Magit v4.0.0 released

[tarsius]

• Announcement
• Release Notes

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This discussion was created from the release v4.0.0.

[aylons]

Hi, the link to the announcement is broken! I believe the date is incorrect. Same thing for the link in the release notes.

FOr anyone reading this before he fixes: Announcement

[tarsius]

Thanks, fixed.

[kjnez]

Congratulations for the new release!

I see the following when opening *Help* for Magit in *Packages*:

describe-package-1: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, ("Jonas Bernoulli" . "emacs.magit@jonas.bernoulli.dev")

[tarsius]

Thanks!

Some older Emacs releases had a bug here. Not sure when it was fixed, but I just tried 29.1 and there it works.

[kjnez]

I'm using Emacs 29.4 BTW.

[tarsius]

The reason I couldn't reproduce it is that I have added MELPA to package-archives and that produces an archive-contents, which is backward compatible. Without that entry, nongnu is used, and its package-archives file unfortunately is not backward compatible. The :maintainer property is the problem.

Details

;;; Melpa
(magit . [(20240811 1419)
          ((emacs (26 1))
           (compat (30 0 0 0))
           (dash (20240510))
           (git-commit (20240808))
           (magit-section (20240808))
           (seq (2 24))
           (transient (20240805))
           (with-editor (20240806)))
          "A Git porcelain inside Emacs." tar
          ((:commit . "a2739d7db1fdf19b95f36f6ddd15b0c1f523bd26")
           (:authors ("Marius Vollmer" . "marius.vollmer@gmail.com")
                     ("Jonas Bernoulli" . "emacs.magit@jonas.bernoulli.dev"))
           (:maintainer "Jonas Bernoulli" . "emacs.magit@jonas.bernoulli.dev")
           (:keywords "git" "tools" "vc")
           (:url . "https://github.com/magit/magit"))])

;;; NonGNU ELPA
(magit .
       [(4 0 0)
        ((emacs
          (26 1))
         (compat
          (30 0 0 0))
         (dash
          (2 19 1))
         (git-commit
          (4 0 0))
         (magit-section
          (4 0 0))
         (seq
          (2 24))
         (transient
          (0 7 4))
         (with-editor
           (3 4 1)))
        "A Git porcelain inside Emacs" tar
        ((:url . "https://github.com/magit/magit")
         (:keywords "git" "tools" "vc")
         (:maintainer
          ("Jonas Bernoulli" . "emacs.magit@jonas.bernoulli.dev")
          ("Kyle Meyer" . "kyle@kyleam.com"))
         (:authors
          ("Marius Vollmer" . "marius.vollmer@gmail.com")
          ("Jonas Bernoulli" . "emacs.magit@jonas.bernoulli.dev"))
         (:commit . "020aca7c9c4154dbc4a72acbd56165ecccea1bf1"))])

I'll talk to the package and elpa-admin maintainers about this (again), but that could take a while.