Releases of GNU Emacs and GnuCOBOL (UPDATED)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 30, 2023,
updated Aug 03, 2023

• Emacs 29.1 released

  Hi!
  
  
  Version 29.1 of Emacs, the extensible text editor, should now
  be available from your nearest GNU mirror:
  
  
     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.1.tar.xz
     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.1.tar.gz
  
  
  The tarballs are signed; you can get the corresponding PGP signature
  files at:
  
  
     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.1.tar.xz.sig
     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.1.tar.gz.sig
  
  
  You can choose a mirror explicitly from the list at:
    https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
  
  
  Mirrors may take some time to update; the main GNU ftp server is at:
    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
  
  
  To verify that the downloaded tarball is intact, download both the
  tarball and the corresponding .sig file, and run this command:
  
  
    gpg --verify emacs-29.1.tar.xz.sig
  
  
  (and similarly for emacs-29.1.tar.gz, if you download that format).
  
  
  If the GPG command fails because you don't have the required PGP
  public key, run this command to import the key:
  
  
    gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys \
      17E90D521672C04631B1183EE78DAE0F3115E06B
  
  
  Alternative keyservers to try are pgp.mit.edu and keys.openpgp.org.
  
  
  You can also run sha1sum or sha256sum and confirm that these
  checksums match:
  
  
  SHA1 emacs-29.1.tar.gz
  3c340fd281571a72b87d17cd295a580fffecb1c0
  SHA1 emacs-29.1.tar.xz
  39a14d9ae5596336da76789c7b977ba66eb09a57
  
  
  SHA256 emacs-29.1.tar.gz
  5b80e0475b0e619d2ad395ef5bc481b7cb9f13894ed23c301210572040e4b5b1
  SHA256 emacs-29.1.tar.xz
  d2f881a5cc231e2f5a03e86f4584b0438f83edd7598a09d24a21bd8d003e2e01
  
  
  For a summary of changes in Emacs 29.1, see the etc/NEWS file in the
  tarball; you can view it from Emacs by typing 'C-h n', or by clicking
  Help->Emacs News from the menu bar.
  
  
  You can also browse NEWS on-line using this URL:
  
  
    https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29
  
  
  For the complete list of changes and the people who made them, see the
  various ChangeLog files in the source distribution.  For a summary of
  all the people who have contributed to Emacs, see the etc/AUTHORS
  file.
  
  
  For more information about Emacs, see:
    https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
  

• Release of GnuCOBOL 3.2

  Hello!
  
  
  More than two and a half year after GnuCOBOL 3.1.2 the GnuCOBOL developers are proud to announce the formal release of GnuCOBOL 3.2.
  
  
  What is GnuCOBOL
  ================
  
  
  GnuCOBOL is a free, modern COBOL compiler.
  It translates COBOL into intermediate C and compiles the code using a native C compiler (preferably GCC, but not limited to it).
  
  
  More information about GnuCOBOL can be found at
  https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/
  
  
  Noteworthy changes
  ==================
  
  
  The amount of features are too much to note, but you can skip over the attached NEWS file to investigate them, here are some of the highlights:
  
  
  * improved dialect handling including changed defaults to better match
    the selected dialect (see NEWS if you compile with any -std to know
    more about the implications), a complete new dialect GCOS and support
    for more COBOL statements, intrinsic functions and syntax from both
    "old" and new dialects
  
  
  * highly improved run-times for several statements, along with
    less memory usage, especially if runtime checks are enabled
  
  
  * fileio changes to support LINE-SEQUENTIAL per COBOL2023 and runtime
    options to change the way files are handled, see NEWS and runtime.cfg
  
  
  * improvements for source-level debugging via GDB and coredump support
  
  
  * improvements for reproducible builds
  
  
  GnuCOBOL 3.x keeps full compatibility to GnuCOBOL 2.2, you can therefore use old COBOL modules without recompile, if needed, but may need to adjust your configuration per NEWS entry.
  
  
  Getting the Software
  ====================
  
  
  Official source kits can be downloaded from
     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnucobol/
  but we suggest to use a mirror a nearby mirror for higher
  download bandwidth:
     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnucobol
  

UPDATED

Now in LWN:

• Emacs 29.1 released

  Version 29.1 of the Emacs editor has been released. There is a long list of changes, including integration with the Tree-sitter incremental parsing library, the ability to access SQLite databases, "pure GTK" display support (which enables Wayland support), and a lot more; see the NEWS file for all the details.

• GnuCOBOL 3.2 released

  Version 3.2 of the GNU COBOL compiler is out. ""The amount of features are too much to note, but you can skip over the attached NEWS file to investigate them"." These new features include improved support for COBOL dialects, performance improvements, better GDB debugging support, and more.

FOSS Force:

• Back to Back Gnu Releases: GnuCOBOL 3.2 & Emacs 29.1

  They’ve been busy beavers over at Gnu, with the announcement of new releases for two Gnu projects. One is Emacs, the text editor that was partly born out of the brain of Gnu’s founder, Richard Stallman — which I guess makes it 100% Gnu. The other project, GnuCOBOL, is lesser known, while at the same time being more important these days than some people might think.

More here:

• GNU Emacs 29.1 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 22.04 via PPA

  GNU Emacs text editor released version 29.1 few days ago. Here’s how to install it in current Ubuntu releases. According to the release note.