Release 2021-10-15

Notes

There hasn’t been a NeoMutt release for eight months, but we haven’t been idle. We’ve spent the time making some huge architectural improvements to the code. Of course, big changes come with the risk that we might have broken things.

We’re happy that NeoMutt is stable and ready for general use, once again, and we encourage you to upgrade.

If you find any problems please let us know as soon as possible. (There will probably be a bug-fix release in a week or two)

Config: If you want new mail to be detected automatically, make sure that you have the config set mail_check_stats = yes

This now applies in a few more places, including Notmuch mailboxes.

Thanks

Many thanks to our new contributors:

Eric Blake (@ebblake)
Страхиња Радић (@strahinja)
Christos Margiolis (@christosmarg)
Michael Constantine Dimopoulos (@michaeldim02)
Ryan Kavanagh (@ryanakca)
Ashish Panigrahi (@paniash)
Gerrit Rüsing (@kbcb)
Alexander Kuleshov (@onlyshk)
Allan Nordhøy (@comradekingu)
Eduardo Habkost (@ehabkost)
Freed-Wu (@wzy)
Ivan Shmakov
Viktor Cheburkin (@vcheburkin)
Zak D (@zakarouf)
Enno Nagel (@konfekt)
Gaël Dubois (@gaael)

and our regular contributors:

Pietro Cerutti (@gahr)
Austin Ray (@austin-ray)
Ihor Antonov (@ngortheone)
Marius Gedminas (@mgedmin)
наб (@nabijaczleweli)
Christian Ludwig (@luchr)
Jakub Jindra (@jindraj)
Marco Sirabella (@mjsir911)
R Primus (@rprimus)
Reto Brunner (@brunnre8)
Romeu Vieira (@romeug)
@ftilde
Steve Bennett (@msteveb)
Martin Mitáš (@mity)

Security

Fix CVE-2021-32055

Features

threads: implement the $use_threads feature https://neomutt.org/feature/use-threads
hooks: allow a -noregex param to folder and mbox hooks
mailing lists: implement list-(un)subscribe using RFC2369 headers
mailcap: implement x-neomutt-nowrap flag
pager: add $local_date_header option
imap, smtp: add support for authenticating using XOAUTH2
Allow <sync-mailbox> to fail quietly
imap: speed up server-side searches
pager: improve skip-quoted and skip-headers
notmuch: open database with user’s configuration
notmuch: implement <vfolder-window-reset>
config: allow += modification of my_ variables
notmuch: tolerate file renames behind neomutt’s back
pager: implement $pager_read_delay
notmuch: validate nm_query_window_timebase
notmuch: make $nm_record work in non-notmuch mailboxes
compose: add $greeting - a welcome message on top of emails
notmuch: show additional mail in query windows