1 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
6 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
8 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
10 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
11 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
13 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
16 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
18 - Various portability fixes.
21 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
26 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
28 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
29 check_visibility flag.
32 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
34 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
35 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
36 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
37 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
38 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
39 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
42 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
43 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
45 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
46 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
48 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
51 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
53 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
54 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
56 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
61 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
63 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
64 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
65 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
66 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
67 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
69 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
74 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
76 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
81 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
83 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
84 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
86 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
87 use multithreading to speed up the search.
90 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
92 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
93 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
94 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
95 be a big problem in practice.
97 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
98 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
99 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
100 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
103 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
104 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
105 so the transition should be seamless.
110 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
115 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
117 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
120 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020