[PATCH] NEWS: Database version 3, API improvements, and ghost messages
Austin Clements
amdragon at mit.edu
Mon Nov 10 05:13:42 PST 2014
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NEWS | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b30ed1b..7a121e4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -36,9 +36,39 @@ Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
Library changes
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+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+ too out of date for that API.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
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