{"id":13966,"date":"2026-07-24T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:16:32","slug":"emacs-31-0-91-pretest-2-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13966","title":{"rendered":"Emacs 31.0.91 (pretest 2) Is Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSean Whitton writes to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.gnu.org\/archive\/html\/emacs-devel\/2026-07\/msg00270.html\">Emacs 31.0.91, the second Emacs 31 pretest, is now available<\/a>. If you&rsquo;re interested in trying it out, you can get a copy from <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.gnu.org\/gnu\/emacs\/pretest\/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz\">https:\/\/alpha.gnu.org\/gnu\/emacs\/pretest\/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz<\/a>. It&rsquo;s signed so you should also get the signature file from <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.gnu.org\/gnu\/emacs\/pretest\/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz.sig\">https:\/\/alpha.gnu.org\/gnu\/emacs\/pretest\/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz.sig<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is good news, of course, because it means that Emacs 31 is that much closer to release. There&rsquo;s some great new features coming in Emacs 31 (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/git.savannah.gnu.org\/cgit\/emacs.git\/tree\/etc\/NEWS?h=emacs-31\">NEWS file<\/a> for details) so I&rsquo;m looking forward to its release. On the other hand, it&rsquo;s good that the devs are being conservative and trying to wring all the bugs out before the official release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you don&rsquo;t mind living (slightly) on the edge, try it out and let the devs know if you find any problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Whitton writes to say that Emacs 31.0.91, the second Emacs 31 pretest, is now available. If you&rsquo;re interested in trying it out, you can get a copy from https:\/\/alpha.gnu.org\/gnu\/emacs\/pretest\/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz. It&rsquo;s signed so you should also get the signature file &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13966\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-13966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13967,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions\/13967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}