1 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
3 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
5 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
6 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
8 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
11 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
13 - Various portability fixes.
16 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
21 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
23 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
24 check_visibility flag.
27 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
29 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
30 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
31 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
32 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
33 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
34 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
37 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
38 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
40 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
41 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
43 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
46 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
48 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
49 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
51 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
56 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
58 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
59 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
60 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
61 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
62 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
64 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
69 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
71 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
76 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
78 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
79 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
81 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
82 use multithreading to speed up the search.
85 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
87 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
88 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
89 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
90 be a big problem in practice.
92 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
93 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
94 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
95 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
98 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
99 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
100 so the transition should be seamless.
105 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
110 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
112 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
115 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020