1 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
6 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
8 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
9 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
12 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
14 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
15 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
17 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
18 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
20 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
23 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
28 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
30 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
32 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
33 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
35 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
38 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
40 - Various portability fixes.
43 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
48 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
50 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
51 check_visibility flag.
54 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
56 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
57 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
58 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
59 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
60 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
61 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
64 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
65 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
67 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
68 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
70 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
73 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
75 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
76 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
78 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
83 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
85 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
86 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
87 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
88 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
89 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
91 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
96 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
98 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
103 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
105 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
106 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
108 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
109 use multithreading to speed up the search.
112 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
114 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
115 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
116 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
117 be a big problem in practice.
119 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
120 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
121 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
122 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
125 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
126 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
127 so the transition should be seamless.
132 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
137 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
139 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
142 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020