NEWS: remaining user visible library changes

[notmuch] / NEWS

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@@ -16,6 +16,24 @@ files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
 faster.
 
+Library
+-------
+
+Improve exception handling in the library. This should
+largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
+exceptions or internal errors.  No doubt there are a few uncovered
+code paths still; please report them as bugs.
+
+Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
+`notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
+non-status providing versions.
+
+Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
+`notmuch_database_destroy`.
+
+Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
+promised in the documentation.
+
 Python Bindings
 ---------------
 
@@ -23,6 +41,12 @@ Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
 
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
+development version).
+
 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
 =========================