[neomutt-devel] NeoMutt - What's New since 2025-01-05

[Richard Russon]

NeoMutt's currently under heavy development.
I'd like to thank all the developers helping me, but there aren't any.

If you want NeoMutt development to continue:

- Help me - Contribute something.  Anything.
- Sponsor Me - https://neomutt.org/sponsor
- At least thank me - I'm feeling unappreciated

FlatCap / Rich

## Major Features

- Fuzzy Sidebar Search — Quickly find mailboxes in the sidebar using fuzzy matching (type-ahead search)
  - https://neomutt.org/feature/fuzzy
  - https://neomutt.org/feature/sidebar-search
- Long-Name Expandos — Use readable `%{long-name}` syntax in format strings instead of cryptic single-letter codes
- Command Help — Type `:command?` to get inline help for any command
- Hooks Command — New `:hooks` command to list all active hooks
- Long CLI Options — Command-line now supports `--long-option` style flags (e.g. `--help`, `--version`)
- Unified Command Naming — Commands now use consistent hyphenated names (e.g. `subject-regex` instead of `subjectrx`)
- Compose Preview On By Default — Message preview in the compose screen is now enabled by default

## Improvements

- IMAP connections are more robust — better timeout handling, reconnection with exponential backoff, and crash fixes when changing folders
- Hundreds of bug fixes across all components improving stability and security
- Tighter file permissions for LMDB store and cache directories
- Updated translations (German, Turkish, Swedish, Serbian, French)
- Improved documentation with better formatting, more examples, and linkified URLs

## Contrib

New non-code additions to NeoMutt:

- Bash Completion for NeoMutt and `./configure`
  https://github.com/neomutt/shell-completion
- Config Syntax Highlighting using Pygments
  https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt-pygments

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