1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
14 Mail store folder/file ignore
16 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
17 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
18 searched for messages by "notmuch new".
20 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
21 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
28 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
29 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
30 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
31 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
33 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
35 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
36 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
38 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
41 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
42 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
43 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
45 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
49 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
51 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
53 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
54 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
56 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
58 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
59 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
60 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
61 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
62 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
63 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
67 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
68 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
69 of Mailing List Archives.
71 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
73 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
74 inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
77 Show view archiving key binding changes
79 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
80 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
81 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
82 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
83 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
86 Support text/calendar MIME type
88 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
96 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
99 Python bindings changes
100 -----------------------
102 Python 3.2 compatibility
104 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
106 Added missing unicode conversions
108 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
109 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
110 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
115 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
117 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
118 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
119 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
121 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
122 ===========================
127 Fix error handling in python bindings.
129 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
130 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
131 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
132 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
134 Quote MML tags in replies
136 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
137 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
138 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
139 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
140 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
141 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
142 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
143 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
145 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
146 =========================
148 Command-Line Interface
149 ----------------------
153 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
154 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
155 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
156 importing new messages into the database.
158 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
160 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
161 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
162 sometimes. This is now fixed.
167 Automatic tag query optimization
169 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
170 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
171 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
173 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
175 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
176 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
177 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
182 Reduction of memory leaks
184 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
185 and fixed in this release.
192 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
193 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
194 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
197 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
199 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
200 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
201 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
204 Improvements in saved search management
206 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
207 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
208 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
210 Hooks for notmuch-hello
212 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
213 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
214 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
216 New face for crypto parts headers
218 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
219 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
220 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
223 Use space as default thousands separator
225 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
226 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
227 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
229 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
230 buttonized id: links.
232 New function notmuch-show-advance
234 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
235 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
236 be bound to SPC with:
238 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
240 Various performance improvements.
245 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
246 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
249 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
250 ===========================
255 Fix crash in python bindings.
257 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
258 for some, but not all users.
260 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
261 ===========================
268 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
269 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
272 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
273 =========================
275 New build and testing features
276 ------------------------------
278 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
279 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
280 prerequisites is improved.
282 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
284 New command-line features
285 -------------------------
287 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
289 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
290 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
293 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
295 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
296 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
297 favour of using stdout.
299 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
301 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
302 the number of results shown.
304 Add "notmuch count --output" option
306 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
307 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
309 New emacs UI features
310 ---------------------
312 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
314 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
315 starting with "tag:".
317 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
319 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
320 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
322 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
324 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
326 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
328 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
329 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
334 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
336 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
338 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
339 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
340 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
341 requires a database rebuild:
343 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
344 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
346 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
348 New collection of add-on tools
349 ------------------------------
351 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
352 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
353 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
356 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
358 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
359 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
360 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
362 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
363 ========================
365 New, general features
366 ---------------------
368 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
370 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
371 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
372 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
373 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
374 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
381 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
382 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
384 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
388 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
389 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
390 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
393 Python bindings changes
394 -----------------------
396 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
398 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
399 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
400 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
401 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
402 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
403 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
405 Ruby bindings changes
406 ---------------------
408 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
409 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
410 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
411 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
416 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
418 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
419 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
421 Reply formatting cleanup
422 ------------------------
424 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
425 MIME parts are being suppressed.
427 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
428 ========================
430 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
432 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
433 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
434 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
435 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
438 Improved Build system portability
440 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
441 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
442 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
444 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
446 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
448 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
450 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
451 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
452 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
454 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
455 ========================
457 Vim interface improvements
458 --------------------------
460 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
462 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
463 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
464 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
465 * fix from list reformatting in search view
466 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
468 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
470 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
471 * fix compose temp file name
473 Python Bindings changes
474 -----------------------
476 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
478 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
479 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
481 Build-System improvements
482 ------------------------
484 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
486 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
489 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
490 ==========================
495 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
497 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
498 people running gcc 4.4.5.
500 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
501 =======================
502 New, general features
503 ---------------------
504 Folder-based searching
506 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
507 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
508 storage). The syntax is as follows:
512 For example, one might use things such as:
518 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
519 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
521 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
522 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
523 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
524 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
526 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
527 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
528 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
531 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
532 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
534 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
538 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
539 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
540 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
542 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
544 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
545 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
547 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
548 notmuch will receive these tags.
550 New command-line features
551 -------------------------
552 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
554 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
555 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
557 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
559 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
560 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
561 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
563 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
565 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
566 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
567 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
568 which parts a signature part applies).
570 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
572 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
573 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
574 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
575 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
576 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
579 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
581 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
582 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
583 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
584 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
585 by translating it internally to the new call.
587 Performance improvements
588 ------------------------
589 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
591 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
592 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
593 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
595 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
596 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
598 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
600 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
601 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
602 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
604 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
605 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
606 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
607 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
609 Faster initial indexing
611 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
612 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
613 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
615 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
617 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
618 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
619 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
620 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
622 New emacs-interface features
623 ----------------------------
625 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
627 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
628 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
629 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
630 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
631 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
632 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
634 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
636 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
637 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
638 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
639 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
641 User-selectable From address
643 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
644 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
645 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
646 will prompt for the from address to use.
648 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
649 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
650 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
652 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
653 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
654 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
657 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
659 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
660 its parent, the subject is not shown.
662 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
664 When a message contains a line looking something like:
666 ----- Original Message -----
668 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
669 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
670 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
671 citations work much like conventional citations.
673 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
675 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
676 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
677 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
678 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
679 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
681 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
682 Notmuch After Tag Hook
684 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
686 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
687 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
688 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
690 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
692 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
693 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
694 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
695 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
696 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
698 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
700 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
703 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
705 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
707 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
708 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
710 Vim interface improvements
711 --------------------------
712 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
714 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
715 * Implementing archive in show view
716 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
717 * Add delete commands
720 Bindings improvements
721 ---------------------
722 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
724 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
725 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
727 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
728 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
731 - Message().get_filenames(),
732 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
733 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
735 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
736 These allow, for example:
739 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
741 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
746 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
747 Use len(list(Messages())) or
748 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
750 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
752 New build-system features
753 -------------------------
754 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
756 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
757 the configure script from some other directory:
764 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
766 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
767 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
768 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
769 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
770 manual invocation of configure.
772 New test-suite feature
773 ----------------------
774 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
776 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
777 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
778 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
779 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
780 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
783 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
785 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
786 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
787 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
788 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
789 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
790 are updated to take advantage of this.
792 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
794 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
795 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
796 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
797 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
802 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
804 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
805 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
806 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
808 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
810 This fixed a bug where a search for:
812 to:user@elsewhere.com
814 would incorrectly match a message sent:
816 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
818 Fix --output=json when search has no results
820 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
821 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
822 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
825 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
826 from the Received headers in some cases.
828 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
829 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
831 Cleaned up several memory leaks
833 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
835 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
837 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
838 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
839 interface and were never intended to be exported.
841 Emacs-interface bug fixes
842 -------------------------
843 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
845 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
846 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
847 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
849 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
851 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
852 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
853 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
856 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
858 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
859 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
860 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
861 fixed to avoid this bug.
863 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
865 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
866 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
868 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
869 ========================
870 New, general features
871 ---------------------
872 Maildir-flag synchronization
874 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
875 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
884 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
886 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
887 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
888 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
889 renamed with an 'R' flag).
891 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
892 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
893 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
894 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
897 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
899 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
900 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
901 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
903 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
904 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
906 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
907 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
909 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
910 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
911 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
915 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
917 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
918 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
919 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
920 notmuch_message_get_filename).
922 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
923 message with the new function:
925 notmuch_message_get_filenames
927 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
928 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
929 all available filenames for a given message.
931 New command-line features
932 -------------------------
933 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
935 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
936 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
937 access to the mail store itself.
939 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
940 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
941 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
942 name of a script containing:
944 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
946 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
947 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
952 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
954 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
956 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
958 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
959 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
960 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
961 now produces nothing).
963 Emacs interface improvements
964 ----------------------------
965 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
967 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
969 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
971 Display current thread subject in a header line.
973 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
975 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
977 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
978 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
979 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
980 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
981 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
982 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
983 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
985 Vim interface improvements
986 --------------------------
987 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
989 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
990 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
995 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
997 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
998 ========================
999 New command-line features
1000 -------------------------
1001 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
1003 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1004 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1005 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1007 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1008 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1009 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1010 scripts. For example:
1012 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1013 <operations-on> "$file"
1016 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
1018 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1019 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1020 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1021 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1022 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1023 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1025 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
1027 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1028 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1029 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1030 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1032 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1034 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1035 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1036 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1037 default rather than Bcc.
1039 New library features
1040 --------------------
1041 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
1043 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1044 notmuch_query_t object.
1048 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1050 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1051 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1052 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1053 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1054 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1055 notmuch customize interface.
1057 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1059 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1060 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1061 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1062 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1064 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1066 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1067 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1068 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1069 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1071 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1073 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1074 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1075 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1076 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1077 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1078 notmuch customize interface.
1080 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1082 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1083 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1084 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1085 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1086 notmuch customize interface.
1088 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1090 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1091 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1092 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1093 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1096 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1098 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1099 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1100 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1103 New build-system features
1104 -------------------------
1105 Various portability fixes have been applied
1107 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1108 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1109 more portable than ever before.
1111 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1113 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1114 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1115 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1117 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1118 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1119 automatically run ldconfig.
1121 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1122 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1123 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1125 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1126 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1127 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1128 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1130 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1132 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1133 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1134 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1135 used in the resulting Makefile.
1137 New test-suite features
1138 -----------------------
1139 New modularization of test suite.
1141 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1142 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1143 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1144 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1145 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1146 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1147 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1148 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1150 New testing of emacs interface.
1152 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1153 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1154 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1155 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1156 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1157 database via the FCC setting.
1161 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1163 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1164 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1165 persistent error of the form:
1167 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1169 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1170 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1172 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1174 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1175 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1176 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1178 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1180 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1181 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1182 parsing the notmuch results).
1184 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1186 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1188 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1189 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1190 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1194 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1196 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1197 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1198 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1199 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1200 the emacs interface.
1202 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1204 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1205 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1206 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1208 Python-binding fixes
1209 --------------------
1210 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1212 Debian-specific fixes
1213 ---------------------
1214 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1216 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1217 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1218 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1221 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1222 ==========================
1225 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1227 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1228 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1229 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1230 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1232 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1234 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1235 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1236 want notmuch to crash.
1240 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1242 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1243 directory does not exist.
1247 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1249 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1250 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1252 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1253 ========================
1254 New command-line features
1255 -------------------------
1256 User-configurable tags for new messages
1258 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1259 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1260 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1261 to specify this value.
1263 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1265 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1266 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1267 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1269 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1271 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1272 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1274 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1276 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1277 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1278 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1279 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1280 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1283 Indication of author names that match a search
1285 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1286 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1287 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1288 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1289 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1290 messages in the thread are listed first.
1292 New: Python bindings
1293 --------------------
1294 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1295 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1296 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1297 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1299 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1300 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1301 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1304 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1305 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1306 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1308 Emacs interface improvements
1309 ----------------------------
1310 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1312 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1313 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1314 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1315 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1316 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1317 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1318 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1319 but without any of the disadvantages).
1321 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1322 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1323 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1326 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1327 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1328 recommend instead running something like:
1330 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1332 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1333 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1334 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1337 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1339 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1340 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1341 tweaked by the user.
1343 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1344 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1345 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1348 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1349 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1350 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1353 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1355 This support currently relies on an external program,
1356 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1357 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1358 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1359 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1360 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1363 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1364 notmuch) is available via:
1366 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1368 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1369 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1370 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1372 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1374 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1375 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1376 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1377 making this automatic in a future release.
1379 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1381 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1382 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1383 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1384 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1385 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1386 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1389 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1391 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1392 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1393 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1395 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1397 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1398 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1399 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1401 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1402 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1403 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1404 other representation.
1406 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1407 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1410 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1412 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1413 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1414 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1416 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1417 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1418 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1420 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1422 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1423 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1424 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1425 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1426 to display the search result.
1428 More flexible handling of header visibility
1430 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1431 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1432 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1433 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1434 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1435 with the 'h' keybinding.
1437 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1438 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1439 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1441 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1443 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1445 Customizable formatting of search results
1447 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1448 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1449 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1451 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1453 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1455 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1459 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1461 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1462 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1463 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1464 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1469 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1471 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1472 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1474 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1476 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1477 accept are now all accepted.
1481 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1483 Better display of output from failed tests.
1485 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1486 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1488 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1489 ========================
1490 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1491 detailed release notes this time!
1493 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1494 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1496 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1497 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1498 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1499 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1505 Better guessing of From: header.
1507 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1508 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1509 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1510 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1511 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1514 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1516 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1517 guaranteed to match all messages.
1519 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1521 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1522 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1523 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1524 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1525 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1528 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1531 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1532 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1533 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1534 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1538 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1540 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1541 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1542 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1543 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1545 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1547 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1549 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1550 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1551 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1553 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1555 Previously, the user might see:
1557 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1561 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1563 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1564 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1565 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1566 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1568 Emacs client features
1569 ---------------------
1570 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1572 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1573 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1574 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1575 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1576 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1578 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1581 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1582 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1583 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1584 search with the '*' binding.
1586 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1588 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1589 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1592 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1594 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1595 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1596 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1598 Build-system features
1599 ---------------------
1600 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1602 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1604 We include actual support for:
1606 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1608 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1610 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1611 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1613 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1614 separate "make install-emacs".
1616 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1618 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1619 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1620 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1622 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1625 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1626 ========================
1627 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1629 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1630 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1632 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1633 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1634 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1635 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1636 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1637 tags from messages in a thread.