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+* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
+* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
+* Changes in Emacs 24.4
+* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
+
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+* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
+
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+** New function `ses-rename-cell' to give SES cells arbitrary names.
+
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+* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
+** New nadvice.el package offering lighter-weight advice facilities.
+It is layered as:
+- add-function/remove-function which can be used to add/remove code on any
+  function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks.
+- advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
+  much like `defadvice' does.
+
+* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
+
+** `defadvice' does not honor the `freeze' flag and cannot advise
+special-forms any more.
+
+** `dolist' in lexical-binding mode does not bind VAR in RESULT any more.
+VAR was bound to nil which was not tremendously useful and just lead to
+spurious warnings about an unused var.
+
+* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.4
+
+** New function special-form-p.
+** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
+text-property on the first char.
+
+** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias
+and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'.
+
+* Changes in Emacs 24.4 on non-free operating systems
+
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+** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
+The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
+directory where Emacs was running.
+
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 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
 
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