1 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
2 ===========================
7 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
10 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
11 --------------------------
13 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
14 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
16 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
17 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
19 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
22 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
23 ===========================
28 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
29 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
30 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
32 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
33 --------------------------
35 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
36 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
38 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
39 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
40 and database location options as the library does.
42 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
44 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
45 ===========================
50 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
51 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
52 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
53 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
54 status returns for the same 3 functions.
56 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
57 =========================
62 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
63 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
64 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
65 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
66 s-expression query support.
71 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
76 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
78 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
80 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
82 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
84 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
85 ===========================
90 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
92 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
93 ===========================
98 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
99 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
102 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
103 =========================
108 Correct documentation about transactions.
110 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
111 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
113 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
118 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
124 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
125 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
126 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
128 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
130 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
132 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
134 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
136 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
138 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
141 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
146 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
147 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
148 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
149 split, following an old library API change.
154 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
159 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
161 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
163 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
164 ===========================
169 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
172 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
175 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
176 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
181 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
183 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
184 ===========================
189 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
195 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
200 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
205 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
210 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
211 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
213 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
214 ===========================
219 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
220 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
221 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
223 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
224 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
225 database in a pre-new hook.
227 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
228 default worked only in "notmuch config".
233 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
234 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
236 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
237 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
238 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
240 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
241 =========================
246 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
247 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
248 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
249 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
250 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
251 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
252 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
253 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
254 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
255 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
256 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
261 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
262 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
264 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
265 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
266 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
267 - `notmuch_config_get`
269 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
270 now exposed (and generalized).
272 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
273 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
274 session has been fixed.
276 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
277 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
282 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
283 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
285 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
286 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
291 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
292 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
293 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
294 when prompting for senders.
296 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
297 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
300 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
302 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
304 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
305 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
306 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
307 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
308 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
309 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
310 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
312 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
313 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
315 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
316 you should change it to:
317 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
319 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
320 ===========================
325 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
330 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
332 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
333 ===========================
338 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
343 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
348 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
350 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
351 ===========================
356 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
357 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
359 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
360 ===========================
365 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
370 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
371 with a C++ header for some compilers.
373 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
375 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
376 =========================
381 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
382 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
383 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
385 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
387 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
389 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
391 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
394 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
396 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
397 search, show and tree mode)
399 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
402 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
405 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
406 always be newest first.
411 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
412 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
413 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
419 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
420 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
421 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
422 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
424 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
425 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
426 non-status providing versions.
428 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
429 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
431 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
432 promised in the documentation.
437 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
438 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
439 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
444 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
445 development version).
450 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
455 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
457 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
458 =========================
463 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
464 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
465 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
468 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
474 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
475 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
476 notmuch-properties(7)).
481 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
482 has protected headers (see
483 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
484 notmuch-properties(7)).
489 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
491 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
492 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
498 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
501 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
502 ===========================
507 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
509 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
514 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
516 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
517 ===========================
522 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
523 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
525 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
526 ===========================
531 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
533 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
534 =========================
539 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
540 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
543 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
544 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
545 the set of headers to be indexed.
547 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
550 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
551 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
552 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
555 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
556 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
557 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
559 Command Line Interface
560 ----------------------
562 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
565 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
567 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
568 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
569 more details about what is included there. This status includes
570 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
575 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
576 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
578 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
580 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
582 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
584 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
586 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
589 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
591 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
592 and may be removed in a future release.
594 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
600 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
602 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
603 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
608 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
609 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
610 cryptography support.
615 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
616 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
617 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
619 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
620 ===========================
622 Command line interface
623 ----------------------
625 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
626 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
628 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
629 ===========================
634 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
635 by message properties.
640 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
642 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
643 ===========================
648 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
653 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
654 now needed to build this documentation.
656 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
657 ===========================
662 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
663 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
665 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
666 =========================
673 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
674 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
675 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
676 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
677 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
680 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
682 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
683 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
684 correct encoding for such messages.
686 Command Line Interface
687 ----------------------
689 Support relative database paths
691 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
692 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
693 to $HOME of the invoking user.
698 Improve stderr handling
700 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
701 needed on e.g. macOS.
703 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
705 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
710 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
711 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
717 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
718 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
724 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
725 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
728 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
729 =========================
734 Add support for thread:{} queries
736 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
737 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
738 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
740 Command Line Interface
741 ----------------------
743 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
745 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
747 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
749 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
750 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
751 does not have to be available during message receipt.
756 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
762 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
763 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
765 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
766 ===========================
771 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
773 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
774 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
775 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
777 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
779 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
780 related abort in `notmuch show`.
782 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
783 ===========================
788 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
789 better late than never.
792 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
793 =========================
795 Command Line Interface
796 ----------------------
798 Support for re-indexing existing messages
800 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
801 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
802 change the way specific messages are indexed.
804 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
805 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
806 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
808 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
810 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
812 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
814 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
815 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
816 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
817 the setting of `new.tags`.
819 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
821 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
823 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
825 This inserts into the top level folder.
827 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
829 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
831 New option --output=address for notmuch address
833 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
835 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
837 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
838 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
839 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
841 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
846 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
848 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
849 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
850 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
851 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
852 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
853 config set index.decrypt true".
855 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
856 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
857 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
858 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
859 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
860 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
861 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
862 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
864 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
865 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
866 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
867 this feature without considering the security of your index.
872 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
874 Use make-process when available
876 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
877 notmuch command without using temporary files.
882 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
884 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
885 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
886 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
887 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
889 New functions to count files
891 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
892 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
894 New function to remove properties
896 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
897 drop all properties with a common pattern:
898 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
900 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
902 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
903 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
904 possibility of NULL was not documented.
906 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
908 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
909 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
910 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
911 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
912 operator may decide to change from message to message.
919 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
920 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
921 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
927 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
929 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
930 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
932 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
934 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
936 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
938 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
943 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
944 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
946 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
947 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
948 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
949 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
950 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
951 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
956 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
958 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
959 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
960 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
961 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
963 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
964 ===========================
969 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
970 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
973 Command Line Interface
974 ----------------------
976 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
977 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
980 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
981 ===========================
983 Command Line Interface
984 ----------------------
986 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
987 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
992 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
995 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
996 ===========================
1001 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1004 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1005 =========================
1010 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1012 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1014 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1016 Command Line Interface
1017 ----------------------
1019 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1021 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1026 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1028 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1029 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1032 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1037 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1039 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1040 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1042 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1044 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1045 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1048 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1050 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1052 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1054 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1055 ===========================
1057 Command Line Interface
1058 ----------------------
1060 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1065 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1067 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1068 ===========================
1073 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1075 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1076 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1079 Command Line Interface
1080 ----------------------
1082 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1084 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1086 Fix bug in dump header
1088 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1089 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1090 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1095 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1097 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1098 =========================
1103 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1105 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1108 Command Line Interface
1109 ----------------------
1111 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1113 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1114 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1115 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1117 New default output format to 3
1119 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1120 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1121 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1122 default format changes.
1127 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1129 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1130 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1131 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1132 or tree view to resume.
1134 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1135 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1136 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1139 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1140 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1144 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1145 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1146 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1147 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1148 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1152 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1153 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1154 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1155 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1156 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1157 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1161 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1162 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1164 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1166 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1167 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1168 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1169 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1170 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1171 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1172 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1173 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1176 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1178 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1179 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1180 only tagged the current thread.)
1182 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1184 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1185 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1186 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1188 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1190 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1191 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1192 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1193 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1194 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1195 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1196 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1198 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1200 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1201 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1202 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1207 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1209 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1212 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1214 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1217 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1218 ===========================
1223 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1225 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1226 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1227 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1230 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1231 ===========================
1233 Command Line Interface
1234 ----------------------
1236 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1241 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1243 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1244 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1245 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1247 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1248 ===========================
1253 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1254 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1256 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1257 ===========================
1259 Command Line Interface
1260 ----------------------
1262 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1264 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1265 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1266 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1271 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1273 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1274 ===========================
1276 Command Line Interface
1277 ----------------------
1279 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1284 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1286 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1287 ===========================
1292 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1294 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1295 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1296 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1298 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1300 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1302 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1303 ===========================
1308 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1310 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1315 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1317 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1318 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1319 the original colours.
1321 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1322 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1324 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1326 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1327 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1328 bug, and hence the test.
1330 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1331 =========================
1333 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1334 ---------------------
1336 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1338 Support for single argument date: queries
1340 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1342 Support for blocking opens
1344 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1345 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1347 Support for named queries
1349 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1350 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1351 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1356 Message property API
1358 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1359 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1360 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1361 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1363 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1365 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1370 Support for compile time options
1372 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1373 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1376 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1378 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1379 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1380 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1381 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1382 scripts to ignore it.
1387 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1389 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1390 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1391 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1393 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1394 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1395 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1396 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1397 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1398 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1399 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1401 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1402 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1405 Make internal address completion customizable
1407 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1408 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1409 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1410 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1413 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1415 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1416 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1417 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1418 completion for the current buffer.
1420 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1421 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1422 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1426 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1427 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1428 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1429 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1430 will be added instead.
1432 Face customization is easier
1434 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1435 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1436 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1437 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1439 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1444 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1449 Go bindings moved to contrib
1451 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1453 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1455 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1456 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1458 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1460 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1461 ===========================
1468 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1469 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1471 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1473 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1475 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1476 ===========================
1481 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1483 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1488 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1493 Use `env` to locate perl.
1498 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1500 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1502 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1504 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1506 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1507 =========================
1514 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1515 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1517 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1519 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1520 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1521 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1526 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1527 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1528 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1530 Command Line Interface
1531 ----------------------
1533 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1535 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1540 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1545 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1547 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1548 parts are now included in replies.
1550 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1551 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1552 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1553 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1555 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1557 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1559 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1561 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1562 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1563 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1564 forwards only the current message.
1566 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1568 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1569 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1570 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1571 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1572 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1573 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1574 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1575 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1578 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1579 longer generate empty buffers
1581 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1582 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1583 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1584 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1585 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1587 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1589 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1592 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1594 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1597 Address completion improvements
1599 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1600 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1601 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1602 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1603 interactive address completion.
1605 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1607 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1608 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1609 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1614 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1615 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1616 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1622 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1623 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1624 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1625 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1626 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1627 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1629 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1630 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1631 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1632 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1633 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1634 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1636 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1637 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1639 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1640 =========================
1645 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1648 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1650 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1651 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1652 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1654 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1655 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1657 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1658 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1659 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1661 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1663 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1664 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1665 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1666 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1667 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1668 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1673 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1674 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1677 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1678 option to configure.
1680 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1682 Command Line Interface
1683 ----------------------
1685 Database revision tracking
1687 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1688 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1689 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1690 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1692 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1694 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1695 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1696 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1697 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1698 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1699 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1700 manual page for further information.
1705 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1707 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1708 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1710 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1712 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1713 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1714 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1716 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1718 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1720 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1721 customization as well.
1723 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1725 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1727 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1729 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1731 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1732 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1733 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1734 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1736 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1738 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1739 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1740 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1741 this variable to 10000.
1746 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1747 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1749 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1751 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1752 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1753 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1754 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1755 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1756 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1757 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1758 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1759 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1762 Database revision tracking
1764 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1765 query parser and the new function
1766 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1768 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1770 Deprecated functions
1772 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1773 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1774 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1775 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1780 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1782 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1783 ===========================
1788 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1790 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1791 ===========================
1796 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1798 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1799 =========================
1801 Command-Line Interface
1802 ----------------------
1804 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1806 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1807 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1808 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1810 Path to gpg is now configurable
1812 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1813 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1818 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1820 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1825 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1830 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1835 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1837 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1838 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1840 New error logging facility
1842 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1843 output formerly printed to stderr.
1845 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1847 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1849 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1851 Fix for rounding of seconds
1856 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1858 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1859 documentation has been removed.
1861 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1863 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1864 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1869 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1870 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1871 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1876 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1877 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1878 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1879 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1880 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1881 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1884 git checkout config origin/config
1886 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1888 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1889 =========================
1894 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1895 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1896 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1897 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1898 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1899 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1900 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1902 Command-Line Interface
1903 ----------------------
1905 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1907 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1908 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1909 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1910 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1911 script callers should still check the return value.
1913 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1915 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1916 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1917 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1918 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1919 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1920 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1921 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1923 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1925 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1926 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1927 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1929 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1931 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1932 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1933 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1934 currently unmaintained.
1936 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1938 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1939 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1940 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1941 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1943 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1945 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1946 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1947 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1948 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1949 count of duplicate addresses.
1954 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1956 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1957 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1958 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1961 Improved handling of the unread tag
1963 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1964 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1965 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1966 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1967 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1968 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1969 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1971 Expanded default saved search settings
1973 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1974 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1976 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1978 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1979 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1980 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1982 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1984 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1985 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1986 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1987 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1988 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1989 the variable for details.
1994 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1996 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1997 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1998 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1999 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2001 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2003 Previously, library users were required to call
2004 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2005 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2006 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2007 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2008 too out of date for that API.
2010 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2012 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2013 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2014 atomic section will be aborted.
2016 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2017 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2019 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2021 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2022 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2023 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2024 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2025 messages into the same thread.
2030 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2031 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2032 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2033 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2034 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2035 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2040 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2041 from the config file. Use something like:
2045 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2046 "footer": "</body></html>",
2055 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2060 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2061 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2062 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2064 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2065 ===========================
2070 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2072 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2074 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2076 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2077 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2079 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2081 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2084 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2085 ===========================
2087 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2092 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2094 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2096 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2098 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2100 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2106 Use --quick when starting emacs
2108 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2110 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2112 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2114 Command-Line Interface
2115 ----------------------
2117 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2118 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2123 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2125 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2126 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2128 Fix for phrase indexing
2130 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2131 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2132 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2137 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2139 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2140 unintentionally removed.
2142 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2143 =========================
2148 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2149 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2150 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2151 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2152 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2153 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2154 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2155 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2156 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2162 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2164 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2165 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2166 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2167 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2168 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2169 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2170 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2171 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2173 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2175 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2176 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2177 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2178 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2181 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2183 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2184 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2185 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2186 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2187 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2188 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2189 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2194 Notmuch database upgrade
2196 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2197 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2198 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2199 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2200 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2201 released version of Notmuch before now.
2203 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2205 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2206 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2207 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2208 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2210 Message header parsing changes
2212 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2213 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2214 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2215 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2216 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2217 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2219 Command-Line Interface
2220 ----------------------
2222 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2224 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2226 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2228 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2230 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2232 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2233 user does not want it.
2235 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2237 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2238 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2239 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2240 support formatted output.
2242 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2244 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2245 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2246 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2254 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2255 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2256 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2257 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2258 `~/.emacs` with these.
2260 Changed format for saved searches
2262 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2263 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2264 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2265 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2268 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2269 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2270 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2271 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2273 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2274 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2275 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2277 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2278 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2279 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2280 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2281 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2283 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2285 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2286 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2287 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2289 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2291 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2292 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2293 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2294 message had been unread).
2296 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2297 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2298 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2299 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2301 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2302 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2303 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2305 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2306 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2307 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2308 to tags already present.
2312 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2313 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2314 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2315 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2316 these differ from each other.
2317 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2319 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2321 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2322 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2323 for these Emacs versions.
2325 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2327 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2328 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2330 Bug fixes for sender identities
2332 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2333 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2334 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2336 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2338 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2339 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2340 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2341 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2343 Reply pushes mark before signature
2345 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2346 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2347 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2349 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2351 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2352 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2358 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2359 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2361 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2362 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2363 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2364 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2366 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2367 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2368 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2369 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2370 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2372 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2374 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2375 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2377 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2378 =========================
2380 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2381 ---------------------------------------
2383 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2384 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2385 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2386 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2387 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2388 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2389 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2393 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2394 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2396 Command-Line Interface
2397 ----------------------
2399 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2401 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2402 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2403 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2404 print for each message.
2406 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2407 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2408 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2409 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2411 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2413 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2414 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2415 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2417 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2419 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2420 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2421 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2422 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2424 `notmuch compact` command
2426 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2427 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2428 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2429 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2430 move the compacted database into place.
2435 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2437 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2438 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2439 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2440 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2441 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2442 and multiple threads.
2444 Using `notmuch-tree`
2446 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2448 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2449 search, show and tree mode itself)
2451 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2454 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2455 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2457 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2459 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2460 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2461 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2462 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2463 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2464 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2465 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2467 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2469 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2470 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2471 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2472 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2473 thread when the search was performed.
2475 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2477 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2478 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2479 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2481 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2483 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2484 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2487 Built-in help improvements
2489 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2490 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2491 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2493 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2495 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2496 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2497 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2499 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2501 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2502 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2504 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2506 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2507 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2508 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2509 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2511 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2513 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2514 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2515 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2516 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2518 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2520 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2521 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2522 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2524 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2526 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2527 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2528 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2530 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2532 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2533 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2534 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2535 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2536 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2538 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2540 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2541 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2542 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2543 the body part of the message.
2548 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2549 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2550 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2552 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2553 =========================
2555 Command-Line Interface
2556 ----------------------
2558 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2560 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2561 folder and notmuch index.
2563 `notmuch count --batch` option
2565 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2566 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2568 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2570 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2571 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2572 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2575 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2577 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2578 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2579 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2580 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2581 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2584 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2586 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2587 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2589 Top level option to specify configuration file
2591 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2592 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2594 Bash command-line completion
2596 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2597 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2598 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2599 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2600 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2601 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2602 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2603 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2604 bash-completion package.
2606 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2611 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2613 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2614 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2615 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2616 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2617 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2618 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2619 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2620 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2622 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2624 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2625 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2626 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2628 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2630 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2631 previous thread in the search results.
2633 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2635 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2636 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2638 Faster search and show
2640 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2641 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2642 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2643 threads should show faster.
2647 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2648 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2649 in question was now removed from this release.
2654 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2655 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2660 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2662 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2663 ===========================
2668 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2670 Internal test framework changes
2671 -------------------------------
2673 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2674 being unimplemented.
2676 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2677 ===========================
2679 Internal test framework changes
2680 -------------------------------
2682 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2683 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2685 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2686 =========================
2691 Date range search support
2693 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2694 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2695 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2696 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2697 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2700 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2702 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2703 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2704 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2705 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2706 but may be removed in a future release.
2708 Command-Line Interface
2709 ----------------------
2711 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2713 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2714 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2716 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2718 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2719 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2720 officially deprecated.
2722 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2724 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2725 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2726 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2728 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2730 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2731 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2734 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2735 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2736 dump/restore format.
2738 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2740 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2741 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2742 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2744 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2746 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2747 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2748 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2750 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2752 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2753 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2754 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2755 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2760 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2762 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2763 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2764 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2765 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2767 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2769 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2770 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2771 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2772 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2773 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2774 the behavior of this, see
2775 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2776 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2778 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2779 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2780 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2782 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2784 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2785 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2788 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2790 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2791 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2792 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2793 simply displayed in place of the message.
2795 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2797 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2798 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2800 Improved text/calendar content handling
2802 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2803 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2804 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2805 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2807 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2809 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2810 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2811 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2812 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2814 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2816 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2817 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2818 for HTML email containing images.
2820 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2822 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2824 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2826 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2829 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2831 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2832 the point where it was.
2834 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2836 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2837 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2838 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2839 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2840 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2842 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2844 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2845 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2846 thread instead of the message id.
2848 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2849 -----------------------------
2851 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2852 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2853 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2854 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2855 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2856 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2857 further details and installation.
2862 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2864 Internal test framework changes
2865 -------------------------------
2867 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2869 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2870 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2871 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2872 can result in buggy behavior.
2874 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2875 =========================
2880 Maildir tag synchronization
2882 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2883 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2884 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2885 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2886 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2887 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2890 Command-Line Interface
2891 ----------------------
2893 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2894 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2895 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2896 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2897 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2903 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2905 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2907 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2908 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2909 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2911 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2913 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2914 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2915 span multiple lines.
2917 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2919 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2920 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2921 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2922 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2923 inside the result or message.
2925 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2927 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2928 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2930 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2931 user-specified formatting
2933 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2934 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2935 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2936 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2937 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2939 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2940 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2942 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2943 ===========================
2948 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2949 compilation error for this contrib package.
2951 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2952 ===========================
2957 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2959 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2960 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2961 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2962 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2964 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2965 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2968 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2969 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2970 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2971 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2974 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2976 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2979 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2980 =========================
2982 Command-Line Interface
2983 ----------------------
2987 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2988 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2989 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2990 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2992 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2993 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2994 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2995 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2999 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3000 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3002 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3003 tag in your query, for example:
3005 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3007 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3008 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3010 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3011 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3013 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3015 Raw show format changes
3017 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3018 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3019 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3020 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3021 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3022 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3023 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3024 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3026 Listing configuration items
3028 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3034 Changes to tagging interface
3036 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3037 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3038 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3039 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3040 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3041 for more information.
3043 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3044 may need to update in custom configurations.
3046 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3048 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3049 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3050 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3051 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3054 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3055 -----------------------------
3057 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3058 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3059 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3060 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3061 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3062 contrib/ from now on.
3067 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3068 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3070 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3071 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3073 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3074 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3075 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3077 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3078 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3080 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3081 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3082 returning the new database object or directory object.
3089 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3090 compatible with go 1.
3092 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3093 =========================
3095 Command-Line Interface
3096 ----------------------
3100 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3101 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3102 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3103 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3105 Mail store folder/file ignore
3107 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3108 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3109 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3111 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3112 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3114 Unified help and manual pages
3116 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3117 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3120 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3122 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3123 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3131 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3132 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3133 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3134 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3136 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3138 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3139 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3141 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3144 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3145 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3146 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3148 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3150 should be changed to:
3152 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3154 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3156 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3157 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3159 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3161 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3162 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3163 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3164 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3165 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3166 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3170 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3171 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3172 of Mailing List Archives.
3174 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3176 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3177 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3180 Show view archiving key binding changes
3182 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3183 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3184 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3185 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3186 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3189 Support text/calendar MIME type
3191 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3194 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3196 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3197 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3198 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3199 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3201 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3203 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3204 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3205 messages blue by default in the search view.
3209 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3210 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3217 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3220 Python bindings changes
3221 -----------------------
3223 Python 3.2 compatibility
3225 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3227 Added missing unicode conversions
3229 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3230 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3231 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3236 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3238 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3239 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3240 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3241 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3242 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3244 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3245 ===========================
3250 Fix error handling in python bindings
3252 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3253 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3254 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3255 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3257 Quote MML tags in replies
3259 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3260 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3261 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3262 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3263 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3264 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3265 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3266 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3268 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3269 =========================
3271 Command-Line Interface
3272 ----------------------
3276 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3277 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3278 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3279 importing new messages into the database.
3281 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3283 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3284 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3285 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3290 Automatic tag query optimization
3292 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3293 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3294 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3296 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3298 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3299 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3300 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3305 Reduction of memory leaks
3307 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3308 and fixed in this release.
3315 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3316 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3317 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3320 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3322 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3323 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3324 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3327 Improvements in saved search management
3329 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3330 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3331 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3333 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3335 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3336 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3337 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3339 New face for crypto parts headers
3341 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3342 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3343 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3346 Use space as default thousands separator
3348 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3349 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3350 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3352 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3353 buttonized id: links
3355 New function notmuch-show-advance
3357 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3358 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3359 be bound to SPC with:
3361 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3363 Various performance improvements
3368 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3369 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3372 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3373 ===========================
3378 Fix crash in python bindings
3380 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3381 for some, but not all users.
3383 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3384 ===========================
3389 Fix `--help` argument
3391 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3392 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3393 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3395 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3396 =========================
3398 New build and testing features
3399 ------------------------------
3401 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3402 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3403 prerequisites is improved.
3405 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3407 New command-line features
3408 -------------------------
3410 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3412 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3413 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3416 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3418 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3419 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3420 favour of using stdout.
3422 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3424 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3425 limit the number of results shown.
3427 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3429 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3430 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3433 New emacs UI features
3434 ---------------------
3436 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3438 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3439 starting with "tag:".
3441 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3443 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3444 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3446 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3448 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3450 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3452 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3453 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3458 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3460 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3462 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3463 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3464 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3465 requires a database rebuild:
3467 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3468 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3470 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3472 New collection of add-on tools
3473 ------------------------------
3475 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3476 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3477 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3480 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3482 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3483 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3484 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3486 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3487 ========================
3489 New, general features
3490 ---------------------
3492 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3494 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3495 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3496 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3497 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3498 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3505 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3506 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3508 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3512 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3513 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3514 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3517 Python bindings changes
3518 -----------------------
3520 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3522 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3523 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3524 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3525 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3526 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3527 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3529 Ruby bindings changes
3530 ---------------------
3532 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3533 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3534 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3535 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3540 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3542 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3543 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3545 Reply formatting cleanup
3546 ------------------------
3548 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3549 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3551 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3552 ========================
3554 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3556 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3557 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3558 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3559 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3562 Improved Build system portability
3564 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3565 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3566 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3568 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3570 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3572 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3574 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3575 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3576 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3578 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3579 ========================
3581 Vim interface improvements
3582 --------------------------
3584 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3586 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3587 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3588 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3589 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3590 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3592 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3594 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3595 * fix compose temp file name
3597 Python Bindings changes
3598 -----------------------
3600 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3602 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3603 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3605 Build-System improvements
3606 -------------------------
3608 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3610 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3613 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3614 ==========================
3619 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3621 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3622 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3624 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3625 =======================
3627 New, general features
3628 ---------------------
3630 Folder-based searching
3632 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3633 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3634 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3638 For example, one might use things such as:
3644 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3645 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3647 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3648 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3649 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3650 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3652 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3653 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3654 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3657 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3658 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3660 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3662 Support for PGP/MIME
3664 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3665 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3666 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3668 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3670 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3671 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3673 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3674 notmuch will receive these tags.
3676 New command-line features
3677 -------------------------
3679 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3681 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3682 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3684 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3686 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3687 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3688 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3690 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3692 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3693 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3694 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3695 which parts a signature part applies).
3697 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3699 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3700 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3701 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3702 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3703 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3706 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3708 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3709 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3710 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3711 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3712 by translating it internally to the new call.
3714 Performance improvements
3715 ------------------------
3717 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3719 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3720 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3721 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3723 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3724 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3726 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3728 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3729 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3730 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3732 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3733 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3734 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3735 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3737 Faster initial indexing
3739 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3740 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3741 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3743 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3745 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3746 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3747 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3748 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3750 New emacs-interface features
3751 ----------------------------
3753 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3755 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3756 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3757 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3758 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3759 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3760 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3762 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3764 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3765 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3766 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3767 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3769 User-selectable From address
3771 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3772 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3773 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3774 will prompt for the from address to use.
3776 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3777 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3778 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3780 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3781 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3782 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3785 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3787 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3788 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3790 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3792 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3794 ----- Original Message -----
3796 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3797 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3798 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3799 citations work much like conventional citations.
3801 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3803 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3804 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3805 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3806 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3807 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3809 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3810 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3812 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3814 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3815 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3816 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3818 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3820 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3821 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3822 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3823 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3824 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3826 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3828 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3831 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3833 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3835 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3837 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3840 Vim interface improvements
3841 --------------------------
3843 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3845 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3846 * Implementing archive in show view
3847 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3848 * Add delete commands
3851 Bindings improvements
3852 ---------------------
3854 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3856 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3857 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3859 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3861 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3865 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3866 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3867 `list(Messages)` works now
3868 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3870 These allow, for example:
3872 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3874 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3876 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3882 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3884 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3887 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3889 New build-system features
3890 -------------------------
3892 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3894 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3895 the configure script from some other directory:
3902 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3904 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3905 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3906 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3907 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3908 manual invocation of configure.
3910 New test-suite feature
3911 ----------------------
3913 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3915 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3916 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3917 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3918 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3919 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3922 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3924 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3925 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3926 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3927 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3928 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3929 are updated to take advantage of this.
3931 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3933 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3934 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3935 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3936 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3942 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3944 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3945 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3946 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3948 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3950 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3952 to:user@elsewhere.com
3954 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3956 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3958 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3960 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3961 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3962 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3965 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3966 from the Received headers in some cases
3968 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3969 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3971 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3973 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3975 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3977 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3978 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3979 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3981 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3982 -------------------------
3984 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3986 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3987 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3988 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3990 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3992 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3993 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3994 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3997 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3999 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4000 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4001 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4002 fixed to avoid this bug.
4004 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4006 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4007 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4009 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4010 ========================
4012 New, general features
4013 ---------------------
4015 Maildir-flag synchronization
4017 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4018 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4027 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4029 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4030 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4031 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4032 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4034 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4035 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4036 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4037 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4040 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4042 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4043 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4044 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4046 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4047 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4049 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4050 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4052 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4053 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4054 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4056 New library features
4057 --------------------
4059 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4061 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4062 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4063 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4064 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4066 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4067 message with the new function:
4069 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4071 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4072 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4073 over all available filenames for a given message.
4075 New command-line features
4076 -------------------------
4078 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4080 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4081 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4082 access to the mail store itself.
4084 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4085 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4086 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4087 name of a script containing:
4089 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4091 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4092 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4098 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4100 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4102 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4104 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4105 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4106 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4107 now produces nothing).
4109 Emacs interface improvements
4110 ----------------------------
4112 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4114 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4116 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4118 Display current thread subject in a header line
4120 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4122 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4124 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4125 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4126 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4127 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4128 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4129 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4130 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4132 Vim interface improvements
4133 --------------------------
4135 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4137 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4138 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4144 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4146 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4147 ========================
4149 New command-line features
4150 -------------------------
4152 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4154 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4155 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4156 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4158 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4159 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4160 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4161 scripts. For example:
4163 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4164 <operations-on> "$file"
4167 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4169 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4170 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4171 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4172 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4173 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4174 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4176 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4178 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4179 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4180 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4181 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4183 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4185 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4186 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4187 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4188 default rather than Bcc.
4190 New library features
4191 --------------------
4193 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4195 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4196 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4201 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4203 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4204 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4205 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4206 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4207 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4208 notmuch customize interface.
4210 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4212 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4213 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4214 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4215 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4217 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4219 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4220 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4221 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4222 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4224 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4226 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4227 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4228 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4229 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4230 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4231 notmuch customize interface.
4233 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4235 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4236 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4237 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4238 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4239 notmuch customize interface.
4241 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4243 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4244 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4245 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4246 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4249 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4251 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4252 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4253 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4256 New build-system features
4257 -------------------------
4259 Various portability fixes have been applied
4261 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4262 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4263 more portable than ever before.
4265 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4267 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4268 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4269 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4271 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4272 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4273 automatically run ldconfig.
4275 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4276 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4277 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4279 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4280 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4281 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4282 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4284 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4286 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4287 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4288 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4289 used in the resulting Makefile.
4291 New test-suite features
4292 -----------------------
4294 New modularization of test suite
4296 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4297 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4298 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4299 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4300 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4301 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4302 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4303 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4305 New testing of emacs interface
4307 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4308 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4309 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4310 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4311 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4312 database via the FCC setting.
4317 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4319 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4320 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4321 persistent error of the form:
4323 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4325 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4326 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4328 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4330 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4331 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4332 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4334 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4336 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4337 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4338 parsing the notmuch results).
4340 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4342 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4345 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4346 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4347 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4352 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4354 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4355 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4356 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4357 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4358 the emacs interface.
4360 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4362 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4363 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4364 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4366 Python-binding fixes
4367 --------------------
4369 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4371 Debian-specific fixes
4372 ---------------------
4374 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4376 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4377 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4378 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4381 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4382 ==========================
4387 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4389 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4390 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4391 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4392 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4394 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4396 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4397 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4398 want notmuch to crash.
4403 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4405 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4406 directory does not exist
4411 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4413 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4414 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4416 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4417 ========================
4419 New command-line features
4420 -------------------------
4422 User-configurable tags for new messages
4424 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4425 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4426 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4427 to specify this value.
4429 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4431 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4432 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4433 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4435 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4437 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4438 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4440 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4442 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4443 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4444 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4445 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4446 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4449 Indication of author names that match a search
4451 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4452 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4453 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4454 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4455 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4456 messages in the thread are listed first.
4458 New: Python bindings
4459 --------------------
4461 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4462 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4463 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4464 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4466 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4467 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4468 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4471 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4472 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4473 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4475 Emacs interface improvements
4476 ----------------------------
4478 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4480 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4481 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4482 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4483 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4484 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4485 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4486 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4487 but without any of the disadvantages).
4489 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4490 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4491 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4494 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4495 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4496 instead running something like:
4498 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4500 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4501 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4502 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4505 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4507 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4508 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4509 tweaked by the user.
4511 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4512 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4513 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4516 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4517 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4518 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4521 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4523 This support currently relies on an external program,
4524 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4525 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4526 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4527 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4528 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4531 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4532 notmuch) is available via:
4534 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4536 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4537 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4538 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4540 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4542 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4543 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4544 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4545 making this automatic in a future release.
4547 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4549 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4550 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4551 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4552 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4553 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4554 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4557 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4559 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4560 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4561 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4563 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4565 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4566 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4567 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4569 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4570 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4571 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4572 other representation.
4574 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4575 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4578 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4580 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4581 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4582 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4584 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4585 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4586 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4588 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4590 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4591 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4592 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4593 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4594 to display the search result.
4596 More flexible handling of header visibility
4598 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4599 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4600 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4601 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4602 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4603 with the 'h' keybinding.
4605 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4606 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4607 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4609 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4611 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4613 Customizable formatting of search results
4615 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4616 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4617 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4619 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4621 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4623 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4628 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4630 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4631 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4632 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4633 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4639 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4641 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4642 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4644 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4646 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4647 accept are now all accepted.
4652 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4654 Better display of output from failed tests
4656 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4657 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4659 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4660 ========================
4662 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4663 detailed release notes this time!
4665 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4666 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4668 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4669 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4670 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4671 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4678 Better guessing of From: header
4680 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4681 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4682 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4683 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4684 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4687 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4689 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4690 guaranteed to match all messages.
4692 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4694 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4695 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4696 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4697 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4698 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4701 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4704 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4705 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4706 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4707 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4712 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4714 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4715 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4716 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4717 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4719 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4721 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4723 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4724 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4725 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4727 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4729 Previously, the user might see:
4731 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4735 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4737 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4738 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4739 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4740 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4742 Emacs client features
4743 ---------------------
4745 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4747 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4748 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4749 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4750 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4751 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4753 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4756 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4757 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4758 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4759 search with the '*' binding.
4761 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4763 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4764 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4767 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4769 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4770 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4771 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4773 Build-system features
4774 ---------------------
4776 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4778 Add support to configure for many standard options
4780 We include actual support for:
4782 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4784 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4786 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4787 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4789 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4790 separate "make install-emacs"
4792 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4794 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4795 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4796 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4798 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4801 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4802 ========================
4804 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4806 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4807 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4809 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4810 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4811 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4812 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4813 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4814 tags from messages in a thread.
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