More good news on the Emacs front. Sean Whitton writes to say that the Emacs 31.1.90 pretest is available. The Emacs point releases are generally to fix bugs and maybe refine an existing functionality but you shouldn’t expect any major new features. That will have to wait for Emacs 32. As always, the developers are asking for our help to test the release and let them know if we encounter any problems building or using it.
Be aware that there are some typos in Whitton’s post. In the first place, the pretest will eventually become Emacs 31.2 (not 31.1). More importantly, there are also typos in the URLs for the release. The correct URL is https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-31.1.90.tar.xz and similarly for the signature file.
My usual thanks to the Emacs developers who work so hard for us and give us so much. As I always say, if one of us finds ourselves in the same bar as one of the devs, we’re buying.