1 plocate 1.1.15, January 31st, 2022
6 plocate 1.1.14, December 27th, 2021
8 - Add an option --add-single-prunepath.
10 This makes it possible to prune a path with spaces in the file name,
11 which was previously impossible.
13 - Documentation updates.
16 plocate 1.1.13, November 6th, 2021
21 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
23 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
24 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
27 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
30 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
32 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
33 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
34 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
37 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
39 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
40 and from Arsen Arsenović.
43 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
45 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
47 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
48 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
51 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
56 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
58 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
59 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
62 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
64 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
65 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
67 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
68 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
70 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
73 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
78 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
80 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
82 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
83 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
85 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
88 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
90 - Various portability fixes.
93 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
98 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
100 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
101 check_visibility flag.
104 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
106 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
107 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
108 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
109 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
110 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
111 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
114 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
115 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
117 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
118 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
120 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
123 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
125 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
126 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
128 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
133 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
135 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
136 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
137 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
138 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
139 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
141 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
146 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
148 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
153 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
155 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
156 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
158 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
159 use multithreading to speed up the search.
162 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
164 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
165 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
166 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
167 be a big problem in practice.
169 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
170 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
171 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
172 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
175 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
176 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
177 so the transition should be seamless.
182 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
187 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
189 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
192 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020