1 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
3 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
4 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
5 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
8 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
10 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
11 and from Arsen Arsenović.
14 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
16 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
18 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
19 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
22 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
27 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
29 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
30 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
33 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
35 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
36 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
38 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
39 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
41 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
44 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
49 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
51 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
53 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
54 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
56 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
59 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
61 - Various portability fixes.
64 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
69 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
71 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
72 check_visibility flag.
75 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
77 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
78 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
79 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
80 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
81 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
82 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
85 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
86 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
88 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
89 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
91 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
94 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
96 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
97 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
99 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
104 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
106 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
107 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
108 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
109 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
110 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
112 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
117 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
119 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
124 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
126 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
127 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
129 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
130 use multithreading to speed up the search.
133 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
135 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
136 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
137 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
138 be a big problem in practice.
140 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
141 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
142 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
143 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
146 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
147 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
148 so the transition should be seamless.
153 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
158 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
160 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
163 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020