Stefan Kangas writes to tell us about an emergency Emacs release to version 29.4. This is the result of a recently discovered Org mode problem, that you can read about here. Both projects have offered updates. The Org mode announcement says that you should update either Org or Emacs. The Emacs announcement says you should update both so I am updating both.
I’ve updated Emacs and am in the process of updating Org. Right now it is stuck “checking Org-2.7.5” so I fired up my old version of Emacs to write this.
If you’re an Org user, you need to do something. The safest thing, I guess, is to update both. That’s what I’m doing and when I’m done, I will have the latest Emacs and Org. This is a pain but, really, we hardly ever have this sort of thing with Emacs or Org. Compared with my other apps that have an update every week or so, that’s not bad.
Afterword
Org finally finished but then Org wouldn’t run correctly. I blew away my Elpa directory and let Emacs rebuild everything on startup. Still no joy. Finally, I removed the new Org from Elpa, started Emacs with a -q to prevent it from loading the builtin Org, and installed the new Org. That worked and everything is fine now. You’d think I’d remember about doing that when I have problems with loading a package, but no. Maybe next time.
Update ;
Ihor Radchenko has clarified that the fix is entirely in the Org code so there is no need to update Emacs unless you want to run the builtin Org. You need only update one or the other.