Emacs 29.1 RC1 is available

[Eli Zaretskii]

Hi!

The first release candidate for what will be the 29.1 release of Emacs
(the extensible text editor) is now available at:

  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-29.1-rc1.tar.xz

The tarball is signed; you can get the PGP signature file at:

  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-29.1-rc1.tar.xz.sig

Please give it as much testing as you can.  If no problems are
reported, this will become Emacs 29.1 in a week's time.

As always, if you encounter problems building or using Emacs,
send a report to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org with full details
(if possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug).

Thanks for helping to test Emacs.

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To verify that the tarball is intact, download both the .sig and
the tarball, and run this command:

  gpg --verify emacs-29.1-rc1.tar.xz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys \
    17E90D521672C04631B1183EE78DAE0F3115E06B

Alternative keyservers to try are keyserver.ubuntu.com and
keys.openpgp.org.

You can also run sha1sum or sha256sum and confirm that these
checksums match:

SHA1  emacs-29.1-rc1.tar.xz
9d082cd4edaf64428e5c89b3b451cde18aa68720

SHA256  emacs-29.1-rc1.tar.xz
a04c42c2584f3cfe9b62e9bd2e29e9f6d2457fb1a0592f389afae61e4ddc67cc

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For a summary of changes in Emacs 29, 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