From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 05:24:29 +0000 (+1030)
Subject: Add NEWS entry for "number string" change
X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.0.90~2463
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=75b0a03c09a05e30394b0a51fdeeb5a141155556;p=emacs.git

Add NEWS entry for "number string" change
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index ae503f6db3f..ec68cce5335 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ to deal with asynchronous sockets is to avoid interacting with them
 until they have changed status to "run".  This is most easily done
 from a process sentinel.
 
+** `make-network-stream' has always allowed :service to be specified
+as a "number string" (i.e., :service "993") when using gethostbyname,
+but has required using a real number (i.e., :service 993) on systems
+without gethostbyname.  This difference has now been eliminated, and
+you can use "number strings" on all systems.
+
 ** It is possible to disable attempted recovery on fatal signals
 
 Two new variables allow to disable attempts to recover from stack