ChangeLog

7.6.2 (unreleased)

[!IMPORTANT] This version is not released yet and is under active development.

7.6.1 (2024-11-29)

  • Fix conflicting -h/--hash-header and -h/--help options. Closes #762.

7.6.0 (2024-11-24)

  • Add official support for Python 3.13.

  • Drop support for Python 3.9. Refs #787.

  • Add dependency on extra-platforms. Closes #784.

  • Run tests on stable Python 3.13 release.

  • Run tests on Python 3.14-dev, mark them as unstable.

  • Move macos-14 tests to macos-15.

  • Add tests on ubuntu-24.04. Remove tests on ubuntu-20.04.

  • Run workflows on ubuntu-24.04.

  • Rely on frozen uv.lock for reproducibility.

7.5.0 (2024-07-03)

  • Switch from Poetry to uv.

  • Drop support for Python 3.8.

  • Mark Python 3.13-dev tests as stable.

7.4.0 (2024-06-20)

  • Slim down package by moving unit tests out of the main package.

  • Split dev dependency groups into optional test, typing and docs groups.

  • Remove direct dependency on mypy.

  • Run tests on Python 3.13-dev on all platforms but macos.

  • Run tests on macos-14. Drop tests on macos-12.

  • Build arm64 binaries on macos-14.

7.3.0 (2023-11-14)

  • Drop support of Python 3.7.

  • Reduce memory usage. Addresses #362.

  • Replace unmaintained bump2version by bump-my-version.

  • Test mdedup binaries.

  • Run tests and actions on released Python 3.12 version.

  • Run tests on macos-13. Remove tests on macos-11.

7.2.3 (2023-05-04)

  • Reverts distribution of package via trusted channel.

7.2.2 (2023-05-04)

  • Redo release to fix trusted publisher on PyPi.

7.2.1 (2023-05-04)

  • Produce dependency graph in Mermaid instead of Graphviz. Add new dev dependency on sphinxcontrib-mermaid.

  • Move all documentation assets to assets subfolder.

  • Distribute package on PyPi via a trusted publisher channel.

7.2.0 (2023-02-15)

  • Build standalone executable for macOS, Linux and Windows.

  • Generates dependency graph in Graphviz format.

  • Run tests on Python 3.12-dev.

  • Code, comments and documentation style change to conform to new QA workflows based on ruff.

7.1.0 (2022-12-02)

  • Renumber and rename phases to steps.

  • Group options per steps.

  • Add minimal code typing and checking.

  • Add logo.

  • Execute all workflows with Python 3.11.

7.0.0 (2022-11-26)

  • Drop Python 3.6 support.

  • Add support for Python 3.11.

  • Add new --time/--no-time option to measure elapsed execution time.

  • Add new --color/--no-color and --ansi/--no-ansi alias options to deactivate CLI color rendering.

  • Add new --color/--no-color and --ansi/--no-ansi alias options to deactivate CLI color rendering.

  • Add new -C/--config option which support local and remote configuration file in TOML, YAML, JSON, INI or XML formats.

  • Add new --show-params option to debug default parameter value and provenance.

  • Fix incconsistent printing of help screen. Closes #160.

  • Force linear rendering of options in help screen to improve readability.

  • Fix run on Python 3.10. Closes #361.

  • Run unittests on Python 3.10 and Python 3.11.

  • Add dependency on click-extra and typing-extensions

  • Remove direct dependency on click-help-colors, click-log and tomlkit.

  • Fix broken selection logic in quantity-based strategies. Refs #146.

  • Add unittests to cover time-based and size-based selection edge-cases.

  • Drop unittests on deprecated ubuntu-18.04 and macos-10.15.

  • Add unittests on ubuntu-22.04, macos-12 and windows-2022.

  • Run tests on multiple cores.

  • Simplify project management by abandoning the dual use of main/develop branches.

  • Migrate to external workflows to automate builds, releases, autofixes, linting, documentation, changelog, mailmap maintenance and label management.

  • Convert all documentation from RST to Markdown. Closes #368.

  • Keep CLI output in sync in documentation. Closes #23.

  • Move sphinx dependencies to dev requirements.

  • Add citation file.

6.2.0 (2021-09-12)

  • Upgrade to Click 8.x.

  • Implements all missing copy-discarded, move-discarded and delete-discarded actions. Closes #270 and #146.

  • Add -b/--hash-body option to set the way each email body is hashed.

  • Add --export-append option to allow for the resulting deduplicated email to be appended to an existing mail box.

  • Skip duplicate sets without any matching duplicate candidates. Closes #203.

6.1.3 (2021-04-13)

  • Fix dynamic mailbox.Message inheritance. Closes #191.

6.1.2 (2021-01-26)

  • Reconcile v3 branch with develop.

6.1.1 (2021-01-26)

  • Simple re-release.

6.1.0 (2021-01-26)

  • Add retroactive support for Python 3.6. Closes #154.

  • Fix documentation link and generation. Closes #66.

  • Auto-generate API documentation via a GitHub action workflow.

  • Add tomlkit dependency.

  • Add test runs against new OSes and distributions: ubuntu-18.04 and macos-11.0.

  • Remove pycodestyle, it brings nothing more now that we rely on black.

6.0.2 (2020-11-05)

  • Load up all subfolders from Maildir and MH boxes. Closes #123.

6.0.1 (2020-10-22)

  • Check early that --export file doesn’t exists. Closes #119.

  • Add screenshots.

6.0.0 (2020-10-17)

  • Add new -a/--action option to choose what to do on the final mail selection.

  • Implements new copy-discarded, copy-selected, delete-discarded, delete-selected, move-discarded and move-selected actions.

  • Add new -E/--export and -e/--export-format options to support the new copy-* and moved-* actions.

  • Rename all --delete-* strategies to --discard-*.

  • Add --select-* aliases to all strategies.

  • Add new discard-all-but-one, discard-one, select-one and select-all-but-one selection strategies.

  • Rename -f/--sources-format option to -i/--input-format.

  • --time-source parameter is now optional and defaults to date-header.

  • Add metric description in deduplication end report.

  • Add detailed strategy description in help screen’s epilog.

  • Colorize help screen.

  • Colorize version screen and print environment data for bug reports.

  • Run tests on Python 3.9.

5.1.0 (2020-10-06)

  • Add new -h/--hash-header option to select which mail headers to use to compute hash.

  • Remove -i/--message-id option. Can be emulated with -h Message-ID or --hash-header Message-ID option.

  • Make all keyword-based choice parameters (--sources-format, --strategy and --time-source) case-insensitive.

5.0.0 (2020-10-05)

  • Add supports for Babyl, MH and MMDF mailbox types.

  • Add new -f/--sources-format option to force the type of mail sources on opening.

  • Add new -u/--force-unlock option to force the removal of a lock on mailboxes on opening.

  • Split-up the selection of mails candidate for removal and the deletion itself into two distinct batch operations.

  • Add issue templates to guide users to report bugs and request features.

  • Upgrade to Poetry 1.1.0.

  • Test publishing to PyPi in dry-run mode by the way of Poetry.

  • Auto-optimize images.

  • Auto-lock closed issues and PRs after a moment of inactivity.

4.0.0 (2020-10-02)

  • Removes the hash subcommand. Replaced it with a --hash-only parameter to the main dedupe command.

  • Removes deduplicate subcommand. mdedup is now a simple CLI.

  • Fix calls to deduplication strategy. Closes #86 and #88.

  • Fix computation of stats. Closes #89.

  • Drop support for Python 2. Refs #90.

  • Bump minimal Python requirement to 3.7.

  • Repackage project around Poetry and pyproject.toml. Get rid of setup.py.

  • Replace unmaintained bumpversion by bump2version.

  • Drop dependency on progressbar2 and replace it with click’s. Closes #37.

  • Switch from Travis to GitHub Actions for all CI/CD jobs.

  • Regularly run unittests against Windows, Linux and macOS.

  • Removes all copyright dates.

  • Auto-fix Python format, typos and JSON content.

  • Let dependabot check for dependencies and update them.

  • Keep .gitignore and .mailmap up to date and in sync.

  • Auto-publish package on tagging events via twine.

  • Always run test build and check resulting package on each commits.

  • Use declarative JSON to maintain list of GitHub labels for issues and PRs.

  • Lint both Python code and YAML content on each commit.

  • Run unittests in random to order to detect coupling.

3.0.1 (2021-01-25)

  • Add explicit warning in CLI output to warn about 3.x branch deprecation. Refs #180.

3.0.0 (2020-09-03)

[!CAUTION] As of v3.0.0, the project has been renamed to Mail Deduplicate and is now available on:

  • Github at https://github.com/kdeldycke/mail-deduplicate

  • PyPi at https://pypi.org/project/mail-deduplicate

  • Rename project from maildir-deduplicate to mail-deduplicate.

  • Rename master branch to main.

  • Add support for mboxes. Closes #48.

  • Remove requirement on -s/--strategy parameter, to let mails being grouped into duplicate sets without any removal action, effectively acting as a second-level dry-run.

2.2.0 (2020-09-03)

[!WARNING] This is the last version of the project known under the name Maildir Deduplicate (a.k.a. maildir-deduplicate).

  • Add disclaimer to prepare project name change.

  • Fix Header being object instead of string (#61).

  • Make body_lines conversion more reliable.

  • Fix bugs in counter statistics (#45, #57).

  • Add Message-ID as a header to check.

  • Fix UnicodeDecodeError. Closes #53 and #55.

  • Bump requirement to click_log >= 0.2.0. Closes #58, #59 and #60.

  • Replace nose by pytest.

  • Only notify by mail of test failures.

  • Drop support of Python 3.3.

2.1.0 (2017-01-13)

  • Fix rendering of changelog link in RST.

  • Show selected log level in debug mode.

  • Test builds against Python 3.6 and 3.7-dev, and most recent PyPy targeting Python 2.7 and 3.3.

  • Bump requirement to readme_renderer >= 16.0.

  • Skip sets with unparsable mails because of incorrect encoding. Closes #47, #41 and #39.

  • Require the -s/--strategy CLI parameter to be set. Closes #44.

2.0.1 (2016-11-28)

  • Reject mails without Message-ID headers if --message-id option is active.

  • Add a class to holds global config.

  • Print more debug info in unittests when CLI produce tracebacks.

  • Always check for package metadata in Travis CI jobs.

  • Fix package’s long description against PyPi rendering constraints.

  • Add link to full changelog in package’s long description.

2.0.0 (2016-11-13)

  • Refactor and redefine all removal strategies. Closes #40.

  • Add a new -t/--time-source CLI parameter to point to the canonical source of a mail’s timestamp.

  • Rename -s/--show-diffs parameter to -d/--show-diff.

  • Rename -D/--diff-threshold parameter to -C/--content-threshold.

  • Add new -s shorthand to --strategy parameter.

  • Re-implement diff threshold options. Closes #43.

  • Re-implement statistics. Closes #42.

  • Normalize and canonicalize all paths to deduplicate on the fly mails pointing to the same file.

  • Build documentation via Sphinx.

  • Add test and develop dependencies.

  • Move coverage config to setup.cfg.

  • Replace pep8 package by pycodestyle.

  • Enforce pycodestyle checks in Travis CI jobs.

  • Remove popularity badge: PyPI download counters are broken and no longer displayed.

  • Test production of packages in Travis CI jobs.

  • Move development and packaging documentation to Sphinx. Closes #22.

  • Make wheels generated under Python 2 environnment available for Python 3 too.

  • Let unittests generates their own fake and temporary maildirs.

  • Print CLI output in unittests.

  • Use generic factory to produce mail fixtures in unittests.

  • Only show latest changes in the long description of the package instead of the full changelog.

1.3.0 (2016-08-11)

  • User-friendly progress bar.

  • Decrease memory usage on large datasets. Closes #19, #8 and #3.

  • Attempt several encodings when parsing message body. Closes #32.

  • Fixed comparison issue in Python 3. Closes #34.

  • Add a set of basic deduplication unittests.

1.2.0 (2016-03-29)

  • Use logger to output messages to the user.

  • Activate tests on Python 3.3, PyPy and PyPy3.

  • Fix date parsing. See #33.

  • Fix decoding of unicode header value. Closes #24 and #32.

1.1.0 (2016-01-10)

  • Add Python 3.4 and 3.5 support. Closes #30.

  • Add default isort configuration.

  • Remove hackish default encoding forcing in main code.

1.0.2 (2015-12-22)

  • Fix AttributeError on message instance. Closes #28.

  • Various fixes of references to internal variables introduced by a switch to more Pythonic classes in 1.0.0.

  • Remove Message-ID from the list of default canonical headers.

1.0.1 (2015-11-23)

  • Switch from coveralls to codecov.

1.0.0 (2015-10-03)

  • Fix package version parsing.

  • Add installation instructions. Closes #21.

  • Add PEP8 and PyLint configuration.

  • Add bumpversion configuration.

  • Rework CLI around click framework. Closes #26.

0.1.0 (2014-12-15)

  • Package the script for proper distribution.

0.0.1 (2011-04-27)

  • First external contribution.

0.0.0 (2010-06-08)

  • First commit.