1 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
3 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
4 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
6 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
7 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
9 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
12 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
17 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
19 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
21 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
22 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
24 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
27 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
29 - Various portability fixes.
32 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
37 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
39 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
40 check_visibility flag.
43 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
45 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
46 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
47 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
48 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
49 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
50 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
53 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
54 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
56 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
57 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
59 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
62 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
64 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
65 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
67 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
72 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
74 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
75 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
76 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
77 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
78 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
80 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
85 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
87 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
92 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
94 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
95 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
97 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
98 use multithreading to speed up the search.
101 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
103 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
104 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
105 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
106 be a big problem in practice.
108 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
109 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
110 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
111 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
114 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
115 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
116 so the transition should be seamless.
121 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
126 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
128 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
131 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020