1 plocate 1.1.20, December 31st, 2023
3 - Fix updatedb writing incomplete .db files under Termux.
6 - Make the systemd timer run more consistently during the
7 night. Patch by Florian Schmaus.
9 - Add an (undocumented) flag --ignore-visibility to plocate,
10 giving the equivalent of building the database with
11 --require-visibility no. Drops setgid, of course, so you
12 will usually need to be root to use it.
15 plocate 1.1.19, June 9th, 2023
17 - Various bugfixes; thanks to Tim Landscheidt, Nick Alcock
18 and sudhanshu goswami. In particular, this fixes a crash
22 plocate 1.1.18, January 28th, 2023
24 - Support the --require-visibility flag in plocate-build.
29 plocate 1.1.17, November 21st, 2022
31 - Return 1 if no matches were found. Patch by Clément Pit-Claudel.
33 - Various portability patches, thanks to Maciej Adamczyk,
34 Alfred Persson Forsberg, and the Alpine Linux packaging.
37 plocate 1.1.16, June 4th, 2022
42 plocate 1.1.15, January 31st, 2022
47 plocate 1.1.14, December 27th, 2021
49 - Add an option --add-single-prunepath.
51 This makes it possible to prune a path with spaces in the file name,
52 which was previously impossible.
54 - Documentation updates.
57 plocate 1.1.13, November 6th, 2021
62 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
64 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
65 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
68 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
71 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
73 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
74 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
75 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
78 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
80 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
81 and from Arsen Arsenović.
84 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
86 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
88 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
89 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
92 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
97 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
99 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
100 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
103 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
105 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
106 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
108 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
109 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
111 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
114 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
119 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
121 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
123 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
124 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
126 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
129 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
131 - Various portability fixes.
134 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
139 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
141 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
142 check_visibility flag.
145 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
147 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
148 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
149 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
150 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
151 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
152 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
155 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
156 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
158 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
159 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
161 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
164 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
166 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
167 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
169 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
174 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
176 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
177 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
178 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
179 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
180 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
182 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
187 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
189 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
194 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
196 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
197 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
199 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
200 use multithreading to speed up the search.
203 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
205 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
206 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
207 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
208 be a big problem in practice.
210 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
211 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
212 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
213 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
216 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
217 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
218 so the transition should be seamless.
223 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
228 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
230 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
233 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020