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@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ you want them.
 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw
 directories to the search path.  You must add them yourself if you want them.
 
+---
+** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed
+(from the bin and libexec directories, respectively).  The former is
+no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
+
 \f
 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.2
 
@@ -63,14 +68,14 @@ name, group names known to the system (where possible).
 ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled.
 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
-automatically at startup, or when customizing imagemagick-types-enable
-or imagemagick-types-inhibit.
+automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick-
+option.
 
 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
 ImageMagick to view images.  You must call imagemagick-register-types
 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.
 
-*** The new variable `imagemagick-types-enable' also affects which
+*** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
 ImageMagick types are treated as images.  The function
 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
 treated as images.
@@ -87,6 +92,15 @@ to nil.  Use with caution, and only if you really need to.
 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
 
+** Mode line changes
+
+*** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
+(shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
+that does not have its own specialized help text.
+
+*** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to
+invokes `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
+
 \f
 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.2
 
@@ -110,6 +124,18 @@ character when doing minibuffer filename prompts.
 \f
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
 
+** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
+`cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
+i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix.
+
+If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
+under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
+that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
+which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
+
+The old `cl' is now deprecated and is nothing more than a bunch of aliases that
+provide the old non-prefixed names.
+
 ** VHDL-mode
 - Support for ghdl (free vhdl compiler).  Now default.
 - Add/update support for VHDL-AMS packages.
@@ -275,12 +301,16 @@ inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
 
 *** bruce.el
 
+*** ledit.el
+
 *** mailpost.el
 
 *** mouse-sel.el
 
 *** patcomp.el
 
+*** cust-print.el
+
 \f
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
 \f
@@ -319,6 +349,9 @@ The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
 
 ** New error type and new function `user-error'.  Doesn't trigger the debugger.
 
+** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
+now accept a third argument to avoid chosing the selected window.
+
 ** Completion
 
 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion