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