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Mutt 2.2.13 was released on March 9, 2024. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a possible dangling pointer reference in the SMTP client.

Mutt 2.2.12 was released on September 9, 2023. This is a bug-fix release, fixing two crash bugs. One is possible by viewing a crafted message header, so upgrading is strongly recommended.

Mutt 2.2.11 was released on August 18, 2023. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a build issue with GPGME on MacOS.

Mutt 2.2.10 was released on March 25, 2023. This is a bug-fix release. It also changes message-id Base64 encoding to use a url-safe version.

Mutt 2.2.9 was released on November 12, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a build issue with recent GPGME releases.

Mutt 2.2.8 was released on November 5, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a possible crash when using GPGME to view an application/pgp key block. It also makes some changes to resizing and window size logic, and enables batch-mode IMAP Fcc'ing. See the UPDATING file for more details.

Mutt 2.2.7 was released on August 7, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a $edit_headers bug on MacOS, along with a few other small bugs. It also tightens the $query_command parser to accept a single tab between fields, and changes $pager to accept a %s expando.

Mutt 2.2.6 was released on June 5, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a variety of small issues.

Mutt 2.2.5 was released on May 16, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing two issues with libgsasl authentication.

Mutt 2.2.4 was released on April 30, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing some regressions with Maildir/mh mailbox path normalization that were added in 2.2.0. Please see the UPDATING file for more details.

Mutt 2.2.3 was released on April 12, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, addressing a buffer overread in the uuencoded decoder (CVE-2022-1328), along with some other issues.

Mutt 2.2.2 was released on March 25, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing an issue with history categories, query-menu behavior, and a couple other small issues.

Mutt 2.2.1 was released on February 19, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing an issue with header/body cache naming.

Mutt 2.2.0 was released on February 12, 2022. This release has new features and bug fixes. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 2.1.5 was released on December 30, 2021. This is a bug-fix release, fixing two SMTP authentication issues, a crash bug on NetBSD, and a couple other issues.

Mutt 2.1.4 was released on December 11, 2021. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a performance issue when used with DavMail.

Mutt 2.1.3 was released on September 10, 2021. This is a bug-fix release, fixing some of the fixes in the last release. IMAP and QRESYNC users are advised to upgrade.

Mutt 2.1.2 was released on August 24, 2021. This is an important bug-fix release, fixing a potential data-loss IMAP bug, a couple QRESYNC bugs, and a few other issues. IMAP users are strongly advised to upgrade.

Mutt 2.1.1 was released on July 12, 2021. This is a bug-fix release, fixing some redraw issues and a problem with the new List Menu for mbox mailboxes.

Mutt 2.1.0 was released on June 12, 2021. This release has new features and bug fixes. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 2.0.7 was released on May 4, 2021. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a $imap_qresync VANISHED handling bug, a crash when using an encrypted -H template file, and a couple other small issues.

Mutt 2.0.6 was released on March 6, 2021. This is a bug-fix release, with some cleanup and small fixes.

Mutt 2.0.5 was released on January 21, 2021. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a few memory leaks, including CVE-2021-3181.

Mutt 2.0.4 was released on December 30, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a mbox large-file support bug, and a sprinkle of other issues.

Mutt 2.0.3 was released on December 4, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a possible crash bug along with several other issues.

Mutt 2.0.2 was released on November 20, 2020. This is an important bug-fix release, addressing CVE-2020-28896.

Mutt 2.0.1 was released on November 14, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a compilation issue on some platforms.

Mutt 2.0.0 was released on November 7, 2020. This release has new features, bug fixes, and a few backward incompatible changes. Please read the release notes, and see the UPDATING file for all the changes.

Mutt 1.14.7 was released on August 29, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a variety of small issues.

Mutt 1.14.6 was released on July 11, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing an error resetting access-time for relative path mailboxes.

Mutt 1.14.5 was released on June 23, 2020. This fixes a regression when using $tunnel to connect to a preauthenticated IMAP connection.

Mutt 1.14.4 was released on June 18, 2020. This is an important bug-fix release. It fixes a possible machine-in-the-middle response injection attack when using STARTTLS with IMAP, POP3, and SMTP (CVE-2020-14954).

Mutt 1.14.3 was released on June 14, 2020. This is an important bug-fix release. It fixes a possible IMAP fcc/postpone machine-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2020-14093). It also fixes some GnuTLS certificate prompt issues.

Mutt 1.14.2 was released on May 25, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a few prompt buffer-size issues and adding a potential DoS mitigation.

Mutt 1.14.1 was released on May 16, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a documentation build issue and a few other small bugs.

Mutt 1.14.0 was released on May 2, 2020. This release has new features and bug fixes. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 1.13.5 was released on March 28, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a use-after-free bug, and a couple format string processing bugs.

Mutt 1.13.4 was released on February 15, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a possible memory corruption bug when sync'ing imap mailboxes, improving large-threaded mailbox opening speed, and reverting $ssl_force_tls to default unset.

Mutt 1.13.3 was released on January 12, 2020. This is a bug-fix release, fixing exit screen handling and a possible segfault on imap-logout-all.

Mutt 1.13.2 was released on December 18, 2019. This is a bug-fix release, reverting an incorrect cleanup change to mutt_dotlock made in 1.13.0.

Mutt 1.13.1 was released on December 14, 2019. This is a bug-fix release, fixing two crash bugs involving IMAP and the postpone menu. It also reverts by default the 1.13.0 sidebar display changes. See the UPDATING file for more details.

Mutt 1.13.0 was released on November 30, 2019. This release has new features and bug fixes. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 1.12.2 was released on September 21, 2019. This is a bug-fix release, fixing file monitor compilation on older systems, and application/pgp-encrypted attachment handling for sent emails.

Mutt 1.12.1 was released on June 15, 2019. This is a bug-fix release, fixing issues with $forward_attachments, IMAP new mail detection, IMAP fcc'ing, and a build issue on OpenBSD. Additionally $fcc_before_send was added. See the UPDATING file for more details.

Mutt 1.12.0 was released on May 25, 2019. This release has new features and bug fixes. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 1.11.4 was released on March 13, 2019. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a Gmail $trash bug that could end up deleting incorrect messages.

Mutt 1.11.3 was released on February 1, 2019. This is a bug-fix release, fixing compilation with LibreSSL and various other bug fixes.

Mutt 1.11.2 was released on January 7, 2019. This is a bug-fix release, fixing compilation with the latest OpenSSL version and various other bug fixes.

Mutt 1.11.1 was released on December 1, 2018 (the "A Chorus Line" release). This is a bug-fix release, fixing a crash in the new $imap_qresync code.

Mutt 1.11.0 was released on November 25, 2018. This release has new features and bug fixes. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 1.10.1 was released on July 16, 2018. This is an important bug-fix release, fixing a code injection and a couple path traversal vulnerabilities.

Mutt 1.10.0 was released on May 19, 2018. This release has new features and bug fixes. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 1.9.5 was released on April 14, 2018. This is a bug-fix release, fixing GPGME S/MIME signature handling, a ncurses compilation issue, regexp crash issues on MacOS (and possibly other *bsds), and a GSS authentication issue.

Mutt 1.9.4 was released on March 3, 2018. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a possible crash due to large year numbers, and protecting against a large content-length in an mbox file.

Mutt 1.9.3 was released on January 27, 2018. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a problem with IMAP and resuming S/MIME encrypted drafts.

Mutt 1.9.2 was released on December 15, 2017. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a problem with S/MIME encryption that could end up removing the recipient certificate from the store.

Mutt 1.9.1 was released on September 23, 2017. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a possible segfault with IMAP when syncing, along with trash folder and imap_poll_timeout reconnection issues.

Mutt 1.9.0 was released on September 2, 2017. This release has new features, bug fixes, and is the result of several large internal rearchitectures. See the UPDATING file, or for more details see the release notes page.

Mutt 1.8.3 was released on May 30, 2017. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a memory leak, a couple IMAP issues, and a few other small issues.

Mutt 1.8.2 was released on April 18, 2017. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a regression involving GnuPG agent in the 1.8.1 release.

Mutt 1.8.1 was released on April 13, 2017. This is a bug-fix release, fixing problems with setenv, sidebar_whitelist, a possible segfault, and several other small issues.

Mutt 1.8.0 was released on February 24, 2017. This release has several new features, and a couple incompatible changes. Please see the UPDATING file for details.

Mutt 1.7.2 was released on December 4, 2016. This is a bug-fix release, primarily fixing build issues with OpenSSL 1.1 and GPGME 1.8.

Mutt 1.7.1 was released on October 8, 2016. This is a bug-fix release, fixing an imap segfault along with several other small issues.

Mutt 1.7.0 was released on August 18, 2016. This release has several new features. Please see the UPDATING file for details.

Mutt 1.6.2 was released on July 6, 2016. This is a bug-fix release, fixing two issues found with 1.6.1.

Mutt 1.6.1 was released on May 1, 2016. This is a bug-fix release, fixing three issues found with 1.6.0.

Mutt 1.6 was released on April 4, 2016. This stable release has an enormous number of changes compared to the 1.4 series. Please review the changes file for an overview of changes since the 1.4 series, or the UPDATING file for a more detailed breakdown by each previous development release.

Mutt 1.5.24 was released on August 31, 2015. In addition to bugfixes, we managed to slip in some new features and enhancements. See the UPDATING file for more details.

Mutt 1.5.23 was released on March 12, 2014. This is security bugfix release.

Mutt 1.5.22 was released on October 18, 2013. This is primarily a bugfix release. Adds support for TLS 1.1/1.2.

Mutt 1.5.21 was released on September 15, 2010. The most notable user-visible change (aside from bug fixes) is the new $mail_check_recent flag to partially address NewMailHandling (the major blocker for 1.6). It also contains a larger than usual number of bug fixes, thanks to the long time between releases. More details.

Mutt 1.5.20 was released on June 14, 2009. This release contains an enormous number of bugfixes, and several high-level changes.

Mutt 1.5.19 was released on January 5, 2009. This is mostly a bugfix release on the long road to 1.6.

Mutt 1.5.18 was released on May 17, 2008. This release contains 6 months of bug fixes, documentation improvements and performance enhancements since the release of 1.5.17, but only one new feature ($time_inc, for controlling the rate at which status updates are displayed). We're still in feature freeze (mostly) for 1.6. The list of items blocking the release of mutt 1.6 may be found here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/milestone/1.6 Patches for any issues found there would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all the contributors for this release, especially Rocco for authoring well over half the changes.

Mutt 1.5.17 was released on November 1, 2007. This is a collection of bugfixes since the last release, as we stabilize the code for a 1.6 release. For those who are interested, the work left before 1.6 can be found here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/milestone/1.6

Mutt 1.5.16 was released on June 9, 2007. This release is largely a bug-fix release, but it does contain a couple of small new features (next-unread-mailbox, $message_cache_clean).

Mutt 1.4.2.3 was released on June 9, 2007. This release fixes CVE-2007-2683 (gecos overflow) and CVE-2007-1558 (APOP MD5 collision attack).

Mutt 1.5.15 was released on April 6, 2007. This version has several new and long-standing feature patches applied in anticipation of a feature freeze toward 1.6. These include built-in SMTP, flowed mail support improvements, xterm title updating, charset improvements, GPG PKA support, etc. See the ChangeLog for full details.

Mutt 1.5.14 was released on February 23, 2007. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity. See the ChangeLog for details.

Mutt 1.5.13 was released on August 14, 2006. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity. See the ChangeLog for details.

Mutt 1.5.12 was released on July 14, 2006. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity and also fixes CVE-2006-3242. See the ChangeLog for details.

Mutt 1.4.2.2 was released on July 14, 2006. This release fixes CVE-2006-3242, a buffer overflow that could be triggered by a malicious IMAP server.

Mutt 1.5.11 was released on September 15, 2005. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity. See the ChangeLog for details.

Mutt 1.5.10 was released on August 11, 2005. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity. It is expected to fix a number of known bugs; see the ChangeLog for details.

Mutt 1.5.9 was released on March 13, 2005.

Mutt 1.5.8 was released on February 12, 2005.

Sept 18th 2004. The mailing lists are slowly coming back to life. Since the failure of 6 days ago, mail has been stored. Approx figures are 25,000 mutt.org emails of which 4,600 were viruses (virii) and about 35 actual list traffic. Much being to invalid addresses and backscatter from forged mutt.org addresses.
However normality has now been restored (HHGTTG).

Mutt 1.4.2.1 was released on February 12, 2004. This release includes some files which were missing from the 1.4.2 release.

Mutt 1.4.2 was released on February 11, 2004. This version fixes a buffer overflow that can be triggered by incoming messages. There are reports about spam that has actually triggered this problem and crashed mutt. It is recommended that users of mutt versions prior to 1.4.2 upgrade to this version, or apply the patch included below. Users of "unstable" mutt versions after 1.3.28 (including 1.5.*) do not need to upgrade, as this problem had been fixed in the unstable branch in February 2002; unfortunately, the fix was not backported before 1.4 was released.

Mutt 1.4.1 and 1.5.4 were released on March 19, 2003. These releases both fix a buffer overflow identified by Core Security Technologies. The only differences between 1.4 and 1.4.1 are bug fixes. If you are currently using 1.4, it's probably a very good idea to update.

Mutt 1.4 was released on May 29, 2002. This release has been a long time coming, and users of older versions such as 1.2.x are encouraged to take a look at 1.4 and the changes.

Mutt 1.3.99 was released on May 2, 2002. This is hopefully the last release candidate before 1.4 final.

Mutt 1.3.28 was released on March 13, 2002. This is a release candidate for 1.4.

Mutt 1.3.27 was released on January 22, 2002. This is the next beta release toward the upcoming 1.4. This release fixes the SSL core dump present in the short-lived 1.3.26.

Mutt 1.3.26 was released on January 18, 2002. This is the next beta release toward the upcoming 1.4.

Mutt 1.2.5.1 and 1.3.25 were released on January 1, 2002. These releases both fix a security hole which can be remotely exploited. For more information, see the release announcement.

Mutt 1.3.24 was released on November 30, 2001. This is a beta development release toward the next stable public release version. There have been several large changes since 1.2.x, so please check the recent changes page.

The Mutt CVS server has moved from ftp.guug.de to ftp.mutt.org.

Mutt 1.2.5 was released on July 28, 2000. This is the latest maintenance update of the stable branch of mutt, and this time, we really suggest that you update.

This release fixes at least one grave IMAP error which may lead to confusing display and other strangeness, and our instances of the "wuftpd format bug", which had (mostly) the effect that your IMAP server's operator could break into your computer with some work.

Mutt 1.2.4 was released on July 7, 2000. This version fixes a couple of problems present in 1.2.2, and one problem leading to crashes whose fix was lacking from 1.2.3. We suggest that users of earlier versions upgrade to this release of mutt.

Mutt 1.2.3 was released on July 7, 2000.

Mutt 1.2.2 was released on June 20, 2000. This version fixes a build problem present with 1.2.1. If Mutt-1.2.1 is working for you, there is no need to upgrade.

Mutt 1.2.1 was released on June 19, 2000.

Mutt 1.2 was released on May 9, 2000. Note that this version contains several significant changes, and users should not upgrade without reading the and the README.UPGRADE file.

Mutt 1.0.1 was released on January 19, 2000. Changes include a y2k fix for dealing with odd dates from some mailers, and additional translations. There is no reason to upgrade if you haven't experienced problems with 1.0.

Mutt 1.0 was released on October 22, 1999. The is available.

Mutt 1.0pre4 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) was released on October 11, 1999.

Mutt 1.0pre3 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) was released on September 25, 1999. This fixes the below mentioned buffer overflow, and users are urged to upgrade immediately.

A buffer overflow has been discovered in Mutt's text/enriched handler for both the stable and unstable branches. It may be exploited by an attacker constructing suitably formatted e-mail messages. A patch can be found , and new releases will be available shortly.

Mutt 1.0pre2 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) was released on September 1, 1999.

Mutt 1.0pre1 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) was released on August 24, 1999.

Mutt 0.95.7 (BETA) was released on August 17, 1999.

Mutt 0.95.6 (BETA) was released on June 3, 1999.

Mutt 0.95.5 (BETA) was released on April 23, 1999.

Mutt 0.95.3 (BETA) was released on February 12, 1999.

Mutt 0.95.1 (BETA) was released on January 4, 1999.

Mutt 0.95 (BETA) was released on December 12, 1998.

A serious security hole has been found in Mutt's handling of MIME content types. All Mutt users are encouraged to upgrade to at least version 0.93.2 in order to correct the problem. For more information, check the CERT site.


Last updated on March 9, 2024 by kevin8t8
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