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Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

Biggest thing for me is that tree-sitter's ABI is being bumped to 15 -- fixes compatibility issues with several upstream grammars. For the impatient, RC1 has been posted: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-08/msg00599.html Comments

We haven't written up this one. Lobsters has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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.NET 10 Numeric String Sorting: Put File 10 After File 9

When I display generated filenames, .NET 10 numeric string sorting gives me the order people usually expect: file9.txt before file10.txt . The new CompareOptions.NumericOrdering flag handles digit runs without a handwritten natural-sort parser. That sounds like a presentation-only change. It is not.

  • .NET 10 introduces NumericOrdering flag for filename sorting
  • Numeric sorting orders files like file9.txt before file10.txt
  • Leading zeros don't affect numeric value for equality checks

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