From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [WIP] public-inbox 1.3.0
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Many internal improvements to improve the developer experience
and long-term maintainability.

Some of the internal improvements involve avoiding Perl startup
time in tests.  "make check" now runs about 50% faster than
before, and the new "make check-run" can be around 30% faster
than "make check" after being primed by "make check".

Most closures (anonymous subroutines) are purged from the
-nntpd, -httpd and WWW code paths to make checking for memory
leaks easier.

* documentation now builds on BSD make

* Date::Parse (TimeDate CPAN distribution) is now optional, allowing
  installation from OpenBSD systems via "pkg".

* the work-in-progress Xapian.pm SWIG bindings are now supported
  in addition to the traditional Search::Xapian XS bindings.
  Only the SWIG bindings are packaged for OpenBSD.

* Plack is optional for users who wish to avoid web-related components

* Filesys::Notify::Simple is optional for non-watch users
  (but Plack will pull it in)

* improved internal error checking and reporting in numerous places

* IPC::Run is no longer used in tests

* Email::Address::XS used if available (newer Email::MIME
  requires it), it should handle more corner cases.

* PublicInbox::WWW
  - "nested" search results page now shows relevancy percentages
  - many solver bugs fixed
  - solver works on "-U0" patches using "git apply --unidiff-zero"
  - solver now compatible with git < v1.8.5 (but >= v1.8.0)
  - raw HTML no longer shown inline in multipart/alternative messages
    (v1.2.0 regression)
  - reduced memory usage for displaying multipart messages
  - static file responses support Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since
  - avoid trailing underlines in diffstat linkification

* public-inbox-httpd / public-inbox-nntpd:
  - MSG_MORE used consistently in long responses
  - fixed IO::KQueue usage on *BSDs
  - listen sockets are closed immediately on graceful shutdown
  - missed signals avoided with signalfd or EVFILT_SIGNAL

* public-inbox-nntpd:
  Y2020 workaround for Time::Local

* public-inbox-watch
  - avoid memory leak from cyclic reference on SIGHUP
  - fix documentation of publicinboxwatch.watchspam

Release tarballs will be available for download at

	https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox.git

See archives at https://public-inbox.org/meta/ for all history.
See https://public-inbox.org/TODO for what the future holds.