X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/ed27158234c5a74f262a64a236e0e579e80d461c..5ed8cd671b27e1388c0c7e881805775a8e5b353a:/docs/pending-release-notes?ds=inline diff --git a/docs/pending-release-notes b/docs/pending-release-notes index fe12e698..350710a4 100644 --- a/docs/pending-release-notes +++ b/docs/pending-release-notes @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ NEW FEATURES - 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 +- The default locations for configuration files and support 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 @@ -25,9 +25,50 @@ NEW FEATURES - When building from source, configure will derive ${prefix} from an existing nmh installation if it finds one in your $PATH. - Added getmymbox and getmyaddr mh-format(5) function escapes. -- The -changecur and -nochangecur switches have been added to mhfixmsg(1). +- New -[no]changecur, -fixtype, -decodetypes, and -[no]crlflinebreaks switches + have been added to mhfixmsg(1). - mhfixmsg now removes an extraneous trailing semicolon from header parameter lists. +- Added -convertargs switch to repl(1), to pass arguments to programs + specified in the user's profile or mhn.defaults to convert message + content. +- Added mhical(1), to display, reply to, and cancel iCalendar (RFC 5545) + event requests. +- added multiply format function +- "mhparam bindir" prints the path to the directory containing the public + executables (${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. +- Added support to send(1) to specify switches to post(1) based on address or + domain name in From: header line in message draft. +- post(8) -snoop now attempts to decode base64-encoded SMTP traffic. +- folder(1) -nocreate now prints a warning message for a non-existent folder. +- mhfixmsg(1) now allows -decodetext binary, though 8bit is still the default. +- inc(1) and msgchk(1) now support TLS encryption natively. +- All TLS connections now perform certificate validation (including hostname + matching) by default; can be disabled on a per-application basis. +- Support for SMTPUTF8 (RFC 6531) has been added. mhshow(1) already supported + RFC 6532, assuming all 8-bit message header field bodies are UTF-8 and use + of a UTF-8 locale. +- mhfixmsg now replaces RFC 2047 encoding with RFC 2231 encoding of name and + filename parameters in Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers, + respectively. +- If a message body contains 8-bit bytes, post(8) uses SMTP 8BITMIME if the + server supports it. If not, post fails with a message to the user to + encode the message for 7-bit transport. +- Added welcome message when nmh detects that its version changed. +- 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. +- Moved build_nmh to top-level directory. +- Better error reporting for connections to network services ----------------- OBSOLETE FEATURES @@ -40,6 +81,10 @@ OBSOLETE FEATURES - 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. +- Support for multiple hostnames in the "servers" entry of mts.conf has + been removed. +- Support in alias files for expanding aliases based on group membership + (=) and primary group (+) has been removed. ------------------- DEPRECATED FEATURES @@ -58,3 +103,16 @@ 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. +- The first character of some very short (less than 4 characters) message + bodies is no longer dropped. +- 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 + header, not just those with a character set not specified. +- mhbuild no longer parses lines that start with # as directives with + -nodirectives. +- repl now makes sure that any Fcc header in a replied-to message is not + copied into the outgoing draft by default, and that the -fcc switch + actually works in the absence of a Fcc header in the replied-to message. +- A Content-ID is generated for message/external-body entities as required + by RFC 2045, even if -nocontentid is supplied to mhbuild.