From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 20:07:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: update release notes and INSTALL
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.0~22
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=public-inbox.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d51d0bb3bb2d41aa0c7fd33c36a63a72cd6f45cb

doc: update release notes and INSTALL

This is what I can think of at the moment.
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
index 854c2fce..fb2bcc9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
@@ -20,6 +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.
@@ -49,7 +52,9 @@ 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
 
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eb939a59..0974028d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -72,13 +72,6 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
                                    rpm: perl-Search-Xapian
                                    (HTTP and IMAP search)
 
-- Net::Server                      deb: libnet-server-perl
-                                   pkg: pkg-Net-Server
-                                   rpm: perl-Net-Server
-                                   (for HTTP/IMAP/NNTP background daemons,
-                                    not needed as systemd services or
-                                    foreground servers)
-
 - Inline::C                        deb: libinline-c-perl
                                    pkg: pkg-Inline-C
                                    rpm: perl-Inline (or perl-Inline-C)
@@ -96,6 +89,11 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
                                    rpm: perl-ParseRecDescent
                                    (optional, for public-inbox-imapd(1))
 
+- Mail::IMAPClient                 deb: libmail-imapclient-perl
+                                   pkg: p5-Mail-IMAPClient
+                                   rpm: perl-Mail-IMAPClient
+                                   (optional for lei and public-inbox-watch)
+
 - BSD::Resource                    deb: libbsd-resource-perl
                                    pkg: p5-BSD-Resource
                                    rpm: perl-BSD-Resource
@@ -116,9 +114,24 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
                                    rpm: xapian-core
                                    (optional, for public-inbox-compact(1))
 
+* curl (tool)                      deb, pkg, rpm: curl
+                                   (for HTTP(S) externals with curl)
+
 - Linux::Inotify2                  deb: liblinux-inotify2-perl
                                    rpm: perl-Linux-Inotify2
-                                   (for public-inbox-watch and -imapd on Linux)
+                                   (for lei, public-inbox-watch and -imapd
+                                    on Linux)
+
+- IO::KQueue                       pkg: p5-IO-KQueue
+                                   (for lei, public-inbox-watch and -imapd
+                                    on *BSDs)
+
+- Net::Server                      deb: libnet-server-perl
+                                   pkg: pkg-Net-Server
+                                   rpm: perl-Net-Server
+                                   (for HTTP/IMAP/NNTP background daemons,
+                                    not needed as systemd services or
+                                    foreground servers)
 
 The following module is typically pulled in by dependencies listed
 above, so there is no need to explicitly install them: