1 plocate 1.1.16, June 4th, 2022
6 plocate 1.1.15, January 31st, 2022
11 plocate 1.1.14, December 27th, 2021
13 - Add an option --add-single-prunepath.
15 This makes it possible to prune a path with spaces in the file name,
16 which was previously impossible.
18 - Documentation updates.
21 plocate 1.1.13, November 6th, 2021
26 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
28 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
29 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
32 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
35 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
37 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
38 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
39 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
42 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
44 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
45 and from Arsen Arsenović.
48 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
50 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
52 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
53 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
56 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
61 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
63 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
64 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
67 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
69 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
70 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
72 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
73 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
75 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
78 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
83 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
85 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
87 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
88 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
90 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
93 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
95 - Various portability fixes.
98 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
103 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
105 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
106 check_visibility flag.
109 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
111 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
112 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
113 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
114 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
115 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
116 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
119 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
120 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
122 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
123 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
125 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
128 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
130 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
131 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
133 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
138 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
140 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
141 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
142 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
143 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
144 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
146 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
151 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
153 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
158 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
160 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
161 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
163 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
164 use multithreading to speed up the search.
167 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
169 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
170 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
171 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
172 be a big problem in practice.
174 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
175 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
176 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
177 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
180 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
181 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
182 so the transition should be seamless.
187 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
192 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
194 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
197 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020