Subject: bug#38844: 28.0.50; Incorrect result by help-fns--mention-first-release

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:22:42 +0200

On January 1, 2020 11:36:28 AM GMT+02:00, Xu Chunyang <[email-masked]> wrote:
> C-h f exec-path mentions "Probably introduced at or before Emacs
> version 22.1.", however, according to NEWS.27 the function exec-path
> is introduced in Emacs 27.1. I checked that Emacs 24.5 doesn't provide
> the function exec-path.

That's because 'exec-path' the variable was introduced a long time ago.  The heuristics we use to search the NEWS files for symbols cannot distinguish between diffetent kinds that have the same names.