1 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
2 ===========================
9 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
10 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
12 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
14 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
16 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
17 ===========================
22 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
24 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
29 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
34 Use `env` to locate perl.
39 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
41 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
43 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
45 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
47 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
48 =========================
55 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
56 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
58 Limited support for S/MIME messages
60 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
61 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
62 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
67 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
68 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
69 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
71 Command Line Interface
72 ----------------------
74 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
76 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
81 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
86 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
88 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
89 parts are now included in replies.
91 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
92 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
93 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
94 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
96 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
98 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
100 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
102 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
103 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
104 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
105 forwards only the current message.
107 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
109 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
110 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
111 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
112 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
113 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
114 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
115 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
116 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
119 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
120 longer generate empty buffers
122 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
123 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
124 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
125 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
126 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
128 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
130 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
133 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
135 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
138 Address completion improvements
140 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
141 you previously configured one, customize the variable
142 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
143 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
144 interactive address completion.
146 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
148 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
149 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
150 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
155 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
156 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
157 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
163 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
164 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
165 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
166 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
167 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
168 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
170 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
171 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
172 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
173 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
174 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
175 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
177 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
178 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
180 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
181 =========================
186 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
189 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
191 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
192 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
193 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
195 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
196 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
198 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
199 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
200 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
202 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
204 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
205 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
206 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
207 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
208 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
209 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
214 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
215 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
218 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
221 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
223 Command Line Interface
224 ----------------------
226 Database revision tracking
228 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
229 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
230 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
231 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
233 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
235 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
236 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
237 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
238 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
239 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
240 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
241 manual page for further information.
246 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
248 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
249 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
251 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
253 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
254 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
255 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
257 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
259 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
261 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
262 customization as well.
264 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
266 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
268 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
270 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
272 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
273 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
274 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
275 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
277 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
279 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
280 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
281 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
282 this variable to 10000.
287 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
288 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
290 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
292 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
293 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
294 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
295 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
296 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
297 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
298 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
299 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
300 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
303 Database revision tracking
305 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
306 query parser and the new function
307 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
309 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
313 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
314 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
315 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
316 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
321 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
323 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
324 ===========================
329 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
331 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
332 ===========================
337 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
339 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
340 =========================
342 Command-Line Interface
343 ----------------------
345 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
347 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
348 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
349 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
351 Path to gpg is now configurable
353 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
354 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
359 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
361 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
366 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
371 Support messages without Message-IDs.
376 Undeprecate single message mboxes
378 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
379 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
381 New error logging facility
383 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
384 output formerly printed to stderr.
386 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
388 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
390 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
392 Fix for rounding of seconds
397 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
399 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
400 docmumentation has been removed.
402 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
404 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
405 some material from the relicensed wiki.
410 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
411 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
412 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
417 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
418 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
419 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
420 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
421 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
422 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
425 git checkout config origin/config
427 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
429 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
430 =========================
435 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
436 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
437 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
438 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
439 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
440 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
441 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
443 Command-Line Interface
444 ----------------------
446 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
448 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
449 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
450 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
451 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
452 script callers should still check the return value.
454 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
456 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
457 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
458 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
459 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
460 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
461 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
462 and returning success even if indexing fails).
464 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
466 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
467 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
468 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
470 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
472 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
473 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
474 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
475 currently unmaintained.
477 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
479 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
480 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
481 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
482 have at least `N` files associated with them.
484 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
486 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
487 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
488 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
489 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
490 count of duplicate addresses.
495 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
497 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
498 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
499 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
502 Improved handling of the unread tag
504 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
505 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
506 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
507 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
508 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
509 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
510 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
512 Expanded default saved search settings
514 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
515 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
517 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
519 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
520 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
521 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
523 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
525 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
526 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
527 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
528 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
529 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
530 the variable for details.
535 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
537 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
538 Representing these independently of the database version number will
539 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
540 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
542 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
544 Previously, library users were required to call
545 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
546 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
547 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
548 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
549 too out of date for that API.
551 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
553 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
554 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
555 atomic section will be aborted.
557 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
558 `notmuch_database_destroy`
560 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
562 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
563 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
564 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
565 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
566 messages into the same thread.
571 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
572 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
573 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
574 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
575 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
576 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
581 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
582 from the config file. Use something like:
586 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
587 "footer": "</body></html>",
596 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
601 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
602 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
603 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
605 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
606 ===========================
611 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
613 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
615 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
617 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
618 structure for signatures changed slightly.
620 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
622 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
625 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
626 ===========================
628 This is a bug fix and portability release.
633 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
635 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
637 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
639 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
641 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
647 Use --quick when starting emacs
649 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
651 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
653 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
655 Command-Line Interface
656 ----------------------
658 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
659 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
664 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
666 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
667 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
669 Fix for phrase indexing
671 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
672 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
673 will affect only newly indexed messages.
678 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
680 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
681 unintentionally removed.
683 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
684 =========================
689 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
690 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
691 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
692 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
693 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
694 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
695 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
696 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
697 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
703 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
705 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
706 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
707 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
708 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
709 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
710 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
711 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
712 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
714 There is a new `path:` search prefix
716 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
717 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
718 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
719 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
722 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
724 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
725 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
726 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
727 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
728 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
729 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
730 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
735 Notmuch database upgrade
737 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
738 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
739 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
740 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
741 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
742 released version of Notmuch before now.
744 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
746 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
747 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
748 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
749 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
751 Message header parsing changes
753 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
754 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
755 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
756 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
757 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
758 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
760 Command-Line Interface
761 ----------------------
763 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
765 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
767 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
769 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
771 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
773 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
774 user does not want it.
776 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
778 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
779 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
780 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
781 support formatted output.
783 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
785 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
786 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
787 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
795 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
796 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
797 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
798 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
799 `~/.emacs` with these.
801 Changed format for saved searches
803 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
804 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
805 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
806 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
809 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
810 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
811 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
812 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
814 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
815 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
816 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
818 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
819 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
820 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
821 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
822 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
824 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
826 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
827 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
828 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
830 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
832 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
833 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
834 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
835 message had been unread).
837 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
838 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
839 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
840 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
842 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
843 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
844 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
846 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
847 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
848 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
849 to tags already present.
853 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
854 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
855 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
856 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
857 these differ from each other.
858 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
860 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
862 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
863 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
864 for these Emacs versions.
866 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
868 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
869 newlines before calling notmuch count.
871 Bug fixes for sender identities
873 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
874 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
875 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
877 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
879 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
880 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
881 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
882 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
884 Reply pushes mark before signature
886 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
887 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
888 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
890 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
892 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
893 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
899 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
900 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
902 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
903 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
904 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
905 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
907 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
908 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
909 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
910 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
911 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
913 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
915 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
916 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
918 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
919 =========================
921 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
922 ---------------------------------------
924 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
925 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
926 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
927 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
928 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
929 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
930 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
934 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
935 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
937 Command-Line Interface
938 ----------------------
940 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
942 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
943 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
944 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
945 print for each message.
947 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
948 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
949 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
950 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
952 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
954 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
955 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
956 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
958 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
960 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
961 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
962 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
963 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
965 `notmuch compact` command
967 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
968 functionality through a more convenient interface than
969 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
970 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
971 move the compacted database into place.
976 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
978 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
979 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
980 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
981 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
982 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
983 and multiple threads.
987 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
989 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
990 search, show and tree mode itself)
992 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
995 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
996 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
998 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1000 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1001 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1002 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1003 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1004 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1005 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1006 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1008 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1010 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1011 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1012 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1013 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1014 thread when the search was performed.
1016 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1018 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1019 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1020 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1022 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1024 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1025 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1028 Built-in help improvements
1030 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1031 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1032 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1034 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1036 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1037 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1038 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1040 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1042 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1043 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1045 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1047 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1048 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1049 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1050 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1052 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1054 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1055 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1056 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1057 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1059 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1061 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1062 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1063 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1065 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1067 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1068 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1069 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1071 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1073 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1074 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1075 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1076 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1077 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1079 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1081 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1082 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1083 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1084 the body part of the message.
1089 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1090 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1091 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1093 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1094 =========================
1096 Command-Line Interface
1097 ----------------------
1099 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1101 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1102 folder and notmuch index.
1104 `notmuch count --batch` option
1106 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1107 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1109 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1111 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1112 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1113 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1116 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1118 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1119 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1120 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1121 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1122 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1125 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1127 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1128 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1130 Top level option to specify configuration file
1132 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1133 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1135 Bash command-line completion
1137 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1138 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1139 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1140 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1141 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1142 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1143 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1144 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1145 bash-completion package.
1147 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1152 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1154 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1155 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1156 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1157 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1158 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1159 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1160 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1161 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1163 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1165 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1166 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1167 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1169 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1171 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1172 previous thread in the search results.
1174 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1176 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1177 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1179 Faster search and show
1181 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1182 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1183 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1184 threads should show faster.
1188 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1189 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1190 in question was now removed from this release.
1195 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1196 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1201 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1203 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1204 ===========================
1209 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1211 Internal test framework changes
1212 -------------------------------
1214 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1215 being unimplemented.
1217 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1218 ===========================
1220 Internal test framework changes
1221 -------------------------------
1223 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1224 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1226 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1227 =========================
1232 Date range search support
1234 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1235 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1236 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1237 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1238 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1241 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1243 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1244 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1245 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1246 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1247 but may be removed in a future release.
1249 Command-Line Interface
1250 ----------------------
1252 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1254 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1255 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1257 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1259 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1260 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1261 officially deprecated.
1263 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1265 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1266 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1267 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1269 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1271 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1272 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1275 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1276 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1277 dump/restore format.
1279 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1281 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1282 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1283 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1285 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1287 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1288 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1289 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1291 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1293 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1294 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1295 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1296 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1301 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1303 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1304 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1305 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1306 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1308 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1310 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1311 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1312 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1313 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1314 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1315 the behavior of this, see
1316 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1317 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1319 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1320 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1321 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1323 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1325 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1326 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1329 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1331 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1332 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1333 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1334 simply displayed in place of the message.
1336 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1338 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1339 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1341 Improved text/calendar content handling
1343 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1344 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1345 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1346 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1348 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1350 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1351 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1352 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1353 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1355 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1357 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1358 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1359 for HTML email containing images.
1361 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1363 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1365 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1367 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1370 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1372 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1373 the point where it was.
1375 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1377 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1378 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1379 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1380 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1381 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1383 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1385 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1386 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1387 thread instead of the message id.
1389 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1390 -----------------------------
1392 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1393 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1394 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1395 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1396 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1397 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1398 further details and installation.
1403 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1405 Internal test framework changes
1406 -------------------------------
1408 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1410 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1411 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1412 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1413 can result in buggy behavior.
1415 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1416 =========================
1421 Maildir tag synchronization
1423 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1424 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1425 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1426 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1427 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1428 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1431 Command-Line Interface
1432 ----------------------
1434 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1435 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1436 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1437 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1438 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1444 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1446 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1448 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1449 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1450 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1452 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1454 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1455 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1456 span multiple lines.
1458 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1460 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1461 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1462 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1463 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1464 inside the result or message.
1466 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1468 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1469 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1471 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1472 user-specified formatting
1474 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1475 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1476 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1477 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1478 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1480 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1481 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1483 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1484 ===========================
1489 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1490 compilation error for this contrib package.
1492 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1493 ===========================
1498 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1500 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1501 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1502 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1503 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1505 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1506 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1509 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1510 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1511 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1512 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1515 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1517 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1520 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1521 =========================
1523 Command-Line Interface
1524 ----------------------
1528 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1529 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1530 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1531 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1533 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1534 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1535 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1536 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1540 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1541 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1543 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1544 tag in your query, for example:
1546 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1548 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1549 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1551 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1552 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1554 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1556 Raw show format changes
1558 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1559 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1560 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1561 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1562 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1563 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1564 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1565 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1567 Listing configuration items
1569 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1575 Changes to tagging interface
1577 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1578 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1579 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1580 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1581 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1582 for more information.
1584 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1585 may need to update in custom configurations.
1587 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1589 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1590 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1591 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1592 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1595 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1596 -----------------------------
1598 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1599 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1600 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1601 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1602 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1603 contrib/ from now on.
1608 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1609 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1611 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1612 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1614 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1615 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1616 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1618 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1619 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1621 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1622 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1623 returning the new database object or directory object.
1630 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1631 compatible with go 1.
1633 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1634 =========================
1636 Command-Line Interface
1637 ----------------------
1641 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1642 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1643 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1644 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1646 Mail store folder/file ignore
1648 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1649 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1650 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1652 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1653 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1655 Unified help and manual pages
1657 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1658 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1661 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1663 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1664 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1672 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1673 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1674 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1675 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1677 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1679 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1680 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1682 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1685 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1686 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1687 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1689 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1691 should be changed to:
1693 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1695 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1697 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1698 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1700 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1702 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1703 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1704 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1705 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1706 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1707 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1711 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1712 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1713 of Mailing List Archives.
1715 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1717 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1718 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1721 Show view archiving key binding changes
1723 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1724 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1725 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1726 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1727 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1730 Support text/calendar MIME type
1732 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1735 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1737 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1738 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1739 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1740 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1742 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1744 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1745 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1746 messages blue by default in the search view.
1750 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1751 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1758 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1761 Python bindings changes
1762 -----------------------
1764 Python 3.2 compatibility
1766 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1768 Added missing unicode conversions
1770 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1771 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1772 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1777 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1779 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1780 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1781 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1782 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1783 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1785 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1786 ===========================
1791 Fix error handling in python bindings
1793 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1794 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1795 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1796 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1798 Quote MML tags in replies
1800 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1801 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1802 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1803 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1804 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1805 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1806 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1807 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1809 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1810 =========================
1812 Command-Line Interface
1813 ----------------------
1817 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1818 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1819 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1820 importing new messages into the database.
1822 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1824 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1825 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1826 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1831 Automatic tag query optimization
1833 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1834 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1835 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1837 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1839 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1840 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1841 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1846 Reduction of memory leaks
1848 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1849 and fixed in this release.
1856 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1857 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1858 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1861 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1863 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1864 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1865 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1868 Improvements in saved search management
1870 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1871 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1872 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1874 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1876 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1877 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1878 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1880 New face for crypto parts headers
1882 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1883 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1884 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1887 Use space as default thousands separator
1889 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1890 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1891 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1893 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1894 buttonized id: links
1896 New function notmuch-show-advance
1898 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1899 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1900 be bound to SPC with:
1902 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1904 Various performance improvements
1909 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1910 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1913 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1914 ===========================
1919 Fix crash in python bindings
1921 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1922 for some, but not all users.
1924 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1925 ===========================
1930 Fix `--help` argument
1932 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1933 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1934 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1936 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1937 =========================
1939 New build and testing features
1940 ------------------------------
1942 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1943 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1944 prerequisites is improved.
1946 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1948 New command-line features
1949 -------------------------
1951 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1953 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1954 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1957 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1959 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1960 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1961 favour of using stdout.
1963 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1965 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1966 limit the number of results shown.
1968 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1970 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1971 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1974 New emacs UI features
1975 ---------------------
1977 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1979 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1980 starting with "tag:".
1982 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1984 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1985 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1987 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1989 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1991 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1993 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1994 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1999 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2001 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2003 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2004 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2005 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2006 requires a database rebuild:
2008 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2009 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2011 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2013 New collection of add-on tools
2014 ------------------------------
2016 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2017 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2018 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2021 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2023 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2024 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2025 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2027 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2028 ========================
2030 New, general features
2031 ---------------------
2033 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2035 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2036 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2037 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2038 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2039 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2046 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2047 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2049 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2053 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2054 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2055 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2058 Python bindings changes
2059 -----------------------
2061 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2063 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2064 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2065 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2066 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2067 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2068 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2070 Ruby bindings changes
2071 ---------------------
2073 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2074 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2075 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2076 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2081 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2083 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2084 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2086 Reply formatting cleanup
2087 ------------------------
2089 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2090 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2092 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2093 ========================
2095 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2097 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2098 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2099 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2100 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2103 Improved Build system portability
2105 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2106 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2107 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2109 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2111 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2113 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2115 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2116 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2117 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2119 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2120 ========================
2122 Vim interface improvements
2123 --------------------------
2125 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2127 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2128 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2129 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2130 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2131 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2133 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2135 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2136 * fix compose temp file name
2138 Python Bindings changes
2139 -----------------------
2141 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2143 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2144 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2146 Build-System improvements
2147 -------------------------
2149 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2151 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2154 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2155 ==========================
2160 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2162 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2163 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2165 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2166 =======================
2168 New, general features
2169 ---------------------
2171 Folder-based searching
2173 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2174 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2175 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2179 For example, one might use things such as:
2185 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2186 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2188 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2189 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2190 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2191 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2193 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2194 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2195 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2198 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2199 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2201 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2203 Support for PGP/MIME
2205 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2206 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2207 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2209 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2211 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2212 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2214 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2215 notmuch will receive these tags.
2217 New command-line features
2218 -------------------------
2220 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2222 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2223 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2225 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2227 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2228 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2229 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2231 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2233 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2234 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2235 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2236 which parts a signature part applies).
2238 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2240 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2241 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2242 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2243 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2244 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2247 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2249 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2250 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2251 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2252 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2253 by translating it internally to the new call.
2255 Performance improvements
2256 ------------------------
2258 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2260 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2261 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2262 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2264 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2265 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2267 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2269 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2270 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2271 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2273 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2274 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2275 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2276 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2278 Faster initial indexing
2280 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2281 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2282 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2284 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2286 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2287 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2288 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2289 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2291 New emacs-interface features
2292 ----------------------------
2294 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2296 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2297 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2298 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2299 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2300 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2301 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2303 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2305 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2306 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2307 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2308 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2310 User-selectable From address
2312 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2313 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2314 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2315 will prompt for the from address to use.
2317 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2318 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2319 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2321 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2322 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2323 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2326 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2328 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2329 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2331 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2333 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2335 ----- Original Message -----
2337 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2338 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2339 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2340 citations work much like conventional citations.
2342 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2344 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2345 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2346 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2347 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2348 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2350 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2351 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2353 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2355 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2356 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2357 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2359 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2361 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2362 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2363 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2364 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2365 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2367 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2369 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2372 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2374 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2376 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2378 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2381 Vim interface improvements
2382 --------------------------
2384 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2386 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2387 * Implementing archive in show view
2388 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2389 * Add delete commands
2392 Bindings improvements
2393 ---------------------
2395 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2397 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2398 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2400 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2402 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2406 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2407 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2408 `list(Messages)` works now
2409 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2411 These allow, for example:
2413 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2415 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2417 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2423 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2425 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2428 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2430 New build-system features
2431 -------------------------
2433 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2435 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2436 the configure script from some other directory:
2443 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2445 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2446 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2447 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2448 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2449 manual invocation of configure.
2451 New test-suite feature
2452 ----------------------
2454 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2456 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2457 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2458 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2459 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2460 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2463 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2465 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2466 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2467 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2468 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2469 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2470 are updated to take advantage of this.
2472 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2474 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2475 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2476 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2477 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2483 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2485 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2486 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2487 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2489 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2491 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2493 to:user@elsewhere.com
2495 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2497 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2499 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2501 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2502 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2503 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2506 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2507 from the Received headers in some cases
2509 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2510 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2512 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2514 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2516 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2518 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2519 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2520 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2522 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2523 -------------------------
2525 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2527 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2528 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2529 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2531 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2533 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2534 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2535 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2538 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2540 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2541 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2542 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2543 fixed to avoid this bug.
2545 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2547 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2548 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2550 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2551 ========================
2553 New, general features
2554 ---------------------
2556 Maildir-flag synchronization
2558 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2559 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2568 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2570 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2571 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2572 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2573 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2575 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2576 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2577 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2578 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2581 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2583 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2584 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2585 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2587 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2588 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2590 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2591 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2593 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2594 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2595 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2597 New library features
2598 --------------------
2600 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2602 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2603 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2604 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2605 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2607 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2608 message with the new function:
2610 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2612 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2613 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2614 over all available filenames for a given message.
2616 New command-line features
2617 -------------------------
2619 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2621 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2622 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2623 access to the mail store itself.
2625 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2626 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2627 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2628 name of a script containing:
2630 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2632 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2633 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2639 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2641 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2643 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2645 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2646 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2647 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2648 now produces nothing).
2650 Emacs interface improvements
2651 ----------------------------
2653 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2655 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2657 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2659 Display current thread subject in a header line
2661 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2663 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2665 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2666 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2667 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2668 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2669 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2670 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2671 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2673 Vim interface improvements
2674 --------------------------
2676 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2678 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2679 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2685 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2687 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2688 ========================
2690 New command-line features
2691 -------------------------
2693 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2695 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2696 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2697 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2699 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2700 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2701 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2702 scripts. For example:
2704 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2705 <operations-on> "$file"
2708 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2710 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2711 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2712 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2713 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2714 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2715 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2717 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2719 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2720 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2721 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2722 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2724 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2726 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2727 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2728 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2729 default rather than Bcc.
2731 New library features
2732 --------------------
2734 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2736 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2737 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2742 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2744 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2745 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2746 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2747 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2748 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2749 notmuch customize interface.
2751 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2753 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2754 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2755 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2756 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2758 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2760 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2761 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2762 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2763 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2765 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2767 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2768 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2769 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2770 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2771 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2772 notmuch customize interface.
2774 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2776 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2777 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2778 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2779 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2780 notmuch customize interface.
2782 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2784 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2785 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2786 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2787 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2790 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2792 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2793 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2794 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2797 New build-system features
2798 -------------------------
2800 Various portability fixes have been applied
2802 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2803 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2804 more portable than ever before.
2806 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2808 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2809 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2810 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2812 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2813 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2814 automatically run ldconfig.
2816 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2817 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2818 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2820 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2821 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2822 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2823 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2825 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2827 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2828 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2829 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2830 used in the resulting Makefile.
2832 New test-suite features
2833 -----------------------
2835 New modularization of test suite
2837 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2838 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2839 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2840 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2841 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2842 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2843 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2844 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2846 New testing of emacs interface
2848 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2849 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2850 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2851 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2852 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2853 database via the FCC setting.
2858 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2860 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2861 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2862 persistent error of the form:
2864 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2866 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2867 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2869 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2871 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2872 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2873 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2875 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2877 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2878 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2879 parsing the notmuch results).
2881 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2883 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2886 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2887 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2888 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2893 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2895 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2896 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2897 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2898 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2899 the emacs interface.
2901 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2903 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2904 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2905 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2907 Python-binding fixes
2908 --------------------
2910 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2912 Debian-specific fixes
2913 ---------------------
2915 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2917 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2918 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2919 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2922 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2923 ==========================
2928 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2930 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2931 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2932 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2933 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2935 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2937 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2938 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2939 want notmuch to crash.
2944 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2946 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2947 directory does not exist
2952 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2954 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2955 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2957 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2958 ========================
2960 New command-line features
2961 -------------------------
2963 User-configurable tags for new messages
2965 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2966 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2967 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2968 to specify this value.
2970 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2972 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2973 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2974 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2976 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2978 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2979 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2981 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2983 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2984 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2985 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2986 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2987 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2990 Indication of author names that match a search
2992 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2993 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2994 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2995 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2996 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2997 messages in the thread are listed first.
2999 New: Python bindings
3000 --------------------
3002 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3003 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3004 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3005 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3007 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3008 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3009 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3012 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3013 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3014 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3016 Emacs interface improvements
3017 ----------------------------
3019 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3021 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3022 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3023 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3024 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3025 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3026 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3027 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3028 but without any of the disadvantages).
3030 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3031 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3032 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3035 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3036 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3037 instead running something like:
3039 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3041 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3042 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3043 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3046 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3048 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3049 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3050 tweaked by the user.
3052 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3053 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3054 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3057 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3058 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3059 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3062 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3064 This support currently relies on an external program,
3065 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3066 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3067 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3068 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3069 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3072 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3073 notmuch) is available via:
3075 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3077 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3078 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3079 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3081 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3083 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3084 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3085 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3086 making this automatic in a future release.
3088 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3090 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3091 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3092 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3093 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3094 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3095 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3098 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3100 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3101 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3102 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3104 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3106 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3107 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3108 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3110 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3111 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3112 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3113 other representation.
3115 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3116 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3119 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3121 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3122 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3123 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3125 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3126 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3127 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3129 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3131 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3132 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3133 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3134 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3135 to display the search result.
3137 More flexible handling of header visibility
3139 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3140 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3141 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3142 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3143 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3144 with the 'h' keybinding.
3146 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3147 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3148 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3150 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3152 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3154 Customizable formatting of search results
3156 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3157 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3158 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3160 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3162 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3164 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3169 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3171 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3172 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3173 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3174 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3180 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3182 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3183 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3185 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3187 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3188 accept are now all accepted.
3193 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3195 Better display of output from failed tests
3197 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3198 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3200 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3201 ========================
3203 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3204 detailed release notes this time!
3206 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3207 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3209 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3210 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3211 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3212 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3219 Better guessing of From: header
3221 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3222 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3223 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3224 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3225 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3228 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3230 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3231 guaranteed to match all messages.
3233 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3235 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3236 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3237 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3238 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3239 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3242 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3245 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3246 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3247 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3248 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3253 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3255 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3256 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3257 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3258 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3260 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3262 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3264 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3265 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3266 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3268 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3270 Previously, the user might see:
3272 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3276 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3278 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3279 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3280 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3281 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3283 Emacs client features
3284 ---------------------
3286 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3288 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3289 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3290 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3291 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3292 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3294 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3297 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3298 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3299 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3300 search with the '*' binding.
3302 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3304 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3305 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3308 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3310 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3311 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3312 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3314 Build-system features
3315 ---------------------
3317 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3319 Add support to configure for many standard options
3321 We include actual support for:
3323 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3325 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3327 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3328 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3330 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3331 separate "make install-emacs"
3333 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3335 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3336 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3337 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3339 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3342 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3343 ========================
3345 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3347 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3348 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3350 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3351 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3352 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3353 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3354 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3355 tags from messages in a thread.
3362 indent-tabs-mode: nil