From 2b3e9ff467d99fe02852cfcc46181c4d29dea99b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:07:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Document the notmuch_database_close split

Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
---
 NEWS | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c1704e03..a2cd0807 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ leaving Mutt.  notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
 "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
 contrib/ from now on.
 
+Library changes
+---------------
+
+API changes
+
+  The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
+  notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy.
+
+  This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
+  database and thus release the lock associated with it without
+  destroying the data structures obtained from it.
+
 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
 =========================
 
-- 
2.43.0