“Emacs 27.1” Released, with Portable Dumper

August 11, the developers behind the text editor GNU Emacs announced the latest stable release “GNU Emacs 27.1”. It includes support for HarfBuzz and brings Portable Dumper.

GNU Emacs is an extensible and customizable text editor. Having Emacs Lisp, a dialect of Lisp, at its core, it supports text editing. It offers full Unicode support, syntax coloring, project planner, mail and newsreader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. It runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSDs.

The latest release GNU Emacs 27.1 is the successor of version 26.3, released in August 2019.

It now supports using HarBuzz library for text shaping. It is enabled by default and can be used with new front backend drivers xfthb and ftcrhb, and Cairo 2D-drawings. It also brings improved support for Cairo.

It is built-in with support for arbitrary-sized integers. It also adds native support for JSON. Emacs can now use the XDG convention for init files. It now uses Portable Dumper instead of unexec.

Lexical biding is now used by default. Emacs no longer defaults to using ImageMagick to resize and rotate images. It includes numerous improvements.

GNU Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/