1 GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout)
2 * Major changes in release 4.1.5:
3 Add support for large files
5 * Major changes in release 4.1.4:
6 bug fixes, more up-to-date languages.
8 * Major changes in release 4.1.3:
9 added internationalization and localization.
11 * Major changes in release 4.1.1:
12 attempt at successful compilation on many platforms after years of neglect
13 "--existing" option added to locate "--prunefs" option added to updatedb
15 * Major changes in release 4.1:
17 ** Distribution renamed to findutils.
18 ** updatedb is now a user command, installed in $exec_prefix/bin
19 instead of $exec_prefix/libexec.
20 ** A few problems in Makefiles and testsuite corrected.
22 * Major changes in release 4.0:
26 *** Man page for updatedb.
27 *** Man page for the locate database formats.
30 *** Takes less CPU time on long paths, because it uses chdir to descend
31 trees, so it does fewer inode lookups.
32 *** Does not get trapped in symbolic link loops when -follow is given.
33 *** Supports "-fstype afs" if you have /afs and /usr/afsws/include
34 and you configure using the --with-afs option.
35 *** New action -fls FILE; like -ls but writes to FILE.
38 *** Supports a new database format, which is 8-bit clean and
39 allows machines with different byte orderings and integer sizes to
40 share the databases. The new locate can also detect and read the
41 old database format automatically. The new databases are typically
42 30% or more larger than the old ones (due to allowing all 8 bits in
43 file names). Search times are approximately the same, or faster on
45 *** Warns if a file name database is more than 8 days old.
48 *** Takes command-line options.
51 *** Performance improved 10-20%.
52 *** The EOF string is not used when -0 is given.
53 *** Now has a test suite. Some minor bugs fixed as a result.
55 * Major changes in release 3.8:
57 ** case insensitive versions of -lname, -name, -path, -regex:
58 -ilname, -iname, -ipath, -iregex
59 ** %F directive for -printf, -fprintf to print file system type
61 * Major changes in release 3.7:
63 ** locate can search multiple databases
64 ** locate has an option to specify the database path
65 ** updatedb no longer goes into an infinite loop with some versions of tail
68 This is used by Emacs' spell checker ispell.el:
70 LocalWords: ansi knr strftime xargs updatedb sh fnmatch hin strcpy
71 LocalWords: lib getstr getline frcode bigram texi depcomp automake
72 LocalWords: strncasecmp strcasecmp LIBOBJS FUNC prunefs allout libexec
73 LocalWords: testsuite Texinfo chdir inode fstype afs fls ls EOF lname
74 LocalWords: regex ilname iname ipath iregex printf fprintf