public-inbox 1.9.0 released
posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2022
Upgrading:
lei users need to "lei daemon-kill" after installation to load
new code. Normal daemons (read-only, and public-inbox-watch)
will also need restarts, of course, but there's no
backwards-incompatible data format changes so rolling back to
older versions is harmless.
Major bugfixes:
* lei no longer freezes from inotify/EVFILT_VNODE handling,
user interrupts (Ctrl-C), nor excessive errors/warnings
* IMAP server fairness improved to avoid excessive blob prefetch
New features:
* POP3 server support added, use either public-inbox-pop3d or
the new public-inbox-netd superserver
* public-inbox-netd superserver supporting any combination of HTTP,
IMAP, POP3, and NNTP services; simplifying management and allowing
more sharing of memory used for various data structures.
* public-inbox-httpd and -netd support per-listener .psgi files
* SIGHUP reloads TLS certs and keys in addition to config and .psgi files
* "lei reindex" command for lei users to update personal index
in ~/.local/share/lei/store for search improvements below:
Search improvements:
These will require --reindex with public-inbox-index and/or
public-inbox-extindex for public inboxes.
* patchid: prefix search support added to WWW and lei for
"git patch-id --stable" support
* text inside base-85 binary patches are no longer indexed
to avoid false positives
* for lei users, "lei reindex" now exists and is required
to take advantage of aforementioned indexing changes
Performance improvements:
* IMAP server startup is faster with many mailboxes when using
"public-inbox-extindex --all"
* NNTP group listings are also faster with many inboxes when
using "public-inbox-extindex --all"
* various small opcode and memory usage reductions
Please report bugs via plain-text mail to: meta@public-inbox.org
See archives at https://public-inbox.org/meta/ for all history.
See https://public-inbox.org/TODO for what the future holds.
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