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