Dear all, Org 9.8, a major release, is out. Org 9.8 will be a part of Emacs 31.
You can upgrade from GNU ELPA or install with M-x package-install RET org RET Org 9.8 added a number of new features and customizations, all listed on <https://orgmode.org/Changes.html>. If you enjoy using Org, please consider supporting contributors via <https://liberapay.com/org-mode/>. Donations do help a lot and have been one of the important motivations for me personally. * Some highlights of user-facing additions - We have reworked the image preview system. Now, the previews are asynchronous and can be implemented for any link types, not just image file links. The custom link previews can be defined using link parameters. In addition, the old ~org-toggle-inline-images~ command is replaced by ~org-link-preview~ that behaves closer to ~org-latex-preview~ command. Thanks to Karthik Chikmagalur for contributing these features. - Org mode now comes with built-in support for C# code blocks. This is a completely new implementation that is using =.NET= SDK. The old simplistic =ob-csharp.el= from =org-contrib= repository is obsoleted by this new library. Contributed by Maximilian Kueffner. - You can left-align, center, and right-align previewed links. This has actually been added in Org 9.7, but not announced. Contributed by Karthik Chikmagalur. - More flexible datetree entries for =org-capture= You can now mix and match year, quarter, month, week, and day when capturing datetrees. Contributed by Jack Kamm. * Development updates I would like to welcome new maintainers of Org mode libraries: - Maximilian Kueffner is maintaining the new ob-csharp library - Ken Mankoff is maintaining ob-fortran - Rudolf Adamkovič is maintaining ox-texinfo Also (just in case you missed earlier announcement), Ihor Radchenko (me) is maintaining Org mode as a whole :) I would also like to use this opportunity to ask interested people to take the role of contributor stewards (see <https://orgmode.org/worg/org-maintenance.html#org073fcb4>). With the help from other volunteers, I (as a maintainer) can handle most of the reported bugs and patches. However, my current workload leaves me little free time to work on Org mode internals and to implement new important features. It would be great to have several people who can try to reproduce bugs and do initial feedback on the new patches. (We used to have 2 contributor stewards, but they can no longer take this role). If you are interested, please reply to this email or write directly to Org mailing list at [email protected]. This release was made possible thanks to many volunteer contributors: Abdurahman Itani, Aitenate, Al Haji-Ali, Anand Deopurkar, Andras Simonyi, Anoop G R, Arsen Arsenović, Bastien Guerry, Ben Siraphob, Benjamin McMillan, Bibek Panthi, Billy Lei, Björn Bidar, Catsup4, Chris Perl, Christian Moe, Daanturo, Dan Milstein, Daniel M German, David Masterson, Derek Chen-Becker, Dominic Meiser, Earl Hyatt, Eli Zaretskii, Grégoire Scano, Hugo Heagren, Ian Martins, Ihor Radchenko, Ilya Chernyshov, Jack Kamm, Jacob S. Gordon, Jarmo Hurri, Jens Lechtenbörger, Jens Schmidt, John Wiegley, Jules Tamagnan, Juri Linkov, Karl Eichwalder, Karthik Chikmagalur, Ken Mankoff, Kenny Chen, Kyle Meyer, Lei Zhe, Leo Butler, Lockywolf, Lukas Epple, Lukas Rudd Andersen, Marco Wahl, Mark A. Hershberger, Matthias Hetzenberger, Mattias Engdegård, Max J. Herrmann, Max Nikulin, Maximilian Kueffner, Michael Brand, Michael Heerdegen, Momchil Ivanov, Morgan Smith, Morgan Willcock, Nafiz Islam, Nate Nichols, Nick Dokos, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou, Owen Radcliffe, Paul Eggert, Pedro A. Aranda, Philip Kaludercic, Raffael Stocker, Ralf, Rens Oliemans, Robert Pluim, Rodrigo Morales, Rohit Patnaik, Rudolf Adamkovič, Sacha Chua, Sam, Sean Whitton, Shuo Shen, Slawomir Grochowski, Stefan Kangas, Stefan Monnier, Steven Allen, Suhail Singh, Sébastien Gendre, Thibaut Meyer, Thomas Ingram, Tilmann Singer, Titus von der Malsburg, Trevor Murphy, Ulrich Müller, Visuwesh, William, Xi Lu, Xiaoduan Chang, Yue Yi, bruno, ndwarshuis, stardiviner. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
