summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/docs/CHANGELOG.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2022-04-19 11:30:47 -0400
committerTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2022-04-21 20:03:16 -0400
commitaa6797db463b5143c5ca05bb5e90b05d2f72122a (patch)
tree4ad640bd5d851b7c594fa2f5efaa872ceece6941 /docs/CHANGELOG.md
parent7f37e4131c24c08e0575db06ccf7ea986c4cc190 (diff)
downloadbfs-aa6797db463b5143c5ca05bb5e90b05d2f72122a.tar.xz
docs: Move some documentation into a subfolder
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/CHANGELOG.md')
-rw-r--r--docs/CHANGELOG.md655
1 files changed, 655 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aafc497
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,655 @@
+2.*
+===
+
+2.5
+---
+
+**March 27, 2022**
+
+- Added compiler-style context for errors and warnings.
+ Errors look like this:
+
+ $ bfs -nam needle
+ bfs: error: bfs -nam needle
+ bfs: error: ~~~~
+ bfs: error: Unknown argument; did you mean -name?
+
+ and warnings look like this:
+
+ $ bfs -print -name 'needle'
+ bfs: warning: bfs -print -name needle
+ bfs: warning: ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ bfs: warning: The result of this expression is ignored.
+
+- Updated from C99 to C11
+
+- Fixed the tests when built against musl
+
+- Fixed a build error reported on Manjaro
+
+
+2.4.1
+-----
+
+**February 24, 2022**
+
+- Fixed the build when Oniguruma is not installed in the default search paths ([#82])
+
+- Fixed string encoding bugs with Oniguruma enabled
+
+- Fixed regex error reporting bugs
+
+[#82]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/82
+
+
+2.4
+---
+
+**February 22, 2022**
+
+- Added the Oniguruma regular expression library as an (optional, but enabled by default) dependency ([#81]).
+ Oniguruma supports more regular expression syntax types than the POSIX regex API, and often performs better.
+ To build `bfs` without this new dependency, do `make WITH_ONIGURUMA=` to disable it.
+ Thanks @data-man!
+
+- Added support for the `ed`, `emacs`, `grep`, and `sed` regular expression types ([#21])
+
+- Before executing a process with `-exec[dir]`/`-ok[dir]`, `bfs` now ensures all output streams are flushed.
+ Previously, I/O from subprocesses could be interleaved unpredictably with buffered I/O from `bfs` itself.
+
+[#81]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/pull/81
+[#21]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/21
+
+
+2.3.1
+-----
+
+**January 21, 2022**
+
+- Fixed the build on Debian kFreeBSD
+
+- Fixed a crash on GNU Hurd when piping bfs's output
+
+- Fixed a double-`close()` on non-Linux platforms if `fdopendir()` fails
+
+- Reduced memory allocations on startup
+
+
+2.3
+---
+
+**November 25, 2021**
+
+- More tweaks to `PAGER` and `LESS` handling for `bfs -help` ([#76])
+
+- Use 512-byte blocks for `-ls` when `POSIXLY_CORRECT` is set ([#77])
+
+- Implemented `-files0-from FILE` to take a list of `'\0'`-separated starting paths.
+ GNU find will implement the same feature in an upcoming release.
+
+- Added colors to `-printf` output ([#62])
+
+- Faster recovery from `E2BIG` during `-exec`
+
+[#76]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/76
+[#77]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/77
+[#62]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/62
+
+
+2.2.1
+-----
+
+**June 2, 2021**
+
+- Fixed some incorrect coloring of broken links when links are being followed (`-L`)
+
+- Made the tests work when run as root by dropping privileges.
+ This may be helpful for certain packaging or CI environments, but is not recommended.
+
+- Treat empty `PAGER` and `LESS` environment variables like they're unset, for `bfs -help` ([#71]).
+ Thanks @markus-oberhumer!
+
+- The soft `RLIMIT_NOFILE` is now raised automatically to a fairly large value when possible.
+ This provides a minor performance benefit for large directory trees.
+
+- Implemented time units for `-mtime` as found in FreeBSD find ([#75])
+
+[#71]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/71
+[#75]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/75
+
+
+2.2
+---
+
+**March 6, 2021**
+
+- Fixed `-hidden` on hidden start paths
+
+- Added a Bash completion script.
+ Thanks @bmundt6!
+
+- Fixed rounding in `-used`.
+ Corresponding fixes were made to GNU find in version 4.8.0.
+
+- Optimized the open directory representation.
+ On Linux, much libc overhead is bypassed by issuing syscalls directly.
+ On all platforms, a few fewer syscalls and open file descriptors will be used.
+
+- Implemented `-flags` from BSD find
+
+
+2.1
+---
+
+**November 11, 2020**
+
+- Added a new `-status` option that displays the search progress in a bar at the bottom of the terminal
+
+- Fixed an optimizer bug introduced in version 2.0 that affected some combinations of `-user`/`-group` and `-nouser`/`-nogroup`
+
+
+2.0
+---
+
+**October 14, 2020**
+
+- [#8]: New `-exclude <expression>` syntax to more easily and reliably filter out paths.
+ For example:
+
+ bfs -name config -exclude -name .git
+
+ will find all files named `config`, without searching any directories (or files) named `.git`.
+ In this case, the same effect could have been achieved (more awkwardly) with `-prune`:
+
+ bfs ! \( -name .git -prune \) -name config
+
+ But `-exclude` will work in more cases:
+
+ # -exclude works with -depth, while -prune doesn't:
+ bfs -depth -name config -exclude -name .git
+
+ # -exclude applies even to paths below the minimum depth:
+ bfs -mindepth 3 -name config -exclude -name .git
+
+- [#30]: `-nohidden` is now equivalent to `-exclude -hidden`.
+ This changes the behavior of command lines like
+
+ bfs -type f -nohidden
+
+ to do what was intended.
+
+- Optimized the iterative deepening (`-S ids`) implementation
+
+- Added a new search strategy: exponential deepening search (`-S eds`).
+ This strategy provides many of the benefits of iterative deepening, but much faster due to fewer re-traversals.
+
+- Fixed an optimizer bug that could skip `-empty`/`-xtype` if they didn't always lead to an action
+
+- Implemented `-xattrname` to find files with a particular extended attribute (from macOS find)
+
+- Made `-printf %l` still respect the width specifier (e.g. `%10l`) for non-links, to match GNU find
+
+- Made `bfs` fail if `-color` is given explicitly and `LS_COLORS` can't be parsed, rather than falling back to non-colored output
+
+[#8]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/8
+[#30]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/30
+
+
+1.*
+===
+
+1.7
+---
+
+**April 22, 2020**
+
+- Fixed `-ls` printing numeric IDs instead of user/group names in large directory trees
+- Cached the user and group tables for a performance boost
+- Fixed interpretation of "default" ACLs
+- Implemented `-s` flag to sort results
+
+
+1.6
+---
+
+**February 25, 2020**
+
+- Implemented `-newerXt` (explicit reference times), `-since`, `-asince`, etc.
+- Fixed `-empty` to skip special files (pipes, devices, sockets, etc.)
+
+
+1.5.2
+-----
+
+**January 9, 2020**
+
+- Fixed the build on NetBSD
+- Added support for NFSv4 ACLs on FreeBSD
+- Added a `+` after the file mode for files with ACLs in `-ls`
+- Supported more file types (whiteouts, doors) in symbolic modes for `-ls`/`-printf %M`
+- Implemented `-xattr` on FreeBSD
+
+
+1.5.1
+-----
+
+**September 14, 2019**
+
+- Added a warning to `-mount`, since it will change behaviour in the next POSIX revision
+- Added a workaround for environments that block `statx()` with `seccomp()`, like older Docker
+- Fixed coloring of nonexistent leading directories
+- Avoided calling `stat()` on all mount points at startup
+
+
+1.5
+---
+
+**June 27, 2019**
+
+- New `-xattr` predicate to find files with extended attributes
+- Fixed the `-acl` implementation on macOS
+- Implemented depth-first (`-S dfs`) and iterative deepening search (`-S ids`)
+- Piped `-help` output into `$PAGER` by default
+- Fixed crashes on some invalid `LS_COLORS` values
+
+
+1.4.1
+-----
+
+**April 5, 2019**
+
+- Added a nicer error message when the tests are run as root
+- Fixed detection of comparison expressions with signs, to match GNU find for things like `-uid ++10`
+- Added support for https://no-color.org/
+- Decreased the number of `stat()` calls necessary in some cases
+
+
+1.4
+---
+
+**April 15, 2019**
+
+- New `-unique` option that filters out duplicate files ([#48])
+- Optimized the file coloring implementation
+- Fixed the coloring implementation to match GNU ls more closely in many corner cases
+ - Implemented escape sequence parsing for `LS_COLORS`
+ - Implemented `ln=target` for coloring links like their targets
+ - Fixed the order of fallbacks used when some color keys are unset
+- Add a workaround for incorrect file types for bind-mounted files on Linux ([#37])
+
+[#48]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/48
+[#37]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/37
+
+
+1.3.3
+-----
+
+**February 10, 2019**
+
+- Fixed unpredictable behaviour for empty responses to `-ok`/`-okdir` caused by an uninitialized string
+- Writing to standard output now causes `bfs` to fail if the descriptor was closed
+- Fixed incomplete file coloring in error messages
+- Added some data flow optimizations
+- Fixed `-nogroup`/`-nouser` in big directory trees
+- Added `-type w` for whiteouts, as supported by FreeBSD `find`
+- Re-wrote the `-help` message and manual page
+
+
+1.3.2
+-----
+
+**January 11, 2019**
+
+- Fixed an out-of-bounds read if LS_COLORS doesn't end with a `:`
+- Allowed multiple debug flags to be specified like `-D opt,tree`
+
+
+1.3.1
+-----
+
+**January 3, 2019**
+
+- Fixed some portability problems affecting FreeBSD
+
+
+1.3
+---
+
+**January 2, 2019**
+
+New features:
+
+- `-acl` finds files with non-trivial Access Control Lists (from FreeBSD)
+- `-capable` finds files with capabilities set
+- `-D all` turns on all debugging flags at once
+
+Fixes:
+
+- `LS_COLORS` handling has been improved:
+ - Extension colors are now case-insensitive like GNU `ls`
+ - `or` (orphan) and `mi` (missing) files are now treated differently
+ - Default colors can be unset with `di=00` or similar
+ - Specific colors fall back to more general colors when unspecified in more places
+ - `LS_COLORS` no longer needs a trailing colon
+- `-ls`/`-fls` now prints the major/minor numbers for device nodes
+- `-exec ;` is rejected rather than segfaulting
+- `bfs` now builds on old Linux versions that require `-lrt` for POSIX timers
+- For files whose access/change/modification times can't be read, `bfs` no longer fails unless those times are needed for tests
+- The testsuite is now more correct and portable
+
+
+1.2.4
+-----
+
+**September 24, 2018**
+
+- GNU find compatibility fixes for `-printf`:
+ - `%Y` now prints `?` if an error occurs resolving the link
+ - `%B` is now supported for birth/creation time (as well as `%W`/`%w`)
+ - All standard `strftime()` formats are supported, not just the ones from the GNU find manual
+- Optimizations are now re-run if any expressions are reordered
+- `-exec` and friends no longer leave zombie processes around when `exec()` fails
+
+
+1.2.3
+-----
+
+**July 15, 2018**
+
+- Fixed `test_depth_error` on filesystems that don't fill in `d_type`
+- Fixed the build on Linux architectures that don't have the `statx()` syscall (ia64, sh4)
+- Fixed use of AT_EMPTY_PATH for fstatat on systems that don't support it (Hurd)
+- Fixed `ARG_MAX` accounting on architectures with large pages (ppc64le)
+- Fixed the build against the upcoming glibc 2.28 release that includes its own `statx()` wrapper
+
+
+1.2.2
+-----
+
+**June 23, 2018**
+
+- Minor bug fixes:
+ - Fixed `-exec ... '{}' +` argument size tracking after recovering from `E2BIG`
+ - Fixed `-fstype` if `/proc` is available but `/etc/mtab` is not
+ - Fixed an uninitialized variable when given `-perm +rw...`
+ - Fixed some potential "error: 'path': Success" messages
+- Reduced reliance on GNU coreutils in the testsuite
+- Refactored and simplified the internals of `bftw()`
+
+
+1.2.1
+-----
+
+**February 8, 2018**
+
+- Performance optimizations
+
+
+1.2
+---
+
+**January 20, 2018**
+
+- Added support for the `-perm +7777` syntax deprecated by GNU find (equivalent to `-perm /7777`), for compatibility with BSD finds
+- Added support for file birth/creation times on platforms that report it
+ - `-Bmin`/`-Btime`/`-Bnewer`
+ - `B` flag for `-newerXY`
+ - `%w` and `%Wk` directives for `-printf`
+ - Uses the `statx(2)` system call on new enough Linux kernels
+- More robustness to `E2BIG` added to the `-exec` implementation
+
+
+1.1.4
+-----
+
+**October 27, 2017**
+
+- Added a man page
+- Fixed cases where multiple actions write to the same file
+- Report errors that occur when closing files/flushing streams
+- Fixed "argument list too long" errors with `-exec ... '{}' +`
+
+
+1.1.3
+-----
+
+**October 4, 2017**
+
+- Refactored the optimizer
+- Implemented data flow optimizations
+
+
+1.1.2
+-----
+
+**September 10, 2017**
+
+- Fixed `-samefile` and similar predicates when passed broken symbolic links
+- Implemented `-fstype` on Solaris
+- Fixed `-fstype` under musl
+- Implemented `-D search`
+- Implemented a cost-based optimizer
+
+
+1.1.1
+-----
+
+**August 10, 2017**
+
+- Re-licensed under the BSD Zero Clause License
+- Fixed some corner cases with `-exec` and `-ok` parsing
+
+
+1.1
+---
+
+**July 22, 2017**
+
+- Implemented some primaries from NetBSD `find`:
+ - `-exit [STATUS]` (like `-quit`, but with an optional explicit exit status)
+ - `-printx` (escape special characters for `xargs`)
+ - `-rm` (alias for `-delete`)
+- Warn if `-prune` will have no effect due to `-depth`
+- Handle y/n prompts according to the user's locale
+- Prompt the user to correct typos without having to re-run `bfs`
+- Fixed handling of paths longer than `PATH_MAX`
+- Fixed spurious "Inappropriate ioctl for device" errors when redirecting `-exec ... +` output
+- Fixed the handling of paths that treat a file as a directory (e.g. `a/b/c` where `a/b` is a regular file)
+- Fixed an expression optimizer bug that broke command lines like `bfs -name '*' -o -print`
+
+
+1.0.2
+-----
+
+**June 15, 2017**
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+- Fixed handling of \0 inside -printf format strings
+- Fixed `-perm` interpretation of permcopy actions (e.g. `u=rw,g=r`)
+
+
+1.0.1
+-----
+
+**May 17, 2017**
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+- Portability fixes that mostly affect GNU Hurd
+- Implemented `-D exec`
+- Made `-quit` not disable the implicit `-print`
+
+
+1.0
+---
+
+**April 24, 2017**
+
+This is the first release of bfs with support for all of GNU find's primitives.
+
+Changes since 0.96:
+
+- Implemented `-fstype`
+- Implemented `-exec/-execdir ... +`
+- Implemented BSD's `-X`
+- Fixed the tests under Bash 3 (mostly for macOS)
+- Some minor optimizations and fixes
+
+
+0.*
+===
+
+
+0.96
+----
+
+**March 11, 2017**
+
+73/76 GNU find features supported.
+
+- Implemented -nouser and -nogroup
+- Implemented -printf and -fprintf
+- Implemented -ls and -fls
+- Implemented -type with multiple types at once (e.g. -type f,d,l)
+- Fixed 32-bit builds
+- Fixed -lname on "symlinks" in Linux /proc
+- Fixed -quit to take effect as soon as it's reached
+- Stopped redirecting standard input from /dev/null for -ok and -okdir, as that violates POSIX
+- Many test suite improvements
+
+
+0.88
+----
+
+**December 20, 2016**
+
+67/76 GNU find features supported.
+
+- Fixed the build on macOS, and some other UNIXes
+- Implemented `-regex`, `-iregex`, `-regextype`, and BSD's `-E`
+- Implemented `-x` (same as `-mount`/`-xdev`) from BSD
+- Implemented `-mnewer` (same as `-newer`) from BSD
+- Implemented `-depth N` from BSD
+- Implemented `-sparse` from FreeBSD
+- Implemented the `T` and `P` suffices for `-size`, for BSD compatibility
+- Added support for `-gid NAME` and `-uid NAME` as in BSD
+
+
+0.84.1
+------
+
+**November 24, 2016**
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+- Fixed [#7] again
+- Like GNU find, don't print warnings by default if standard input is not a terminal
+- Redirect standard input from /dev/null for -ok and -okdir
+- Skip . when -delete'ing
+- Fixed -execdir when the root path has no slashes
+- Fixed -execdir in /
+- Support -perm +MODE for symbolic modes
+- Fixed the build on FreeBSD
+
+[#7]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/7
+
+
+0.84
+----
+
+**October 29, 2016**
+
+64/76 GNU find features supported.
+
+- Spelling suggestion improvements
+- Handle `--`
+- (Untested) support for exotic file types like doors, ports, and whiteouts
+- Improved robustness in the face of closed std{in,out,err}
+- Fixed the build on macOS
+- Implement `-ignore_readdir_race`, `-noignore_readdir_race`
+- Implement `-perm`
+
+
+0.82
+----
+
+**September 4, 2016**
+
+62/76 GNU find features supported.
+
+- Rework optimization levels
+ - `-O1`
+ - Simple boolean simplification
+ - `-O2`
+ - Purity-based optimizations, allowing side-effect-free tests like `-name` or `-type` to be moved or removed
+ - `-O3` (**default**):
+ - Re-order tests to reduce the expected cost (TODO)
+ - `-O4`
+ - Aggressive optimizations that may have surprising effects on warning/error messages and runtime, but should not otherwise affect the results
+ - `-Ofast`:
+ - Always the highest level, currently the same as `-O4`
+- Color files with multiple hard links correctly
+- Treat `-`, `)`, and `,` as paths when required to by POSIX
+ - `)` and `,` are only supported before the expression begins
+- Implement `-D opt`
+- Implement `-D rates`
+- Implement `-fprint`
+- Implement `-fprint0`
+- Implement BSD's `-f`
+- Suggest fixes for typo'd arguments
+
+0.79
+----
+
+**May 27, 2016**
+
+60/76 GNU find features supported.
+
+- Remove an errant debug `printf()` from `-used`
+- Implement the `{} ;` variants of `-exec`, `-execdir`, `-ok`, and `-okdir`
+
+
+0.74
+----
+
+**March 12, 2016**
+
+56/76 GNU find features supported.
+
+- Color broken symlinks correctly
+- Fix [#7]
+- Fix `-daystart`'s rounding of midnight
+- Implement (most of) `-newerXY`
+- Implement `-used`
+- Implement `-size`
+
+[#7]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/7
+
+
+0.70
+----
+
+**February 23, 2016**
+
+53/76 GNU find features supported.
+
+- New `make install` and `make uninstall` targets
+- Squelch non-positional warnings for `-follow`
+- Reduce memory footprint by as much as 64% by closing `DIR*`s earlier
+- Speed up `bfs` by ~5% by using a better FD cache eviction policy
+- Fix infinite recursion when evaluating `! expr`
+- Optimize unused pure expressions (e.g. `-empty -a -false`)
+- Optimize double-negation (e.g. `! ! -name foo`)
+- Implement `-D stat` and `-D tree`
+- Implement `-O`
+
+
+0.67
+----
+
+**February 14, 2016**
+
+Initial release.
+
+51/76 GNU find features supported.