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I often use M-x list-packages to manage my Emacs packages. When an update comes out for a package, I am offered the possibility to upgrade. However, it is unclear from the default menu what exactly changed in the package. Is there any way to find out, for a given package update, what are the release notes or main changes?

More generally, how can I find the repository or source that holds the code for a given package update? Does ELPA/MELPA keep track of this information somehow?

For example, for the packages bookmark+ or multi-term where can I find this information?

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Amelio Vazquez-Reina
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For GNU ELPA, the information is available via http://elpa.gnu.org/packages (this includes both a link to the home site as well as the NEWS section, for those (fairly rare) packages which include one). The package.el that will come with Emacs-24.4 will be able to show you the URL of the home site (at least for GNU ELPA packages, but I expect MELPA and Marmalade will also offer it soon if they don't already offer it).

Stefan
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  • MELPA doesn't yet support this, but is working on it, see https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/issues/1233. I do not think that Marmalade will ever support it. The archive seems pretty dead. –  Apr 02 '14 at 07:20
  • Meanwhile, [melpa-upstream-visit](http://melpa.milkbox.net/#/melpa-upstream-visit) provides a workaround. –  Apr 02 '14 at 07:21