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| author |  David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2013-11-24 17:29:43 -0400 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2013-11-25 08:02:50 -0400 |
| commit | 7f07bfd6d0189afcd9d260f6f560056dd3476f66 (patch) | |
| tree | 00009a02e4e63ebc3c201b6f7797e0a646ae007e /NEWS | |
| parent | 20adfe39d7624150a5b337bb77a9647bb3def54b (diff) | |
NEWS: News for big endian sha1 bug fix.
We could give more details about how to migrate tags, but I'm not sure
that it's a practical problem, or just a theoretical one.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@ -Notmuch 0.17~rc1 (2013-11-20) +Notmuch 0.17~rc2 (2013-xx-yy) ============================= +Incompatible change in SHA1 computation +--------------------------------------- + +Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the +computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages +with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed +message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386 +and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are +strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump` +before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something +like: + + notmuch dump | \ + awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \ + {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}' + Command-Line Interface ---------------------- |