Featuring a significantly faster (~8x) JSON parser, native compilation enabled by default, and the official release of the Android port.

Abridged Announcement:

Version 30.1 of Emacs, the extensible text editor, should now be available from your nearest GNU mirror:

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-30.1.tar.xz

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-30.1.tar.gz

For a summary of changes in Emacs 30, see the etc/NEWS file in the tarball; you can view it from Emacs by typing ‘C-h n’, or by clicking Help->Emacs News from the menu bar.

You can also browse NEWS online using this URL:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-30

Windows binaries can be found at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-30

  • oantolin
    5·
    14 hours ago

    One small thing I liked in the new version is the grep-use-headings user option, if you set it to t, then grep buffer lists the search results with headings, one per file, instead of repeating the filename every single time.