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authorDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2020-04-18 13:28:21 +0300
committerDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2020-04-18 13:28:21 +0300
commit06e63d9f09cfa54b869ef615fefe5448b224e411 (patch)
treeb972e5a2e3a9beb65c66d8a16b4d521ae6244177
parent7ac7e746cf1af8395fdfcf638f308285a9e92b0c (diff)
bump version to 1.41.4
-rw-r--r--NEWS.org49
-rw-r--r--configure.ac2
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS.org b/NEWS.org
index 5e9d937..3d44361 100644
--- a/NEWS.org
+++ b/NEWS.org
@@ -1,10 +1,24 @@
#+STARTUP:showall
* NEWS (user visible changes)
-* 1.3.x (unreleased, experimental/development version)
+* 1.4 (released, as of April 18 2020)
*** mu
+ - mu now defaults to the [[https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html][XDG Base Directory Specification]] for the default
+ locations for various files. E.g. on Unix the mu database now lives under
+ ~~/.cache/mu/~ rather than ~~/.mu~. You can still use the old location by
+ passing ~--muhome=~/.mu~ to various ~mu~ commands, or setting ~(setq
+ mu4e-mu-home "~/.mu")~ for ~mu4e~.
+
+ If your ~~/.cache~ is volatile (e.g., is cleared on reboot), you may want
+ use ~--muhome~. Some mailing-list dicussion suggest that's fairly rare
+ though.
+
+ After upgrading, you may wish to delete the files in the old location to
+ recover some diskspace.
+
+
- There's a new subcommand ~mu init~ to initialize the mu database, which
takes the ~--maildir~ and ~--my-address~ parameters that ~index~ used to take.
These parameters are persistent so ~index~ does not need (or accept) them
@@ -14,25 +28,12 @@
implies that you need to re-index after changing these parameters.
- There is another new subcommand ~mu info~ to get information about the mu
- database.
+ database, the personal addresses etc.
- The contacts cache (which is used by ~mu cfind~ and ~mu4e~'s
contact-completion) is now stored as part of the Xapian database rather
than as a separate file.
- - mu now defaults to the [[https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html][XDG Base Directory Specification]] for the default
- locations for various files. E.g. on Unix the mu database now lives under
- ~~/.cache/mu/~ rather than ~~/.mu~. You can still use the old location by
- passing ~--muhome=~/.mu~ to various ~mu~ commands, or setting ~(setq
- mu4e-mu-home "~/.mu")~ for ~mu4e~.
-
- It is expected that the directory where the database lives, survives a
- reboot; if that is not true in your case, you can use ~--muhome~ (otherwise
- you'd have to reindex after each reboot).
-
- After upgrading, you may wish to delete the files in the old location to
- recover some diskspace.
-
- The ~--xbatchsize~ and ~--autoupgrade~ options for indexing are gone now; both
are determined implicitly now.
@@ -43,7 +44,8 @@
section above).
It is strongly recommended that you run ~mu init~ with the appropriate
- parameters to (re)initialize the Xapian database.
+ parameters to (re)initialize the Xapian database, as mentioned in the
+ mu-section above.
The main screen shows your address(es), and issues a warning if
~user-email-address~ is not part of that (and refer you to ~mu init~). You can
@@ -69,9 +71,9 @@
- In addition, he added support for custom headers, so the ones for for the
non-gnus-view should work just as well.
- - Pierre Neidhardt contributed an "Account Setup Helper" which wraps the
- existing context setup with some niceties for accounts. See the manual for
- details.
+ - Pierre Neidhardt contributed an experimental "Account Setup Helper" which
+ wraps the existing context setup with some niceties for accounts. See the
+ manual for details.
- ~org-mode~ support is enabled by default now. ~speedbar~ support is disabled
by default.
@@ -95,10 +97,11 @@
- Replying to mailing-lists has been improved, allowing for choosing for
replying to all, sender, list-only.
- - ~mu4e~ now shows unread/all counts for bookmarks in the main screen. This is
- on by default, but can be disabled by setting ~:hide-unread~ in the bookmark
- ~plist~ to ~t~. For speed-reasons, these counts do _not_ filter out duplicates
- or messages that have been removed from the filesystem behind mu4e's back.
+ - A very visible change, ~mu4e~ now shows unread/all counts for bookmarks in
+ the main screen. This is on by default, but can be disabled by setting
+ ~:hide-unread~ in the bookmark ~plist~ to ~t~. For speed-reasons, these counts
+ do _not_ filter out duplicates or messages that have been removed from the
+ filesystem behind mu4e's back.
- ~mu4e-attachment-dir~ now also applies to composing messages; it determines
the default directory for inclusion.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 841c506..0f69d7b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
## Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
AC_PREREQ([2.68])
-AC_INIT([mu],[1.3.10],[https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues],[mu])
+AC_INIT([mu],[1.4],[https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues],[mu])
AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (C) 2008-2020 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema])
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([mu/mu.cc])