1 plocate 1.1.22, January 12th, 2024
3 - Revert the updatedb change in 1.1.21 that did not open
4 pruned paths; it broke pruning of paths that were not at the root
5 (e.g. /foo/bar, as opposed to /foo). Reported by David Caldwell.
8 plocate 1.1.21, January 6th, 2024
10 - Improve interactions between pruning and bind mount detection
13 - Pruned paths are now not opened, which can be useful in certain
14 cases. Note that this does not (yet) apply to filesystems that
15 are pruned due to type and not due to paths; they are still opened
16 and then immediately closed again.
19 plocate 1.1.20, December 31st, 2023
21 - Fix updatedb writing incomplete .db files under Termux.
22 Patch by Grisha Levit.
24 - Make the systemd timer run more consistently during the
25 night. Patch by Florian Schmaus.
27 - Add an (undocumented) flag --ignore-visibility to plocate,
28 giving the equivalent of building the database with
29 --require-visibility no. Drops setgid, of course, so you
30 will usually need to be root to use it.
33 plocate 1.1.19, June 9th, 2023
35 - Various bugfixes; thanks to Tim Landscheidt, Nick Alcock
36 and sudhanshu goswami. In particular, this fixes a crash
40 plocate 1.1.18, January 28th, 2023
42 - Support the --require-visibility flag in plocate-build.
47 plocate 1.1.17, November 21st, 2022
49 - Return 1 if no matches were found. Patch by Clément Pit-Claudel.
51 - Various portability patches, thanks to Maciej Adamczyk,
52 Alfred Persson Forsberg, and the Alpine Linux packaging.
55 plocate 1.1.16, June 4th, 2022
60 plocate 1.1.15, January 31st, 2022
65 plocate 1.1.14, December 27th, 2021
67 - Add an option --add-single-prunepath.
69 This makes it possible to prune a path with spaces in the file name,
70 which was previously impossible.
72 - Documentation updates.
75 plocate 1.1.13, November 6th, 2021
80 plocate 1.1.12, October 5th, 2021
82 - Implement the -N/--literal option. This matches the GNU coreutils option
83 to turn off the automatic quoting of special characters when printing to
86 - Various bugfixes, including from Arsen Arsenović.
89 plocate 1.1.11, September 5th, 2021
91 - Fix a crash with --existing if scanning all blocks
92 (ie., very short patterns, or --regex), by turning off
93 asynchronous stat() in this case. Reported by Michael Arndt.
96 plocate 1.1.10, August 23rd, 2021
98 - Various bugfixes, including from the Void Linux repository
99 and from Arsen Arsenović.
102 plocate 1.1.9, August 18th, 2021
104 - Support the -e (--existing) option from mlocate.
106 - Make it possible to set systemunitdir explicitly.
107 Based on a patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
110 plocate 1.1.8, June 12th, 2021
115 plocate 1.1.7, April 7th, 2021
117 - Correct randomization of updatedb systemd unit start time.
118 Patch by Vladimir Lomov.
121 plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021
123 - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the LOCATE_PATH
124 environment variable. See the plocate(1) man page for more information.
126 - Fix an issue where updatedb would not recurse into directories on
127 certain filesystems, in particular the deprecated XFS V4.
129 - Randomize updatedb systemd unit start time. Suggested by Calum McConnell.
132 plocate 1.1.5, February 24th, 2021
137 plocate 1.1.4, February 14th, 2021
139 - updatedb now uses ~15% less CPU time.
141 - Installs a file CACHEDIR.tag into /var/lib/plocate, to mark the directory
142 as autogenerated. Suggested by Marco d'Itri.
144 - Manpage fixes; patch by Jakub Wilk.
147 plocate 1.1.3, December 19th, 2020
149 - Various portability fixes.
152 plocate 1.1.2, December 10th, 2020
157 plocate 1.1.1, December 5th, 2020
159 - Fix an issue where the database could be built with the wrong
160 check_visibility flag.
163 plocate 1.1.0, December 2nd, 2020
165 - Include a native updatedb, based on code and man pages from mlocate's
166 updatedb (but heavily tweaked and reworked). This removes the dependency
167 on mlocate's database, at the expense of 1% larger plocate database.
168 plocate-build does not write the needed timestamps, so the first upgrade
169 from mlocate to native plocate requires a full rescan. Subsequent rescans
170 will be about as fast as updatedb.mlocate + plocate-build. plocate-build
173 - The path name now defaults to /var/lib/plocate, and the group name now
174 defaults to plocate. Both can be changed at configure time.
176 - Databases are now written near-atomically. An aborted updatedb or
177 plocate-build will never leave a stray file.
179 - Escape filenames with backticks in them.
182 plocate 1.0.7, October 31st, 2020
184 - Fix an infinite loop when encountering invalid UTF-8 in file names.
185 Bug report and patch by Leah Neukirchen.
187 - Typo fixes in man pages; patch by Leah Neukirchen.
192 plocate 1.0.6, October 30th, 2020
194 - Escape unprintable characters, quotes, newlines and the likes
195 when outputting file names to a terminal, similar to GNU ls.
196 This is to reduce the security impact of malicious filenames
197 (e.g. containing color or more nefarious escape codes).
198 It is not active when using -0, or when piping to another program.
200 - Support building databases from plaintext files (plocate-build -p).
205 plocate 1.0.5, October 17th, 2020
207 - Implement the -b/--basename option.
212 plocate 1.0.4, October 16th, 2020
214 - Fix a bug where plocate.db would be evicted from the OS cache
215 (the behavior was only meant for benchmarking).
217 - On fallback linear scans, such as regexes or very short patterns,
218 use multithreading to speed up the search.
221 plocate 1.0.3, October 15th, 2020
223 - Portability fixes; plocate will now compile and run on non-x86
224 architectures (although without SIMD optimizations). Note that
225 plocate.db is not portable across endians, but this shouldn't
226 be a big problem in practice.
228 - Filenames are now compressed using a shared zstd dictionary,
229 which makes plocate.db ~7% smaller, and linear scans ~20% faster.
230 This makes plocate-build ~20% slower, though, since it needs to
231 scan through mlocate.db in a special pre-pass to sample filenames
234 This changes the dictionary format (from version 0 to version 1),
235 but the new plocate can still read version 0 dictionaries,
236 so the transition should be seamless.
241 plocate 1.0.2, October 12th, 2020
246 plocate 1.0.1, October 11th, 2020
248 - Unbreak linear scanning (for very short patterns, or regexes).
251 plocate 1.0.0, October 11th, 2020