From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:29:43 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: NEWS: News for big endian sha1 bug fix.
X-Git-Tag: 0.17_rc2~7
X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f07bfd6d0189afcd9d260f6f560056dd3476f66

NEWS: News for big endian sha1 bug fix.

We could give more details about how to migrate tags, but I'm not sure
that it's a practical problem, or just a theoretical one.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3383ecfb..184bd0e0 100644
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-Notmuch 0.17~rc1 (2013-11-20)
+Notmuch 0.17~rc2 (2013-xx-yy)
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+Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
+---------------------------------------
+
+Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
+computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
+with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
+message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
+and amd64.  If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
+strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
+before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
+like:
+
+    notmuch dump | \
+      awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
+        {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
+
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