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