NeoMutt 20260105

📖 Notes

Happy New Year 🎉

This is a re-release of 2025-12-11, but I’ve reverted one change. My fix for the Browser caused trouble/confusion, so I’ve removed it.

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One feature and lots of bug fixes.

This release introduces $message_id_format (docs).

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❤️ Thanks

Many thanks to our new contributors:

• Sam Koved (@skoved)

• Bjarni Ingi Gislason

and our regular contributors:

• Marius Gedminas (@mgedmin)

• Emir Sari (@bitigchi)

• Страхиња Радић (@strahinja)

• Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (@charles2910)

• Thomas Adam (@thomasadam)

• Dennis Schön (@roccoblues)

• Keith Bowes (@keithbowes)

• Pietro Cerutti (@gahr)

🔒 Security

• #4725 deprecate old ssl and tls options

🎁 Features

• #4718 add $message_id_format

• Notmuch: hide some old/deprecated features

🐞 Bug Fixes

• #4666 limit: force refresh of index bar

• #4671 Update the status bar on thread [un]collapse

• #4673 shrink history file on every new entry

• #4679 Flush S/MIME passkey on failure to sign

• #4684 execute message-hook sooner

• #4687 fix: exec auto-completion

• #4688 Fix infinite loop in GnuTLS socket I/O when socket blocks

• #4696 cmd_parse_fetch(): debug: avoid NULL dereference

• #4697 expunge: guard against segfault

• #4719 alias: complete when only one match

• #4726 imap: protect against crash on shutdown

• fix resolve for tagged save

• help: fix sorting of unbound functions

• help: hide deprecated functions

🔧 Changed Config

• New: message_id_format = "<%z@%f>"

• Deprecated ssl_use_sslv2

• Deprecated ssl_use_sslv3

• Deprecated ssl_use_tlsv1

• Deprecated ssl_use_tlsv1_1

🏴 Translations

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• 100% 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

• 100% 🇷🇸 Serbian

• 100% 🇹🇷 Turkish

📚 Docs

• #4665 Revamp the S/MIME docs

• #4680 Document how to use S/MIME with GPGMe

• #4692 update the contribution guidelines

• fix deprecated $pager example

• lots man pages fixes

• update help for sort options

🏗️ Build

• #4668 fix build for re-entrant ncurses

• #4727 make openssl/gnutls mutually exclusive

• libkey: light refactoring

• lua: create liblua

⚙️ Code

• #4695 Replace some TAILQ uses with ARRAY

• convert the ctype wrappers to use bool

• global invert OptNoCurses to OptGui

• key: collapse redirector functions

• move km_init() earlier in startup

• opcodes: add flags to MenuFuncOp

• pass focused window to global functions

• Use buf_at() to get a char from a Buffer

• use StringArray everywhere