X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9d913791ed4e846c06e901d7164a659c60732fb3;hp=f29ac274da47780ace1564a05f88da6a97575ce5;hb=417274d698b6718621b9f5dec744ab169499f4e3;hpb=680cc4c11a6025da1809528419e923275f8f85b0 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f29ac274..9d913791 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,425 @@ +New emacs features +------------------ +Add a new, optional hook for detecting inline patches + + This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox + under ""Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch + customize interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and + treated as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive + highlighting). + +Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply + + This feature adds a "replied" tag by default, but can easily be + customized to add or remove other tags as well. For example, a user + might use a tag of "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to + automatically remove that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message + Mark Replied" in the notmuch customize interface. + +Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27) +========================== +General bug fixes +----------------- +Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply" + + This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the + user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and + the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug + was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops. + +Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search" + + This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','. + Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never + want notmuch to crash. + +Emacs bug fixes +--------------- +Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view. + +Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc +directory does not exist. + +Build fix +--------- +Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block. + + Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the + final linking of notmuch would fail. + +Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27) +======================== +New command-line features +------------------------- +User-configurable tags for new messages + + A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to + determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch + setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how + to specify this value. + +Threads search results named based on subjects that match search + + This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously + read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that + subject in the search results rather than the old subject. + +Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting) + + Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make + things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort. + +Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply" + + Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out + the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have + several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various + mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are + replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To: + header). + +Indication of author names that match a search + + When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now + lists the authors that match the search before listing the other + authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last + matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in + a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread + messages in the thread are listed first. + +New: Python bindings +-------------------- +Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch +library to the central repository. These bindings were previously +known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be +accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch". + +The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in +python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based +searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization, +and other tasks. + +These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but +are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level +package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome. + +Emacs interface improvements +---------------------------- +An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful) + + Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it + by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search + bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of + recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it + a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved + searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail, + (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients, + but without any of the disadvantages). + + Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that + exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom + search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress) + away. + + Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch" + immediately displaying a particular search result, we + recommend instead running something like: + + emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)' + + The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order, + (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also + leave that off to have your search results in "newest first" + order. + +Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch + + Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it + much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be + tweaked by the user. + + You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in + emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and + "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group" + "notmuch". + + Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented + options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down + selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various + settings. + +Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses + + This support currently relies on an external program, + (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch + itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have + already been written that generate address completions by doing + notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing + first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the + past, etc. + + One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to + notmuch) is available via: + + git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git + + Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then + hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc: + line of an email message will provide matching completions. + +Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store + + This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to + set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize + screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate + making this automatic in a future release. + +New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail") + + The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen + it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers, + run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The + script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll + Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will + typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch + tag" commands. + +Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch. + + This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where + some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter + characters in it would cause the parser to fall over). + +Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!) + + Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed + inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided + the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size). + + Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain + and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a + future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the + other representation. + + Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be + saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all + attachments). + +Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content + + Many new functions are available for tidying up message + content. These include options such as wrapping long lines, + compressing duplicate blank lines, etc. + + Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by + clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert + Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen. + +New support for searchable citations (even when hidden) + + When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of + these citations will still be available for emacs' standard + "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion + of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily + to display the search result. + +More flexible handling of header visibility + + As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date + headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users + that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers + Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The + visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis + with the 'h' keybinding. + + For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the + new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list + only those headers that should be present in the display of a message. + +The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere + + Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message. + +Customizable formatting of search results + + The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of + the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch + Search Result Format" section of the customize interface. + +Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search. + +Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs. + +New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread. + +New library feature +------------------- +Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries + + This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For + example when collecting a set of messages that will all be + manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the + messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by + date. + +Build fixes +----------- +Fix to compile against GMime 2.6 + + Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even + though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along). + +Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options. + + For example, those that the gentoo build scripts expect configure to + accept are now all accepted. + +Test suite +---------- +A large number of new tests for the many new features. + +Better display of output from failed tests. + + Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at + complete actual and expected output looking for deviation. + +Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16) +======================== +This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual +detailed release notes this time! + +This release consists of a number of minor new features that make +notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes. + +We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1 +release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do +better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to +notmuch in subsequent releases. + +-Carl + +General features +---------------- +Better guessing of From: header. + + Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be + used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the + Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To: + or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when + replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a + configured address. + +Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages + + Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was + guaranteed to match all messages. + +Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages. + + This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as + "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the + shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the + support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single + search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any + other search terms. + +Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is +missing. + + Previously, if two or more message were received with a common + parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would + not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed + so that such messages are properly connected in a thread. + +General bug fixes +----------------- +Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT + + One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling + SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from + the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed + Control-C while "notmuch new" was working. + +Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty. + +Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json + + Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were + silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display + of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends. + +Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply" + + Previously, the user might see: + + Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?= + + rather than: + + Subject: Re: Rozlučka + + The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will + be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the + recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be + unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form. + +Emacs client features +--------------------- +Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines. + + It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is + being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more + important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any + citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and + notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix). + +The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove +tags by region. + + Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of + threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk + tagging is still available for all threads matching the current + search with th '*' binding. + +More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers. + + Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer + name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless + number to the user. + +Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags. + + See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x + customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications" + and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization. + +Build-system features +--------------------- +Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X). + +Add support to configure for many standard options. + + We include actual support for: + + --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir + + And accept and silently ignore several more: + + --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir + --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking + +Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a +separate "make install-emacs". + +Automatically compute versions numbers between releases. + + This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as + 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the + 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc". + +Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify +its results. + Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05) ======================== This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.