efaq: Latest version of Emacs
4.2 What is the latest version of Emacs?
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Emacs 25.3 is the current version as of this writing. A version number
with two components (e.g., ‘24.5’) indicates a released version; three
components indicate a development version (e.g., ‘26.0.50’ is what will
eventually become ‘26.1’).
Emacs is under active development, hosted at Savannah
(http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/). Follow the instructions
given there to clone the project repository.
Because Emacs undergoes many changes before a release, the version
number of a development version is not especially meaningful. It is
better to refer to the date on which the sources were retrieved from the
development repository. The development version is usually quite robust
for every-day use, but if stability is more important to you than the
latest features, you may want to stick to the releases.
The following sections list some of the major new features in the
last few Emacs releases. For full details of the changes in any version
of Emacs, type ‘C-h C-n’ (‘M-x view-emacs-news’). As of Emacs 22, you
can give this command a prefix argument to read about which features
were new in older versions.
Info Catalog
efaq: Origin of the term Emacs
efaq: Status of Emacs
efaq: New in Emacs 25