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 2005-05-17:
  14
  15   Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
  16
  17     - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
  18       not used
  19     - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
  20       feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
  21
  22 2005-05-14:
  23
  24   New Configuration Variables:
  25     - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
  26       when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
  27       remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
  28       scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
  29
  30 2005-04-18:
  31
  32   New Configuration Variables:
  33     - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
  34     - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
  35
  36   Renamed Variables:
  37     - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
  38       (still kept as synonym)
  39
  40 2005-03-16:
  41
  42   New Configuration Variables:
  43     - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
  44       be shown in the sidebar
  45
  46 2005-03-14
  47
  48   New Configuration Variables:
  49     - $strip_was
  50     - $strip_was_regex
  51
  52 2005-03-10
  53
  54   New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
  55     - ifdef
  56     - ifndef
  57
  58 2005-03-07
  59
  60   New Variables:
  61     - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
  62     - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
  63
  64 2005-03-05
  65
  66   New Color:
  67     - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
  68
  69 2005-03-01 (init)
  70
  71   New Variables:
  72
  73     NNTP-Support:
  74     ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
  75     group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
  76     newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
  77     nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
  78     save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
  79
  80     Quoting-Initials-Support
  81     indent_string
  82
  83     libESMTP-Support:
  84     smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
  85
  86     Assumed Character Set Patch:
  87     assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
  88
  89     Header Caching:
  90     maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
  91
  92     Sidebar:
  93     sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
  94
  95     Format Flowed Improvements:
  96     max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
  97
  98     XTerm-Titles Patch:
  99     xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
 100
 101     Misc.
 102     imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
 103     signoff_string, umask
 104
 105     Trash-Folder Patch:
 106     trash
 107
 108   New Functions:
 109
 110     NNTP-Support:
 111     change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
 112     followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
 113     reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
 114     edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
 115     subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
 116
 117     Purge-Message Patch:
 118     purge-message
 119
 120     List-Reply Patch
 121     list_reply
 122
 123     Patch edit_threads:
 124     break-thread, link-threads
 125
 126     Sidebar:
 127     sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
 128     sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
 129
 130   New Hooks:
 131
 132     Compressed-Folder Support:
 133     close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
 134
 135   New Misc.:
 136
 137     Sidebar Colors:
 138     sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
 139
 140     Scoring Patterns:
 141     ~*
 142
 143   Other Changes:
 144
 145     The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
 146     ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
 147     so on.
 148
 149     The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
 150     config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
 151
 152     The following tools were removed:
 153     bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
 154     bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
 155     They were replaced by:
 156     bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
 157     bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
 158     Please check and update your configuration.