NEWS.org: update

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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
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* 1.12 (post 1.12.0 updates)
The 1.12 series has been the stable one for a fairly long time, and gained some
changes in mean-time. Most of the changes are for big bugs, but some small new
features are available as well. We decided to put off a new development series
(1.13 -> 1.14) until incompatible changes are required; for now working in the
1.12 series seems a good way to get improvements to users more quickly.
The 1.12 series has been stable for a fairly long time, and gained some changes
in mean-time. Most of the changes are for big bugs, but some small new features
are available as well.
We decided to put off a new development series (1.13 -> 1.14) until
incompatible changes are required; for now working in the 1.12 series seems a
good way to get improvements to users more quickly.
The changes include:
- many bug fixes
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- The ~--format=json~ output for *mu find* now includes "unix-style" timestamps
for ~:date~ and ~:changed~ (~:date-unix~ and ~:changed-unix~, respectively) which
are a bit easier to manipulate than the emacs-style timestamps.
represent the time as a simple number (number of seconds since epoch), which
is a bit easier to manipulate than the emacs-style timestamps (same value,
but expressed as a list).
- with 1.12.7, ~mu~ indexing is single-threaded again, to avoid cases of
database-corruption. In *mu4e* that means you need to _wait_ until indexing is
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** Some highlights
- Significant speedups in both ~mu~ and ~mu4e~
- Reworked message composition, closer to its Gnus origins which adds many of its features
- Overhauled the query parser; squashing a number of bugs/limitations, incl. dealing
with CJK messages
- Reworked message composition, closer to its Gnus origins which adds many of
its features
- Overhauled the query parser; squashing a number of bugs/limitations, incl.
dealing with CJK messages
- Experimental folding of message threads
- Better and faster indexing of HTML messages
- Experimental search by (human) language wit CLD2
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- The special mailing list handling is gone; ~mu4e-compose-reply~ and
~mu4e-compose-wide-reply~ should take care of that. There's also
~message-reply-to-function~ for ultimate control; see [[info:(message)
Reply][info (message) Reply]] for details.
~message-reply-to-function~ for ultimate control; see [[info:(message) Reply][info (message) Reply]]
for details.
- ~mu4e-compose-in-new-frame~ has been generalized (in a backward-compatible
way) to ~mu4e-compose-switch~, which lets you decide whether a message