- Linuxdoc-sgml.el courtesy of Arun Sharma.
-- rewritten abbreviations from Hrvoje Niksic
-- Gnus-5.4.60
-- New file image-mode.el (Major mode for displaying image files)
-- Miscellaneous Mule patches from MORIOKA Tomohiko
-- Miscellaneous Hrvoje Niksic patches
-- Configure/tree-x patches from Martin Buchholz
-- Restore Show Message Log in Edit menu.
-- `make autoloads' updated and should now work without Mule [untested].
-- New boolean variable `x-seppuku-on-epipe' to handle case of X Server going
   away and XEmacs not exiting.  Set to `t' to force immediate exit.
-- custom-1.9940
-- gnuserv.el-3.6
-- speedbar-0.5 courtesy of Eric Ludlam
-- Internals change -- Use fork() instead of vfork() for invoking
   subprocesses
-- Miscellaneous bug fixes
-- 
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