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@@ -56,7 +56,40 @@ affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in December 2013.
 \f
 * Changes in Emacs 25.2
 
---
+---
+** `find-library-name' will now fall back on looking at `load-history'
+to try to locate libraries that have been loaded with an explicit path
+outside `load-path'.
+
++++
+** Faces in `minibuffer-prompt-properties' no longer overwrite properties
+in the text in functions like `read-from-minibuffer', but instead are
+added to the end of the face list.  This allows users to say things
+like `(read-from-minibuffer (propertize "Enter something: " 'face 'bold))'.
+
++++
+** The new variable `extended-command-suggest-shorter' has been added
+to control whether to suggest shorter `M-x' commands or not.
+
+---
+** icomplete now respects `completion-ignored-extensions'.
+
++++
+** Non-breaking hypens are now displayed with the `nobreak-hyphen'
+face instead of the `escape-glyph' face.
+
+---
+** `C-x h' (`mark-whole-buffer') will now avoid marking the prompt
+part of minibuffers.
+
+---
+** `find-library' now takes a prefix argument to pop to a different
+window.
+
+** `find-library', `help-function-def' and `help-variable-def' now run
+`find-function-after-hook'.
+
+---
 ** 'process-attributes' on Darwin systems now returns more information.
 
 +++
@@ -281,6 +314,10 @@ servers.
 programmatically delete all cookies, or cookies from a specific
 domain.
 
++++
+*** `url-retrieve-synchronously' now takes an optional timeout parameter.
+
+---
 *** The URL package now support HTTPS over proxies supporting CONNECT.
 
 +++
@@ -387,6 +424,10 @@ interpreting consecutive runs of numerical characters as numbers, and
 compares their numerical values.  According to this predicate,
 "foo2.png" is smaller than "foo12.png".
 
++++
+** The new function 'char-from-name' converts a Unicode name string
+to the corresponding character code.
+
 +++
 ** New functions 'sxhash-eq' and 'sxhash-eql' return hash codes of a
 Lisp object suitable for use with 'eq' and 'eql' correspondingly.  If
@@ -418,6 +459,10 @@ Windows NT and later you can now register any hotkey combination.  (On
 Windows 9X, the previous limitations, spelled out in the Emacs manual,
 still apply.)
 
+** `convert-standard-filename' no longer mirrors slashes on MS-Windows.
+Previously, on MS-Windows this function converted slash characters in
+file names into backslashes.  It no longer does that.
+
 \f
 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
 
@@ -2417,6 +2462,12 @@ non-native NS fullscreen.  The default is nil.  Set to t to enable
 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen.  For native OSX fullscreen
 this has no effect.
 
+** On the OS X Cocoa ("Nextstep") port, multicolor font (such as color
+emoji) display is disabled.  This feature was accidentally added when
+Emacs 24.4 included the new Core Text based font backend code that was
+originally implemented for a non-mainline port.  This will be enabled
+again once it is also implemented in Emacs on free operating systems.
+
 ---
 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.