2 Visualization of author names that match a search
4 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
5 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
6 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
7 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
8 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
9 messages in the thread are listed first.
11 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
12 ========================
13 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
14 detailed release notes this time!
16 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
17 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
19 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
20 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
21 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
22 notmuch in subsequent releases.
28 Better guessing of From: header.
30 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
31 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
32 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
33 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
34 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
37 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
39 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
40 guaranteed to match all messages.
42 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
44 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
45 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
46 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
47 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
48 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
51 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
54 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
55 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
56 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
57 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
61 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
63 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
64 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
65 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
66 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
68 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
70 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
72 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
73 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
74 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
76 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
78 Previously, the user might see:
80 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
86 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
87 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
88 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
89 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
93 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
95 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
96 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
97 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
98 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
99 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
101 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
104 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
105 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
106 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
107 search with th '*' binding.
109 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
111 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
112 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
115 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
117 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
118 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
119 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
121 Build-system features
122 ---------------------
123 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
125 Add support to configure for many standard options.
127 We include actual support for:
129 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
131 And accept and silently ignore several more:
133 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
134 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
136 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
137 separate "make install-emacs".
139 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
141 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
142 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
143 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
145 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
148 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
149 ========================
150 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
152 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
153 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
155 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
156 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
157 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
158 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
159 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
160 tags from messages in a thread.