From 0bec3ed24aad0b50a5af0e641b4107f67a9bc154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:39:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS.org: update --- NEWS.org | 29 ++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS.org b/NEWS.org index 30cc5d6a..21531feb 100644 --- a/NEWS.org +++ b/NEWS.org @@ -3,11 +3,15 @@ * 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 @@ -27,7 +31,9 @@ - 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 @@ -61,9 +67,10 @@ ** 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 @@ -165,8 +172,8 @@ - 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