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 2005-04-18:
  14
  15   New Configuration Variables:
  16     - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
  17     - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
  18
  19   Renamed Variables:
  20     - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
  21       (still kept as synonym)
  22
  23 2005-03-16:
  24
  25   New Configuration Variables:
  26     - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
  27       be shown in the sidebar
  28
  29 2005-03-14
  30
  31   New Configuration Variables:
  32     - $strip_was
  33     - $strip_was_regex
  34
  35 2005-03-10
  36
  37   New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
  38     - ifdef
  39     - ifndef
  40
  41 2005-03-07
  42
  43   New Variables:
  44     - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
  45     - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
  46
  47 2005-03-05
  48
  49   New Color:
  50     - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
  51
  52 2005-03-01 (init)
  53
  54   New Variables:
  55
  56     NNTP-Support:
  57     ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
  58     group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
  59     newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
  60     nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
  61     save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
  62
  63     Quoting-Initials-Support
  64     indent_string
  65
  66     libESMTP-Support:
  67     smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
  68
  69     Assumed Character Set Patch:
  70     assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
  71
  72     Header Caching:
  73     maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
  74
  75     Sidebar:
  76     sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
  77
  78     Format Flowed Improvements:
  79     max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
  80
  81     XTerm-Titles Patch:
  82     xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
  83
  84     Misc.
  85     imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
  86     signoff_string, umask
  87
  88     Trash-Folder Patch:
  89     trash
  90
  91   New Functions:
  92
  93     NNTP-Support:
  94     change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
  95     followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
  96     reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
  97     edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
  98     subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
  99
 100     Purge-Message Patch:
 101     purge-message
 102
 103     List-Reply Patch
 104     list_reply
 105
 106     Patch edit_threads:
 107     break-thread, link-threads
 108
 109     Sidebar:
 110     sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
 111     sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
 112
 113   New Hooks:
 114
 115     Compressed-Folder Support:
 116     close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
 117
 118   New Misc.:
 119
 120     Sidebar Colors:
 121     sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
 122
 123     Scoring Patterns:
 124     ~*
 125
 126   Other Changes:
 127
 128     The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
 129     ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
 130     so on.
 131
 132     The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
 133     config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
 134
 135     The following tools were removed:
 136     bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
 137     bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
 138     They were replaced by:
 139     bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
 140     bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
 141     Please check and update your configuration.