Announcing Dired 7.17
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This is to announce the release of Dired 7.17, a file manager that
runs within Emacs.

Notable changes over Dired 7.16:

- Dired now works on SELinux systems (such as FC 11) where ls displays
  a marker for a security context.

Notable changes over Dired 7.15:

- A bug that sometimes prevented Dired from correctly parsing
  directory listings was fixed.

- The "-h" switch to "ls" is now supported.

- The coding-system features are loaded when coding systems are
  supported, not just on MULE Emacsen.

Notable changes over Dired 7.14:

- Is able to deal with extended-attribute character in ls listings on
  Mac OS X Leopard.

Notable changes over Dired 7.13:

- Improved compatibility with older versions Of XEmacs

- Better quoting when running shell programs.

- Recursive copying works in EFS-managed directories.

- The locale used when calling ls is now customizable via the
  `dired-ls-locale' variable.

Notable changes over Dired 7.12:

- The Dired mailing lists have been moved to
  elisp-code-dired@nongnu.org.

- Dired re-aligns single updated entries in Dired displays.

- Compatibility with older versions of XEmacs and SXEmacs has been
  improved.

Release 7.12 contained minor bug fixes as compared to the previous
release, 7.11.

Notable changes over Dired 7.10:

- More liberal parsing of listings.

- Support for ls --dired.

- Better support for GNU Emacs.

- Implemented recursive copy.

- Bug fixes.

Notable changes over Dired 7.9:

- Lots of bug fixes.

- Better support for running under the Windows version of XEmacs.

- Better support for diff via Stefan Monnier's diff-mode.

For the maintainers,

Mike Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>

Enjoy!
