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