1 From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
2 To: meta@public-inbox.org
3 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] public-inbox 1.8.0
4 Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:22:59 +0000
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10 A minor release focused on bugfixes and minor improvements.
11 Upgrades should happen transparently, but downgrading back to
12 1.7.0 will likely cause problems for lei users (and only lei
15 lei users may experience duplicate messages in Maildirs if attempting to
16 downgrade from 1.8.0 to 1.7.x. public-inbox-* tools are unaffected and
21 Numerous test fixes thanks to NixOS developers.
23 Long-running daemons are more robust in case of corrupt blobs
24 or crashes of git-cat-file processes
26 PublicInbox::WWW: all CR are removed before LF, fixing display of
29 Solver supports SHA-256 code repositories (inbox and lei store support
34 Reduced dependencies on Inline::C for Linux users; Linux users may
35 now use lei with neither Inline::C nor Socket::MsgHdr installed.
39 The --dangerous flag is now supported in public-inbox-index and
40 public-inbox-extindex to use the Xapian::DB_DANGEROUS flag for initial
41 indexes. This may reduce SSD/HDD wear at the expense of disallowing
42 concurrency and data integrity in case of an unexpected shutdown.
44 Please report bugs via plain-text mail to: meta@public-inbox.org
46 See archives at https://public-inbox.org/meta/ for all history.
47 See https://public-inbox.org/TODO for what the future holds.