1 [[!meta date="2010-04-16"]]
3 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4 ========================
6 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
7 detailed release notes this time!
9 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
10 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
12 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
13 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
14 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
15 notmuch in subsequent releases.
22 * **_Better guessing of From: header_**
24 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
25 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
26 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
27 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
28 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
31 * **_Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages_**
33 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
34 guaranteed to match all messages.
36 * **_Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages_**
38 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
39 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
40 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
41 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
42 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
45 * **_Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message
48 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
49 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
50 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
51 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
56 * **_Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT_**
58 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
59 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
60 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
61 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
63 * **_Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty_**
65 * **_Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json_**
67 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
68 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
69 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
71 * **_Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"_**
73 Previously, the user might see:
75 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
81 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
82 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
83 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
84 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
89 * **_Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines_**
91 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
92 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
93 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
94 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
95 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
97 * **_The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
100 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
101 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
102 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
103 search with the '*' binding.
105 * **_More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers_**
107 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
108 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
111 * **_Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags_**
113 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
114 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
115 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
117 Build-system features
118 ---------------------
120 * **_Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)_**
122 * **_Add support to configure for many standard options_**
124 We include actual support for:
126 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
128 And accept and silently ignore several more:
130 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
131 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
133 * **_Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
134 separate "make install-emacs"_**
136 * **_Automatically compute versions numbers between releases_**
138 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
139 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
140 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
142 * **_Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
143 verify its results_**