Notes

• Mutt-1.7.2 Released
  • NeoMutt had already adopted most of its fixes in our previous release.
  • Upstream has adopted our XDG Config changes. Note: the locations of the new config files have changed to keep in step with Mutt.
  • Upstream has adopted our changes to $to_chars (docs), $status_chars (docs), which allow them to display Unicode characters.
  • New setenv/unsetenv commands to control the environment passed to child programs. https://neomutt.org/guide/advancedusage.html#setenv
  • Add option $uncollapse_new to control whether threads uncollapse when new mail arrives. https://neomutt.org/guide/reference#uncollapse-new
• New option: $from_chars (docs) to customise the “From” indicator in the index.
• Build Changes
  • The --enable-hcache configure option is no longer needed, it’s assumed when you use one of the backend options, e.g. --with-tokyocabinet
  • New configure option --enable-everything to save developers’ time.

Thanks

Many thanks to our new contributors:

• Adam Borowski (@kilobyte)
• Bernard Pratz (@guyzmo)
• Ian Zimmerman (@nobrowser)
• Riad Wahby (@kwantam)
• Rubén Llorente
• Somini (@somini)
• Wieland Hoffmann (@mineo)

and our regular contributors:

• André Berger (@hvkls)
• Darshit Shah (@darnir)
• Guillaume Brogi (@guiniol)
• Ivan Tham (@pickfire)
• Pietro Cerutti (@gahr)

Features

• Allow custom status flags in index_format (@somini)
• $from_chars highlights differences in authorship (@nobrowser)
• notmuch: make ‘Folder’ and ‘Tags’ respect (un)ignore (@kwantam)
• notmuch: add “virtual-unmailboxes” command

Bug Fixes

• pick smarter default for $sidebar_divider_char (@pickfire)
• status color breaks “mutt -D” (@gahr)
• Enable reconstruct-thread in the pager (@mineo)
• manually touch ‘atime’ when reading a mbox file (@kilobyte)
• allow $to_chars to contain Unicode characters
• increase the max lmdb database size
• restore limit current thread
• don’t reset the alarm unless we set it
• some more places that may get NULL pointers
• rework initials to allow unicode characters

Translations

• Spanish translation (Rubén)
• German translation (@hvkls)

Docs

• Improve whitespace and grammar on the NNTP feature page (@mineo)
• make $to_chars docs more legible
• de-tab the DocBook
• fix 301 redirects

Build

• New configure option –enable-everything (@darnir)
• add a constant for an aborted question (@gahr)
• enhance mutt_to_base64() (and callers) (@gahr)
• Fix configure.ac to require md5 if hcache is enabled (@gahr)
• Bail if a selected hcache backend cannot be found (@gahr)
• refactor mutt_matches_ignore (@kwantam)
• fix hcache + make dist
• add unicode string helper function
• Re-indent configure.ac
• generate devel version suffix
• fix check_sec.sh warnings
• remove unnecessary #ifdef’s
• add missing #ifdef for nntp
• ignore some configure temp files
• fix “make dist” target
• fix function prototypes
• fix coverity warnings
• notmuch: drop strndup, replace with mutt_substrdup

Upstream

• Fix failure with GPGME 1.8: do not steal the gpgme_ prefix.
• search muttrc file according to XDG Base Specification (closes #3207)
• Improve openssl interactive_check_cert. (closes #3899)
• Add mutt_array_size macro, change interactive_check_cert() to use it. (see #3899)
• Return to pager upon aborting a jump operation. (closes #3901)
• Change sidebar_spoolfile coloring to be lower precedence.
• Move ‘@’ pattern modifier documentation to the right section.
• Add setenv/unsetenv commands.
• Rework OpenSSL certificate verification to support alternative chains. (closes #3903)
• Add option to control whether threads uncollapse when new mail arrives.
• In the manual, replaced 2 para by example (similar to the first example).
• Create mbchar_table type for multibyte character arrays. (see #3024)
• Make to_chars and status_chars accept mulitibyte characters. (closes #3024)