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