My guess: New maintainers: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02140.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg021...

My guess: New maintainers: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02140.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg021... I like the new policy, which seems to be one potentially disrupting new technology per major release. Previously, major releases tried to do too much at once, which lead to some very unstable and sometimes alienating .0 releases.