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master 6084517: * etc/NEWS: Mention 'make_unibyte_string'; reformat modu


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: master 6084517: * etc/NEWS: Mention 'make_unibyte_string'; reformat modules entries.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:30:55 -0400 (EDT)

branch: master
commit 60845174eb59271e85041389a57c266e69309d75
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

    * etc/NEWS: Mention 'make_unibyte_string'; reformat modules entries.
---
 etc/NEWS | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index aab96ca..6abf6c5 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1576,23 +1576,29 @@ file mode specification into symbolic form.
 ** The variable 'force-new-style-backquotes' has been removed.
 This removes the final remaining trace of old-style backquotes.
 
-** The module header 'emacs-module.h' now contains type aliases
+** Changes in handling dynamic modules
+
+*** The module header 'emacs-module.h' now contains type aliases
 'emacs_function' and 'emacs_finalizer' for module functions and
 finalizers, respectively.
 
-** Module functions can now be made interactive.
+*** Module functions can now be made interactive.
 Use 'make_interactive' to give a module function an interactive
 specification.
 
-** Module functions can now install an optional finalizer that is
+*** Module functions can now install an optional finalizer that is
 called when the function object is garbage-collected.  Use
 'set_function_finalizer' to set the finalizer and
 'get_function_finalizer' to retrieve it.
 
-** Modules can now open a channel to an existing pipe process using
+*** Modules can now open a channel to an existing pipe process using
 the new module function 'open_channel'.  Modules can use this
 functionality to asynchronously send data back to Emacs.
 
+*** A new module API 'make_unibyte_string' is provided.
+It can be used to create Lisp strings with arbitrary byte sequences
+(a.k.a. "raw bytes").
+
 ** 'file-modes', 'set-file-modes', and 'set-file-times' now have an
 optional argument specifying whether to follow symbolic links.
 



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