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Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
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### 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.