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+\f
+* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.2
+
+** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers.
+If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about
+possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be
+no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings
+may be useful.
+
+\f
+* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.2
+
+** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
+lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
+been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
+
+\f
+* Changes in Emacs 24.2
+
+** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
+name, group names known to the system (where possible).
+
+** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
+`emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used.
+
+** 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 when setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit'.
+
+*** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
+ImageMagick to view images, set
+
+** String values for `initial-buffer-choice' also apply to emacsclient
+frames, if emacsclient is only told to open a new frame without
+specifying any file to visit or expression to evaluate.
+
+\f
+* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.2
+
+** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now
+prompts for a column number.
+
+** `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to customize
+`mouse-avoidance-mode' further.
+
+** `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' will now move to the path name separator
+character when doing minibuffer filename prompts.
+
+** `goto-char' is now bound to `M-g c'.
+
+\f
+* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
+
+** New `derived-mode' filter for Ibuffer, bound to `/ M'.
+`/ m' is now bound to filter by used-mode, which used to be bound to `/ M'.
+
+** Apropos
+
+*** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
+These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
+see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
+
+**** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed
+(i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
+
+** Customize
+
+*** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
+
+*** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
+`customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for
+these commands now).
+
+** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
+channel keys found, if any.
+
+** The `server-auth-key' variable can be used to set a permanent
+shared key for Emacs Server.
+
+** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
+closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
+
+** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17.
+
+** which-function-mode now applies to all applicable major modes by default.
+
+** D-Bus
+
++++
+*** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
+
++++
+*** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
+
++++
+*** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
+if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
+
++++
+*** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be
+interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
+
++++
+*** Signals can be sent also as unicast message.
+
++++
+*** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
+according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for
+details.
+
++++
+*** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
+
++++
+*** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
+
++++
+** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
+The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
+server properties.
+
+** Obsolete packages:
+
+*** assoc.el
+In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
+And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
+inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
+
+*** mailpost.el
+
+*** mouse-sel.el
+
+\f
+* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
+\f
+* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.2
+
++++
+** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
+Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
+The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
+`custom-variable-p'.
+
+** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
+third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
+
++++
+** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
+but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
+still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
+
+\f
+* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.2
+
+** Completion
+
+*** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
+in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
+
+*** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
+table, but with a different prefix.
+\f
+* Changes in Emacs 24.2 on non-free operating systems
+
+** New configure.bat options on MS-Windows:
+
+*** --without-libxml2 omits support for libxml2, even if its presence
+is detected.
+
\f
* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
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