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2 Subject: [WIP] public-inbox 1.7.0
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7 Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
11 - config file parsing is 2x faster with 50K inboxes
13 - deduplication ignores whitespace differences within address fields
15 - "PRAGMA optimize" is now issued on commits for SQLite 3.18+
17 * read-only public-inbox-daemon (-httpd, -nntpd, -imapd):
19 libgit2 may be used via Inline::C to avoid hitting system pipe
20 and process limits. See public-inbox-tuning(7) manpage
23 * various memory usage reductions and workarounds for leaks in
24 Encode <3.15, these mainly affect PublicInbox::WWW
26 * public-inbox-extindex
28 A new Xapian + SQLite index able to search across several inboxes.
29 This may be configured to replace per-inbox Xapian DBs,
30 (but not per-inbox SQLite indices) and speed up manifest.js.gz
33 See public-inbox-extindex-format(5) and
34 public-inbox-extindex(1) manpages for more details.
38 - startup is 6x faster with 50K inboxes if using -extindex
42 - mboxrd search results are returned in reverse Xapian docid order,
43 so more recent results are more likely to show up first
45 - d: and dt: search prefixes allow "approxidate" formats supported
48 - manifest.js.gz generation is ~25x faster with -extindex
50 * lei - local email interface
52 An experimental, subject-to-change, likely-to-eat-your-mail tool for
53 personal mail as well as interacting with public-inboxes on the local
54 filesystem or over HTTP(S). See lei(1), lei-overview(7), and other
55 lei-* manpages for details. This is ready-to-use w.r.t. external
56 public-inbox instances but mail synchronization for personal mail
61 - non-strict (Subject-based) threading supports non-ASCII characters,
62 reindexing is necessary for old messages with non-ASCII subjects.
64 - --batch-size is now 8M on 64-bit systems for throughput improvements,
65 higher values are still advised for more powerful hardware.
69 - IMAP and NNTP code shared with lei, fixing an off-by-one error
70 in IMAP synchronization for single-message IMAP folders.
72 - \Deleted and \Draft messages ignored for IMAP, as they are for
75 - IMAP and NNTP connection establishment (including git-credential
76 prompts) ordering is now tied to config file order.
80 * Rollbacks all the way to public-inbox 1.2.0 remain supported
84 * public-inbox-index switched to new internal IPC code shared
87 Please report bugs via plain-text mail to: meta@public-inbox.org
89 See archives at https://public-inbox.org/meta/ for all history.
90 See https://public-inbox.org/TODO for what the future holds.