X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=public-inbox.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes%2Fv1.7.0.wip;h=f71f447feb4d44cd1d4388ac9bc641ac272ca173;hp=a35ff227daf764edab2e779e21e7f738a7bfe0b9;hb=310eb9d826227044058d6ad5247c7f1252135ba4;hpb=f022f689be16b973cadab718b0261ab53e70a2eb diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip index a35ff227..f71f447f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip @@ -4,12 +4,69 @@ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline -TODO: gcf2, detached indices, JMAP, ... +Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability. + +* general changes + + config file parsing is 2x faster with 50K inboxes + +* 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. + +* public-inbox-extindex + + A new Xapian + SQLite index able to search across several inboxes. + This may be configured to replace per-inbox Xapian DBs, + (but not per-inbox SQLite indices) and speed up manifest.js.gz + generation. + + See public-inbox-extindex-format(5) and + public-inbox-extindex(1) manpages for more details. + +* public-inbox-nntpd + + - startup is 6x faster with 50K inboxes if using -extindex + +* PublicInbox::WWW + + - mboxrd search results are returned in reverse Xapian docid order, + so more recent results are more likely to show up first + + - d: and dt: search prefixes allow "approxidate" formats supported + by "git log --since=" + + - manifest.js.gz generation is ~25x faster with -extindex + +* 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. + +* public-inbox-watch + + - IMAP and NNTP code shared with lei, fixing an off-by-one error + in IMAP synchronization for single-message IMAP folders. + + - \Deleted and \Draft messages ignored for IMAP, as they are for + Maildir. + + - IMAP and NNTP connection establishment (including git-credential + prompts) ordering is now tied to config file order. Compatibility: * Rollbacks all the way to public-inbox 1.2.0 remain supported +Internal changes + +* public-inbox-index switched to new internal IPC code shared + with lei + Please report bugs via plain-text mail to: meta@public-inbox.org See archives at https://public-inbox.org/meta/ for all history.