There's a lot of buzz around the remote code execution thing that involves Git, but it seems to be more of a Git issue than an Emacs one. This might be a workaround if you want, and in the meantime, don't check out git repositories you don't trust. There's no page for the Emacs Carnival for April yet, but you can start thinking about the theme of "newbies/starter kits" already, and I'm sure Cena or someone will round things up afterwards. Enjoy!

• Workaround for the Git-related security issue that lots of people are talking about (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #4 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c4ee8c26-c668-491e-91b3-b466578b83e2 Mon Apr 6 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Apr 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313909207/ Tue Apr 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Apr 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs live stream with Sacha Chua on 2026-04-16 17:30 Europe/Athens
• Emacs configuration:
  • Announcing Anju (Reddit) - mouse interactions for modeline, context menu, and main menu
  • Emacs Redux: Repeat Mode: Stop Repeating Yourself (Irreal)
  • backpack 0.4.0 - adds self-documenting inventory browser (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Almighty Lisp: Lisp & Emacs Essentials - almightylisp.com (HN)
  • Dave Pearson: nukneval.el v1.3 unload and re-evaluate
  • Creating an Emacs Package from Concept to MELPA (Part 7) (57:13)
  • How to run a function when my buffer selection changes? - updated with window-state-change-hook
  • Yay Emacs live: Reorganizing my Emacs configuration so that my defuns are tangled to separate files (01:48:56)
  • Sacha Chua: YE11: Fix find-function for Emacs Lisp from org-babel or scratch (YouTube, 08:19)
• Appearance:
  • New package: outline-stars.el (Reddit)
  • occult.el - collapse buffer regions into single-line summaries (Reddit)
  • Make the left margin shine!
  • Senka07/yotsuba-emacs-theme · GitHub (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using other-window-prefix C-x 4 4
  • Tip about using windmove
• Writing:
  • Curtis McHale: Check Spelling in Emacs (YouTube 06:38)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v3.1
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new sequence scheme for the ‘denote-sequence’ package
• Org Mode:
  • [EMACS LAB] #3: Introduction to Org Mode (01:57:55)
  • aravindps/org-gtd: Things 3 style GTD for Emacs — org-mode agenda views, ⌘ keybindings, context tags. Works with Doom and vanilla Emacs. · GitHub (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • [BLOG] #27 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, February 11, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org) notes
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • lopeztel/ox-dnd-html: Emacs export org files to D&D themed html · GitHub (Reddit)
    • Adding org-protocol support (Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: Extract PDF highlights into an Org file with Python (YouTube 04:27)
    • James Endres Howell: My first advice! (in Emacs Lisp) - specifying HTML boilerplace for org-static-blog
    • RSS feeds for your org-mode website (@bgtdsword@toot.io)
    • Org-mode - Various font sizes LaTeX (04:14)
  • Org development:
    • ol: Allow targets as search option in id: links
    • org-babel: Fix and extend `org-babel-update-intermediate' variable
    • Query before attempting to overwrite existing attachment/DnD/yank file
    • Merge branch 'bugfix'
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Remove announcement about bugfix
• Completion:
  • Emacs Redux: Declutter M-x with read-extended-command-predicate
  • [RELEASE] let-completion v0.2.0: full overhaul of Elisp completion - 46 binding forms, function argument candidates, expandable registry, fully customizable two-column annotations (Reddit)
  • rougier/nano-vertico: Emacs / nano + vertico · GitHub (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Mike Olson - eglot-python-preset and eglot-typescript-preset: Now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Function to make eglot add IWYU headers without doing an autocomplete in the buffer
  • Dave Pearson: make-phony.el v1.3 for Makefiles
  • Daskeladden/shipit: Code review in Emacs · GitHub (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Ghostel - terminal emulator powered by libghostty (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Thanos Apollo: Bringing jabber.el Back From the Dead (@debacle@framapiaf.org)
  • mastodon.el 2.0.14 - jump to quoting toot, bugfixes, annotations (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Multimedia:
  • Using Android TTS in Emacs
• Fun:
  • Anybody interested in writing SDL games in Emacs Lisp?
    • Emacs + SDL: unblocking the unblockable (emacs-devel)
  • Dave Pearson: eg.el v1.2 Norton Guide?, thinks.el v1.13 thought bubbles, binclock.el v1.12 binary clock, obfusurl.el v2.2 obfuscating URLs
• AI:
  • I run my company from Emacs (HN)
  • Crafting an AI-Driven Workflow System - System Crafters Live! (01:52:03)
  • Will using Emacs give you an edge in the AI-era? (45:08, Reddit, Reddit)
  • The Agent-Native Editor Was Invented in 1976
• Community:
  • Emacs ATX Meetup. April 2026. - YouTube (2:04:58)
  • Sacha Chua: #YayEmacs 10: Emacs coaching with Prot: Emacs workflows and streaming (YouTube 01:06:30)
    • Sacha Chua: Thinking about Emacs coaching goals with Prot
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs coaching with Sacha Chua
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • The Comfort Trap (@len@toot.si)
    • Christian Tietze: Emacs Mistakes and Misconceptions That Held Me Back in 2019
    • Einar Mostad: Emacs mistakes and misconceptions
  • Prot Asks: Hjalmar about Emacs for music, the joy of art, and Internet sociability (02:04:24)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: …and then there were three (expect delays) (Irreal)
  • A Cult AI Computer’s Boom and Bust - YouTube (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Emacs Docs (Reddit, @maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis 0.10: Import Anki, Merge Everything Into One
  • doom emacs install on manjaro linux walkthrough on hyper-v vm (17:29)
• Emacs development:
  • On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility - long discussion
  • New option vc-dir-auto-hide-up-to-date
  • * lisp/vc/diff-mode.el (diff-mode-read-only-map): Bind 'v'.
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce Org update.
  • ; Fix documentation of last change
  • Recursively check dependencies for package compatibility
  • Inform macOS Accessibility Zoom of cursor position (bug#80624)
  • New macro setopt-local and function set-local (bug#80709)
  • Add xref-edit-mode (bug#80616)
• New packages:
  • compilation-history: Track compilation history in SQLite (MELPA)
  • corg: Header completion for org-mode (MELPA)
  • evim: Evil Visual Multi - Multiple cursors for evil-mode (MELPA)
  • ghostel: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (MELPA)
  • meshmonitor-chat: Chat client for MeshMonitor (Meshtastic) (MELPA)
  • occult: Collapse and reveal buffer regions (MELPA)
  • org-dt: Dynamic templating loader (MELPA)
  • org-grimoire: Emacs-native static site generator (MELPA)
  • org-invox: Invoice management for contractors using Org mode (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!