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 necessary documentation updates are complete.
+ (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
+--- means no change in the manuals is needed.
+When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
+otherwise leave it unmarked.
+
+\f
+* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.5
+
++++
+** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
+
+** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
+
+** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
+users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
+December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
+should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
+undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
+or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
+
+---
+** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
+Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
+
+\f
+* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.5
+
+\f
+* Changes in Emacs 24.5
+
+---
+** The default value of `history-length' has increased to 100.
+
++++
+** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
+The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
+when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
+
+---
+** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
+main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
+for use in Emacs bug reports.
+
+\f
+* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.5
+
+** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
+that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
+chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
+character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
+paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
+performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
+
+\f
+* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.5
+
+** Lisp mode
+*** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
+
+** Rectangle editing
+*** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
+*** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
+*** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
+
+** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
+should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
+
+** Calendar and diary
+
++++
+*** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
+`diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
+`diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
+
++++
+*** Calendar can list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
+See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
+
+---
+** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts to delete or
+undelete multiple messages.
+
+** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
+
+** In sh-mode, you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
+specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
+
+** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
+When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
+protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
+
+** Tramp
+
+*** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
+
+** Obsolete packages
+
+---
+*** gulp.el
+
+---
+*** crisp.el, tpu-edt.el, ws-mode.el
+These emulations of old editors are believed to be no longer relevant
+ - contact emacs-devel@gnu.org if you disagree.
+
+---
+*** vi.el, vip.el (try M-x viper instead)
+
+\f
+* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.5
+
+\f
+* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.5
+
+** window-configurations no longer record the buffers's marks.
+
+** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
+active region handling.
+
+** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
+
+** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
+
++++
+** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
+any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
+position list returned for such events is now nil.
+
+
+\f
+* Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.5
+
+** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
+but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
+called interactively.
+
+** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
+
++++
+** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
+*** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
+*** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
+*** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
+have side effects.
+
++++
+** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
+permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
+
+** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
+
+** Functions `rmail-delete-forward' and `rmail-delete-backward' take an
+optional repeat-count argument.
+
+\f
+* Changes in Emacs 24.5 on Non-Free Operating Systems
+
+---
+** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
+or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
+of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
+
\f
* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
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