X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2b2f08a6b799d5ba51a5577fc0a1f44e0126f68e;hp=dae783299a316646cba9dee0ef9efcafcdb476d9;hb=da67bf12ce122759f72d1d510fb8996df3c9f946;hpb=18bf91def97157538bca1b8aac5e624880c8f62e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dae78329..2b2f08a6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,624 @@ +Notmuch 0.11 (201x-xx-xx) +========================= + +Performance +----------- + +Automatic tag query optimization + + "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to + exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've + suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary. + + +Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25) +=========================== + +Bug-fix release. +---------------- + +Fix --help argument + + Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch + --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in + 0.10.1. + +Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23) +========================= + +New build and testing features +------------------------------ + +Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now +needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for +prerequisites is improved. + +Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs. + +New command-line features +------------------------- + +Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option + + The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be + applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from + the dump file. + +Add search terms to "notmuch dump" + + The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch + search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in + favour of using stdout. + +Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options + + The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit + the number of results shown. + +Add "notmuch count --output" option + + The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to + messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option. + +New emacs UI features +--------------------- + +Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter + + These functions now support completion tags for query parts + starting with "tag:". + +Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches + + Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that + opens a notmuch search for the given message id. + +Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix + + Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch. + +Do not query on notmuch-search exit + + It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user + is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search. + +Performance +----------- + +Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently + +Search avoids opening and parsing message files + + We now store more information in the database so search no longer + has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can + improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this + requires a database rebuild: + + notmuch dump > notmuch.dump + # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch) + notmuch new + notmuch restore notmuch.dump + +New collection of add-on tools +------------------------------ + +The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These +tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual +licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch +mailing list. + +nmbug - share tags with a given prefix + + nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given + prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting + them to git in one location and restoring in another. + +Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01) +======================== + +New, general features +--------------------- + +Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new" + + "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent + transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or + crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to + detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state + temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store. + +Library changes +--------------- + +New functions + + notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow + multiple database operations to be performed atomically. + + notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says. + +API changes + + notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return + a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the + message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to + libnotmuch.so.2 + +Python bindings changes +----------------------- + + - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to + libnotmuch. + - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic() + - Support Database().find_message_by_filename() + NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash + the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch. + - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter) + - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above). + +Ruby bindings changes +--------------------- + + - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic. + - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError. + - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions. + - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above). + +Emacs improvements +------------------ + + * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh + signing key. + * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding) + to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer. + +Reply formatting cleanup +------------------------ + + "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode + MIME parts are being suppressed. + +Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10) +======================== + +Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts + + Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now + includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts. + Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all + headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be + soon). + +Improved Build system portability + + Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were + specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should + be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD. + +Documentation update for Ruby bindings + + Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc. + +Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings + + - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files. + - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation. + - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8. + +Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01) +======================== + +Vim interface improvements +-------------------------- + +Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface + + * fix citation/signature fold lengths + * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/* + * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature + * fix from list reformatting in search view + * fix space key: now archives (did opposite) + +Uwe Kleine-König contributed + + * use full path for sendmail/doc fix + * fix compose temp file name + +Python Bindings changes +----------------------- + +Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8: + + * message tags are now explicitly unicode + * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string + +Build-System improvements +------------------------ + +Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files + + This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the + patch. + +Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17) +========================== + +Bug-fix release. +---------------- + +Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols. + + It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for + people running gcc 4.4.5. + +Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01) +======================= +New, general features +--------------------- +Folder-based searching + + Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the + directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail + storage). The syntax is as follows: + + folder: + + For example, one might use things such as: + + folder:spam + folder:2011-* + folder:work/todo + + to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or + containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively. + + This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent + software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and + delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as + Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags. + + NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of + notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable + this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be + rebuilt as follows: + + notmuch dump > notmuch.dump + # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch) + notmuch new + notmuch restore notmuch.dump + +Support for PGP/MIME + + Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new + support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor + and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen. + +New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted" + + These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing + multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts. + + NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of + notmuch will receive these tags. + +New command-line features +------------------------- +Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification + + This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of + PGP/MIME-signed parts. + +Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options + + This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts. + Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry + tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses). + +Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output + + MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original + MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly + analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to + which parts a signature part applies). + +Add new "notmuch show --part" option + + This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which + is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer + documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all + of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single + part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON + formatting). + +Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *") + + The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the + addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now + make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping + it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax + by translating it internally to the new call. + +Performance improvements +------------------------ +Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads) + + Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first + performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs + additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads. + + Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches + results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search. + +Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data) + + Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get + all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type) + results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search. + + The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding + optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup + of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now + 1.8s). Thanks, Austin! + +Faster initial indexing + + More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured + speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m + rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka. + +Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories + + Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories + when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the + last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No + new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak. + +New emacs-interface features +---------------------------- + +Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG) + + Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed + messages. Automatically display decrypted content for + multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable + notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this + needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools. + Also note there is no support SMIME yet. + +Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails + + This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to + "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages + from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where + previously they were silently hidden from the user). + +User-selectable From address + + A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as + the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply + press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs + will prompt for the from address to use. + + The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the + notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in + the notmuch configuration file if desired. + + The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address + when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting + the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch + customize group. + +Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view + + In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as + its parent, the subject is not shown. + +Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message + + When a message contains a line looking something like: + + ----- Original Message ----- + + emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message", + (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message" + button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted + citations work much like conventional citations. + +New hooks for running code when tags are modified + + Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular + tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for + example, interface with some external spam-recognition training + tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be + modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group: + + Notmuch Before Tag Hook + Notmuch After Tag Hook + +New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts + + Many emails are sent with redundant content within a + multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a + text/html part). Users can configure the setting: + + Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts + + to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface + automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html + parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet + because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden + part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part. + +Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts + + These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the + emacs diary. + +Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters + + Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark. + +Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes, +and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address). + +Vim interface improvements +-------------------------- +Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface: + + * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx, + * Implementing archive in show view + * Add support to mark as read in show and search views + * Add delete commands + * Various cleanups. + +Bindings improvements +--------------------- +Ruby bindings are now much more complete + + Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags, + MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames + +* Python bindings have been updated and extended + (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/) + + New bindings: + - Message().get_filenames(), + - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags() + - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now + + - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__() + These allow, for example: + if msg1 == msg2: ... + + As well as set arithmetic on Messages(): + + s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2) + s1.union(s2) + s2 -= s1 + + Removed: + - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator. + Use len(list(Messages())) or + Query.count_messages() to get the length. + +Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go + +New build-system features +------------------------- +Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory + + This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running + the configure script from some other directory: + + mkdir build + cd build + ../configure + make + +Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure + + When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling + "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When + this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with + the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent + manual invocation of configure. + +New test-suite feature +---------------------- +Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH. + + The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>= + bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at + /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate + the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to + simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use + the test suite. + +Support for testing output with a trailing newline. + + Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the + presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which + has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using + test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect + any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests + are updated to take advantage of this. + +Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite + + The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This + allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as + some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences + due to configuration files in the users HOME directory. + + +General bug fixes +----------------- +Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files" + + For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID, + previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This + command is now fixed to correctly output all files. + +Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses + + This fixed a bug where a search for: + + to:user@elsewhere.com + + would incorrectly match a message sent: + + To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com + +Fix --output=json when search has no results + + A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results + to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly + return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as + expected. + +fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply" +from the Received headers in some cases. + +Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from +sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX). + +Cleaned up several memory leaks + +Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free. + +Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions + + Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian + C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library + interface and were never intended to be exported. + +Emacs-interface bug fixes +------------------------- +Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations + + Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were + silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was + very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below. + +Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results + + When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs + interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output + of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This + is now fixed. + +Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment + + Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to + re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments + (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is + fixed to avoid this bug. + +Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible + + Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is + fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts. + Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11) ======================== New, general features @@ -12,9 +633,9 @@ Maildir-flag synchronization ---- ----- 'D' draft 'F' flagged - 'P' passed - 'R' replied - 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present) + 'P' passed + 'R' replied + 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present) The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and