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:"

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.