1 From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
2 To: meta@public-inbox.org
3 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] public-inbox 1.7.0
4 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 07:52:00 +0000
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10 Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
12 Special thanks to Konstantin Ryabitsev and Kyle Meyer for
13 numerous bug reports and documentation help.
17 - config file parsing is 2x faster with 50K inboxes
19 - deduplication ignores whitespace differences within address fields
21 - "PRAGMA optimize" is now issued on commits for SQLite 3.18+
23 * public-inbox-extindex
25 A new Xapian + SQLite index able to search across several inboxes.
26 This may be configured to replace per-inbox Xapian DBs,
27 (but not per-inbox SQLite indices) and speed up manifest.js.gz
30 See public-inbox-extindex-format(5) and
31 public-inbox-extindex(1) manpages for more details.
33 Using it with "--all" speeds up various multi-inbox operations in
34 PublicInbox::WWW, public-inbox-nntpd, and public-inbox-imapd.
36 * read-only public-inbox-daemon (-httpd, -nntpd, -imapd):
38 libgit2 may be used via Inline::C to avoid hitting system pipe
39 and process limits. See public-inbox-tuning(7) manpage
42 * various memory usage reductions and workarounds for leaks in
43 Encode <3.15, these mainly affect PublicInbox::WWW
47 - startup is 6x faster with 50K inboxes if using -extindex
51 - mboxrd search results are returned in reverse Xapian docid order,
52 so more recent results are more likely to show up first
54 - d: and dt: search prefixes allow "approxidate" formats supported
57 - manifest.js.gz generation is ~25x faster with -extindex
59 - minor navigation improvements in search results HTML page
61 * lei - local email interface
63 An experimental, subject-to-change, likely-to-eat-your-mail tool for
64 personal mail as well as interacting with public-inboxes on the local
65 filesystem or over HTTP(S). See lei(1), lei-overview(7), and other
66 lei-* manpages for details. This is only ready-to-use w.r.t. external
67 public-inbox instances, but mail synchronization for personal mail
72 - non-strict (Subject-based) threading supports non-ASCII characters,
73 reindexing is necessary for old messages with non-ASCII subjects.
75 - --batch-size is now 8M on 64-bit systems for throughput improvements,
76 higher values are still advised for more powerful hardware.
80 - IMAP and NNTP code shared with lei, fixing an off-by-one error
81 in IMAP synchronization for single-message IMAP folders.
83 - \Deleted and \Draft messages ignored for IMAP, as they are for
86 - IMAP and NNTP connection establishment (including git-credential
87 prompts) ordering is now tied to config file order.
91 * Rollbacks all the way to public-inbox 1.2.0 remain supported
95 * public-inbox-index switched to new internal IPC code shared
98 Please report bugs via plain-text mail to: meta@public-inbox.org
100 See archives at https://public-inbox.org/meta/ for all history.
101 See https://public-inbox.org/TODO for what the future holds.