1 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
3 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
5 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
6 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
9 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
14 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
16 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
17 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
20 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
22 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
23 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
25 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
26 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
28 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
31 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
36 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
38 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
40 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
41 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
43 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
46 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
48 - Various portability fixes.
51 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
56 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
58 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
59 check_visibility flag.
62 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
64 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
65 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
66 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
67 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
68 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
69 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
72 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
73 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
75 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
76 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
78 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
81 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
83 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
84 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
86 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
91 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
93 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
94 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
95 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
96 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
97 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
99 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
104 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
106 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
111 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
113 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
114 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
116 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
117 use multithreading to speed up the search.
120 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
122 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
123 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
124 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
125 be a big problem in practice.
127 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
128 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
129 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
130 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
133 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
134 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
135 so the transition should be seamless.
140 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
145 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
147 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
150 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020