X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/6e04c69fadd2c8534aa28ca7d115e7bbedbf1608..e546c4b5abbf2025a5e346887c6b20c1ad99dbe1:/docs/pending-release-notes diff --git a/docs/pending-release-notes b/docs/pending-release-notes index 021c6923..b04f610c 100644 --- a/docs/pending-release-notes +++ b/docs/pending-release-notes @@ -24,15 +24,43 @@ NEW FEATURES (pseudo)random bytes and uses microsecond-resolution time. - Added -clobber switch to mhstore(1) to control overwriting of existing files. +- Added -outfile switch to mhstore(1). - 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). +- Added support for Content-Disposition header (RFC 2183) to mhstore(1) + and mhn(1) when used with -auto. +- All nmh commands now support transactional locking for sequence files. +- There is no longer a per-folder maximum number of sequences. +- For the SMTP MTA TLS can now be negotiated at the beginning of the + connection with the -initialtls switch. +- Messages can now be selected using a relative offset from some other + message, or from the start or end of a sequence. See mh-sequences(5). - ----------------------------- -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 @@ -45,12 +73,6 @@ OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED FEATURES 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. - 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, @@ -61,6 +83,31 @@ OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED FEATURES 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 support for the undocumented NOPUBLICSEQ preprocessor definition + to disable public sequence support has been removed. + +------------------- +DEPRECATED FEATURES +------------------- +- 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. +- Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group is obsolescent + and will be removed in a future release. --------- BUG FIXES @@ -78,3 +125,14 @@ BUG FIXES 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. +- post(8) -sasl now honours username in .netrc [Bug #23168]. whom(1), + send(1), inc(1), and msgchk(1) also benefit from this fix. And, nmh + now supports specification of any valid filename in place of + $HOME/.netrc. +- Added quoting of local part of invalid address in message being + replied to [Bug #26780].