From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net> 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. --- NEWS | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3383ecf..31c6284 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ -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. It should be possible to migrate the tags using a +script. + Command-Line Interface ---------------------- -- 1.8.4.2