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@@ -4,106 +4,53 @@ Things to add to the release notes for the next full release:
 NEW FEATURES
 ------------
 
 NEW FEATURES
 ------------
 

-- All nmh programs will now warn about multiple profile entries for
-  the same non-null, non-comment component.  In previous versions, all
-  but the first were silently ignored.
-- mhmail now supports all post(8) options, or optionally can use
-  send(1) with all of its options.  Its formerly undocumented -resent
-  switch has been documented.  And it has new -attach, -headerfield,
-  and -send/-nosend switches.
-- Default to flock() locking on OpenBSD and Darwin.
-- Added -directives support to mhbuild(1) to control whether or not
-  mhbuild will honor MIME directives by default.  And added support
-  for special #on/#off/#pop directives to control the MIME directive
-  processing state.
-- Added -messageid switch to send(1) and post(8).  This allows
-  selection of the style to use for generated Message-ID and
-  Content-ID header fields.  The default localname style is
-  pid.time@localname, where time is in seconds, and matches previous
-  behavior.  The random style replaces the localname with some
-  (pseudo)random bytes and uses microsecond-resolution time.
-- Added -clobber switch to mhstore(1) to control overwriting of
-  existing files.
-- Added -noall/-all switches to sortm(1).  sortm -noall requires
-  a messages argument.
-- $PAGER overrides the compiled-in default pager command.
-- Added etc/scan.highlighted format file, as an example of how to
-  highlight/colorize the output of scan(1).
-- inc(1) now supports a -port switch to specify the port used by the
-  POP server.
-- pick(1) now decodes MIME-encoded header fields before searching.
-- The VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables are now supported as fallbacks
-  if the user does not configure an editor entry in their profile.
-- The format engine (mh_format(5)) now properly accounts for multibyte
-  characters when accounting for column widths.
-- burst(1) now can burst MIME-formatted digests (messages that contain
-  message/rfc822 parts instead of messages formatted with RFC 934).
-- All proc entries (showproc, moreproc, etc) can now accept entries that
-  contain spaces and shell metacharacters.  If found, such entries will
-  either be space-splitted or processed by /bin/sh.
+- builds use OpenSSL if available.
+- post now defaults to port 587 on 'smtp' message submission.
+- A value of 0 for the width switch of scan(1), inc(1), ap(1), dp(1),
+  fmttest(1), and mhl(1) now means as many characters as the format
+  engine can produce [Bug #15274].  That amount is limited by internal
+  buffers.
+- If a component has trailing whitespace, e.g., body:component="> ",
+  mhl now trims that whitespace off when filtering blank text lines.
+- An "rtrim" flag has been added to mhl to remove any trailing
+  whitespace from filtered text lines.  A corresponding "nortrim" flag
+  has also been added.
+- The default locations for configuration files and suppoooort binaries
+  have been changed.  Configuration files now install into ${sysconfdir}/nmh,
+  and support binaries are placed in ${libexecdir}/nmh.  If you are upgrading
+  an existing installation you should look for old configuration files in
+  ${sysconfdir} and merge any local customizations into the new files in
+  ${sysconfdir}/nmh, then remove the old files.  ${libdir} will also contain
+  obsolete support programs that should be removed.
+- When building from source, configure will derive ${prefix} from an existing
+  nmh installation if it finds one in your $PATH.

 
 

-----------------------------
-OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED FEATURES
-----------------------------
+-----------------
+OBSOLETE FEATURES
+-----------------

 
 

-- Changed exit status of each nmh command's -version and -help
-  switches from 1 to 0.
-- The following environment variables were deprecated in nmh 1.5
-  and removed from this release:
-    MHPOPDEBUG (use -snoop command line switch instead)
-    MM_NOASK (use -nolist and -nopause command line switches instead)
-    NOMHNPROC (use -nocheckmime command line switch instead)
-    FACEPROC (undocumented faceproc feature removed)
-- Changed repl and dist default to -noatfile.  The default of -atfile
-  was deprecated in nmh 1.5.  If there are no requests to maintain
-  -atfile, it will be removed in the future.
-- The undocumented -queue switch to mhmail has been removed.
-- The undocumented -queue switch to post is deprecated/obsolete
-  and will be removed in the next release.  It supports the
-  SMTP XQUE verb, which is obsolete according to
-  http://smtpfilter.sourceforge.net/esmtp.html
-- conflict(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
-- mhtest(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
-- msh(1) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
-- spost(8) has been merged into post(8).  Its functionality is enabled
-  by selecting the sendmail/pipe mail transport method, described in
-  the mh-tailor(5) man page.  The spost -noalias, -backup/-nobackup,
-  -push/-nopush, and -remove/-noremove switches are not supported by
-  post.  Note that spost did not support -whom or Dcc, and neither
-  does post when using sendmail/pipe.  And spost would expand blind
-  aliases and send them in the message; post with sendmail/pipe
-  refuses to do that.  For backward compatibility, spost has been
-  replaced by a simple shell script that exec's post -mts
-  sendmail/pipe.
-- Support for the undocumented and deprecated --enable-nmh-debug configure
-  flag has been removed.
-- Support for encoding some characters designated as EBCDIC-unsafe
-  via the -ebcdicsafe and -noebcdicsafe switches to mhbuild has
-  been removed.
-- The configure flag --with-pager has been removed; the default pager
-  is now hardcoded as "more".  Users are still free to override the
-  default using the PAGER environment variable or entries in .mh_profile.
-- The configure flag --with-editor has been removed; the fallback editor
-  if none is configured is "vi".
+- The undocumented -queue switch to post was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was
+  removed in this release.
+- conflict(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- mhtest(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- msh(1) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group (everyone) was
+  deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+
+-------------------
+DEPRECATED FEATURES
+-------------------
+
+- Support for the MHPDEBUG environment variable is deprecated and will be
+  removed from a future nmh release.  Instead, use the -debug switch to pick.
+- With the move of support binaries from ${libdir} to ${libexecdir}/nmh, the
+  mostly undocumented 'libdir' mhparam(1) component has been replaced by a
+  new 'libexecdir' component.  'libdir' will be removed in a future release.

 
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 BUG FIXES
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 BUG FIXES
 ---------
 

-- Replaced utilities that operate on pbm files with those that operate
-  on pnm files in etc/mhn.defaults [Bug #15152].
-- Removed obsolete BUGS section at end of rcvstore(1) man page [Bug #4361].
-- Fixed -nocc me doesn't account for Alternate-Mailboxes [Bug #36635].
-- Propagate Mail-Followup-To [Bug #5571].
-- "mark -sequence cur -delete all" now works for cur as well as any
-  other sequence, to allow clearing of the current message indication.
-- The first alias contained in a blind list is now expanded.  The
-  mh-alias(5) man page was updated to show that blind lists must not
-  be terminated with, or contain, a trailing semicolon [Bug #15604].
-- Fixed sendfiles(1) to always provide a From: address.  Also, updated
-  its switches.
-- Fixed pick(1) to properly unfold multiple-line header fields by
-  removing newlines instead of replacing them with spaces [Bug #15215].
-- Removed the artificial limit of 1000 messages at a time for rmmproc.
-- Fixed decoding of header fields when they contain a character that
-  can't be converted.
+- The format scanner no longer subtracts 1 from the width.  This has the
+  effect of no longer counting the trailing newline in the output of
+  scan(1), inc(1), and the other programs that rely on the format scanner.