1 plocate 1.1.21, January 6th, 2024
3 - Improve interactions between pruning and bind mount detection
6 - Pruned paths are now not opened, which can be useful in certain
7 cases. Note that this does not (yet) apply to filesystems that
8 are pruned due to type and not due to paths; they are still opened
9 and then immediately closed again.
12 plocate 1.1.20, December 31st, 2023
14 - Fix updatedb writing incomplete .db files under Termux.
15 Patch by Grisha Levit.
17 - Make the systemd timer run more consistently during the
18 night. Patch by Florian Schmaus.
20 - Add an (undocumented) flag --ignore-visibility to plocate,
21 giving the equivalent of building the database with
22 --require-visibility no. Drops setgid, of course, so you
23 will usually need to be root to use it.
26 plocate 1.1.19, June 9th, 2023
28 - Various bugfixes; thanks to Tim Landscheidt, Nick Alcock
29 and sudhanshu goswami. In particular, this fixes a crash
33 plocate 1.1.18, January 28th, 2023
35 - Support the --require-visibility flag in plocate-build.
40 plocate 1.1.17, November 21st, 2022
42 - Return 1 if no matches were found. Patch by Clément Pit-Claudel.
44 - Various portability patches, thanks to Maciej Adamczyk,
45 Alfred Persson Forsberg, and the Alpine Linux packaging.
48 plocate 1.1.16, June 4th, 2022
53 plocate 1.1.15, January 31st, 2022
58 plocate 1.1.14, December 27th, 2021
60 - Add an option --add-single-prunepath.
62 This makes it possible to prune a path with spaces in the file name,
63 which was previously impossible.
65 - Documentation updates.
68 plocate 1.1.13, November 6th, 2021
73 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
75 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
76 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
79 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
82 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
84 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
85 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
86 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
89 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
91 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
92 and from Arsen Arsenović.
95 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
97 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
99 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
100 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
103 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
108 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
110 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
111 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
114 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
116 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
117 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
119 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
120 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
122 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
125 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
130 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
132 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
134 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
135 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
137 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
140 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
142 - Various portability fixes.
145 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
150 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
152 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
153 check_visibility flag.
156 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
158 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
159 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
160 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
161 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
162 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
163 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
166 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
167 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
169 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
170 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
172 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
175 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
177 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
178 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
180 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
185 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
187 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
188 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
189 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
190 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
191 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
193 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
198 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
200 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
205 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
207 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
208 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
210 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
211 use multithreading to speed up the search.
214 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
216 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
217 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
218 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
219 be a big problem in practice.
221 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
222 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
223 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
224 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
227 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
228 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
229 so the transition should be seamless.
234 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
239 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
241 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
244 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020