diff options
| -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 ---------------------- |