Notes

  • Mutt-1.7.2 Released
  • New option: $from_chars (docs) to customise the “From” indicator in the index.
  • Build Changes
    • The --enable-hcache configure option is no longer needed, it’s assumed when you use one of the backend options, e.g. --with-tokyocabinet
    • New configure option --enable-everything to save developers’ time.

Thanks

Many thanks to our new contributors:

and our regular contributors:

Features

  • Allow custom status flags in index_format (@somini)
  • $from_chars highlights differences in authorship (@nobrowser)
  • notmuch: make ‘Folder’ and ‘Tags’ respect (un)ignore (@kwantam)
  • notmuch: add “virtual-unmailboxes” command

Bug Fixes

  • pick smarter default for $sidebar_divider_char (@pickfire)
  • status color breaks “mutt -D” (@gahr)
  • Enable reconstruct-thread in the pager (@mineo)
  • manually touch ‘atime’ when reading a mbox file (@kilobyte)
  • allow $to_chars to contain Unicode characters
  • increase the max lmdb database size
  • restore limit current thread
  • don’t reset the alarm unless we set it
  • some more places that may get NULL pointers
  • rework initials to allow unicode characters

Translations

  • Spanish translation (Rubén)
  • German translation (@hvkls)

Docs

  • Improve whitespace and grammar on the NNTP feature page (@mineo)
  • make $to_chars docs more legible
  • de-tab the DocBook
  • fix 301 redirects

Build

  • New configure option –enable-everything (@darnir)
  • add a constant for an aborted question (@gahr)
  • enhance mutt_to_base64() (and callers) (@gahr)
  • Fix configure.ac to require md5 if hcache is enabled (@gahr)
  • Bail if a selected hcache backend cannot be found (@gahr)
  • refactor mutt_matches_ignore (@kwantam)
  • fix hcache + make dist
  • add unicode string helper function
  • Re-indent configure.ac
  • generate devel version suffix
  • fix check_sec.sh warnings
  • remove unnecessary #ifdef’s
  • add missing #ifdef for nntp
  • ignore some configure temp files
  • fix “make dist” target
  • fix function prototypes
  • fix coverity warnings
  • notmuch: drop strndup, replace with mutt_substrdup

Upstream

  • Fix failure with GPGME 1.8: do not steal the gpgme_ prefix.
  • search muttrc file according to XDG Base Specification (closes #3207)
  • Improve openssl interactive_check_cert. (closes #3899)
  • Add mutt_array_size macro, change interactive_check_cert() to use it. (see #3899)
  • Return to pager upon aborting a jump operation. (closes #3901)
  • Change sidebar_spoolfile coloring to be lower precedence.
  • Move ‘@’ pattern modifier documentation to the right section.
  • Add setenv/unsetenv commands.
  • Rework OpenSSL certificate verification to support alternative chains. (closes #3903)
  • Add option to control whether threads uncollapse when new mail arrives.
  • In the manual, replaced 2 para by example (similar to the first example).
  • Create mbchar_table type for multibyte character arrays. (see #3024)
  • Make to_chars and status_chars accept mulitibyte characters. (closes #3024)