Emacs 27.1

Released Aug 10, 2020

Emacs 27.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers

Text shaping with HarfBuzz

Native support for JSON parsing

Better support for Cairo drawing

Portable dumping used instead of unexec

Support for XDG conventions for init files

Additional early-init initialization file

Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line

Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick

Emacs 26.3

Released Aug 28, 2019

Emacs 26.3 is a maintenance release.

New GPG key for GNU ELPA package signature checking.

Emacs 26.2

Released Apr 12, 2019

Emacs 26.2 has a wide variety of new features, including:

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.

Emacs 26.1

Released May 28, 2018

Emacs 26.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

Limited form of concurrency with Lisp threads

Support for optional display of line numbers in the buffer

Emacs now uses double buffering to reduce flicker on the X Window System

Flymake has been completely redesigned

TRAMP has a new connection method for Google Drive

New single-line horizontal scrolling mode

A systemd user unit file is provided

Support for 24-bit colors on capable text terminals

Emacs 25.3

Released September 11, 2017

Emacs 25.3 fixes a significant security hole.

Emacs 25.2

Released April 21, 2017

Emacs 25.2 is mostly a bug-fix release.

For more information, read the News file.

Emacs 25.1

Released September 17, 2016

See also dates of older releases.

Emacs 25.1 has a wide variety of new features, including: