X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/7ec9aaa931525abed3df348a22f824c49c828225..4f28cd1669089292f6e34f14617d4a8c1354647b:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ead4750a..ef15c711 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -# # NEWS - Release notes for nmh 1.7 # @@ -9,6 +8,9 @@ MH and nmh uses should read careful the NOTEABLE CHANGES section, as there are some significant changes to nmh behavior. Otherwise, please see the README and INSTALL files for help on getting started with nmh. +For news of future releases, subscribe to the low-volume + https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-announce + --------------- NOTABLE CHANGES --------------- @@ -21,7 +23,7 @@ The largest notable changes in the 1.7 release are: (via the Cyrus-SASL library) and TLS. TLS support has been strengthened to perform certificate name validation and to require TLS 1.1 as a minimum protocol. Also, all protocols can make use of the OAuth2/XOAUTH - SASL mechanism, which is supported by gmail. + SASL mechanism, which is supported by Gmail. - send(1) now supports adding switches to post(8) based on the address or domain of the email address in the From: header; this more easily allows users to support multiple identities. @@ -94,8 +96,6 @@ The following are new features for the 1.7 release of nmh: server supports it. If not, post fails with a message to the user to encode the message for 7-bit transport. - Fewer lseek(2)s will be used when reading headers in the common case. -- Single-character headers can be reliably formatted, etc., instead of - apparently being missing. - ./configure's --enable-debug has been removed; it did nothing. - configure now defaults to enabling each of TLS and Cyrus SASL if the necessary headers and libraries are found. @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ BUG FIXES scan(1), inc(1), and the other programs that rely on the format scanner. - The first character of some very short (less than 4 characters) message bodies is no longer dropped. +- Single-character headers can be reliably formatted, etc., instead of + apparently being missing. - mhfixmsg now adds a Content-Transfer-Encoding header at the message level, if needed after decoding text parts. - mhbuild now checks whether all text parts need a Content-Transfer-Encoding @@ -124,6 +126,10 @@ BUG FIXES by RFC 2045, even if -nocontentid is supplied to mhbuild. - post will now expand aliases on a "From" line when doing a BCC [Bug #51098]. - scan can now handle empty files without violating an assert [Bug #51693]. +- An error when writing an error message, e.g. EPIPE, no longer causes + recursion until the stack is exhausted. +- rcvdist(1) now passes switch arguments to post(8). +- The uses of %{charset} in mhn.defaults were wrapped with double quotes. ------------------- DEPRECATED FEATURES