X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ff12ca67c9007aff57cc55304771b363cfcb0ff8;hb=afb4387e5c21de33eff2de7d5878669285aada82;hp=71c7c9afad232934f7264de74ff67b0da32437bc;hpb=fd700ec9613f26a67c7ab64ab2b751e42f3f1f20;p=notmuch diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 71c7c9af..ff12ca67 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -23,6 +23,55 @@ Add search terms to "notmuch dump" search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in favour of using stdout. +Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options + + The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit + the number of results shown. + +Add "notmuch count --output" option + + The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to + messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option. + +New emacs UI features +--------------------- + +Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter + + These functions now support completion tags for query parts + starting with "tag:". + +Performance +----------- + +Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently + +Search avoids opening and parsing message files + + We now store more information in the database so search no longer + has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can + improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this + requires a database rebuild: + + notmuch dump > notmuch.dump + # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch) + notmuch new + notmuch restore notmuch.dump + +New collection of add-on tools +------------------------------ + +The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These +tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual +licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch +mailing list. + +nmbug - share tags with a given prefix + + nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given + prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting + them to git in one location and restoring in another. + Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01) ========================