From ea7c2e54f008a49d6d62bdbd8c2281edfd082b03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:39:19 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: news for initial revision tracking support (0.21) --- NEWS | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3593ded7..019da55a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,31 @@ General Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer supported. +Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries + + Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with + every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in + `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information. + +Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries + + The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done + automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is + run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the + upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of + Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the + `.notmuch` directory before upgrading. + +Command Line Interface +---------------------- + +Database revision tracking + + Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global + option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter + rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a + `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data. + Emacs Interface --------------- @@ -27,6 +52,12 @@ Library The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling `notmuch_database_{open, create}`. +Database revision tracking + + Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the + query parser and the new function + `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`. + Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27) ===========================