Emacs 24.4 introduces new bytecodes (48-50) for efficient non-local exits. 24.4 has no killer features, but improvements across the board.
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Difftastic 0.71 is out! This is a polish release, still well worth upgrading:
* A ton of performance improvements, especially for nasty corner cases.
* Improved C++, Dockerfile, Haskell, JavaScript, Makefile, Perl, Ruby, Rust, Scala and TypeScript.
Some excellent safety improvements in C++26: hardening the standard library against out-of-bounds bugs, and a safer semantics for uninitialised local variables:
I've released difftastic 0.65! Highlights of this release:
* Better parsing of Clojure, Common Lisp, Kotlin, Rust and Zig.
* Quality of life improvements for binary files.



