+Notmuch 0.11 (201x-xx-xx)
+=========================
+
+New command-line features
+-------------------------
+
+Hooks
+
+ Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
+ invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
+ supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
+ importing new messages into the database.
+
+Performance
+-----------
+
+Automatic tag query optimization
+
+ "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
+ exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
+ suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
+
+
+Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
+===========================
+
+Bug-fix release.
+----------------
+
+Fix crash in python bindings.
+
+ The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
+ for some, but not all users.
+
+Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
+===========================
+
+Bug-fix release.
+----------------
+
+Fix --help argument
+
+ Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
+ --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
+ 0.10.1.
+
+Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
+=========================
+
+New build and testing features
+------------------------------
+
+Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
+needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
+prerequisites is improved.
+
+Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
+
+New command-line features
+-------------------------
+
+Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
+
+ The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
+ applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
+ the dump file.
+
+Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
+
+ The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
+ search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
+ favour of using stdout.
+
+Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
+
+ The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
+ the number of results shown.
+
+Add "notmuch count --output" option
+
+ The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
+ messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
+
+New emacs UI features
+---------------------
+
+Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
+
+ These functions now support completion tags for query parts
+ starting with "tag:".
+
+Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
+
+ Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
+ opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
+
+Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
+
+ Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
+
+Do not query on notmuch-search exit
+
+ It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
+ is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
+
+Performance
+-----------
+
+Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
+
+Search avoids opening and parsing message files
+
+ We now store more information in the database so search no longer
+ has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
+ improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
+ requires a database rebuild:
+
+ notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
+ # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
+ notmuch new
+ notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+
+New collection of add-on tools
+------------------------------
+
+The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
+tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
+licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
+mailing list.
+
+nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
+
+ nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
+ prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
+ them to git in one location and restoring in another.
+
+Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
+========================
+
+New, general features
+---------------------
+
+Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
+
+ "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
+ transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
+ crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
+ detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
+ temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
+
+Library changes
+---------------
+
+New functions
+
+ notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
+ multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
+
+ notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
+
+API changes
+
+ notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
+ a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
+ message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
+ libnotmuch.so.2
+
+Python bindings changes
+-----------------------
+
+ - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
+ libnotmuch.
+ - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
+ - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
+ NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
+ the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
+ - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
+ - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
+
+Ruby bindings changes
+---------------------
+
+ - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
+ - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
+ - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
+ - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
+
+Emacs improvements
+------------------
+
+ * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
+ signing key.
+ * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
+ to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
+
+Reply formatting cleanup
+------------------------
+
+ "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
+ MIME parts are being suppressed.
+
+Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
+========================
+
+Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
+
+ Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
+ includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
+ Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
+ headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
+ soon).
+
+Improved Build system portability
+
+ Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
+ specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
+ be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
+
+Documentation update for Ruby bindings
+
+ Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
+
+Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
+
+ - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
+ - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
+ - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
+
+Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
+========================
+
+Vim interface improvements
+--------------------------
+
+Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
+
+ * fix citation/signature fold lengths
+ * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
+ * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
+ * fix from list reformatting in search view
+ * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
+
+Uwe Kleine-König contributed
+
+ * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
+ * fix compose temp file name
+
+Python Bindings changes
+-----------------------
+
+Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
+
+ * message tags are now explicitly unicode
+ * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
+
+Build-System improvements
+------------------------
+
+Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
+
+ This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
+ patch.
+
+Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
+==========================
+
+Bug-fix release.
+----------------
+
+Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
+
+ It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
+ people running gcc 4.4.5.
+
+Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
+=======================
+New, general features
+---------------------
+Folder-based searching
+
+ Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
+ directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
+ storage). The syntax is as follows:
+
+ folder:<path>
+
+ For example, one might use things such as:
+
+ folder:spam
+ folder:2011-*
+ folder:work/todo
+
+ to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
+ containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
+
+ This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
+ software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
+ delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
+ Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
+
+ NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
+ notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
+ this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
+ rebuilt as follows:
+
+ notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
+ # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
+ notmuch new
+ notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+
+Support for PGP/MIME
+
+ Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
+ support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
+ and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
+
+New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
+
+ These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
+ multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
+
+ NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
+ notmuch will receive these tags.
+
+New command-line features
+-------------------------
+Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
+
+ This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
+ PGP/MIME-signed parts.
+
+Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
+
+ This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
+ Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
+ tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
+
+Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
+
+ MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
+ MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
+ analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
+ which parts a signature part applies).
+
+Add new "notmuch show --part" option
+
+ This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
+ is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
+ documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
+ of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
+ part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
+ formatting).
+
+Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
+
+ The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
+ addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
+ make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
+ it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
+ by translating it internally to the new call.
+
+Performance improvements
+------------------------
+Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
+
+ Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
+ performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
+ additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
+
+ Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
+ results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
+
+Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
+
+ Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
+ all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
+ results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
+
+ The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
+ optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
+ of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
+ 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
+
+Faster initial indexing
+
+ More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
+ speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
+ rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
+
+Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
+
+ Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
+ when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
+ last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
+ new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
+
+New emacs-interface features
+----------------------------
+
+Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
+
+ Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
+ messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
+ multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
+ notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
+ needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
+ Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
+
+Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
+
+ This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
+ "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
+ from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
+ previously they were silently hidden from the user).
+
+User-selectable From address
+
+ A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
+ the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
+ press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
+ will prompt for the from address to use.
+
+ The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
+ notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
+ the notmuch configuration file if desired.
+
+ The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
+ when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
+ the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
+ customize group.
+
+Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
+
+ In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
+ its parent, the subject is not shown.
+
+Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
+
+ When a message contains a line looking something like:
+
+ ----- Original Message -----
+
+ emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
+ (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
+ button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
+ citations work much like conventional citations.
+
+New hooks for running code when tags are modified
+
+ Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
+ tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
+ example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
+ tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
+ modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
+
+ Notmuch Before Tag Hook
+ Notmuch After Tag Hook
+
+New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
+
+ Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
+ multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
+ text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
+
+ Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
+
+ to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
+ automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
+ parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
+ because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
+ part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
+
+Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
+
+ These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
+ emacs diary.
+
+Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
+
+ Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
+
+Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
+and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
+
+Vim interface improvements
+--------------------------
+Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
+
+ * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
+ * Implementing archive in show view
+ * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
+ * Add delete commands
+ * Various cleanups.
+
+Bindings improvements
+---------------------
+Ruby bindings are now much more complete
+
+ Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
+ MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
+
+* Python bindings have been updated and extended
+ (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
+
+ New bindings:
+ - Message().get_filenames(),
+ - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
+ - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
+
+ - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
+ These allow, for example:
+ if msg1 == msg2: ...
+
+ As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
+
+ s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
+ s1.union(s2)
+ s2 -= s1
+
+ Removed:
+ - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
+ Use len(list(Messages())) or
+ Query.count_messages() to get the length.
+
+Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
+
+New build-system features
+-------------------------
+Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
+
+ This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
+ the configure script from some other directory:
+
+ mkdir build
+ cd build
+ ../configure
+ make
+
+Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
+
+ When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
+ "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
+ this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
+ the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
+ manual invocation of configure.
+
+New test-suite feature
+----------------------
+Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
+
+ The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
+ bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
+ /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
+ the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
+ simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
+ the test suite.
+
+Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
+
+ Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
+ presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
+ has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
+ test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
+ any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
+ are updated to take advantage of this.
+
+Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
+
+ The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
+ allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
+ some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
+ due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
+
+
+General bug fixes
+-----------------
+Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
+
+ For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
+ previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
+ command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
+
+Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
+
+ This fixed a bug where a search for:
+
+ to:user@elsewhere.com
+
+ would incorrectly match a message sent:
+
+ To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
+
+Fix --output=json when search has no results
+
+ A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
+ to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
+ return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
+ expected.
+
+fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
+from the Received headers in some cases.
+
+Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
+sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
+
+Cleaned up several memory leaks
+
+Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
+
+Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
+
+ Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
+ C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
+ interface and were never intended to be exported.
+
+Emacs-interface bug fixes
+-------------------------
+Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
+
+ Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
+ silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
+ very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
+
+Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
+
+ When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
+ interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
+ of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
+ is now fixed.
+
+Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
+
+ Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
+ re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
+ (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
+ fixed to avoid this bug.
+
+Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
+
+ Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
+ fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
+
+Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
+========================
+New, general features
+---------------------
+Maildir-flag synchronization
+
+ Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
+ tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
+ supported:
+
+ Flag <-> Tag
+ ---- -----
+ 'D' draft
+ 'F' flagged
+ 'P' passed
+ 'R' replied
+ 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
+
+ The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
+ the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
+ adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
+ renamed with an 'R' flag).
+
+ This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
+ command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
+ "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
+ new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
+ example:
+
+ notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
+
+ Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
+ accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
+ [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
+
+ For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
+ functionality is available with the following two new functions:
+
+ notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
+ notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
+
+ It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
+ allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
+ tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
+
+New library features
+--------------------
+Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
+
+ It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
+ same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
+ duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
+ notmuch_message_get_filename).
+
+ With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
+ message with the new function:
+
+ notmuch_message_get_filenames
+
+ Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
+ notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
+ all available filenames for a given message.
+
+New command-line features
+-------------------------
+New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
+
+ This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
+ built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
+ access to the mail store itself.
+
+ For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
+ machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
+ do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
+ name of a script containing:
+
+ ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
+
+ If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
+ option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
+ way.
+
+General bug fixes
+-----------------
+Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
+
+ The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
+
+ notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
+
+ would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
+ versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
+ the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
+ now produces nothing).
+
+Emacs interface improvements
+----------------------------
+Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
+
+Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
+
+Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
+
+Display current thread subject in a header line.
+
+Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
+
+Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
+
+ Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
+ different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
+ string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
+ cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
+ address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
+ the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
+ of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
+
+Vim interface improvements
+--------------------------
+Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
+
+ These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
+ support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
+ various cleanups.
+
+New bindings
+------------
+Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
+
+Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
+========================
+New command-line features
+-------------------------
+notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
+
+ This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
+ notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
+ just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
+
+ The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
+ tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
+ expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
+ scripts. For example:
+
+ for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
+ <operations-on> "$file"
+ done
+
+notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
+
+ This new option allows for the messages matching a search
+ specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
+ format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
+ beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
+ beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
+ followed by the 5 characters "From ".
+
+notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
+
+ The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
+ notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
+ single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
+ custom items stored in the configuration file.
+
+Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
+
+ We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
+ user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
+ see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
+ default rather than Bcc.
+
+New library features
+--------------------
+Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
+
+ These are simply functions for querying properties of a
+ notmuch_query_t object.
+
+New emacs features
+------------------
+Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
+
+ All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
+ notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
+ by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
+ "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
+ can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
+ notmuch customize interface.
+
+Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
+
+ Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
+ to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
+ argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
+ messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
+
+Optional support for detecting inline patches
+
+ This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
+ under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
+ interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
+ as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
+
+Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
+
+ Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
+ "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
+ other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
+ "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
+ that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
+ notmuch customize interface.
+
+Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
+
+ For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
+ lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
+ both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
+ case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
+ notmuch customize interface.
+
+Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
+
+ When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
+ in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
+ available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
+ searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
+ names.
+
+New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
+
+ Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
+ various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
+ etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
+ opposite direction.
+
+New build-system features
+-------------------------
+Various portability fixes have been applied
+
+ These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
+ and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
+ more portable than ever before.
+
+Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
+
+ The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
+ errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
+ after installing. This support takes two forms:
+
+ 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
+ (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
+ automatically run ldconfig.
+
+ 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
+ build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
+ pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
+
+ When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
+ immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
+ the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
+ variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+
+Check compiler/linker options before using them
+
+ The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
+ compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
+ embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
+ used in the resulting Makefile.
+
+New test-suite features
+-----------------------
+New modularization of test suite.
+
+ Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
+ from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
+ provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
+ rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
+ test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
+ (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
+ it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
+ notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
+
+New testing of emacs interface.
+
+ The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
+ emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
+ threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
+ message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
+ and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
+ database via the FCC setting.
+
+General bug fixes
+-----------------
+Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
+
+ Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
+ in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
+ persistent error of the form:
+
+ document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
+
+ The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
+ avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
+
+Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
+
+ Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
+ than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
+ Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
+
+Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
+
+ Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
+ GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
+ parsing the notmuch results).
+
+Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
+
+Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
+
+ Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
+ exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
+ returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
+
+Emacs bug fixes
+---------------
+Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
+
+ Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
+ square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
+ output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
+ mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
+ the emacs interface.
+
+Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
+
+ The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
+ Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
+ misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
+
+Python-binding fixes
+--------------------
+The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
+
+Debian-specific fixes
+---------------------
+Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
+
+ Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
+ "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
+ edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
+ work.
+
+Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
+==========================
+General bug fixes
+-----------------
+Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
+
+ This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
+ user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
+ the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
+ was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
+
+Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
+
+ This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
+ Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
+ want notmuch to crash.
+
+Emacs bug fixes
+---------------
+Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
+
+Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
+directory does not exist.
+
+Build fix
+---------
+Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
+
+ Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
+ final linking of notmuch would fail.
+
+Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
+========================
+New command-line features
+-------------------------
+User-configurable tags for new messages
+
+ A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
+ determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
+ setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
+ to specify this value.
+
+Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
+
+ This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
+ read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
+ subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
+
+Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
+
+ Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
+ things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
+
+Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
+
+ Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
+ the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
+ several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
+ mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
+ replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
+ header).
+
+Indication of author names that match a search
+
+ When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
+ lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
+ authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
+ matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
+ a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
+ messages in the thread are listed first.
+
+New: Python bindings
+--------------------
+Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
+library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
+known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
+accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
+
+The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
+python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
+searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
+and other tasks.
+
+These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
+are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
+package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
+
+Emacs interface improvements
+----------------------------
+An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
+
+ Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
+ by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
+ bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
+ recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
+ a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
+ searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
+ (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
+ but without any of the disadvantages).
+
+ Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
+ exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
+ search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
+ away.
+
+ Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
+ immediately displaying a particular search result, we
+ recommend instead running something like:
+
+ emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
+
+ The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
+ (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
+ leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
+ order.
+
+Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
+
+ Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
+ much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
+ tweaked by the user.
+
+ You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
+ emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
+ "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
+ "notmuch".
+
+ Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
+ options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
+ selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
+ settings.
+
+Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
+
+ This support currently relies on an external program,
+ (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
+ itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
+ already been written that generate address completions by doing
+ notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
+ first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
+ past, etc.
+
+ One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
+ notmuch) is available via:
+
+ git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
+
+ Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
+ hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
+ line of an email message will provide matching completions.
+
+Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
+
+ This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
+ set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
+ screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
+ making this automatic in a future release.
+
+New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
+
+ The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
+ it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
+ run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
+ script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
+ Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
+ typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
+ tag" commands.
+
+Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
+
+ This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
+ some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
+ characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
+
+Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
+
+ Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
+ inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
+ the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
+
+ Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
+ and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
+ future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
+ other representation.
+
+ Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
+ saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
+ attachments).
+
+Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
+
+ Many new functions are available for tidying up message
+ content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
+ compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
+
+ Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
+ clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
+ Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
+
+New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
+
+ When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
+ these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
+ "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
+ of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
+ to display the search result.
+
+More flexible handling of header visibility
+
+ As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
+ headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
+ that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
+ Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
+ visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
+ with the 'h' keybinding.
+
+ For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
+ new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
+ only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
+
+The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
+
+ Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
+
+Customizable formatting of search results
+
+ The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
+ the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
+ Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
+
+Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
+
+Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
+
+New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
+
+New library feature
+-------------------
+Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
+
+ This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
+ example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
+ manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
+ messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
+ date.
+
+Build fixes
+-----------
+Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
+
+ Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
+ though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
+
+Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
+
+ For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
+ accept are now all accepted.
+
+Test suite
+----------
+A large number of new tests for the many new features.
+
+Better display of output from failed tests.
+
+ Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
+ complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
+
+Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
+========================
+This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
+detailed release notes this time!
+
+This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
+notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
+
+We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
+release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
+better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
+notmuch in subsequent releases.
+
+-Carl
+
+General features
+----------------
+Better guessing of From: header.
+
+ Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
+ used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
+ Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
+ or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
+ replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
+ configured address.
+
+Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
+
+ Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
+ guaranteed to match all messages.
+
+Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
+
+ This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
+ "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
+ shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
+ support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
+ search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
+ other search terms.
+
+Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
+missing.
+
+ Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
+ parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
+ not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
+ so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
+
+General bug fixes
+-----------------
+Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
+
+ One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
+ SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
+ the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
+ Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
+
+Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
+
+Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
+
+ Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
+ silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
+ of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
+
+Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
+
+ Previously, the user might see:
+
+ Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
+
+ rather than:
+
+ Subject: Re: Rozlučka
+
+ The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
+ be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
+ recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
+ unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
+
+Emacs client features
+---------------------
+Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
+
+ It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
+ being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
+ important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
+ citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
+ notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
+
+The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
+tags by region.
+
+ Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
+ threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
+ tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
+ search with the '*' binding.
+
+More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
+
+ Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
+ name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
+ number to the user.
+
+Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
+
+ See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
+ customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
+ and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
+
+Build-system features
+---------------------
+Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
+
+Add support to configure for many standard options.
+
+ We include actual support for:
+
+ --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
+
+ And accept and silently ignore several more:
+
+ --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
+ --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
+
+Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
+separate "make install-emacs".
+
+Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
+
+ This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
+ 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
+ 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
+
+Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
+its results.
+
Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
========================
This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.