1 plocate 1.1.7, November 21st, 2022
3 - Return 1 if no matches were found. Patch by Clément Pit-Claudel.
5 - Various portability patches, thanks to Maciej Adamczyk,
6 Alfred Persson Forsberg, and the Alpine Linux packaging.
9 plocate 1.1.16, June 4th, 2022
14 plocate 1.1.15, January 31st, 2022
19 plocate 1.1.14, December 27th, 2021
21 - Add an option --add-single-prunepath.
23 This makes it possible to prune a path with spaces in the file name,
24 which was previously impossible.
26 - Documentation updates.
29 plocate 1.1.13, November 6th, 2021
34 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
36 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
37 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
40 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
43 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
45 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
46 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
47 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
50 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
52 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
53 and from Arsen Arsenović.
56 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
58 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
60 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
61 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
64 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
69 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
71 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
72 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
75 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
77 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
78 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
80 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
81 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
83 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
86 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
91 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
93 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
95 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
96 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
98 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
101 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
103 - Various portability fixes.
106 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
111 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
113 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
114 check_visibility flag.
117 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
119 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
120 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
121 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
122 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
123 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
124 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
127 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
128 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
130 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
131 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
133 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
136 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
138 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
139 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
141 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
146 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
148 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
149 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
150 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
151 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
152 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
154 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
159 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
161 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
166 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
168 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
169 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
171 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
172 use multithreading to speed up the search.
175 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
177 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
178 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
179 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
180 be a big problem in practice.
182 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
183 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
184 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
185 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
188 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
189 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
190 so the transition should be seamless.
195 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
200 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
202 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
205 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020