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+Subject: [PATCH 3/8] NEWS: new count api / deprecated count/search functions\r
+ for 0.21\r
+Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:42:48 -0300\r
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+ NEWS | 9 +++++++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)\r
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+diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS\r
+index d35b8cd..7f2f249 100644\r
+--- a/NEWS\r
++++ b/NEWS\r
+@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ Database revision tracking\r
+ query parser and the new function\r
+ `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.\r
+ \r
++New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}.\r
++\r
++Deprecated functions\r
++\r
++ `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,\r
++ `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`\r
++ are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to\r
++ transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.\r
++\r
+ Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)\r
+ ===========================\r
+ \r
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+2.5.3\r
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