X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/2b5801d1615e48322ba25116e4fbbbf7936aec03..a65a4bcf635f8be1b35e0cf0c506894a92f62acf:/docs/pending-release-notes?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/pending-release-notes b/docs/pending-release-notes index 75377dc3..07c073ab 100644 --- a/docs/pending-release-notes +++ b/docs/pending-release-notes @@ -4,113 +4,53 @@ Things to add to the release notes for the next full release: 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. -- A new program, fmttest(1) is included to help debug format files -- mhshow/mhstore now have support for RFC-2017 (access-type=url) for - external message bodies. -- Added -retainsequences switch to refile(1). -- A new program, mhfixmsg(1), is included to rewrite MIME messages with - various transformations. -- Added -[no]rmmproc switches to rmm(1). +- 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. --------- 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.