X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/523cfc19212197befa73fc59460e93c563b76c9b..f345b9b480296b4b6a8469d6221752893c5d1420:/docs/pending-release-notes?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/pending-release-notes b/docs/pending-release-notes index a80ce41d..5e705130 100644 --- a/docs/pending-release-notes +++ b/docs/pending-release-notes @@ -1,64 +1,75 @@ Things to add to the release notes for the next full release: -- Switched to buffered output when performing TLS encryption in the SMTP - MTA to increase performance. -- mh-e support has been changed so that it is always compiled into nmh; - old features that were previously enabled by the MHE option have been - garbage collected. -- Old code enabled by the UCI preprocessor definition has been - garbage-collected. -- LOCKDIR is now configurable via --enable-lockdir -- All configuration options that were formerly only adjustable via editing - config.h have been removed. -- Support for the built-in ftp client (used when dealing with external body - message parts in MIME messages) has been removed. -- fileproc and mhlproc mh-profile entries will now be obeyed by - send, rcvdist, and whatnow. -- New mh-format(5) instructions have been implemented: %(putlit), - %(concataddr), %(myhost), %(myname) -- The --enable-pop configure option has been removed; POP support is now - compiled in always. -- You can now filter the body of a message through a user-defined filter - program inside of repl (the idea is that it will be used by repl). - See mhl(1), specifically the "format" keyword and "formatproc" in - mh-profile(5). -- The test suite has been integrated into the Makefile via "make check". -- The following environment variables are obsolete/deprecated. Support for - them will be removed from the next nmh 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 to be removed) -- nmh's idea of the local mailbox is available via a new mh-profile(5) - escape, %(localmbox). The local mailbox name is now configurable - via a new mh-profile(5) entry, Local-Mailbox. -- comp, forw, and dist all support -from, -to, -cc, -fcc, and -subject - switches. They also all process all component templates through - mh-format(5). -- post(8) now requires a From: header in all drafts that it processes - for sending. The default component templates have all been adjusted - to include appropriate From: headers based on either the -from switch - or the local mailbox. -- burst(1) now supports any valid message delimiter according to RFC 934. -- A problem with the MD5 digest calculator on 64-bit systems has been fixed. -- Fixed mhbuild -check to properly insert Content-MD5 header. -- Fixed mhlist -verbose to work with all content types [Bug #35219]. -- Fixed file descriptor leaks in mhparse [Bug #24004: (debbug 344182)]. -- Fixed mhstore to honor nmh-storage profile entry even with -auto - [Bug #35303]. -- post(8) can now explicitly control the SMTP envelope address either via - the Sender: header or the new Envelope-From: header. -- The -attach option is now the default (using Nmh-Attachment) and - -attachformat 1 is now the default. -- repl and dist currently create a link named ./@ to the message being - replied or redistributed. A switch, -noatfile, has been added to - disable creation of this link. The current default behavior can - also be specified with -atfile. The current default behavior is - obsolete/deprecated: -noatfile will become the default in the next - nmh release. If there are no requests to maintain -atfile, it will - be removed in the future. -- Added support for readline editing and command/filename completion at - the WhatNow? prompt -- The hostable option of mts.conf is no longer needed and has been removed. -- A sample mhl filter for handling MIME content inside of mhl has been - placed in the doc directory as "replyfilter". +------------ +NEW FEATURES +------------ + +- 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 $PATH. +- Added getmymbox and getmyaddr mh-format(5) function escapes. +- New -[no]changecur, -fixtype, -decodetypes, and -[no]crlflinebreaks switches + have been added to mhfixmsg(1). +- mhfixmsg now removes an extraneous trailing semicolon from header + parameter lists. +- Added -convertargs switch to repl(1), to pass arguments to programs + specified in the user's profile or mhn.defaults to convert message + content. +- Added mhical(1), to display, reply to, and cancel iCalendar (RFC 5545) + event requests. +- added multiply format function +- "mhparam bindir" prints the path to the directory containing the public + executables (${bindir}). +- new "-prefer" switch for mhshow (and mhlist and mhshow), to allow specifying + the preferred content types to show, if present in a multipart alternative. +- mh-format now has %(kilo) and %(kibi) functions, to allow printing + numbers as, for example, "10K", or "2.3Mi" +- Support for the -sendmail flag to send/post to change the sendmail + binary when using the sendmail/pipe MTS. + +----------------- +OBSOLETE FEATURES +----------------- + +- 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 +--------- + +- 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.