Eli Zaretskii is asking the Emacs Devel list if there are any objections to releasing Emacs 26.1 in a week. That was on so we should be seeing the new Emacs soon. I’ve been running Emacs 26.1 RC1 for a while and haven’t had any problems. Some folks were pushing to get a couple more bug fixes in before the release but there doesn’t appear to be any show stoppers.

As always, congratulations to Eli, John, Nicolas, and the (many) others for their hard work. It’s really nice to have regular releases but it does mean a lot more work for the developers.

I almost missed this announcement but Sacha, as she often does, had me covered with her Emacs News list.