1 plocate 1.1.18, January 28th, 2023
3 - Support the --require-visibility flag in plocate-build.
8 plocate 1.1.17, November 21st, 2022
10 - Return 1 if no matches were found. Patch by Clément Pit-Claudel.
12 - Various portability patches, thanks to Maciej Adamczyk,
13 Alfred Persson Forsberg, and the Alpine Linux packaging.
16 plocate 1.1.16, June 4th, 2022
21 plocate 1.1.15, January 31st, 2022
26 plocate 1.1.14, December 27th, 2021
28 - Add an option --add-single-prunepath.
30 This makes it possible to prune a path with spaces in the file name,
31 which was previously impossible.
33 - Documentation updates.
36 plocate 1.1.13, November 6th, 2021
41 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
43 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
44 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
47 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
50 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
52 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
53 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
54 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
57 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
59 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
60 and from Arsen Arsenović.
63 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
65 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
67 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
68 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
71 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
76 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
78 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
79 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
82 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
84 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
85 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
87 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
88 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
90 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
93 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
98 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
100 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
102 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
103 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
105 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
108 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
110 - Various portability fixes.
113 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
118 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
120 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
121 check_visibility flag.
124 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
126 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
127 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
128 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
129 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
130 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
131 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
134 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
135 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
137 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
138 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
140 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
143 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
145 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
146 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
148 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
153 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
155 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
156 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
157 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
158 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
159 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
161 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
166 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
168 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
173 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
175 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
176 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
178 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
179 use multithreading to speed up the search.
182 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
184 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
185 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
186 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
187 be a big problem in practice.
189 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
190 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
191 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
192 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
195 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
196 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
197 so the transition should be seamless.
202 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
207 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
209 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
212 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020