{"id":32629,"date":"2020-08-12T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=32629"},"modified":"2020-08-12T16:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:27:33","slug":"gnu-emacs-27-1-native-json-parsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/gnu-emacs-27-1-native-json-parsing\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Emacs 27.1 Released with Native JSON Parsing Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emacs-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GNU Emacs 27.1 was released after almost one year of development. Here is what&#8217;s new and how to install it in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>Emacs 27.1 contains a wide variety of new features, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers<\/li>\n<li>Text shaping with HarfBuzz<\/li>\n<li>Native support for JSON parsing<\/li>\n<li>Better support for Cairo drawing<\/li>\n<li>Portable dumping used instead of unexec<\/li>\n<li>Support for XDG conventions for init files<\/li>\n<li>Additional early-init initialization file<\/li>\n<li>Lexical-binding is used by default<\/li>\n<li>Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line<\/li>\n<li>Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gnuemacs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gnuemacs.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gnuemacs-450x308.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Get Emacs 27.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Emacs is available <a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/emacs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snap Store<\/a>, v27.1 will be available very soon.<\/p>\n<p>To install Emacs Snap, simply search for and install Emacs in <b>Software<\/b> utility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-450x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-450x280.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-600x373.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emacs flatpak package has been updated. It&#8217;s available to install in <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/org.gnu.emacs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flathub repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To install Emacs flatpak, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run following commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak install flathub org.gnu.emacs<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GNU Emacs 27.1 was released after almost one year of development. Here is what&#8217;s new and how to install it in Ubuntu. Emacs 27.1 contains a wide variety of new features, including: Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers Text shaping with HarfBuzz Native support for JSON parsing Better support for Cairo drawing Portable dumping used instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}