[PATCH 2/7] NEWS: Document the notmuch_database_close split

Justus Winter 4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Tue Mar 20 17:55:06 PDT 2012


Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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 NEWS |   12 ++++++++++++
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ed5e3c5..26fce67 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -52,6 +52,18 @@ Reply improvement using the JSON format
   reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
   available.
 
+Library changes
+---------------
+
+API changes
+
+  The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
+  notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy.
+
+  This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
+  database and thus release the lock associated with it without
+  destroying the data structures obtained from it.
+
 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
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