diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f29ac274..eba0fd5a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,140 @@ +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.