1 Notmuch 0.35 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
4 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
5 ===========================
10 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
13 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
14 --------------------------
16 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
17 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
19 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
20 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
22 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
25 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
26 ===========================
31 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
32 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
33 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
35 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
36 --------------------------
38 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
39 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
41 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
42 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
43 and database location options as the library does.
45 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
47 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
48 ===========================
53 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
54 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
55 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
56 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
57 status returns for the same 3 functions.
59 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
60 =========================
65 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
66 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
67 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
68 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
69 s-expression query support.
74 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
79 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
81 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
83 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
85 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
87 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
88 ===========================
93 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
95 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
96 ===========================
101 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
102 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
105 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
106 =========================
111 Correct documentation about transactions.
113 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
114 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
116 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
121 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
127 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
128 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
129 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
131 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
133 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
135 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
137 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
139 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
141 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
144 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
149 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
150 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
151 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
152 split, following an old library API change.
157 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
162 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
164 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
166 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
167 ===========================
172 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
175 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
178 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
179 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
184 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
186 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
187 ===========================
192 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
198 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
203 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
208 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
213 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
214 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
216 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
217 ===========================
222 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
223 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
224 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
226 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
227 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
228 database in a pre-new hook.
230 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
231 default worked only in "notmuch config".
236 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
237 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
239 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
240 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
241 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
243 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
244 =========================
249 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
250 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
251 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
252 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
253 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
254 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
255 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
256 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
257 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
258 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
259 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
264 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
265 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
267 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
268 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
269 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
270 - `notmuch_config_get`
272 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
273 now exposed (and generalized).
275 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
276 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
277 session has been fixed.
279 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
280 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
285 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
286 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
288 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
289 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
294 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
295 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
296 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
297 when prompting for senders.
299 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
300 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
303 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
305 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
307 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
308 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
309 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
310 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
311 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
312 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
313 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
315 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
316 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
318 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
319 you should change it to:
320 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
322 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
323 ===========================
328 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
333 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
335 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
336 ===========================
341 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
346 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
351 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
353 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
354 ===========================
359 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
360 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
362 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
363 ===========================
368 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
373 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
374 with a C++ header for some compilers.
376 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
378 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
379 =========================
384 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
385 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
386 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
388 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
390 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
392 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
394 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
397 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
399 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
400 search, show and tree mode)
402 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
405 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
408 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
409 always be newest first.
414 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
415 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
416 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
422 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
423 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
424 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
425 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
427 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
428 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
429 non-status providing versions.
431 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
432 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
434 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
435 promised in the documentation.
440 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
441 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
442 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
447 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
448 development version).
453 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
458 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
460 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
461 =========================
466 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
467 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
468 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
471 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
477 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
478 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
479 notmuch-properties(7)).
484 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
485 has protected headers (see
486 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
487 notmuch-properties(7)).
492 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
494 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
495 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
501 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
504 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
505 ===========================
510 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
512 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
517 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
519 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
520 ===========================
525 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
526 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
528 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
529 ===========================
534 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
536 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
537 =========================
542 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
543 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
546 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
547 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
548 the set of headers to be indexed.
550 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
553 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
554 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
555 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
558 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
559 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
560 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
562 Command Line Interface
563 ----------------------
565 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
568 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
570 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
571 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
572 more details about what is included there. This status includes
573 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
578 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
579 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
581 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
583 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
585 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
587 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
589 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
592 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
594 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
595 and may be removed in a future release.
597 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
603 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
605 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
606 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
611 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
612 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
613 cryptography support.
618 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
619 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
620 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
622 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
623 ===========================
625 Command line interface
626 ----------------------
628 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
629 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
631 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
632 ===========================
637 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
638 by message properties.
643 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
645 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
646 ===========================
651 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
656 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
657 now needed to build this documentation.
659 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
660 ===========================
665 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
666 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
668 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
669 =========================
676 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
677 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
678 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
679 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
680 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
683 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
685 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
686 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
687 correct encoding for such messages.
689 Command Line Interface
690 ----------------------
692 Support relative database paths
694 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
695 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
696 to $HOME of the invoking user.
701 Improve stderr handling
703 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
704 needed on e.g. macOS.
706 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
708 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
713 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
714 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
720 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
721 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
727 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
728 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
731 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
732 =========================
737 Add support for thread:{} queries
739 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
740 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
741 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
743 Command Line Interface
744 ----------------------
746 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
748 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
750 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
752 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
753 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
754 does not have to be available during message receipt.
759 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
765 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
766 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
768 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
769 ===========================
774 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
776 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
777 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
778 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
780 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
782 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
783 related abort in `notmuch show`.
785 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
786 ===========================
791 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
792 better late than never.
795 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
796 =========================
798 Command Line Interface
799 ----------------------
801 Support for re-indexing existing messages
803 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
804 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
805 change the way specific messages are indexed.
807 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
808 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
809 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
811 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
813 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
815 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
817 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
818 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
819 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
820 the setting of `new.tags`.
822 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
824 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
826 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
828 This inserts into the top level folder.
830 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
832 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
834 New option --output=address for notmuch address
836 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
838 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
840 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
841 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
842 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
844 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
849 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
851 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
852 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
853 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
854 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
855 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
856 config set index.decrypt true".
858 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
859 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
860 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
861 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
862 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
863 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
864 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
865 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
867 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
868 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
869 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
870 this feature without considering the security of your index.
875 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
877 Use make-process when available
879 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
880 notmuch command without using temporary files.
885 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
887 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
888 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
889 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
890 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
892 New functions to count files
894 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
895 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
897 New function to remove properties
899 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
900 drop all properties with a common pattern:
901 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
903 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
905 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
906 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
907 possibility of NULL was not documented.
909 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
911 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
912 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
913 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
914 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
915 operator may decide to change from message to message.
922 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
923 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
924 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
930 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
932 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
933 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
935 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
937 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
939 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
941 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
946 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
947 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
949 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
950 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
951 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
952 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
953 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
954 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
959 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
961 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
962 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
963 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
964 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
966 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
967 ===========================
972 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
973 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
976 Command Line Interface
977 ----------------------
979 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
980 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
983 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
984 ===========================
986 Command Line Interface
987 ----------------------
989 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
990 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
995 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
998 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
999 ===========================
1004 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1007 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1008 =========================
1013 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1015 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1017 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1019 Command Line Interface
1020 ----------------------
1022 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1024 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1029 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1031 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1032 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1035 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1040 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1042 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1043 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1045 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1047 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1048 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1051 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1053 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1055 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1057 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1058 ===========================
1060 Command Line Interface
1061 ----------------------
1063 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1068 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1070 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1071 ===========================
1076 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1078 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1079 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1082 Command Line Interface
1083 ----------------------
1085 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1087 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1089 Fix bug in dump header
1091 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1092 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1093 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1098 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1100 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1101 =========================
1106 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1108 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1111 Command Line Interface
1112 ----------------------
1114 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1116 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1117 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1118 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1120 New default output format to 3
1122 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1123 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1124 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1125 default format changes.
1130 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1132 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1133 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1134 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1135 or tree view to resume.
1137 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1138 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1139 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1142 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1143 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1147 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1148 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1149 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1150 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1151 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1155 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1156 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1157 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1158 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1159 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1160 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1164 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1165 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1167 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1169 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1170 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1171 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1172 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1173 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1174 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1175 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1176 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1179 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1181 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1182 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1183 only tagged the current thread.)
1185 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1187 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1188 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1189 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1191 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1193 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1194 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1195 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1196 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1197 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1198 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1199 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1201 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1203 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1204 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1205 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1210 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1212 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1215 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1217 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1220 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1221 ===========================
1226 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1228 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1229 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1230 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1233 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1234 ===========================
1236 Command Line Interface
1237 ----------------------
1239 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1244 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1246 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1247 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1248 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1250 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1251 ===========================
1256 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1257 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1259 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1260 ===========================
1262 Command Line Interface
1263 ----------------------
1265 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1267 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1268 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1269 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1274 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1276 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1277 ===========================
1279 Command Line Interface
1280 ----------------------
1282 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1287 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1289 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1290 ===========================
1295 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1297 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1298 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1299 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1301 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1303 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1305 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1306 ===========================
1311 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1313 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1318 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1320 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1321 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1322 the original colours.
1324 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1325 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1327 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1329 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1330 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1331 bug, and hence the test.
1333 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1334 =========================
1336 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1337 ---------------------
1339 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1341 Support for single argument date: queries
1343 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1345 Support for blocking opens
1347 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1348 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1350 Support for named queries
1352 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1353 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1354 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1359 Message property API
1361 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1362 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1363 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1364 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1366 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1368 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1373 Support for compile time options
1375 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1376 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1379 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1381 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1382 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1383 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1384 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1385 scripts to ignore it.
1390 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1392 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1393 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1394 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1396 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1397 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1398 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1399 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1400 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1401 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1402 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1404 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1405 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1408 Make internal address completion customizable
1410 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1411 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1412 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1413 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1416 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1418 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1419 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1420 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1421 completion for the current buffer.
1423 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1424 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1425 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1429 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1430 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1431 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1432 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1433 will be added instead.
1435 Face customization is easier
1437 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1438 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1439 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1440 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1442 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1447 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1452 Go bindings moved to contrib
1454 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1456 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1458 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1459 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1461 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1463 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1464 ===========================
1471 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1472 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1474 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1476 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1478 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1479 ===========================
1484 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1486 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1491 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1496 Use `env` to locate perl.
1501 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1503 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1505 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1507 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1509 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1510 =========================
1517 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1518 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1520 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1522 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1523 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1524 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1529 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1530 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1531 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1533 Command Line Interface
1534 ----------------------
1536 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1538 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1543 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1548 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1550 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1551 parts are now included in replies.
1553 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1554 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1555 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1556 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1558 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1560 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1562 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1564 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1565 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1566 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1567 forwards only the current message.
1569 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1571 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1572 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1573 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1574 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1575 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1576 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1577 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1578 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1581 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1582 longer generate empty buffers
1584 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1585 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1586 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1587 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1588 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1590 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1592 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1595 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1597 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1600 Address completion improvements
1602 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1603 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1604 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1605 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1606 interactive address completion.
1608 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1610 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1611 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1612 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1617 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1618 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1619 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1625 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1626 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1627 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1628 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1629 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1630 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1632 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1633 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1634 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1635 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1636 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1637 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1639 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1640 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1642 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1643 =========================
1648 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1651 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1653 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1654 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1655 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1657 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1658 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1660 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1661 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1662 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1664 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1666 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1667 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1668 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1669 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1670 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1671 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1676 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1677 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1680 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1681 option to configure.
1683 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1685 Command Line Interface
1686 ----------------------
1688 Database revision tracking
1690 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1691 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1692 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1693 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1695 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1697 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1698 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1699 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1700 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1701 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1702 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1703 manual page for further information.
1708 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1710 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1711 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1713 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1715 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1716 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1717 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1719 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1721 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1723 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1724 customization as well.
1726 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1728 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1730 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1732 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1734 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1735 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1736 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1737 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1739 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1741 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1742 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1743 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1744 this variable to 10000.
1749 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1750 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1752 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1754 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1755 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1756 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1757 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1758 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1759 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1760 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1761 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1762 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1765 Database revision tracking
1767 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1768 query parser and the new function
1769 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1771 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1773 Deprecated functions
1775 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1776 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1777 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1778 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1783 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1785 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1786 ===========================
1791 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1793 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1794 ===========================
1799 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1801 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1802 =========================
1804 Command-Line Interface
1805 ----------------------
1807 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1809 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1810 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1811 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1813 Path to gpg is now configurable
1815 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1816 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1821 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1823 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1828 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1833 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1838 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1840 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1841 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1843 New error logging facility
1845 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1846 output formerly printed to stderr.
1848 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1850 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1852 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1854 Fix for rounding of seconds
1859 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1861 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1862 documentation has been removed.
1864 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1866 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1867 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1872 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1873 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1874 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1879 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1880 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1881 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1882 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1883 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1884 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1887 git checkout config origin/config
1889 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1891 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1892 =========================
1897 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1898 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1899 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1900 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1901 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1902 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1903 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1905 Command-Line Interface
1906 ----------------------
1908 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1910 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1911 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1912 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1913 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1914 script callers should still check the return value.
1916 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1918 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1919 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1920 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1921 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1922 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1923 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1924 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1926 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1928 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1929 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1930 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1932 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1934 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1935 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1936 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1937 currently unmaintained.
1939 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1941 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1942 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1943 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1944 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1946 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1948 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1949 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1950 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1951 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1952 count of duplicate addresses.
1957 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1959 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1960 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1961 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1964 Improved handling of the unread tag
1966 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1967 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1968 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1969 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1970 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1971 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1972 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1974 Expanded default saved search settings
1976 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1977 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1979 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1981 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1982 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1983 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1985 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1987 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1988 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1989 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1990 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1991 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1992 the variable for details.
1997 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1999 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2000 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2001 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2002 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2004 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2006 Previously, library users were required to call
2007 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2008 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2009 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2010 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2011 too out of date for that API.
2013 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2015 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2016 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2017 atomic section will be aborted.
2019 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2020 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2022 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2024 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2025 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2026 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2027 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2028 messages into the same thread.
2033 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2034 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2035 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2036 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2037 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2038 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2043 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2044 from the config file. Use something like:
2048 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2049 "footer": "</body></html>",
2058 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2063 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2064 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2065 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2067 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2068 ===========================
2073 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2075 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2077 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2079 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2080 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2082 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2084 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2087 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2088 ===========================
2090 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2095 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2097 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2099 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2101 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2103 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2109 Use --quick when starting emacs
2111 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2113 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2115 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2117 Command-Line Interface
2118 ----------------------
2120 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2121 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2126 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2128 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2129 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2131 Fix for phrase indexing
2133 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2134 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2135 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2140 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2142 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2143 unintentionally removed.
2145 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2146 =========================
2151 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2152 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2153 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2154 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2155 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2156 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2157 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2158 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2159 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2165 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2167 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2168 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2169 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2170 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2171 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2172 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2173 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2174 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2176 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2178 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2179 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2180 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2181 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2184 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2186 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2187 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2188 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2189 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2190 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2191 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2192 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2197 Notmuch database upgrade
2199 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2200 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2201 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2202 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2203 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2204 released version of Notmuch before now.
2206 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2208 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2209 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2210 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2211 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2213 Message header parsing changes
2215 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2216 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2217 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2218 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2219 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2220 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2222 Command-Line Interface
2223 ----------------------
2225 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2227 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2229 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2231 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2233 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2235 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2236 user does not want it.
2238 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2240 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2241 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2242 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2243 support formatted output.
2245 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2247 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2248 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2249 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2257 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2258 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2259 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2260 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2261 `~/.emacs` with these.
2263 Changed format for saved searches
2265 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2266 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2267 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2268 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2271 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2272 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2273 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2274 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2276 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2277 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2278 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2280 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2281 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2282 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2283 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2284 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2286 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2288 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2289 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2290 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2292 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2294 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2295 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2296 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2297 message had been unread).
2299 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2300 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2301 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2302 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2304 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2305 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2306 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2308 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2309 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2310 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2311 to tags already present.
2315 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2316 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2317 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2318 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2319 these differ from each other.
2320 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2322 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2324 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2325 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2326 for these Emacs versions.
2328 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2330 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2331 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2333 Bug fixes for sender identities
2335 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2336 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2337 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2339 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2341 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2342 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2343 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2344 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2346 Reply pushes mark before signature
2348 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2349 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2350 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2352 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2354 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2355 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2361 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2362 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2364 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2365 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2366 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2367 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2369 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2370 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2371 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2372 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2373 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2375 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2377 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2378 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2380 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2381 =========================
2383 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2384 ---------------------------------------
2386 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2387 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2388 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2389 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2390 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2391 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2392 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2396 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2397 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2399 Command-Line Interface
2400 ----------------------
2402 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2404 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2405 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2406 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2407 print for each message.
2409 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2410 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2411 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2412 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2414 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2416 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2417 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2418 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2420 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2422 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2423 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2424 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2425 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2427 `notmuch compact` command
2429 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2430 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2431 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2432 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2433 move the compacted database into place.
2438 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2440 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2441 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2442 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2443 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2444 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2445 and multiple threads.
2447 Using `notmuch-tree`
2449 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2451 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2452 search, show and tree mode itself)
2454 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2457 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2458 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2460 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2462 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2463 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2464 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2465 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2466 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2467 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2468 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2470 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2472 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2473 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2474 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2475 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2476 thread when the search was performed.
2478 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2480 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2481 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2482 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2484 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2486 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2487 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2490 Built-in help improvements
2492 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2493 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2494 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2496 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2498 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2499 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2500 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2502 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2504 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2505 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2507 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2509 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2510 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2511 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2512 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2514 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2516 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2517 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2518 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2519 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2521 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2523 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2524 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2525 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2527 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2529 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2530 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2531 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2533 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2535 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2536 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2537 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2538 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2539 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2541 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2543 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2544 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2545 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2546 the body part of the message.
2551 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2552 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2553 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2555 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2556 =========================
2558 Command-Line Interface
2559 ----------------------
2561 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2563 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2564 folder and notmuch index.
2566 `notmuch count --batch` option
2568 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2569 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2571 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2573 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2574 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2575 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2578 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2580 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2581 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2582 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2583 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2584 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2587 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2589 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2590 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2592 Top level option to specify configuration file
2594 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2595 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2597 Bash command-line completion
2599 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2600 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2601 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2602 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2603 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2604 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2605 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2606 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2607 bash-completion package.
2609 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2614 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2616 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2617 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2618 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2619 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2620 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2621 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2622 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2623 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2625 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2627 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2628 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2629 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2631 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2633 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2634 previous thread in the search results.
2636 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2638 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2639 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2641 Faster search and show
2643 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2644 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2645 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2646 threads should show faster.
2650 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2651 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2652 in question was now removed from this release.
2657 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2658 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2663 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2665 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2666 ===========================
2671 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2673 Internal test framework changes
2674 -------------------------------
2676 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2677 being unimplemented.
2679 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2680 ===========================
2682 Internal test framework changes
2683 -------------------------------
2685 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2686 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2688 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2689 =========================
2694 Date range search support
2696 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2697 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2698 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2699 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2700 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2703 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2705 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2706 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2707 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2708 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2709 but may be removed in a future release.
2711 Command-Line Interface
2712 ----------------------
2714 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2716 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2717 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2719 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2721 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2722 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2723 officially deprecated.
2725 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2727 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2728 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2729 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2731 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2733 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2734 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2737 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2738 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2739 dump/restore format.
2741 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2743 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2744 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2745 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2747 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2749 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2750 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2751 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2753 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2755 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2756 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2757 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2758 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2763 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2765 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2766 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2767 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2768 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2770 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2772 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2773 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2774 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2775 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2776 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2777 the behavior of this, see
2778 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2779 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2781 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2782 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2783 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2785 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2787 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2788 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2791 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2793 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2794 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2795 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2796 simply displayed in place of the message.
2798 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2800 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2801 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2803 Improved text/calendar content handling
2805 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2806 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2807 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2808 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2810 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2812 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2813 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2814 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2815 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2817 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2819 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2820 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2821 for HTML email containing images.
2823 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2825 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2827 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2829 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2832 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2834 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2835 the point where it was.
2837 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2839 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2840 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2841 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2842 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2843 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2845 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2847 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2848 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2849 thread instead of the message id.
2851 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2852 -----------------------------
2854 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2855 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2856 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2857 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2858 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2859 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2860 further details and installation.
2865 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2867 Internal test framework changes
2868 -------------------------------
2870 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2872 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2873 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2874 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2875 can result in buggy behavior.
2877 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2878 =========================
2883 Maildir tag synchronization
2885 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2886 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2887 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2888 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2889 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2890 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2893 Command-Line Interface
2894 ----------------------
2896 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2897 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2898 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2899 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2900 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2906 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2908 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2910 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2911 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2912 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2914 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2916 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2917 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2918 span multiple lines.
2920 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2922 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2923 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2924 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2925 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2926 inside the result or message.
2928 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2930 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2931 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2933 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2934 user-specified formatting
2936 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2937 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2938 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2939 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2940 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2942 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2943 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2945 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2946 ===========================
2951 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2952 compilation error for this contrib package.
2954 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2955 ===========================
2960 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2962 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2963 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2964 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2965 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2967 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2968 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2971 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2972 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2973 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2974 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2977 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2979 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2982 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2983 =========================
2985 Command-Line Interface
2986 ----------------------
2990 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2991 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2992 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2993 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2995 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2996 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2997 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2998 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3002 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3003 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3005 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3006 tag in your query, for example:
3008 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3010 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3011 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3013 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3014 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3016 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3018 Raw show format changes
3020 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3021 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3022 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3023 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3024 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3025 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3026 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3027 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3029 Listing configuration items
3031 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3037 Changes to tagging interface
3039 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3040 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3041 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3042 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3043 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3044 for more information.
3046 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3047 may need to update in custom configurations.
3049 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3051 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3052 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3053 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3054 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3057 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3058 -----------------------------
3060 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3061 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3062 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3063 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3064 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3065 contrib/ from now on.
3070 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3071 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3073 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3074 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3076 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3077 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3078 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3080 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3081 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3083 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3084 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3085 returning the new database object or directory object.
3092 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3093 compatible with go 1.
3095 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3096 =========================
3098 Command-Line Interface
3099 ----------------------
3103 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3104 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3105 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3106 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3108 Mail store folder/file ignore
3110 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3111 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3112 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3114 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3115 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3117 Unified help and manual pages
3119 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3120 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3123 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3125 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3126 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3134 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3135 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3136 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3137 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3139 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3141 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3142 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3144 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3147 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3148 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3149 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3151 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3153 should be changed to:
3155 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3157 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3159 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3160 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3162 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3164 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3165 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3166 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3167 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3168 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3169 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3173 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3174 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3175 of Mailing List Archives.
3177 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3179 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3180 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3183 Show view archiving key binding changes
3185 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3186 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3187 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3188 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3189 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3192 Support text/calendar MIME type
3194 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3197 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3199 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3200 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3201 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3202 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3204 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3206 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3207 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3208 messages blue by default in the search view.
3212 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3213 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3220 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3223 Python bindings changes
3224 -----------------------
3226 Python 3.2 compatibility
3228 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3230 Added missing unicode conversions
3232 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3233 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3234 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3239 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3241 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3242 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3243 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3244 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3245 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3247 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3248 ===========================
3253 Fix error handling in python bindings
3255 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3256 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3257 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3258 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3260 Quote MML tags in replies
3262 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3263 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3264 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3265 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3266 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3267 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3268 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3269 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3271 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3272 =========================
3274 Command-Line Interface
3275 ----------------------
3279 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3280 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3281 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3282 importing new messages into the database.
3284 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3286 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3287 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3288 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3293 Automatic tag query optimization
3295 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3296 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3297 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3299 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3301 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3302 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3303 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3308 Reduction of memory leaks
3310 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3311 and fixed in this release.
3318 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3319 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3320 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3323 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3325 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3326 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3327 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3330 Improvements in saved search management
3332 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3333 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3334 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3336 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3338 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3339 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3340 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3342 New face for crypto parts headers
3344 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3345 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3346 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3349 Use space as default thousands separator
3351 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3352 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3353 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3355 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3356 buttonized id: links
3358 New function notmuch-show-advance
3360 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3361 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3362 be bound to SPC with:
3364 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3366 Various performance improvements
3371 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3372 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3375 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3376 ===========================
3381 Fix crash in python bindings
3383 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3384 for some, but not all users.
3386 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3387 ===========================
3392 Fix `--help` argument
3394 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3395 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3396 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3398 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3399 =========================
3401 New build and testing features
3402 ------------------------------
3404 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3405 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3406 prerequisites is improved.
3408 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3410 New command-line features
3411 -------------------------
3413 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3415 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3416 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3419 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3421 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3422 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3423 favour of using stdout.
3425 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3427 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3428 limit the number of results shown.
3430 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3432 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3433 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3436 New emacs UI features
3437 ---------------------
3439 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3441 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3442 starting with "tag:".
3444 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3446 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3447 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3449 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3451 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3453 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3455 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3456 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3461 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3463 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3465 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3466 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3467 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3468 requires a database rebuild:
3470 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3471 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3473 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3475 New collection of add-on tools
3476 ------------------------------
3478 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3479 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3480 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3483 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3485 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3486 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3487 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3489 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3490 ========================
3492 New, general features
3493 ---------------------
3495 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3497 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3498 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3499 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3500 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3501 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3508 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3509 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3511 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3515 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3516 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3517 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3520 Python bindings changes
3521 -----------------------
3523 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3525 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3526 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3527 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3528 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3529 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3530 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3532 Ruby bindings changes
3533 ---------------------
3535 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3536 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3537 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3538 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3543 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3545 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3546 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3548 Reply formatting cleanup
3549 ------------------------
3551 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3552 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3554 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3555 ========================
3557 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3559 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3560 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3561 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3562 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3565 Improved Build system portability
3567 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3568 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3569 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3571 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3573 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3575 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3577 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3578 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3579 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3581 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3582 ========================
3584 Vim interface improvements
3585 --------------------------
3587 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3589 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3590 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3591 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3592 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3593 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3595 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3597 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3598 * fix compose temp file name
3600 Python Bindings changes
3601 -----------------------
3603 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3605 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3606 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3608 Build-System improvements
3609 -------------------------
3611 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3613 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3616 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3617 ==========================
3622 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3624 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3625 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3627 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3628 =======================
3630 New, general features
3631 ---------------------
3633 Folder-based searching
3635 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3636 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3637 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3641 For example, one might use things such as:
3647 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3648 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3650 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3651 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3652 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3653 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3655 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3656 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3657 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3660 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3661 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3663 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3665 Support for PGP/MIME
3667 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3668 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3669 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3671 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3673 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3674 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3676 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3677 notmuch will receive these tags.
3679 New command-line features
3680 -------------------------
3682 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3684 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3685 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3687 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3689 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3690 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3691 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3693 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3695 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3696 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3697 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3698 which parts a signature part applies).
3700 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3702 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3703 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3704 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3705 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3706 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3709 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3711 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3712 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3713 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3714 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3715 by translating it internally to the new call.
3717 Performance improvements
3718 ------------------------
3720 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3722 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3723 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3724 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3726 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3727 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3729 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3731 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3732 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3733 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3735 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3736 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3737 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3738 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3740 Faster initial indexing
3742 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3743 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3744 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3746 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3748 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3749 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3750 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3751 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3753 New emacs-interface features
3754 ----------------------------
3756 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3758 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3759 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3760 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3761 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3762 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3763 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3765 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3767 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3768 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3769 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3770 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3772 User-selectable From address
3774 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3775 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3776 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3777 will prompt for the from address to use.
3779 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3780 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3781 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3783 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3784 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3785 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3788 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3790 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3791 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3793 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3795 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3797 ----- Original Message -----
3799 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3800 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3801 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3802 citations work much like conventional citations.
3804 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3806 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3807 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3808 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3809 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3810 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3812 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3813 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3815 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3817 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3818 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3819 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3821 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3823 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3824 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3825 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3826 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3827 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3829 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3831 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3834 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3836 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3838 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3840 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3843 Vim interface improvements
3844 --------------------------
3846 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3848 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3849 * Implementing archive in show view
3850 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3851 * Add delete commands
3854 Bindings improvements
3855 ---------------------
3857 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3859 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3860 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3862 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3864 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3868 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3869 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3870 `list(Messages)` works now
3871 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3873 These allow, for example:
3875 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3877 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3879 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3885 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3887 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3890 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3892 New build-system features
3893 -------------------------
3895 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3897 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3898 the configure script from some other directory:
3905 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3907 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3908 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3909 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3910 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3911 manual invocation of configure.
3913 New test-suite feature
3914 ----------------------
3916 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3918 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3919 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3920 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3921 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3922 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3925 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3927 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3928 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3929 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3930 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3931 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3932 are updated to take advantage of this.
3934 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3936 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3937 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3938 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3939 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3945 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3947 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3948 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3949 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3951 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3953 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3955 to:user@elsewhere.com
3957 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3959 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3961 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3963 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3964 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3965 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3968 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3969 from the Received headers in some cases
3971 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3972 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3974 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3976 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3978 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3980 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3981 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3982 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3984 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3985 -------------------------
3987 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3989 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3990 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3991 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3993 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3995 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3996 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3997 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4000 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4002 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4003 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4004 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4005 fixed to avoid this bug.
4007 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4009 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4010 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4012 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4013 ========================
4015 New, general features
4016 ---------------------
4018 Maildir-flag synchronization
4020 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4021 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4030 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4032 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4033 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4034 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4035 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4037 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4038 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4039 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4040 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4043 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4045 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4046 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4047 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4049 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4050 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4052 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4053 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4055 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4056 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4057 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4059 New library features
4060 --------------------
4062 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4064 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4065 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4066 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4067 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4069 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4070 message with the new function:
4072 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4074 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4075 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4076 over all available filenames for a given message.
4078 New command-line features
4079 -------------------------
4081 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4083 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4084 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4085 access to the mail store itself.
4087 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4088 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4089 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4090 name of a script containing:
4092 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4094 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4095 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4101 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4103 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4105 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4107 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4108 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4109 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4110 now produces nothing).
4112 Emacs interface improvements
4113 ----------------------------
4115 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4117 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4119 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4121 Display current thread subject in a header line
4123 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4125 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4127 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4128 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4129 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4130 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4131 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4132 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4133 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4135 Vim interface improvements
4136 --------------------------
4138 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4140 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4141 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4147 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4149 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4150 ========================
4152 New command-line features
4153 -------------------------
4155 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4157 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4158 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4159 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4161 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4162 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4163 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4164 scripts. For example:
4166 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4167 <operations-on> "$file"
4170 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4172 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4173 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4174 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4175 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4176 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4177 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4179 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4181 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4182 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4183 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4184 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4186 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4188 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4189 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4190 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4191 default rather than Bcc.
4193 New library features
4194 --------------------
4196 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4198 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4199 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4204 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4206 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4207 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4208 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4209 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4210 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4211 notmuch customize interface.
4213 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4215 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4216 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4217 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4218 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4220 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4222 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4223 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4224 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4225 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4227 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4229 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4230 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4231 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4232 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4233 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4234 notmuch customize interface.
4236 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4238 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4239 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4240 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4241 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4242 notmuch customize interface.
4244 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4246 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4247 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4248 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4249 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4252 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4254 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4255 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4256 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4259 New build-system features
4260 -------------------------
4262 Various portability fixes have been applied
4264 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4265 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4266 more portable than ever before.
4268 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4270 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4271 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4272 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4274 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4275 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4276 automatically run ldconfig.
4278 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4279 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4280 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4282 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4283 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4284 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4285 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4287 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4289 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4290 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4291 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4292 used in the resulting Makefile.
4294 New test-suite features
4295 -----------------------
4297 New modularization of test suite
4299 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4300 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4301 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4302 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4303 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4304 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4305 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4306 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4308 New testing of emacs interface
4310 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4311 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4312 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4313 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4314 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4315 database via the FCC setting.
4320 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4322 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4323 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4324 persistent error of the form:
4326 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4328 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4329 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4331 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4333 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4334 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4335 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4337 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4339 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4340 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4341 parsing the notmuch results).
4343 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4345 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4348 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4349 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4350 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4355 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4357 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4358 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4359 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4360 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4361 the emacs interface.
4363 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4365 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4366 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4367 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4369 Python-binding fixes
4370 --------------------
4372 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4374 Debian-specific fixes
4375 ---------------------
4377 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4379 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4380 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4381 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4384 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4385 ==========================
4390 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4392 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4393 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4394 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4395 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4397 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4399 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4400 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4401 want notmuch to crash.
4406 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4408 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4409 directory does not exist
4414 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4416 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4417 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4419 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4420 ========================
4422 New command-line features
4423 -------------------------
4425 User-configurable tags for new messages
4427 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4428 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4429 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4430 to specify this value.
4432 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4434 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4435 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4436 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4438 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4440 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4441 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4443 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4445 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4446 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4447 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4448 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4449 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4452 Indication of author names that match a search
4454 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4455 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4456 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4457 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4458 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4459 messages in the thread are listed first.
4461 New: Python bindings
4462 --------------------
4464 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4465 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4466 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4467 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4469 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4470 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4471 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4474 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4475 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4476 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4478 Emacs interface improvements
4479 ----------------------------
4481 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4483 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4484 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4485 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4486 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4487 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4488 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4489 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4490 but without any of the disadvantages).
4492 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4493 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4494 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4497 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4498 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4499 instead running something like:
4501 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4503 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4504 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4505 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4508 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4510 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4511 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4512 tweaked by the user.
4514 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4515 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4516 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4519 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4520 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4521 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4524 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4526 This support currently relies on an external program,
4527 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4528 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4529 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4530 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4531 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4534 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4535 notmuch) is available via:
4537 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4539 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4540 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4541 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4543 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4545 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4546 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4547 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4548 making this automatic in a future release.
4550 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4552 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4553 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4554 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4555 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4556 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4557 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4560 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4562 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4563 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4564 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4566 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4568 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4569 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4570 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4572 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4573 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4574 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4575 other representation.
4577 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4578 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4581 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4583 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4584 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4585 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4587 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4588 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4589 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4591 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4593 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4594 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4595 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4596 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4597 to display the search result.
4599 More flexible handling of header visibility
4601 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4602 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4603 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4604 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4605 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4606 with the 'h' keybinding.
4608 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4609 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4610 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4612 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4614 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4616 Customizable formatting of search results
4618 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4619 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4620 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4622 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4624 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4626 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4631 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4633 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4634 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4635 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4636 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4642 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4644 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4645 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4647 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4649 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4650 accept are now all accepted.
4655 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4657 Better display of output from failed tests
4659 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4660 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4662 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4663 ========================
4665 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4666 detailed release notes this time!
4668 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4669 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4671 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4672 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4673 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4674 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4681 Better guessing of From: header
4683 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4684 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4685 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4686 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4687 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4690 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4692 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4693 guaranteed to match all messages.
4695 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4697 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4698 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4699 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4700 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4701 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4704 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4707 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4708 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4709 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4710 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4715 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4717 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4718 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4719 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4720 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4722 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4724 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4726 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4727 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4728 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4730 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4732 Previously, the user might see:
4734 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4738 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4740 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4741 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4742 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4743 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4745 Emacs client features
4746 ---------------------
4748 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4750 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4751 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4752 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4753 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4754 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4756 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4759 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4760 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4761 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4762 search with the '*' binding.
4764 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4766 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4767 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4770 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4772 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4773 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4774 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4776 Build-system features
4777 ---------------------
4779 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4781 Add support to configure for many standard options
4783 We include actual support for:
4785 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4787 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4789 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4790 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4792 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4793 separate "make install-emacs"
4795 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4797 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4798 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4799 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4801 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4804 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4805 ========================
4807 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4809 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4810 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4812 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4813 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4814 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4815 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4816 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4817 tags from messages in a thread.
4824 indent-tabs-mode: nil