1 [[!meta date="2010-04-16"]]
3 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4 ========================
5 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
6 detailed release notes this time!
8 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
9 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
11 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
12 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
13 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
14 notmuch in subsequent releases.
20 Better guessing of From: header.
22 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
23 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
24 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
25 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
26 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
29 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
31 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
32 guaranteed to match all messages.
34 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
36 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
37 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
38 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
39 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
40 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
43 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
46 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
47 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
48 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
49 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
53 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
55 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
56 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
57 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
58 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
60 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
62 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
64 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
65 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
66 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
68 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
70 Previously, the user might see:
72 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
78 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
79 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
80 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
81 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
85 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
87 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
88 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
89 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
90 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
91 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
93 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
96 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
97 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
98 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
99 search with the '*' binding.
101 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
103 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
104 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
107 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
109 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
110 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
111 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
113 Build-system features
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115 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
117 Add support to configure for many standard options.
119 We include actual support for:
121 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
123 And accept and silently ignore several more:
125 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
126 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
128 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
129 separate "make install-emacs".
131 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
133 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
134 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
135 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
137 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify