X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/c703902741e0f7ce55f87e48ef0d00901195f1bc..93fc71c182929daf326a9e8d9974ece3817c99c4:/docs/pending-release-notes?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/pending-release-notes b/docs/pending-release-notes index 9b280927..22385f4a 100644 --- a/docs/pending-release-notes +++ b/docs/pending-release-notes @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ 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. @@ -34,12 +35,59 @@ NEW FEATURES - 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). +- The -changecur and -nochangecur switches have been added to mhlist(1). +- mhbuild(1) can now encode 8-bit message headers using RFC-2047 encoding + rules. +- The whatnow(1) attach feature will determine the content type of an + attachment using a program such as file --mime-type, if available at + configuration time. If not, it will use mhshow-suffix- entries as + before. The -v switch to attach causes it to display the mhbuild + directive that send(1) will use. +- mhbuild(1) now supports the -auto/-noauto flags (to be used by send(1) + when invoking mhbuild automatically). +- mhbuild(1) now is automatically run by send, to insure that all outgoing + messages have proper MIME formatting. +- A new header, "Attach", is supported by mhbuild; it is used to replace + previous functionality (which by default used a header named + Nmh-Attachment). +- The default Content-Transfer-Encoding for text parts is now 8bit. +- mhbuild(1) now supports a selectable Content-Transfer-Encoding +- If nmh was configured with iconv(3) support, mhshow will convert, if + necessary, the charset of text/plain content to match the user's + locale setting. +- Added support for %{charset} display string escape to mhshow(1). +- The MIME parsing and generating routines now support RFC 2231 extended + parameter information. +- mh-mime(7) now provides an introduction to nmh's MIME handling. +- mhshow(1) will now by default display all text content under one pager, + and display markers for non-text and non-inline content. The content + markers are changeable via mh-format(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 @@ -52,12 +100,6 @@ 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, @@ -78,6 +120,38 @@ OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED FEATURES 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. +- Support for the -normalize and -nonormalize switches to the ali(1) and + ap(8) commands has been removed. +- "make install" no longer strips executables. Use "make install-strip" + instead. +- The environment variable MM_CHARSET to indicate the native character + set is no longer supported. The native character set will be solely + determined by the locale settings. +- Temporary files are stored in the first non-null location of + {MHTMPDIR environment variable, TMPDIR environment variable, MH Path}. + They are no longer be stored in the location specified by the TMP + environment variable. +- Instead of printing PostScript attachments, by default, from mhshow, + try to find a suitable viewer. +- Support for parallel display of multipart/parallel content has been + removed from mhshow; all multipart content will be displayed in + serial. +- Support for -pause/-nopause switches on mhshow 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 @@ -100,3 +174,13 @@ BUG FIXES - 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]. +- Fix segmentation faults for %(putlit) and %(zputlit) format escapes when + the "str" register was NULL. +- Encode and decode text MIME types with canonical line breaks properly. +- mhstore(1) now obeys its -noverbose switch.