1 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2 =========================
7 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
8 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
9 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
10 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
11 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
12 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
13 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
15 Command-Line Interface
16 ----------------------
18 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
20 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
21 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
22 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
23 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
24 script callers should still check the return value.
26 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
28 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
29 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
30 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
31 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
32 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
33 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
34 and returning success even if indexing fails).
36 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
38 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
39 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
40 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
42 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
44 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
45 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
46 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
47 currently unmaintained.
49 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
51 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
52 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
53 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
54 have at least `N` files associated with them.
56 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
58 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
59 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
60 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
61 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
62 count of duplicate addresses.
67 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
69 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
70 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
71 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
74 Improved handling of the unread tag
76 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
77 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
78 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
79 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
80 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
81 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
82 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
84 Expanded default saved search settings
86 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
87 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
89 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
91 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
92 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
93 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
95 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
97 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
98 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
99 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
100 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
101 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
102 the variable for details.
107 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
109 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
110 Representing these independently of the database version number will
111 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
112 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
114 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
116 Previously, library users were required to call
117 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
118 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
119 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
120 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
121 too out of date for that API.
123 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
125 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
126 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
127 atomic section will be aborted.
129 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
130 `notmuch_database_destroy`
132 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
134 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
135 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
136 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
137 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
138 messages into the same thread.
143 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
144 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
145 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
146 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
147 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
148 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
153 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
154 from the config file. Use something like:
158 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
159 "footer": "</body></html>",
168 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
173 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
174 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
175 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
177 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
178 ===========================
183 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
185 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
187 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
189 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
190 structure for signatures changed slightly.
192 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
194 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
197 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
198 ===========================
200 This is a bug fix and portability release.
205 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
207 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
209 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
211 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
213 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
219 Use --quick when starting emacs
221 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
223 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
225 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
227 Command-Line Interface
228 ----------------------
230 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
231 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
236 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
238 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
239 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
241 Fix for phrase indexing
243 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
244 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
245 will affect only newly indexed messages.
250 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
252 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
253 unintentionally removed.
255 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
256 =========================
261 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
262 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
263 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
264 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
265 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
266 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
267 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
268 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
269 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
275 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
277 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
278 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
279 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
280 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
281 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
282 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
283 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
284 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
286 There is a new `path:` search prefix
288 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
289 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
290 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
291 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
294 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
296 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
297 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
298 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
299 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
300 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
301 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
302 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
307 Notmuch database upgrade
309 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
310 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
311 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
312 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
313 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
314 released version of Notmuch before now.
316 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
318 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
319 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
320 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
321 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
323 Message header parsing changes
325 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
326 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
327 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
328 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
329 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
330 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
332 Command-Line Interface
333 ----------------------
335 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
337 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
339 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
341 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
343 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
345 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
346 user does not want it.
348 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
350 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
351 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
352 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
353 support formatted output.
355 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
357 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
358 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
359 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
367 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
368 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
369 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
370 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
371 `~/.emacs` with these.
373 Changed format for saved searches
375 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
376 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
377 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
378 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
381 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
382 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
383 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
384 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
386 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
387 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
388 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
390 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
391 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
392 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
393 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
394 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
396 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
398 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
399 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
400 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
402 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
404 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
405 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
406 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
407 message had been unread).
409 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
410 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
411 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
412 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
414 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
415 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
416 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
418 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
419 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
420 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
421 to tags already present.
425 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
426 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
427 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
428 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
429 these differ from each other.
430 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
432 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
434 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
435 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
436 for these Emacs versions.
438 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
440 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
441 newlines before calling notmuch count.
443 Bug fixes for sender identities
445 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
446 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
447 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
449 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
451 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
452 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
453 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
454 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
456 Reply pushes mark before signature
458 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
459 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
460 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
462 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
464 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
465 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
471 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
472 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
474 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
475 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
476 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
477 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
479 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
480 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
481 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
482 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
483 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
485 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
487 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
488 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
490 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
491 =========================
493 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
494 ---------------------------------------
496 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
497 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
498 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
499 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
500 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
501 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
502 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
506 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
507 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
509 Command-Line Interface
510 ----------------------
512 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
514 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
515 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
516 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
517 print for each message.
519 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
520 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
521 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
522 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
524 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
526 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
527 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
528 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
530 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
532 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
533 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
534 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
535 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
537 `notmuch compact` command
539 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
540 functionality through a more convenient interface than
541 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
542 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
543 move the compacted database into place.
548 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
550 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
551 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
552 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
553 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
554 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
555 and multiple threads.
559 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
561 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
562 search, show and tree mode itself)
564 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
567 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
568 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
570 Customising `notmuch-tree`
572 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
573 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
574 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
575 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
576 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
577 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
578 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
580 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
582 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
583 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
584 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
585 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
586 thread when the search was performed.
588 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
590 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
591 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
592 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
594 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
596 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
597 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
600 Built-in help improvements
602 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
603 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
604 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
606 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
608 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
609 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
610 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
612 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
614 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
615 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
617 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
619 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
620 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
621 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
622 to move some of them to the common keymap.
624 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
626 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
627 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
628 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
629 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
631 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
633 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
634 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
635 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
637 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
639 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
640 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
641 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
643 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
645 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
646 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
647 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
648 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
649 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
651 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
653 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
654 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
655 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
656 the body part of the message.
661 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
662 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
663 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
665 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
666 =========================
668 Command-Line Interface
669 ----------------------
671 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
673 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
674 folder and notmuch index.
676 `notmuch count --batch` option
678 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
679 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
681 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
683 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
684 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
685 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
688 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
690 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
691 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
692 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
693 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
694 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
697 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
699 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
700 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
702 Top level option to specify configuration file
704 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
705 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
707 Bash command-line completion
709 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
710 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
711 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
712 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
713 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
714 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
715 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
716 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
717 bash-completion package.
719 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
724 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
726 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
727 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
728 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
729 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
730 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
731 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
732 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
733 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
735 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
737 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
738 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
739 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
741 Key bindings for next/previous thread
743 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
744 previous thread in the search results.
746 Better handling of errors in search buffers
748 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
749 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
751 Faster search and show
753 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
754 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
755 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
756 threads should show faster.
760 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
761 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
762 in question was now removed from this release.
767 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
768 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
773 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
775 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
776 ===========================
781 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
783 Internal test framework changes
784 -------------------------------
786 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
789 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
790 ===========================
792 Internal test framework changes
793 -------------------------------
795 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
796 build failures in non-interactive environments.
798 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
799 =========================
804 Date range search support
806 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
807 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
808 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
809 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
810 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
813 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
815 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
816 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
817 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
818 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
819 but may be removed in a future release.
821 Command-Line Interface
822 ----------------------
824 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
826 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
827 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
829 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
831 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
832 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
833 officially deprecated.
835 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
837 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
838 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
839 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
841 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
843 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
844 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
847 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
848 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
851 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
853 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
854 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
855 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
857 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
859 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
860 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
861 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
863 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
865 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
866 output separated by null characters rather than newline
867 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
868 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
873 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
875 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
876 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
877 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
878 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
880 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
882 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
883 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
884 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
885 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
886 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
887 the behavior of this, see
888 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
889 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
891 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
892 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
893 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
895 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
897 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
898 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
901 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
903 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
904 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
905 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
906 simply displayed in place of the message.
908 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
910 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
911 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
913 Improved text/calendar content handling
915 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
916 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
917 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
918 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
920 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
922 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
923 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
924 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
925 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
927 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
929 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
930 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
931 for HTML email containing images.
933 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
935 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
937 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
939 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
942 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
944 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
945 the point where it was.
947 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
949 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
950 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
951 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
952 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
953 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
955 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
957 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
958 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
959 thread instead of the message id.
961 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
962 -----------------------------
964 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
965 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
966 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
967 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
968 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
969 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
970 further details and installation.
975 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
977 Internal test framework changes
978 -------------------------------
980 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
982 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
983 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
984 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
985 can result in buggy behavior.
987 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
988 =========================
993 Maildir tag synchronization
995 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
996 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
997 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
998 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
999 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1000 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1003 Command-Line Interface
1004 ----------------------
1006 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1007 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1008 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1009 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1010 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1016 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1018 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1020 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1021 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1022 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1024 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1026 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1027 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1028 span multiple lines.
1030 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1032 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1033 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1034 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1035 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1036 inside the result or message.
1038 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1040 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1041 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1043 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1044 user-specified formatting
1046 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1047 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1048 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1049 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1050 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1052 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1053 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1055 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1056 ===========================
1061 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1062 compilation error for this contrib package.
1064 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1065 ===========================
1070 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1072 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1073 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1074 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1075 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1077 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1078 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1081 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1082 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1083 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1084 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1087 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1089 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1092 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1093 =========================
1095 Command-Line Interface
1096 ----------------------
1100 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1101 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1102 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1103 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1105 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1106 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1107 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1108 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1112 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1113 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1115 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1116 tag in your query, for example:
1118 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1120 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1121 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1123 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1124 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1126 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1128 Raw show format changes
1130 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1131 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1132 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1133 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1134 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1135 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1136 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1137 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1139 Listing configuration items
1141 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1147 Changes to tagging interface
1149 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1150 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1151 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1152 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1153 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1154 for more information.
1156 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1157 may need to update in custom configurations.
1159 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1161 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1162 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1163 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1164 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1167 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1168 -----------------------------
1170 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1171 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1172 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1173 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1174 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1175 contrib/ from now on.
1180 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1181 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1183 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1184 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1186 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1187 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1188 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1190 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1191 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1193 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1194 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1195 returning the new database object or directory object.
1202 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1203 compatible with go 1.
1205 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1206 =========================
1208 Command-Line Interface
1209 ----------------------
1213 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1214 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1215 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1216 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1218 Mail store folder/file ignore
1220 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1221 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1222 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1224 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1225 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1227 Unified help and manual pages
1229 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1230 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1233 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1235 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1236 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1244 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1245 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1246 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1247 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1249 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1251 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1252 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1254 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1257 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1258 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1259 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1261 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1263 should be changed to:
1265 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1267 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1269 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1270 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1272 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1274 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1275 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1276 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1277 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1278 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1279 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1283 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1284 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1285 of Mailing List Archives.
1287 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1289 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1290 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1293 Show view archiving key binding changes
1295 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1296 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1297 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1298 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1299 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1302 Support text/calendar MIME type
1304 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1307 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1309 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1310 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1311 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1312 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1314 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1316 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1317 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1318 messages blue by default in the search view.
1322 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1323 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1330 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1333 Python bindings changes
1334 -----------------------
1336 Python 3.2 compatibility
1338 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1340 Added missing unicode conversions
1342 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1343 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1344 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1349 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1351 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1352 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1353 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1354 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1355 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1357 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1358 ===========================
1363 Fix error handling in python bindings
1365 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1366 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1367 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1368 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1370 Quote MML tags in replies
1372 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1373 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1374 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1375 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1376 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1377 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1378 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1379 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1381 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1382 =========================
1384 Command-Line Interface
1385 ----------------------
1389 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1390 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1391 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1392 importing new messages into the database.
1394 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1396 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1397 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1398 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1403 Automatic tag query optimization
1405 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1406 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1407 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1409 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1411 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1412 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1413 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1418 Reduction of memory leaks
1420 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1421 and fixed in this release.
1428 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1429 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1430 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1433 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1435 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1436 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1437 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1440 Improvements in saved search management
1442 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1443 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1444 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1446 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1448 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1449 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1450 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1452 New face for crypto parts headers
1454 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1455 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1456 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1459 Use space as default thousands separator
1461 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1462 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1463 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1465 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1466 buttonized id: links
1468 New function notmuch-show-advance
1470 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1471 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1472 be bound to SPC with:
1474 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1476 Various performance improvements
1481 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1482 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1485 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1486 ===========================
1491 Fix crash in python bindings
1493 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1494 for some, but not all users.
1496 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1497 ===========================
1502 Fix `--help` argument
1504 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1505 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1506 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1508 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1509 =========================
1511 New build and testing features
1512 ------------------------------
1514 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1515 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1516 prerequisites is improved.
1518 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1520 New command-line features
1521 -------------------------
1523 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1525 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1526 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1529 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1531 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1532 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1533 favour of using stdout.
1535 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1537 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1538 limit the number of results shown.
1540 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1542 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1543 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1546 New emacs UI features
1547 ---------------------
1549 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1551 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1552 starting with "tag:".
1554 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1556 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1557 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1559 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1561 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1563 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1565 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1566 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1571 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1573 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1575 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1576 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1577 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1578 requires a database rebuild:
1580 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1581 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1583 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1585 New collection of add-on tools
1586 ------------------------------
1588 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1589 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1590 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1593 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1595 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1596 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1597 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1599 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1600 ========================
1602 New, general features
1603 ---------------------
1605 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1607 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1608 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1609 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1610 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1611 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1618 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1619 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1621 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1625 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1626 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1627 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1630 Python bindings changes
1631 -----------------------
1633 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1635 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1636 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1637 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1638 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1639 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1640 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1642 Ruby bindings changes
1643 ---------------------
1645 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1646 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1647 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1648 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1653 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1655 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1656 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1658 Reply formatting cleanup
1659 ------------------------
1661 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1662 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1664 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1665 ========================
1667 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1669 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1670 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1671 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1672 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1675 Improved Build system portability
1677 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1678 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1679 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1681 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1683 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1685 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1687 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1688 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1689 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1691 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1692 ========================
1694 Vim interface improvements
1695 --------------------------
1697 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1699 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1700 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1701 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1702 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1703 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1705 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1707 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1708 * fix compose temp file name
1710 Python Bindings changes
1711 -----------------------
1713 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1715 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1716 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1718 Build-System improvements
1719 -------------------------
1721 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1723 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1726 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1727 ==========================
1732 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1734 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1735 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1737 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1738 =======================
1740 New, general features
1741 ---------------------
1743 Folder-based searching
1745 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1746 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1747 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1751 For example, one might use things such as:
1757 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1758 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1760 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1761 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1762 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1763 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1765 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1766 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1767 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1770 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1771 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1773 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1775 Support for PGP/MIME
1777 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1778 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1779 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1781 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1783 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1784 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1786 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1787 notmuch will receive these tags.
1789 New command-line features
1790 -------------------------
1792 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1794 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1795 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1797 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1799 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1800 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1801 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1803 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1805 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1806 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1807 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1808 which parts a signature part applies).
1810 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1812 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1813 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1814 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1815 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1816 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1819 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1821 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1822 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1823 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1824 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1825 by translating it internally to the new call.
1827 Performance improvements
1828 ------------------------
1830 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1832 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1833 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1834 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1836 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1837 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1839 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1841 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1842 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1843 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1845 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1846 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1847 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1848 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1850 Faster initial indexing
1852 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1853 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1854 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1856 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1858 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1859 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1860 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1861 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1863 New emacs-interface features
1864 ----------------------------
1866 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1868 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1869 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1870 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1871 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1872 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1873 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1875 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1877 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1878 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1879 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1880 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1882 User-selectable From address
1884 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1885 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1886 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1887 will prompt for the from address to use.
1889 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1890 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1891 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1893 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1894 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1895 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1898 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1900 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1901 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1903 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1905 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1907 ----- Original Message -----
1909 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1910 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1911 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1912 citations work much like conventional citations.
1914 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1916 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1917 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1918 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1919 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1920 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1922 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1923 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1925 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1927 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1928 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1929 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1931 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1933 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1934 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1935 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1936 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1937 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1939 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1941 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1944 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1946 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1948 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1950 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1953 Vim interface improvements
1954 --------------------------
1956 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1958 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1959 * Implementing archive in show view
1960 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1961 * Add delete commands
1964 Bindings improvements
1965 ---------------------
1967 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1969 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1970 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1972 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1974 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1978 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1979 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1980 `list(Messages)` works now
1981 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1983 These allow, for example:
1985 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1987 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1989 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1995 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1997 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2000 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2002 New build-system features
2003 -------------------------
2005 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2007 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2008 the configure script from some other directory:
2015 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2017 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2018 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2019 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2020 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2021 manual invocation of configure.
2023 New test-suite feature
2024 ----------------------
2026 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2028 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2029 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2030 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2031 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2032 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2035 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2037 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2038 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2039 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2040 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2041 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2042 are updated to take advantage of this.
2044 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2046 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2047 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2048 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2049 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2055 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2057 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2058 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2059 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2061 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2063 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2065 to:user@elsewhere.com
2067 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2069 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2071 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2073 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2074 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2075 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2078 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2079 from the Received headers in some cases
2081 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2082 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2084 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2086 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2088 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2090 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2091 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2092 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2094 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2095 -------------------------
2097 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2099 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2100 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2101 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2103 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2105 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2106 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2107 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2110 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2112 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2113 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2114 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2115 fixed to avoid this bug.
2117 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2119 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2120 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2122 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2123 ========================
2125 New, general features
2126 ---------------------
2128 Maildir-flag synchronization
2130 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2131 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2140 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2142 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2143 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2144 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2145 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2147 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2148 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2149 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2150 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2153 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2155 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2156 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2157 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2159 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2160 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2162 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2163 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2165 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2166 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2167 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2169 New library features
2170 --------------------
2172 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2174 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2175 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2176 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2177 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2179 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2180 message with the new function:
2182 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2184 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2185 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2186 over all available filenames for a given message.
2188 New command-line features
2189 -------------------------
2191 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2193 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2194 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2195 access to the mail store itself.
2197 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2198 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2199 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2200 name of a script containing:
2202 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2204 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2205 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2211 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2213 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2215 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2217 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2218 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2219 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2220 now produces nothing).
2222 Emacs interface improvements
2223 ----------------------------
2225 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2227 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2229 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2231 Display current thread subject in a header line
2233 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2235 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2237 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2238 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2239 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2240 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2241 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2242 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2243 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2245 Vim interface improvements
2246 --------------------------
2248 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2250 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2251 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2257 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2259 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2260 ========================
2262 New command-line features
2263 -------------------------
2265 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2267 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2268 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2269 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2271 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2272 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2273 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2274 scripts. For example:
2276 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2277 <operations-on> "$file"
2280 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2282 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2283 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2284 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2285 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2286 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2287 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2289 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2291 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2292 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2293 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2294 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2296 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2298 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2299 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2300 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2301 default rather than Bcc.
2303 New library features
2304 --------------------
2306 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2308 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2309 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2314 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2316 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2317 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2318 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2319 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2320 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2321 notmuch customize interface.
2323 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2325 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2326 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2327 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2328 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2330 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2332 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2333 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2334 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2335 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2337 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2339 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2340 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2341 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2342 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2343 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2344 notmuch customize interface.
2346 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2348 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2349 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2350 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2351 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2352 notmuch customize interface.
2354 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2356 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2357 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2358 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2359 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2362 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2364 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2365 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2366 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2369 New build-system features
2370 -------------------------
2372 Various portability fixes have been applied
2374 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2375 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2376 more portable than ever before.
2378 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2380 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2381 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2382 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2384 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2385 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2386 automatically run ldconfig.
2388 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2389 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2390 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2392 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2393 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2394 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2395 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2397 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2399 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2400 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2401 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2402 used in the resulting Makefile.
2404 New test-suite features
2405 -----------------------
2407 New modularization of test suite
2409 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2410 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2411 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2412 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2413 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2414 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2415 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2416 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2418 New testing of emacs interface
2420 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2421 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2422 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2423 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2424 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2425 database via the FCC setting.
2430 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2432 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2433 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2434 persistent error of the form:
2436 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2438 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2439 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2441 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2443 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2444 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2445 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2447 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2449 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2450 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2451 parsing the notmuch results).
2453 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2455 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2458 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2459 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2460 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2465 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2467 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2468 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2469 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2470 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2471 the emacs interface.
2473 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2475 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2476 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2477 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2479 Python-binding fixes
2480 --------------------
2482 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2484 Debian-specific fixes
2485 ---------------------
2487 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2489 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2490 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2491 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2494 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2495 ==========================
2500 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2502 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2503 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2504 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2505 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2507 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2509 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2510 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2511 want notmuch to crash.
2516 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2518 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2519 directory does not exist
2524 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2526 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2527 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2529 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2530 ========================
2532 New command-line features
2533 -------------------------
2535 User-configurable tags for new messages
2537 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2538 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2539 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2540 to specify this value.
2542 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2544 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2545 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2546 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2548 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2550 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2551 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2553 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2555 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2556 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2557 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2558 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2559 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2562 Indication of author names that match a search
2564 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2565 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2566 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2567 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2568 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2569 messages in the thread are listed first.
2571 New: Python bindings
2572 --------------------
2574 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2575 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2576 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2577 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2579 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2580 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2581 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2584 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2585 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2586 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2588 Emacs interface improvements
2589 ----------------------------
2591 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2593 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2594 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2595 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2596 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2597 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2598 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2599 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2600 but without any of the disadvantages).
2602 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2603 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2604 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2607 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2608 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2609 instead running something like:
2611 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2613 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2614 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2615 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2618 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2620 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2621 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2622 tweaked by the user.
2624 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2625 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2626 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2629 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2630 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2631 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2634 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2636 This support currently relies on an external program,
2637 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2638 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2639 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2640 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2641 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2644 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2645 notmuch) is available via:
2647 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2649 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2650 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2651 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2653 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2655 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2656 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2657 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2658 making this automatic in a future release.
2660 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2662 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2663 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2664 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2665 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2666 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2667 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2670 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2672 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2673 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2674 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2676 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2678 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2679 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2680 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2682 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2683 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2684 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2685 other representation.
2687 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2688 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2691 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2693 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2694 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2695 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2697 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2698 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2699 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2701 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2703 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2704 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2705 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2706 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2707 to display the search result.
2709 More flexible handling of header visibility
2711 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2712 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2713 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2714 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2715 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2716 with the 'h' keybinding.
2718 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2719 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2720 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2722 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2724 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2726 Customizable formatting of search results
2728 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2729 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2730 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2732 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2734 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2736 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2741 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2743 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2744 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2745 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2746 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2752 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2754 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2755 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2757 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2759 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2760 accept are now all accepted.
2765 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2767 Better display of output from failed tests
2769 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2770 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2772 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2773 ========================
2775 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2776 detailed release notes this time!
2778 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2779 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2781 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2782 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2783 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2784 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2791 Better guessing of From: header
2793 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2794 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2795 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2796 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2797 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2800 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2802 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2803 guaranteed to match all messages.
2805 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2807 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2808 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2809 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2810 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2811 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2814 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2817 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2818 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2819 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2820 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2825 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2827 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2828 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2829 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2830 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2832 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2834 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2836 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2837 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2838 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2840 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2842 Previously, the user might see:
2844 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2848 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2850 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2851 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2852 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2853 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2855 Emacs client features
2856 ---------------------
2858 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2860 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2861 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2862 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2863 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2864 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2866 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2869 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2870 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2871 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2872 search with the '*' binding.
2874 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2876 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2877 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2880 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2882 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2883 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2884 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2886 Build-system features
2887 ---------------------
2889 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2891 Add support to configure for many standard options
2893 We include actual support for:
2895 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2897 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2899 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2900 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2902 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2903 separate "make install-emacs"
2905 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2907 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2908 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2909 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2911 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2914 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2915 ========================
2917 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2919 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2920 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2922 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2923 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2924 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2925 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2926 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2927 tags from messages in a thread.
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