1 GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout)
2 * Major changes in release 4.2.0
3 The environment variable FIND_BLOCK_SIZE is now ignored.
5 * Major changes in release 4.1.20:
6 ** New maintainer, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
7 ** As far as I know, this is the first release after 4.1.7, but I've left
9 ** We now use an "imported" version of gnulib, rather than including
10 a copy of the gnulib code in our CVS repository. There are no
11 differences in the build instructions, though (unless you are
12 building directly from CVS, in which case please read the file
14 ** There are no (deliberate) functional changes in version 4.1.20.
16 * Major changes in release 4.1.7:
17 fix problem so that default "-print" is added when "-prune" is used.
18 security fixes related to directories changing while find is executing.
20 * Major changes in release 4.1.6:
22 added --ignore-case option for locate
24 * Major changes in release 4.1.5:
25 Add support for large files
27 * Major changes in release 4.1.4:
28 bug fixes, more up-to-date languages.
30 * Major changes in release 4.1.3:
31 added internationalization and localization.
33 * Major changes in release 4.1.1:
34 attempt at successful compilation on many platforms after years of neglect
35 "--existing" option added to locate "--prunefs" option added to updatedb
37 * Major changes in release 4.1:
39 ** Distribution renamed to findutils.
40 ** updatedb is now a user command, installed in $exec_prefix/bin
41 instead of $exec_prefix/libexec.
42 ** A few problems in Makefiles and testsuite corrected.
44 * Major changes in release 4.0:
48 *** Man page for updatedb.
49 *** Man page for the locate database formats.
52 *** Takes less CPU time on long paths, because it uses chdir to descend
53 trees, so it does fewer inode lookups.
54 *** Does not get trapped in symbolic link loops when -follow is given.
55 *** Supports "-fstype afs" if you have /afs and /usr/afsws/include
56 and you configure using the --with-afs option.
57 *** New action -fls FILE; like -ls but writes to FILE.
60 *** Supports a new database format, which is 8-bit clean and
61 allows machines with different byte orderings and integer sizes to
62 share the databases. The new locate can also detect and read the
63 old database format automatically. The new databases are typically
64 30% or more larger than the old ones (due to allowing all 8 bits in
65 file names). Search times are approximately the same, or faster on
67 *** Warns if a file name database is more than 8 days old.
70 *** Takes command-line options.
73 *** Performance improved 10-20%.
74 *** The EOF string is not used when -0 is given.
75 *** Now has a test suite. Some minor bugs fixed as a result.
77 * Major changes in release 3.8:
79 ** case insensitive versions of -lname, -name, -path, -regex:
80 -ilname, -iname, -ipath, -iregex
81 ** %F directive for -printf, -fprintf to print file system type
83 * Major changes in release 3.7:
85 ** locate can search multiple databases
86 ** locate has an option to specify the database path
87 ** updatedb no longer goes into an infinite loop with some versions of tail
90 This is used by Emacs' spell checker ispell.el:
92 LocalWords: ansi knr strftime xargs updatedb sh fnmatch hin strcpy
93 LocalWords: lib getstr getline frcode bigram texi depcomp automake
94 LocalWords: strncasecmp strcasecmp LIBOBJS FUNC prunefs allout libexec
95 LocalWords: testsuite Texinfo chdir inode fstype afs fls ls EOF lname
96 LocalWords: regex ilname iname ipath iregex printf fprintf