doc: update release notes and INSTALL

[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..fb2bcc9e232030ab2477940194b72952df6c41e3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
@@ -8,7 +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
+
+  - deduplication ignores whitespace differences within address fields
+
+  - "PRAGMA optimize" is now issued on commits for SQLite 3.18+
 
 * read-only public-inbox-daemon (-httpd, -nntpd, -imapd):
 
@@ -16,6 +20,9 @@ Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
   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-extindex
 
   A new Xapian + SQLite index able to search across several inboxes.
@@ -45,7 +52,17 @@ Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
   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 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