Dear ESS users, The ESS core team is planning a new release of ESS, 18.10, before the end of October, possibly in 10 days already.
Whereas some of you may be using the always latest somewhat unstable development of ESS from MELPA or directly via regular pull from github, many will use released version, and hence be using 17.11 (or even an earlier version). ESS 18.10 will contain parts that have been much re-furbished, modernized and made future proof, notably thanks to new active ESS core members Alex Branham and Lionel Henry, and (less new) Vitalie Spinu, but also quite a few more issue reporters and pull requesters who have helped improvement. Because of that, there will also be new bugs, a even known and postponed to be treated after the release. Now here you can help us detect bugs *before* the release by starting to use the pre-release "release candidate" available from the Prerelease sub folder of the usual download location https://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/downloads/ess/Prerelease/ Newly, we do provide GPG *signed* tar and zip archives; if interested see (1) below. If you have problems, find bugs, etc please consider using https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issue both to see if your issue has already been reported and to open a new issue there. If you are unsure about new philosophy etc, please use this mailing list to ask for help etc. For the ESS core team, Martin Maechler ETH Zurich --------------- (1) After download, if you want to check the integrity of say the zip file, you need to have gpg installed (GPG: = GNU Privacy Guard, the Free Software version of PGP: https://gnupg.org), and then in shell (or "a console"), do once (to get the public key with which I've send the archives) gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 68E0DB0F and then something like gpg --verify ess-18.10.zip.sig ess-18.10.zip and you should be told that it is a good signature (from me). ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help