Emacs 23.1 released

[Chong Yidong]

GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released. It is available on the GNU ftp site
at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/. See http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a
list of mirrors.

The MD5 check-sums for the tarballs are:

a620d4452769d04ad8864d662f34f8dd emacs-23.1.tar.gz
17f7f0ba68a0432d58fa69d05a2225be emacs-23.1.tar.bz2

Here are some new features of Emacs 23. See etc/NEWS for a complete
list.

- Improved Unicode support (the internal character representation is
now based on UTF-8).

- Font rendering with Fontconfig and Xft.

- Support for using X displays and text terminals in one session,
and for running as a daemon.

- Shift-selection.

- Smarter minibuffer completion.

- Per-buffer text scaling.

- Directory-local variables.

- New packages for:
* viewing PDF and postscript files (Doc view mode)
* connecting to processes via D-Bus (dbus)
* using the GNU Privacy Guard (EasyPG)
* displaying line numbers in the fringe (Linum mode)
* editing XML documents with on-the-fly validation (nXML mode)
* editing Ruby programs (Ruby mode)
* display-based word wrapping (Visual Line mode)

Please send bug reports to bug-gn...@gnu.org. You can use the
function M-x report-emacs-bug to do this. Mac OS X users should note
that the Carbon port has been removed; see the file nextstep/README for
information about the new Cocoa port.

Many thanks to the rest of the Emacs development team for their hard
work; and to the numerous users who contributed suggestions and bug
reports. Happy hacking.