GNU Emacs 25

Emacs 25 is the latest version, released September 17, 2016.

Major changes

New website

at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Gtk's Xwidget integration: watch youtube inside Emacs

Better built-in eww, web browser

Experimental Cairo integration

Load external shared libraries

New unicode characters input method

New library: Project (as a subset of Projectile)

Better history of query-replace

Package.el improvements

New library: seq.el and map.el (replaces dash.el)

New library: xref, to replace tags, etags, xctags

Others

Dired: auto-revert buffer on file change

Json, tramp, and more

Reference

See the release notes.

Further reading

• https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-25-1
• http://endlessparentheses.com/new-in-emacs-25-1-map-el-library.html
• https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/538bft/emacs_251_released/?sort=top
• also in French

See also

Versioning of Emacs