In the Package Menu, indicate packages that are newly-available.

* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (list-packages): Compute a list of
packages that are newly-available since the last list-packages
invocation.
(package-menu--new-package-list): New var.
(package-menu--generate, package-menu--print-info)
(package-menu--status-predicate, package-menu-mark-install):
Handle new status label "new".

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index c5ee62c9256..86c8b695e24 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ details.
 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
 server properties.
 
+** Package Menu
+
+*** Newly-available packages are listed in the Package Menu as "new",
+and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
+
 ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it
 
 *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column