* Tue May 07 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 6.0.0:
* faster search speeds on ARM CPUs
* overall optimization
* includes ugrep-indexer
* Wed Apr 10 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 5.1.4:
* use statfs() with options --include-fs and --exclude-fs when
the preferred statvfs() is not available
* suppress --filter utility stderr messages when ugrep options
- s (--no-messages) and -q (--quiet) are used
* support the NO_COLOR environment variable to suppress color
output
* fix TUI scroll glitch in non-split screen, and other TUI fixes
- enable SIMD code for faster matching on CPUs that support it
(while keeping build reproducible)
* Mon Mar 11 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 5.1.1:
* fix a problem with POSIX lazy quantifier matching when combined
with anchors, causing longer pattern matches than expected
* Sat Mar 09 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 5.1.0:
* a minor improvement of the regex syntax to allow escaped spaces
* updated POSIX regex lazy quantifier matching in linear time
using an advanced DFA transformation algorithm
* Sat Feb 17 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 5.0.0:
* new and updated regex engine to speed up searching patterns
using a new heuristic DFA cut algorithm
* new option --exclude-fs default to exclude file systems that
aren't specified as search targets
* new option --all (-@) to search all files except hidden:
cancel previous file and directory search restrictions
* TUI regex syntax highlighting improved for --fixed-strings
(-F) when used with option --bool (-% and -%%)
* Wed Jan 10 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.5.2:
* fix 7zip search failing on 32 bit systems when option -M is used
(or -t when setting -M)
* Sat Jan 06 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.5.1:
* fix bzip3 build failures (previously patched)
- drop ugrep-4.5.0-fix-bzip3-configure.patch
* Sat Jan 06 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.5.0:
* 7zip archive search with option -z
* apply Unicode normalization to canonicalize literal combining
characters in regex patterns
* improved TUI TAB directory navigation when searching from the FS
root
- drop ugrep-4.4.1-remove-shebang-from-bash-completion.patch
- add ugrep-4.5.0-fix-bzip3-configure.patch
* Tue Dec 19 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- 4.4.1
* ship shell completions (bash,zsh,fish)
* option -t (--file-type) now also accepts filename extensions as
shortcuts, when unambiguous, for example, the shorter form -tpy
for -tpython to select files to search
* TUI ALT-SHIFT-% switches between "bool query lines" mode,
"bool query files" mode, and bool queries off
TUI boolF mode (-%FQ) now applies syntax highlighting
* support legacy grep long options without = to bind option
arguments
- add ugrep-4.4.1-remove-shebang-from-bash-completion.patch
* Sat Dec 09 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.3.6:
* fix an issue with option -Zbest fuzzy matching
* updated option --index for accelerated index-based search, now
also indexes and searches archives and compressed files with
option -z
* faster search with -ABC context options
* Sat Nov 25 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.3.4:
* the ug command no longer quits with an error message when no
default .ugrep config file was found
* improved GNU grep compatibility
* Bug fixes for parsing configuration files
* Wed Nov 15 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.3.3:
* support brotli compressed files
* support bzip3 compressed files
* update option --pretty to accept an optional WHEN argument
never, always, auto similar to the --color option
* improve TUI screen blanking response when a new search starts,
while also avoiding screen flicker
* fix option --zmax>1 when a decompression library produces a
decompression error when decompressing a nested compressed file
* Fri Nov 03 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.3.2:
* double short option -%% enables both --files --bool (a single
- % still enables only --bool) for convenience
* updated thread pool scheduling and execution with thread
affinity and priority settings
* improvements and fixes for minor (mostly cosmetic) issues
* Thu Oct 19 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.3.1:
* Unicode 15.1 support
* TUI features, including CTRL-Y improved viewer
* TUI regex syntax highlighting with user-definable colors
* Sun Oct 08 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.3.0:
* Redesigned TUI with a new split screen window pane to preview
matching files
* fix --zmax=n for n>1 that had a low chance to hang as
discovered recently (about once in a few thousand runs) when
searching (deeply) nested zip or tar archives
* fix compressed file search of files that are exactly one byte
long, instead of rejecting those files as being empty
* Sat Sep 23 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.2.0:
* text user inerface improvements
* improve recursive search performance
* improve compatibility with GNU grep
* improve detection of special devices to avoid searching them
* Mon Sep 18 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.1.0:
* fix -Z fuzzy matching when character deletions are solely
specified with a minus sign
* fix --pager when a regex syntax error occurs
* update --pager to use $PAGER
* update --ignore-files for compliance with git and ag gitignore
rules
* update -Q TUI ctrl-S and ctrl-W to jump to context group
separators when context options -ABC are specified
* update -o for GNU grep compatibility with "empty-matching"
patterns
* update POSIX [[:space:]] and \s to exclude newline \n matching
* improve performance: faster -c and line matching
* improve performance: faster "empty-matching" pattern search
* Mon Aug 28 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.0.5:
* Fix a recently-added optimization that may in some rare cases
caused a problem with a match at the end of a file.
* Sat Aug 26 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.0.4:
* update --save-config as per user request
* correct an issue with -o and context
* Fri Aug 25 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 4.0.3:
* new --delay=DELAY option to specify a default query TUI
response delay time, which can be specified in a .ugrep config
file with delay=DELAY (--save-config includes this setting also)
* fix option -m compatibility issue wth GNU grep when showing
context lines with -ABC after the last max match
Version: 3.11.1-bp155.1.4
* Sun Apr 02 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.11.1:
* Smarter interactive navigation in the TUI when option --tree is
used with option -l or -c
* Sun Mar 19 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.11.0:
* Update --format output when used with option -o to also enable
option -u to show all matches automatically;
* improve --json, --xml, --csv output when used with option -o
* update option -o output with headings (when applicable) for
every match like GNU grep
* update options --format and --replace field %m to output the
number of matches sequentially
* new --format and --replace field %M outputs number of matching
lines
* Sat Mar 18 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.10.1:
* Fix a performace issue with specific regex patterns when used
with case-insensitive pattern matching
* Wed Mar 01 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.10.0:
* This release adds the option --tree to output directory trees
of files for the options -l (--files-with-matches),
- L (--files-withou-match), and -c (--count)
* The option --pretty was updated to to enable --tree when output
is sent to a terminal. This can be disabled with --no-tree.
* Wed Feb 01 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.9.7:
* handle gnutar archive extension field formats to search huge
files (>4GB) stored in (gnu) tar archives
- includes changes gro 3.9.6:
* Fixed a Unicode-specific regex pattern syntax issue that caused
a valid regex pattern to produce a regex syntax error message
* Sun Jan 15 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.9.5:
* Fix option -l (files-with-matches) when used with option -z
(decompress) which would sometimes show duplicates when a
compressed files had many matches
* Thu Jan 05 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.9.4:
* fix spurious 0 byte in tar filename output results
* fix support for PCRE2 prior 10.34
* Fri Dec 30 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.9.3:
* Fix a PCRE2 library-related issues with -P (--perl-regexp)
matching binary files
* Mon Aug 22 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.9.2:
* Fixed an issue with invalid Unicode regex patterns
* Mon Aug 15 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.9.1:
* make -r the default recursive search without following
symlinked directories
* Symlinked files are always searched on a search path, except
with option -p (--no-dereference)
* A fix for a minor issue with fuzzy matching when only allowing
substitutions
* Wed Jun 29 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.8.3:
* fix search with tiny lz4 files
* skip empty zip files
* Sat Jun 11 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.8.2:
* update documentation
* Tue Jun 07 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.8.1:
* Fix bz2 issue cutting off decompression too soon
* Mon May 30 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.8.0
* New option combination -o (--only-matching) with -ABC context
for column context
* option -o with -b or -k now shows results on separate lines
* new option --width to truncate long lines to the specified
width or the terminal width by default
* short ug command now sorts by name by default
* query TUI ALT-] [ (increase/decrease context) and ALT-} {
(increase/decrease fuzziness) keys switched meaning
* new %+ format field used by updated --only-line-number option
* Wed May 11 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.7.11:
* New -Zbest (--fuzzy=best) option argument best to only output
the best matching patterns
* Tue May 10 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.7.10:
* -Z (--fuzzy) can now be combined with -U (--binary) to fuzzy
match bytes instead of Unicode characters
* Fri Apr 08 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.7.9:
* Additional --stats results with total lines searched and
matched, and time elapsed.
* Sat Apr 02 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 3.7.7:
* New --hexdump options
* --ignore-files improvement
* speed improvements
* New option --min-count
* New complementary options --min-depth, --max-depth,
- -min-line and --max-line which are added for consistency with
the updated options --min-count and --max-count
* Updated the --min-count option, which can now be combined with
any other option except with -v (--invert-match)
* Updated option -K (--range) to take a MAX argument instead of a
FIRST argument for consistency with other min/max options
* Recursive searching sysfd, such as /proc and /sys, no longer
blocks on special files/devices
* Fixed colorization of option -v when used with context options
- A, -B and -C
* Fixed option -r when combined with argument - (read standard
input), which does both, like GNU grep
* Updated --stats reporting and other minor improvements
* Fri Jan 28 2022 Avinesh Kumar <avinesh.kumar@suse.com>
- update to 3.7.1:
* add newline when showing usage and also fix segfault when arg == NULL
- update to 3.7.0:
* README.md: add FreeBSD installation instructions
* resolve LGTM alerts & minor improvements
* Support "cpp" as a file type
* msvc - Add matcher_avx2, matcher_avx512bw
- update to 3.6.0:
* new option --replace & faster searching
* Thu Jan 06 2022 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- ugrep 3.5.0:
* New --zmax=NUM option to be used with -z (--decompress) to
search compressed files and archives recursively stored within
tar/zip/cpio/pax archives, e.g. to search tar and zip files
stored in (compressed) tar files, in zip files etc. for up to
NUM recursive levels deep. The --zmax argument may range from 1
(default) to 99 for up to 99 decompression and de-archiving
steps.
* Improved option -U to be used for backward compatibility with
GNU/BSD grep by no longer flagging invalid UTF as "binary
files"