doc: relnotes: a few more 1.7.0 related updates

[public-inbox.git] / Documentation / RelNotes / v1.7.0.wip

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
index f71f447feb4d44cd1d4388ac9bc641ac272ca173..ebb0a22313a3c5cc16665919cec46903fc0e5284 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
@@ -8,13 +8,11 @@ Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
 
 * general changes
 
-  config file parsing is 2x faster with 50K inboxes
+  - config file parsing is 2x faster with 50K inboxes
 
-* read-only public-inbox-daemon (-httpd, -nntpd, -imapd):
+  - deduplication ignores whitespace differences within address fields
 
-  libgit2 may be used via Inline::C to avoid hitting system pipe
-  and process limits.  See public-inbox-tuning(7) manpage
-  for more details.
+  - "PRAGMA optimize" is now issued on commits for SQLite 3.18+
 
 * public-inbox-extindex
 
@@ -26,6 +24,18 @@ Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
   See public-inbox-extindex-format(5) and
   public-inbox-extindex(1) manpages for more details.
 
+  Using it with "--all" speeds up various multi-inbox operations in
+  PublicInbox::WWW, public-inbox-nntpd, and public-inbox-imapd.
+
+* read-only public-inbox-daemon (-httpd, -nntpd, -imapd):
+
+  libgit2 may be used via Inline::C to avoid hitting system pipe
+  and process limits.  See public-inbox-tuning(7) manpage
+  for more details.
+
+* various memory usage reductions and workarounds for leaks in
+  Encode <3.15, these mainly affect PublicInbox::WWW
+
 * public-inbox-nntpd
 
   - startup is 6x faster with 50K inboxes if using -extindex
@@ -40,12 +50,24 @@ Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
 
   - manifest.js.gz generation is ~25x faster with -extindex
 
+  - minor navigation improvements in search results HTML page
+
 * lei - local email interface
 
   An experimental, subject-to-change, likely-to-eat-your-mail tool for
   personal mail as well as interacting with public-inboxes on the local
   filesystem or over HTTP(S).  See lei(1), lei-overview(7), and other
-  lei-* manpages for details.
+  lei-* manpages for details.  This is only ready-to-use w.r.t. external
+  public-inbox instances, but mail synchronization for personal mail
+  remains clunky.
+
+* public-inbox-index
+
+  - non-strict (Subject-based) threading supports non-ASCII characters,
+    reindexing is necessary for old messages with non-ASCII subjects.
+
+  - --batch-size is now 8M on 64-bit systems for throughput improvements,
+    higher values are still advised for more powerful hardware.
 
 * public-inbox-watch