From d5a48e99f73fcd9e6963aa017d6776147fc40601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:41:47 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] build: bump version to 1.14.4-pre1

---
 NEWS.org    | 17 +++++++++++------
 meson.build |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS.org b/NEWS.org
index 87abf56e..e998e0e7 100644
--- a/NEWS.org
+++ b/NEWS.org
@@ -6,14 +6,19 @@
   The 1.14 series continues where the 1.12 series left off, with just some
   version updates & depreciations.
 
+*** build
+
+  - The build now use meson's "wrap" packages, replacing the old ~thirdparty/~. As
+    before, system-installed versions have precedence. (1.14.4)
+
 *** mu
 
-   - significant speed-ups in the cleanup process after ~mu index~ (1.14.0)
+   - Significant speed-ups in the cleanup process after ~mu index~ (1.14.0)
 
    - Record the timezone-offset for message sent dates as part of the index
      (1.14.3)
 
-   - for (rare) messages without a =Date:= header, fall-back to the date of the
+   - For (rare) messages without a =Date:= header, fall-back to the date of the
      most recent =Received:= header. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
      Requires re-indexing to apply to older messages (1.14.3)
 
@@ -61,7 +66,7 @@
      ~mu4e-view-always-show-url-indicators~ to non-~nil~ to restore the old behavior
      (1.14.3)
 
-   - In the message-view, ~mu4e~ now also generates HTML version for text-only
+   - In the message-view, ~mu4e~ now also generates an HTML version for text-only
      messages, thus making ~mu4e-view-toggle-html~ (~h~) work for all, and allowing
      for displaying them in external browser (1.14.3)
 
@@ -73,18 +78,18 @@
 
 *** scm
 
-   - added new ~--eval~ command-line option, so you can do e.g.
+   - Added new ~--eval~ command-line option, so you can do e.g.
    #+begin_example
    $ mu scm --eval '(format #t "found ~d matche(s)\n" (length (mfind "hello")))'
    found 7173 match(es)
    #+end_example
    (1.14.0)
 
-   - add procedures ~configuration~ (an alist with the system configuration) and
+   - Add procedures ~configuration~ (an alist with the system configuration) and
      ~fields~/~field~ (alists with metadata about database fields). See the SCM
      reference documentation for further details (1.14.3).
 
-   - add procedures ~date-object~ which is like ~date~, but returns message's
+   - Add procedures ~date-object~ which is like ~date~, but returns message's
      sent-date as an SRFI-19 object; and ~utc-offset~ to get the UTC (timezone)
      offset for a date. Similarly, add ~changed-object~ to complement ~changed~
      (1.14.3)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 30b5e087..e134cdc7 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 # project setup
 project('mu', ['c', 'cpp'],
-        version: '1.14.3',
+        version: '1.14.4-pre1',
         meson_version: '>= 1.3.2',
         license: 'GPL-3.0-or-later',
         default_options : {
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ fs = import('fs')
 
 # hard-code the datxe here (for reproducibility); we derive the dates used in
 # e.g. documentation from this.
-mu_date='2026-08-09'
+mu_date='2026-08-11'
 
 # installation paths
 prefixdir = get_option('prefix')