1 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
3 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
4 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
7 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
9 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
11 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
12 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
13 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
16 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
18 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
19 and from Arsen Arsenović.
22 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
24 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
26 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
27 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
30 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
35 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
37 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
38 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
41 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
43 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
44 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
46 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
47 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
49 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
52 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
57 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
59 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
61 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
62 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
64 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
67 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
69 - Various portability fixes.
72 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
77 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
79 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
80 check_visibility flag.
83 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
85 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
86 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
87 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
88 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
89 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
90 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
93 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
94 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
96 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
97 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
99 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
102 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
104 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
105 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
107 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
112 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
114 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
115 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
116 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
117 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
118 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
120 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
125 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
127 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
132 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
134 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
135 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
137 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
138 use multithreading to speed up the search.
141 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
143 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
144 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
145 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
146 be a big problem in practice.
148 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
149 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
150 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
151 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
154 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
155 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
156 so the transition should be seamless.
161 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
166 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
168 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
171 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020