1 Major changes in release 4.1.1:
2 * attempt at successful compilation on many platforms after years of neglect
3 * "--existing" option added to locate "--prunefs" option added to updatedb
5 Major changes in release 4.1:
7 * Distribution renamed to findutils.
8 * updatedb is now a user command, installed in $exec_prefix/bin
9 instead of $exec_prefix/libexec.
10 * A few problems in Makefiles and testsuite corrected.
12 Major changes in release 4.0:
16 ** Man page for updatedb.
17 ** Man page for the locate database formats.
20 ** Takes less CPU time on long paths, because it uses chdir to descend
21 trees, so it does fewer inode lookups.
22 ** Does not get trapped in symbolic link loops when -follow is given.
23 ** Supports "-fstype afs" if you have /afs and /usr/afsws/include
24 and you configure using the --with-afs option.
25 ** New action -fls FILE; like -ls but writes to FILE.
28 ** Supports a new database format, which is 8-bit clean and
29 allows machines with diffent byte orderings and integer sizes to
30 share the databases. The new locate can also detect and read the
31 old database format automatically. The new databases are typically
32 30% or more larger than the old ones (due to allowing all 8 bits in
33 file names). Search times are approximately the same, or faster on
35 ** Warns if a file name database is more than 8 days old.
38 ** Takes command-line options.
41 ** Performance improved 10-20%.
42 ** The EOF string is not used when -0 is given.
43 ** Now has a test suite. Some minor bugs fixed as a result.
45 Major changes in release 3.8:
47 * case insensitive versions of -lname, -name, -path, -regex:
48 -ilname, -iname, -ipath, -iregex
49 * %F directive for -printf, -fprintf to print file system type
51 Major changes in release 3.7:
53 * locate can search multiple databases
54 * locate has an option to specify the database path
55 * updatedb no longer goes into an infinite loop with some versions of tail