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+Notmuch 0.34 (UNRELEASED)
+=========================
+
+General
+-------
+
+An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
+notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library.
+
 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
 ===========================