1 This file lists major changes affecting abook's behavior.
2 Please read this file carefully when upgrading abook.
3 A more comprehensive list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog file.
10 * scrolling now affects the viewport instead of the cursor
11 * support for a colored UI
12 * added "groups" as a default field
13 * the UI now supports merging selected entries [key M]
14 and removing duplicates [key U]
15 * a "custom" output filter allows the specification of an output
16 format using placeholders
17 * search-next is now bound to "/" too
18 * some output filters can now be used in the context
19 of --mutt-query. This is the case of "vcard" and "custom"
20 [ no --query option has been created and --mutt-query is fully
22 * ldif output filter has been fixed [output modified] in multiple
23 ways, does not force output to latin1 anymore and supports input
25 * vcard input/output support:
26 An original input filter implementation was provided soon
28 In 2012, an optional build-time option to link against libvformat
29 was added for the very same task: parsing vcard.
30 - It depends on the --enable-vformat ./configure switch
31 - It's only used as an input filter, especially useful to
32 deal with multi-valued fields and encoded characters.
33 * when the UI requests a confirmation from the user before a
34 destructive operation it does not treat unknown key as "yes" anymore.
35 * allcsv output changes:
36 - header line uses lowercase
37 - "MOBILEPHONE" column name changed to "mobile" (consistent w.r.t. standard_fields)
38 - defined custom fields as well are part of the output now
40 0.6.0pre2 (2010-07-22):
41 * Added anniversary as a default field
42 * Display dates according to current locale
43 * The four following configuration options have been deprecated and will
44 no longer be accepted by abook:
50 They have been replaced with a single more flexible option:
53 This option is a string defining the format of a line in the main list.
54 It allows displaying of as many fields as desired, with optional
55 width limit, as well as an arbitrary number of alternative fields.
57 0.6.0pre1 (2006-08-30):
58 * The 'customfield' command has been obsoleted by a more flexible set
59 of commands: 'field' and 'view'.
61 Those two commands make it possible to define fields and organize
62 them within tabs as you see fit.
64 Not using these commands, the look and feel of previous releases
65 will mostly be kept the same. Also see the related 'preserve_fields'
66 configuration variable.