Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
===========================
General
-------
Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`.
The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
this release.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`.
Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes.
Fix bug in dump header.
The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
Library Changes
---------------
Fix a read-after-free in the library.
Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
=========================
General
-------
Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
details.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
`notmuch(1)` man page for details
Emacs
-----
Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
or tree view to resume.
Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
tagged deleted.
Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
they were when you postponed in the final message.
Address Completion
It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
Tag jump menu
It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
Refresh all buffers
It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
Stop display of application/* parts
By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
"non/existent".
Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
only tagged the current thread.)
Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
`notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
`notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
Library changes
---------------
`notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
possible.
Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
handled.
Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
paths.
Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
Test Suite
----------
Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
===========================
Build system
------------
Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Improve error handling in notmuch insert
Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
Emacs
-----
Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
Test Suite
----------
Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
===========================
Emacs
-----
Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
`notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
===========================
General
-------
Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
Emacs
-----
Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
the original colours.
A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
bug, and hence the test.
Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
=========================
General (Xapian 1.4+)
---------------------
Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
Support for single argument date: queries
`date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
Support for blocking opens
When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
Support for named queries
Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
`query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
Library
-------
Message property API
libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
CLI
---
Support for compile time options
A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
and `retry_lock`.
Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
scripts to ignore it.
Emacs
-----
Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
"sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
header.
Make internal address completion customizable
There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
by date.
Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
(by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
completion for the current buffer.
Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
Resend messages
The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
will be added instead.
Face customization is easier
New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
`notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
`notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
Ruby Bindings
-------------
Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
Go Bindings
-----------
Go bindings moved to contrib
Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
both set to zero.
The same issue occured with sort modes.
Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Silence gdb more
Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
(harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
===========================
Library
-------
Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
Test Suite
----------
Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
Notmuch-Mutt
------------
Use `env` to locate perl.
Emacs
-----
Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
=========================
General
-------
Xapian 1.3 support
Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
Limited support for S/MIME messages
Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
time.
Bug Fixes
Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
`notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
Build System
------------
Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
Emacs Interface
---------------
Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
parts are now included in replies.
The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
`notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
`F` forwards all open messages in a thread
When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
forwards only the current message.
Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
`notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
types).
When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
longer generate empty buffers
Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
(or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
signatures.
`notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
message-mode.
Address completion improvements
An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
you previously configured one, customize the variable
`notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
`company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
interactive address completion.
Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
`./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
Documentation
-------------
New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
directory.
notmuch-report
--------------
Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
`notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
`meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
`notmuch-report.json(5)`.
`notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
=========================
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.
Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
`date:<expr>..<expr>`
You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
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.
Build System
------------
The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
configure.
Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
option to configure.
Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
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.
The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
`notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
manual page for further information.
Emacs Interface
---------------
`notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
customization as well.
Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
`notmuch-saved-searches`.
Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
this variable to 10000.
Library
-------
The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
`notmuch_database_{open, create}`
New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
`notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
removal or rename.
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)`.
New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
Deprecated functions
`notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
`notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
nmbug-status
------------
`nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
===========================
Emacs Interface
---------------
Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64
Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
`notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
Path to gpg is now configurable
On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
Emacs
-----
Avoid rendering large text attachements.
Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
Vim
---
Vim client now respects excluded tags.
Notmuch-Mutt
------------
Support messages without Message-IDs.
Library
-------
Undeprecate single message mboxes
It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
`notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
New error logging facility
Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
output formerly printed to stderr.
Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
Fix for rounding of seconds
Documentation
-------------
Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
docmumentation has been removed.
Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
some material from the relicensed wiki.
Contrib
-------
`notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
`notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
nmbug-status
------------
`nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
`status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
`--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
run:
git checkout config origin/config
in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
=========================
Overview
--------
This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
script callers should still check the return value.
`notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
and returning success even if indexing fails).
`notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
`post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
`notmuch deliver` is deprecated
With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
`notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
currently unmaintained.
`notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
have at least `N` files associated with them.
Added `notmuch address` subcommand
This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
count of duplicate addresses.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
`j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
bring up the inbox.
Improved handling of the unread tag
Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
`notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
Expanded default saved search settings
The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
`q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
`notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
the variable for details.
Library changes
---------------
Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
Representing these independently of the database version number will
let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
Previously, library users were required to call
`notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
too out of date for that API.
Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
atomic section will be aborted.
Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
notmuch_database_destroy
Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
messages into the same thread.
nmbug
-----
The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
`fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
nmbug-status
------------
`nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
from the config file. Use something like:
{
"meta": {
"header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
"footer": "</body></html>",
...
},
...
},
Python Bindings
---------------
Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
Build System
------------
The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
structure for signatures changed slightly.
Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
resulting lib.
Add notmuch emacs option that pulls in emacs and installs compiled lisp
files as well.
Based on a similar patch by J. Lewis Muir on pkgsrc-users.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
===========================
This is a bug fix and portability release.
Build System
------------
Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
this variable.
Test Suite
----------
Use --quick when starting emacs
This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
Allow pending break points in atomicity script
This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
`notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
Library changes
---------------
Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
Fix for phrase indexing
There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
will affect only newly indexed messages.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
unintentionally removed.
Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
=========================
Overview
--------
This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
*Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
`batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
below.
General
-------
The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
There is a new `path:` search prefix.
The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
`path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
details.
Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. 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.
Library changes
---------------
Notmuch database upgrade
The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
`notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
`notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
released version of Notmuch before now.
Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
Message header parsing changes
Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
`notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
`notmuch new` has a --quiet option
This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
`notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
user does not want it.
The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
support formatted output.
Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
`notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
`notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
starting with `-`.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Init file
If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
`~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
`notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
configuration/customization items there instead of filling
`~/.emacs` with these.
Changed format for saved searches
The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
shows.
The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
`notmuch-saved-searches`.
IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
(notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
`notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
message had been unread).
The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
`notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
`notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
`notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
to tags already present.
Version variable
The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
these differ from each other.
This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
`ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
for these Emacs versions.
Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
newlines before calling notmuch count.
Bug fixes for sender identities
Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
configured in `notmuch-identities`.
Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
Reply pushes mark before signature
We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
`notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
buffer's.
nmbug
-----
nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
repository and fetch them into the new repository.
and tonnerre.
Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
search syntax.
