UPGRADING

   1 This documents describes changes
   2
   3   - made to configuration variables, functions and the like which are
   4     not backwards-compatible and/or which do not exist in mutt
   5
   6   - other changes which might break existing user configuration and thus
   7     have to be documented
   8
   9 This document is not the place for verbose documentation; it only offers
  10 the necessary keywords to look them up in the manual, ChangeLog or other
  11 sources of information.
  12
  13 2005-05-14:
  14
  15   New Configuration Variables:
  16     - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
  17       when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
  18       remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
  19       scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
  20
  21 2005-04-18:
  22
  23   New Configuration Variables:
  24     - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
  25     - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
  26
  27   Renamed Variables:
  28     - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
  29       (still kept as synonym)
  30
  31 2005-03-16:
  32
  33   New Configuration Variables:
  34     - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
  35       be shown in the sidebar
  36
  37 2005-03-14
  38
  39   New Configuration Variables:
  40     - $strip_was
  41     - $strip_was_regex
  42
  43 2005-03-10
  44
  45   New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
  46     - ifdef
  47     - ifndef
  48
  49 2005-03-07
  50
  51   New Variables:
  52     - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
  53     - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
  54
  55 2005-03-05
  56
  57   New Color:
  58     - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
  59
  60 2005-03-01 (init)
  61
  62   New Variables:
  63
  64     NNTP-Support:
  65     ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
  66     group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
  67     newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
  68     nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
  69     save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
  70
  71     Quoting-Initials-Support
  72     indent_string
  73
  74     libESMTP-Support:
  75     smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
  76
  77     Assumed Character Set Patch:
  78     assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
  79
  80     Header Caching:
  81     maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
  82
  83     Sidebar:
  84     sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
  85
  86     Format Flowed Improvements:
  87     max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
  88
  89     XTerm-Titles Patch:
  90     xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
  91
  92     Misc.
  93     imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
  94     signoff_string, umask
  95
  96     Trash-Folder Patch:
  97     trash
  98
  99   New Functions:
 100
 101     NNTP-Support:
 102     change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
 103     followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
 104     reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
 105     edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
 106     subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
 107
 108     Purge-Message Patch:
 109     purge-message
 110
 111     List-Reply Patch
 112     list_reply
 113
 114     Patch edit_threads:
 115     break-thread, link-threads
 116
 117     Sidebar:
 118     sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
 119     sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
 120
 121   New Hooks:
 122
 123     Compressed-Folder Support:
 124     close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
 125
 126   New Misc.:
 127
 128     Sidebar Colors:
 129     sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
 130
 131     Scoring Patterns:
 132     ~*
 133
 134   Other Changes:
 135
 136     The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
 137     ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
 138     so on.
 139
 140     The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
 141     config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
 142
 143     The following tools were removed:
 144     bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
 145     bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
 146     They were replaced by:
 147     bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
 148     bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
 149     Please check and update your configuration.