Comint and compile no longer set EMACS

[gnu-emacs] / etc / NEWS

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@@ -1398,8 +1398,10 @@ symbol-function was changed not to signal 'void-function' any more.
 *** As a consequence, the second arg of 'indirect-function' is now obsolete.
 
 +++
-** Although comint, term, and compile still set the EMACS variable,
-this is now considered deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+** M-x shell and M-x compile no longer set the EMACS environment variable.
+This avoids clashing when other programs use the variable for other purposes.
+Although M-x term still sets EMACS for compatibility with Bash 4.3 and earlier,
+this is deprecated and will be phased out when Bash 4.4 or later takes over.
 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
 
 +++
@@ -1771,6 +1773,11 @@ rule.  The affected functions are 'current-time-string',
 function 'encode-time', which already accepted a simple time zone rule
 argument, has been extended to accept all the new forms.
 
+*** Incompatible change in the third argument of 'format-time-string'.
+Previously, any non-nil argument was interpeted as specifying Universal Time.
+This is no longer true; packages that want Universal Time should pass t
+as the third argument.
+
 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.