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diff --git a/etc/ERC-NEWS b/etc/ERC-NEWS index 9d09172401f..d5e256d9d33 100644 --- a/etc/ERC-NEWS +++ b/etc/ERC-NEWS @@ -47,18 +47,18 @@ From now on, only the most essential operations will be officially supported in its absence, and users will see a warning upon entry-point invocation when it's not present. -** Tighter auth-source integration with bigger changes on the horizon. +** Tighter auth-source integration. The days of hit-and-miss auth-source queries are hopefully behind us. With the overhaul of the services module temporarily shelved and the transition to SASL-based authentication still underway, users may feel left in the lurch to endure yet another release cycle of backtick hell. For some, auth-source may provide a workaround in the form of -nonstandard server passwords. See the section titled "auth-source" in -the Integrations chapter of ERC's manual. +nonstandard server passwords. See the section entitled "auth-source" +in the Integrations chapter of ERC's manual. ** Rudimentary SASL support has arrived. -A new module, 'erc-sasl', now ships with ERC 5.5. See the SASL -section in the manual for details. +A new module, 'erc-sasl', now ships with ERC. See Info node "(erc) +SASL" in the manual for details. ** Username argument for entry-point commands. Commands 'erc' and 'erc-tls' now accept a ':user' keyword argument, @@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ off by default, new users are encouraged to enable them. Clicking on 'irc://' and 'ircs://' links elsewhere in Emacs now does the right thing most of the time. However, for security reasons, users are now prompted to confirm connection parameters prior to lift -off. See the new '(erc) Integrations' section in the Info manual to -override this. +off. See the new '(erc) Integrations' section in the Info manual for +details. ** Miscellaneous behavioral changes impacting the user experience. A bug has been fixed that saw prompts being mangled, doubled, or @@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ file called erc-common.el. This was done to further lessen the various complications arising from the mutual dependency between 'erc' and 'erc-backend'. +ERC now relies on the Compat library from GNU ELPA to supply forward +compatibility shims for users running older versions of Emacs. The +required Compat version resides atop ERC's main library file, in the +'Package-Requires' header. Third-party ERC modules will benefit +automatically from this adoption. + The function 'erc-network' always returns non-nil in server and target buffers belonging to a successfully established IRC connection, even after that connection has been closed. (Also see the note in the |