+Library
+-------
+
+Improve exception handling in the library. This should
+largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
+exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
+code paths still; please report them as bugs.
+
+Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
+`notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
+non-status providing versions.
+
+Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
+`notmuch_database_destroy`.
+
+Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
+promised in the documentation.
+
+Python Bindings
+---------------
+
+Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
+sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
+with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
+development version).
+
+Test Suite
+----------
+
+Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
+
+Build System
+------------
+
+Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
+