1 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
2 ===========================
7 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
10 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
11 =========================
16 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
18 Skip HTML tags when indexing
20 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
22 Command Line Interface
23 ----------------------
25 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
27 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
32 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
34 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
35 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
38 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
43 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
45 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
46 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
48 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
50 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
51 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
54 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
56 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
58 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
60 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
61 ===========================
63 Command Line Interface
64 ----------------------
66 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
71 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
73 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
74 ===========================
79 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
81 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
82 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
85 Command Line Interface
86 ----------------------
88 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
90 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
92 Fix bug in dump header
94 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
95 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
96 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
101 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
103 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
104 =========================
109 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
111 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
114 Command Line Interface
115 ----------------------
117 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
119 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
120 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
121 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
123 New default output format to 3
125 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
126 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
127 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
128 default format changes.
133 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
135 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
136 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
137 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
138 or tree view to resume.
140 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
141 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
142 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
145 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
146 they were when you postponed in the final message.
150 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
151 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
152 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
153 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
154 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
158 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
159 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
160 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
161 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
162 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
163 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
167 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
168 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
170 Stop display of `application/*` parts
172 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
173 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
174 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
175 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
176 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
177 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
178 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
179 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
182 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
184 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
185 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
186 only tagged the current thread.)
188 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
190 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
191 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
192 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
194 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
196 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
197 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
198 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
199 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
200 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
201 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
202 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
204 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
206 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
207 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
208 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
213 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
215 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
218 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
220 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
223 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
224 ===========================
229 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
231 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
232 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
233 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
236 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
237 ===========================
239 Command Line Interface
240 ----------------------
242 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
247 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
249 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
250 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
251 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
253 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
254 ===========================
259 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
260 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
262 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
263 ===========================
265 Command Line Interface
266 ----------------------
268 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
270 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
271 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
272 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
277 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
279 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
280 ===========================
282 Command Line Interface
283 ----------------------
285 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
290 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
292 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
293 ===========================
298 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
300 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
301 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
302 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
304 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
306 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
308 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
309 ===========================
314 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
316 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
321 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
323 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
324 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
325 the original colours.
327 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
328 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
330 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
332 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
333 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
334 bug, and hence the test.
336 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
337 =========================
339 General (Xapian 1.4+)
340 ---------------------
342 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
344 Support for single argument date: queries
346 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
348 Support for blocking opens
350 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
351 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
353 Support for named queries
355 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
356 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
357 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
364 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
365 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
366 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
367 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
369 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
371 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
376 Support for compile time options
378 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
379 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
382 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
384 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
385 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
386 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
387 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
388 scripts to ignore it.
393 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
395 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
396 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
397 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
399 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
400 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
401 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
402 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
403 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
404 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
405 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
407 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
408 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
411 Make internal address completion customizable
413 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
414 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
415 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
416 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
419 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
421 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
422 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
423 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
424 completion for the current buffer.
426 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
427 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
428 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
432 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
433 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
434 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
435 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
436 will be added instead.
438 Face customization is easier
440 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
441 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
442 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
443 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
445 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
450 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
455 Go bindings moved to contrib
457 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
459 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
461 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
462 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
464 The same issue occured with sort modes.
466 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
467 ===========================
474 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
475 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
477 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
479 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
481 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
482 ===========================
487 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
489 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
494 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
499 Use `env` to locate perl.
504 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
506 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
508 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
510 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
512 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
513 =========================
520 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
521 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
523 Limited support for S/MIME messages
525 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
526 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
527 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
532 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
533 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
534 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
536 Command Line Interface
537 ----------------------
539 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
541 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
546 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
551 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
553 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
554 parts are now included in replies.
556 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
557 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
558 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
559 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
561 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
563 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
565 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
567 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
568 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
569 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
570 forwards only the current message.
572 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
574 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
575 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
576 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
577 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
578 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
579 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
580 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
581 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
584 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
585 longer generate empty buffers
587 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
588 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
589 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
590 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
591 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
593 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
595 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
598 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
600 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
603 Address completion improvements
605 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
606 you previously configured one, customize the variable
607 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
608 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
609 interactive address completion.
611 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
613 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
614 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
615 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
620 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
621 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
622 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
628 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
629 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
630 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
631 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
632 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
633 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
635 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
636 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
637 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
638 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
639 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
640 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
642 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
643 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
645 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
646 =========================
651 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
654 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
656 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
657 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
658 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
660 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
661 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
663 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
664 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
665 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
667 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
669 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
670 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
671 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
672 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
673 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
674 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
679 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
680 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
683 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
686 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
688 Command Line Interface
689 ----------------------
691 Database revision tracking
693 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
694 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
695 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
696 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
698 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
700 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
701 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
702 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
703 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
704 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
705 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
706 manual page for further information.
711 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
713 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
714 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
716 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
718 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
719 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
720 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
722 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
724 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
726 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
727 customization as well.
729 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
731 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
733 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
735 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
737 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
738 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
739 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
740 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
742 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
744 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
745 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
746 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
747 this variable to 10000.
752 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
753 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
755 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
757 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
758 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
759 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
760 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
761 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
762 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
763 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
764 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
765 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
768 Database revision tracking
770 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
771 query parser and the new function
772 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
774 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
778 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
779 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
780 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
781 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
786 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
788 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
789 ===========================
794 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
796 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
797 ===========================
802 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
804 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
805 =========================
807 Command-Line Interface
808 ----------------------
810 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
812 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
813 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
814 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
816 Path to gpg is now configurable
818 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
819 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
824 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
826 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
831 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
836 Support messages without Message-IDs.
841 Undeprecate single message mboxes
843 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
844 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
846 New error logging facility
848 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
849 output formerly printed to stderr.
851 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
853 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
855 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
857 Fix for rounding of seconds
862 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
864 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
865 docmumentation has been removed.
867 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
869 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
870 some material from the relicensed wiki.
875 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
876 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
877 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
882 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
883 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
884 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
885 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
886 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
887 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
890 git checkout config origin/config
892 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
894 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
895 =========================
900 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
901 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
902 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
903 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
904 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
905 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
906 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
908 Command-Line Interface
909 ----------------------
911 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
913 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
914 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
915 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
916 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
917 script callers should still check the return value.
919 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
921 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
922 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
923 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
924 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
925 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
926 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
927 and returning success even if indexing fails).
929 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
931 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
932 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
933 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
935 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
937 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
938 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
939 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
940 currently unmaintained.
942 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
944 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
945 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
946 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
947 have at least `N` files associated with them.
949 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
951 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
952 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
953 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
954 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
955 count of duplicate addresses.
960 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
962 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
963 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
964 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
967 Improved handling of the unread tag
969 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
970 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
971 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
972 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
973 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
974 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
975 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
977 Expanded default saved search settings
979 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
980 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
982 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
984 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
985 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
986 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
988 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
990 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
991 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
992 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
993 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
994 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
995 the variable for details.
1000 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1002 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1003 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1004 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1005 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1007 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1009 Previously, library users were required to call
1010 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1011 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1012 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1013 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1014 too out of date for that API.
1016 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1018 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1019 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1020 atomic section will be aborted.
1022 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1023 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1025 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1027 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1028 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1029 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1030 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1031 messages into the same thread.
1036 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1037 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1038 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1039 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1040 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1041 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1046 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1047 from the config file. Use something like:
1051 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1052 "footer": "</body></html>",
1061 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1066 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1067 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1068 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1070 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1071 ===========================
1076 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1078 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1080 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1082 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1083 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1085 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1087 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1090 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1091 ===========================
1093 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1098 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1100 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1102 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1104 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1106 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1112 Use --quick when starting emacs
1114 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1116 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1118 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1120 Command-Line Interface
1121 ----------------------
1123 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1124 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1129 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1131 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1132 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1134 Fix for phrase indexing
1136 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1137 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1138 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1143 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1145 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1146 unintentionally removed.
1148 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1149 =========================
1154 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1155 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1156 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1157 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1158 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1159 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1160 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1161 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1162 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1168 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1170 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1171 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1172 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1173 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1174 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1175 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1176 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1177 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1179 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1181 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1182 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1183 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1184 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1187 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1189 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1190 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1191 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1192 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1193 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1194 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1195 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1200 Notmuch database upgrade
1202 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1203 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1204 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1205 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1206 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1207 released version of Notmuch before now.
1209 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1211 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1212 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1213 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1214 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1216 Message header parsing changes
1218 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1219 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1220 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1221 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1222 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1223 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1225 Command-Line Interface
1226 ----------------------
1228 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1230 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1232 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1234 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1236 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1238 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1239 user does not want it.
1241 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1243 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1244 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1245 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1246 support formatted output.
1248 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1250 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1251 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1252 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1260 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1261 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1262 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1263 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1264 `~/.emacs` with these.
1266 Changed format for saved searches
1268 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1269 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1270 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1271 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1274 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1275 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1276 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1277 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1279 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1280 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1281 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1283 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1284 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1285 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1286 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1287 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1289 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1291 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1292 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1293 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1295 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1297 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1298 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1299 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1300 message had been unread).
1302 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1303 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1304 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1305 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1307 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1308 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1309 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1311 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1312 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1313 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1314 to tags already present.
1318 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1319 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1320 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1321 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1322 these differ from each other.
1323 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1325 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1327 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1328 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1329 for these Emacs versions.
1331 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1333 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1334 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1336 Bug fixes for sender identities
1338 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1339 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1340 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1342 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1344 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1345 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1346 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1347 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1349 Reply pushes mark before signature
1351 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1352 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1353 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1355 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1357 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1358 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1364 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1365 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1367 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1368 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1369 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1370 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1372 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1373 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1374 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1375 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1376 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1378 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1380 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1381 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1383 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1384 =========================
1386 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1387 ---------------------------------------
1389 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1390 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1391 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1392 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1393 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1394 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1395 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1399 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1400 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1402 Command-Line Interface
1403 ----------------------
1405 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1407 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1408 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1409 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1410 print for each message.
1412 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1413 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1414 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1415 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1417 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1419 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1420 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1421 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1423 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1425 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1426 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1427 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1428 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1430 `notmuch compact` command
1432 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1433 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1434 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1435 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1436 move the compacted database into place.
1441 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1443 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1444 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1445 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1446 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1447 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1448 and multiple threads.
1450 Using `notmuch-tree`
1452 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1454 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1455 search, show and tree mode itself)
1457 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1460 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1461 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1463 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1465 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1466 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1467 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1468 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1469 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1470 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1471 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1473 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1475 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1476 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1477 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1478 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1479 thread when the search was performed.
1481 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1483 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1484 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1485 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1487 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1489 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1490 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1493 Built-in help improvements
1495 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1496 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1497 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1499 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1501 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1502 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1503 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1505 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1507 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1508 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1510 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1512 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1513 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1514 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1515 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1517 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1519 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1520 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1521 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1522 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1524 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1526 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1527 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1528 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1530 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1532 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1533 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1534 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1536 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1538 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1539 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1540 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1541 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1542 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1544 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1546 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1547 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1548 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1549 the body part of the message.
1554 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1555 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1556 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1558 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1559 =========================
1561 Command-Line Interface
1562 ----------------------
1564 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1566 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1567 folder and notmuch index.
1569 `notmuch count --batch` option
1571 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1572 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1574 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1576 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1577 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1578 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1581 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1583 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1584 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1585 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1586 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1587 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1590 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1592 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1593 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1595 Top level option to specify configuration file
1597 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1598 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1600 Bash command-line completion
1602 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1603 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1604 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1605 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1606 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1607 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1608 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1609 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1610 bash-completion package.
1612 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1617 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1619 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1620 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1621 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1622 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1623 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1624 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1625 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1626 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1628 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1630 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1631 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1632 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1634 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1636 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1637 previous thread in the search results.
1639 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1641 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1642 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1644 Faster search and show
1646 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1647 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1648 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1649 threads should show faster.
1653 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1654 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1655 in question was now removed from this release.
1660 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1661 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1666 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1668 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1669 ===========================
1674 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1676 Internal test framework changes
1677 -------------------------------
1679 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1680 being unimplemented.
1682 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1683 ===========================
1685 Internal test framework changes
1686 -------------------------------
1688 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1689 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1691 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1692 =========================
1697 Date range search support
1699 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1700 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1701 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1702 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1703 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1706 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1708 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1709 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1710 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1711 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1712 but may be removed in a future release.
1714 Command-Line Interface
1715 ----------------------
1717 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1719 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1720 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1722 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1724 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1725 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1726 officially deprecated.
1728 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1730 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1731 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1732 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1734 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1736 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1737 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1740 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1741 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1742 dump/restore format.
1744 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1746 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1747 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1748 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1750 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1752 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1753 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1754 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1756 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1758 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1759 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1760 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1761 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1766 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1768 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1769 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1770 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1771 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1773 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1775 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1776 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1777 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1778 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1779 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1780 the behavior of this, see
1781 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1782 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1784 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1785 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1786 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1788 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1790 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1791 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1794 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1796 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1797 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1798 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1799 simply displayed in place of the message.
1801 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1803 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1804 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1806 Improved text/calendar content handling
1808 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1809 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1810 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1811 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1813 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1815 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1816 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1817 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1818 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1820 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1822 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1823 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1824 for HTML email containing images.
1826 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1828 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1830 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1832 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1835 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1837 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1838 the point where it was.
1840 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1842 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1843 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1844 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1845 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1846 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1848 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1850 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1851 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1852 thread instead of the message id.
1854 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1855 -----------------------------
1857 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1858 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1859 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1860 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1861 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1862 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1863 further details and installation.
1868 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1870 Internal test framework changes
1871 -------------------------------
1873 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1875 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1876 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1877 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1878 can result in buggy behavior.
1880 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1881 =========================
1886 Maildir tag synchronization
1888 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1889 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1890 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1891 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1892 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1893 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1896 Command-Line Interface
1897 ----------------------
1899 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1900 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1901 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1902 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1903 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1909 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1911 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1913 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1914 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1915 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1917 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1919 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1920 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1921 span multiple lines.
1923 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1925 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1926 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1927 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1928 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1929 inside the result or message.
1931 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1933 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1934 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1936 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1937 user-specified formatting
1939 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1940 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1941 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1942 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1943 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1945 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1946 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1948 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1949 ===========================
1954 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1955 compilation error for this contrib package.
1957 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1958 ===========================
1963 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1965 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1966 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1967 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1968 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1970 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1971 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1974 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1975 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1976 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1977 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1980 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1982 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1985 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1986 =========================
1988 Command-Line Interface
1989 ----------------------
1993 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1994 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1995 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1996 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1998 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1999 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2000 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2001 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2005 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2006 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2008 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2009 tag in your query, for example:
2011 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2013 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2014 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2016 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2017 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2019 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2021 Raw show format changes
2023 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2024 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2025 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2026 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2027 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2028 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2029 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2030 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2032 Listing configuration items
2034 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2040 Changes to tagging interface
2042 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2043 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2044 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2045 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2046 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2047 for more information.
2049 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2050 may need to update in custom configurations.
2052 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2054 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2055 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2056 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2057 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2060 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2061 -----------------------------
2063 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2064 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2065 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2066 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2067 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2068 contrib/ from now on.
2073 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2074 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2076 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2077 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2079 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2080 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2081 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2083 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2084 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2086 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2087 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2088 returning the new database object or directory object.
2095 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2096 compatible with go 1.
2098 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2099 =========================
2101 Command-Line Interface
2102 ----------------------
2106 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2107 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2108 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2109 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2111 Mail store folder/file ignore
2113 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2114 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2115 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2117 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2118 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2120 Unified help and manual pages
2122 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2123 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2126 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2128 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2129 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2137 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2138 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2139 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2140 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2142 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2144 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2145 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2147 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2150 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2151 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2152 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2154 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2156 should be changed to:
2158 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2160 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2162 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2163 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2165 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2167 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2168 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2169 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2170 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2171 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2172 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2176 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2177 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2178 of Mailing List Archives.
2180 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2182 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2183 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2186 Show view archiving key binding changes
2188 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2189 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2190 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2191 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2192 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2195 Support text/calendar MIME type
2197 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2200 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2202 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2203 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2204 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2205 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2207 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2209 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2210 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2211 messages blue by default in the search view.
2215 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2216 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2223 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2226 Python bindings changes
2227 -----------------------
2229 Python 3.2 compatibility
2231 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2233 Added missing unicode conversions
2235 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2236 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2237 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2242 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2244 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2245 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2246 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2247 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2248 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2250 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2251 ===========================
2256 Fix error handling in python bindings
2258 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2259 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2260 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2261 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2263 Quote MML tags in replies
2265 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2266 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2267 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2268 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2269 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2270 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2271 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2272 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2274 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2275 =========================
2277 Command-Line Interface
2278 ----------------------
2282 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2283 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2284 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2285 importing new messages into the database.
2287 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2289 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2290 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2291 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2296 Automatic tag query optimization
2298 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2299 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2300 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2302 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2304 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2305 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2306 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2311 Reduction of memory leaks
2313 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2314 and fixed in this release.
2321 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2322 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2323 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2326 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2328 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2329 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2330 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2333 Improvements in saved search management
2335 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2336 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2337 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2339 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2341 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2342 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2343 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2345 New face for crypto parts headers
2347 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2348 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2349 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2352 Use space as default thousands separator
2354 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2355 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2356 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2358 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2359 buttonized id: links
2361 New function notmuch-show-advance
2363 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2364 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2365 be bound to SPC with:
2367 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2369 Various performance improvements
2374 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2375 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2378 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2379 ===========================
2384 Fix crash in python bindings
2386 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2387 for some, but not all users.
2389 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2390 ===========================
2395 Fix `--help` argument
2397 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2398 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2399 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2401 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2402 =========================
2404 New build and testing features
2405 ------------------------------
2407 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2408 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2409 prerequisites is improved.
2411 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2413 New command-line features
2414 -------------------------
2416 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2418 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2419 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2422 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2424 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2425 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2426 favour of using stdout.
2428 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2430 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2431 limit the number of results shown.
2433 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2435 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2436 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2439 New emacs UI features
2440 ---------------------
2442 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2444 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2445 starting with "tag:".
2447 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2449 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2450 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2452 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2454 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2456 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2458 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2459 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2464 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2466 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2468 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2469 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2470 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2471 requires a database rebuild:
2473 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2474 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2476 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2478 New collection of add-on tools
2479 ------------------------------
2481 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2482 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2483 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2486 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2488 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2489 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2490 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2492 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2493 ========================
2495 New, general features
2496 ---------------------
2498 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2500 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2501 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2502 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2503 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2504 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2511 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2512 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2514 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2518 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2519 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2520 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2523 Python bindings changes
2524 -----------------------
2526 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2528 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2529 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2530 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2531 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2532 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2533 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2535 Ruby bindings changes
2536 ---------------------
2538 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2539 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2540 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2541 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2546 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2548 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2549 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2551 Reply formatting cleanup
2552 ------------------------
2554 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2555 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2557 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2558 ========================
2560 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2562 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2563 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2564 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2565 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2568 Improved Build system portability
2570 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2571 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2572 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2574 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2576 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2578 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2580 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2581 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2582 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2584 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2585 ========================
2587 Vim interface improvements
2588 --------------------------
2590 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2592 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2593 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2594 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2595 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2596 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2598 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2600 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2601 * fix compose temp file name
2603 Python Bindings changes
2604 -----------------------
2606 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2608 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2609 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2611 Build-System improvements
2612 -------------------------
2614 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2616 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2619 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2620 ==========================
2625 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2627 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2628 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2630 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2631 =======================
2633 New, general features
2634 ---------------------
2636 Folder-based searching
2638 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2639 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2640 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2644 For example, one might use things such as:
2650 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2651 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2653 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2654 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2655 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2656 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2658 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2659 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2660 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2663 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2664 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2666 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2668 Support for PGP/MIME
2670 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2671 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2672 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2674 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2676 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2677 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2679 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2680 notmuch will receive these tags.
2682 New command-line features
2683 -------------------------
2685 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2687 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2688 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2690 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2692 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2693 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2694 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2696 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2698 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2699 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2700 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2701 which parts a signature part applies).
2703 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2705 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2706 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2707 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2708 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2709 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2712 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2714 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2715 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2716 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2717 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2718 by translating it internally to the new call.
2720 Performance improvements
2721 ------------------------
2723 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2725 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2726 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2727 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2729 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2730 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2732 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2734 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2735 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2736 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2738 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2739 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2740 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2741 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2743 Faster initial indexing
2745 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2746 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2747 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2749 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2751 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2752 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2753 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2754 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2756 New emacs-interface features
2757 ----------------------------
2759 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2761 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2762 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2763 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2764 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2765 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2766 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2768 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2770 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2771 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2772 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2773 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2775 User-selectable From address
2777 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2778 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2779 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2780 will prompt for the from address to use.
2782 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2783 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2784 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2786 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2787 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2788 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2791 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2793 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2794 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2796 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2798 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2800 ----- Original Message -----
2802 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2803 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2804 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2805 citations work much like conventional citations.
2807 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2809 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2810 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2811 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2812 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2813 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2815 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2816 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2818 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2820 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2821 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2822 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2824 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2826 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2827 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2828 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2829 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2830 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2832 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2834 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2837 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2839 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2841 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2843 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2846 Vim interface improvements
2847 --------------------------
2849 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2851 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2852 * Implementing archive in show view
2853 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2854 * Add delete commands
2857 Bindings improvements
2858 ---------------------
2860 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2862 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2863 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2865 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2867 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2871 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2872 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2873 `list(Messages)` works now
2874 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2876 These allow, for example:
2878 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2880 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2882 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2888 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2890 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2893 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2895 New build-system features
2896 -------------------------
2898 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2900 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2901 the configure script from some other directory:
2908 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2910 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2911 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2912 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2913 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2914 manual invocation of configure.
2916 New test-suite feature
2917 ----------------------
2919 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2921 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2922 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2923 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2924 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2925 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2928 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2930 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2931 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2932 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2933 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2934 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2935 are updated to take advantage of this.
2937 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2939 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2940 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2941 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2942 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2948 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2950 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2951 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2952 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2954 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2956 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2958 to:user@elsewhere.com
2960 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2962 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2964 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2966 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2967 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2968 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2971 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2972 from the Received headers in some cases
2974 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2975 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2977 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2979 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2981 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2983 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2984 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2985 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2987 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2988 -------------------------
2990 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2992 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2993 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2994 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2996 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2998 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2999 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3000 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3003 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3005 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3006 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3007 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3008 fixed to avoid this bug.
3010 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3012 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3013 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3015 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3016 ========================
3018 New, general features
3019 ---------------------
3021 Maildir-flag synchronization
3023 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3024 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3033 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3035 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3036 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3037 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3038 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3040 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3041 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3042 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3043 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3046 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3048 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3049 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3050 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3052 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3053 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3055 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3056 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3058 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3059 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3060 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3062 New library features
3063 --------------------
3065 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3067 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3068 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3069 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3070 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3072 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3073 message with the new function:
3075 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3077 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3078 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3079 over all available filenames for a given message.
3081 New command-line features
3082 -------------------------
3084 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3086 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3087 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3088 access to the mail store itself.
3090 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3091 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3092 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3093 name of a script containing:
3095 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3097 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3098 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3104 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3106 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3108 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3110 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3111 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3112 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3113 now produces nothing).
3115 Emacs interface improvements
3116 ----------------------------
3118 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3120 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3122 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3124 Display current thread subject in a header line
3126 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3128 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3130 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3131 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3132 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3133 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3134 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3135 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3136 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3138 Vim interface improvements
3139 --------------------------
3141 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3143 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3144 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3150 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3152 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3153 ========================
3155 New command-line features
3156 -------------------------
3158 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3160 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3161 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3162 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3164 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3165 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3166 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3167 scripts. For example:
3169 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3170 <operations-on> "$file"
3173 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3175 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3176 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3177 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3178 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3179 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3180 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3182 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3184 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3185 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3186 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3187 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3189 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3191 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3192 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3193 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3194 default rather than Bcc.
3196 New library features
3197 --------------------
3199 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3201 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3202 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3207 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3209 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3210 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3211 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3212 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3213 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3214 notmuch customize interface.
3216 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3218 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3219 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3220 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3221 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3223 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3225 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3226 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3227 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3228 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3230 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3232 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3233 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3234 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3235 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3236 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3237 notmuch customize interface.
3239 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3241 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3242 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3243 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3244 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3245 notmuch customize interface.
3247 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3249 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3250 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3251 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3252 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3255 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3257 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3258 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3259 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3262 New build-system features
3263 -------------------------
3265 Various portability fixes have been applied
3267 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3268 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3269 more portable than ever before.
3271 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3273 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3274 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3275 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3277 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3278 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3279 automatically run ldconfig.
3281 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3282 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3283 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3285 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3286 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3287 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3288 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3290 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3292 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3293 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3294 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3295 used in the resulting Makefile.
3297 New test-suite features
3298 -----------------------
3300 New modularization of test suite
3302 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3303 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3304 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3305 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3306 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3307 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3308 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3309 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3311 New testing of emacs interface
3313 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3314 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3315 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3316 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3317 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3318 database via the FCC setting.
3323 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3325 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3326 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3327 persistent error of the form:
3329 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3331 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3332 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3334 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3336 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3337 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3338 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3340 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3342 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3343 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3344 parsing the notmuch results).
3346 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3348 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3351 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3352 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3353 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3358 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3360 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3361 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3362 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3363 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3364 the emacs interface.
3366 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3368 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3369 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3370 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3372 Python-binding fixes
3373 --------------------
3375 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3377 Debian-specific fixes
3378 ---------------------
3380 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3382 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3383 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3384 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3387 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3388 ==========================
3393 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3395 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3396 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3397 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3398 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3400 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3402 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3403 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3404 want notmuch to crash.
3409 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3411 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3412 directory does not exist
3417 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3419 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3420 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3422 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3423 ========================
3425 New command-line features
3426 -------------------------
3428 User-configurable tags for new messages
3430 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3431 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3432 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3433 to specify this value.
3435 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3437 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3438 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3439 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3441 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3443 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3444 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3446 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3448 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3449 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3450 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3451 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3452 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3455 Indication of author names that match a search
3457 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3458 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3459 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3460 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3461 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3462 messages in the thread are listed first.
3464 New: Python bindings
3465 --------------------
3467 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3468 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3469 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3470 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3472 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3473 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3474 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3477 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3478 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3479 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3481 Emacs interface improvements
3482 ----------------------------
3484 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3486 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3487 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3488 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3489 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3490 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3491 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3492 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3493 but without any of the disadvantages).
3495 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3496 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3497 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3500 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3501 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3502 instead running something like:
3504 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3506 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3507 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3508 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3511 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3513 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3514 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3515 tweaked by the user.
3517 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3518 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3519 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3522 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3523 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3524 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3527 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3529 This support currently relies on an external program,
3530 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3531 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3532 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3533 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3534 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3537 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3538 notmuch) is available via:
3540 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3542 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3543 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3544 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3546 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3548 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3549 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3550 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3551 making this automatic in a future release.
3553 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3555 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3556 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3557 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3558 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3559 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3560 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3563 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3565 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3566 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3567 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3569 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3571 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3572 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3573 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3575 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3576 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3577 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3578 other representation.
3580 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3581 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3584 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3586 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3587 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3588 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3590 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3591 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3592 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3594 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3596 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3597 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3598 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3599 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3600 to display the search result.
3602 More flexible handling of header visibility
3604 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3605 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3606 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3607 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3608 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3609 with the 'h' keybinding.
3611 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3612 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3613 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3615 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3617 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3619 Customizable formatting of search results
3621 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3622 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3623 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3625 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3627 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3629 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3634 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3636 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3637 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3638 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3639 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3645 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3647 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3648 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3650 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3652 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3653 accept are now all accepted.
3658 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3660 Better display of output from failed tests
3662 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3663 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3665 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3666 ========================
3668 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3669 detailed release notes this time!
3671 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3672 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3674 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3675 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3676 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3677 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3684 Better guessing of From: header
3686 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3687 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3688 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3689 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3690 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3693 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3695 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3696 guaranteed to match all messages.
3698 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3700 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3701 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3702 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3703 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3704 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3707 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3710 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3711 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3712 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3713 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3718 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3720 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3721 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3722 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3723 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3725 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3727 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3729 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3730 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3731 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3733 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3735 Previously, the user might see:
3737 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3741 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3743 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3744 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3745 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3746 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3748 Emacs client features
3749 ---------------------
3751 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3753 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3754 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3755 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3756 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3757 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3759 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3762 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3763 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3764 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3765 search with the '*' binding.
3767 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3769 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3770 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3773 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3775 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3776 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3777 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3779 Build-system features
3780 ---------------------
3782 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3784 Add support to configure for many standard options
3786 We include actual support for:
3788 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3790 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3792 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3793 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3795 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3796 separate "make install-emacs"
3798 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3800 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3801 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3802 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3804 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3807 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3808 ========================
3810 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3812 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3813 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3815 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3816 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3817 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3818 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3819 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3820 tags from messages in a thread.
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