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Highlights of this release include:
Emacs modules can now be built outside of the Emacs tree source.
Emacs is now compliant with the latest version 11.0 of the Unicode
Standard.
In Dired, the ‘Z’ command on a directory name compresses all of its
files.
There are many more changes; for a summary see the etc/NEWS file, which
you can view from Emacs with `C-h n’.
For the complete list of changes and the people who made them, see the
various ChangeLog files in the source distribution. For a summary of
all the people who have contributed to Emacs, see the etc/AUTHORS file.
* Installation Changes in Emacs 26.2
** Building Emacs with the '--with-xwidgets' option now requires WebKit2.
** Installing Emacs now installs the emacs-module.h file.
* Startup Changes in Emacs 26.2
* Changes in Emacs 26.2
** Emacs is now compliant with the latest version 11.0 of the Unicode Standard.
** New variable 'xft-ignore-color-fonts'.
* Editing Changes in Emacs 26.2
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.2
** Dired
*** The 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files.
** Ibuffer
*** New toggle 'ibuffer-do-toggle-lock', bound to 'L'.
** Imenu
*** The value for 'imenu-auto-rescan-maxout' has been increased to 600000.
** Gnus
*** Mailutils movemail will now be used if found at runtime.
** Shadowfile
*** shadowfile.el has been rewritten to support Tramp file names.
** Shell mode
*** Shell mode buffers now have 'scroll-conservatively' set to 101.
** VC
*** VC support for Mercurial was improved.
**** New vc-hg options.
**** Display of Mercurial revisions in the mode line has changed.
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.2
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.2
** shadowfile config files have changed their syntax.
** 'thread-alive-p' has been renamed to 'thread-live-p'.
** 'while-no-input' does not return due to input from subprocesses.
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.2
** The new function 'read-answer' accepts either long or short answers
** New function 'assoc-delete-all'.
** The function 'thing-at-point' behaves as before Emacs 26.1.
** To cater to use cases where comments and strings are to be ignored
* Changes in Emacs 26.2 on Non-Free Operating Systems
** macOS features can now be detected at run-time as well as at