There’s some good news on the Emacs front. Eli Zaretskii writes that it’s time for a feature freeze on Emacs 29. This is, of course, the first step in the final Emacs 29 release process. Eli says the goal is to release the first pretest of Emacs 29.1 in “a month or so”.
The Emacs 29 release cycle seems faster than usual, which is also good news. We all want a stable release but we also want the Emacs 29 goodness as soon as possible. The nice thing is that we can depend on Eli and the rest of the development team to do the right thing. We can be confident that there will be no release before its time but also that the developers are committed to getting it to us as soon as reasonably possible.
As I always say when I write about these events, I want to give my profound thanks to all the developers who selflessly contribute their time and effort for the benefit of all of us in the Emacs community.