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Editing File: /usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.26/NEWS

Changes in version 0.26:
- New option -A, --all, that requires all patterns to match.
  Based on a patch by Carlos J. G. Duarte <carlos.j.g.duarte@gmail.com>.
- Add a >3-second margin when checking whether a directory is being
  currently modified, to account for low timestamp precision on FAT and for
  Linux kernel races.
- Make the test suite more reliable and a little faster.
- Updated translations.

Changes in version 0.25:
- Handle zero-length file names (a kernel bug) more gracefully.
- Avoid PATH_MAX to hopefully support Hurd better.
- Document that parent directories must exist for permission checking.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Updated translations.

Changes in version 0.24:
- Use /proc/self/mountinfo for bind mount detection; recent distributions
  symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/self/mounts, losing information we need.
- Fix a man page typo.  Patch by John Bradshaw <john@johnbradshaw.org>.
- Updated translations.

Changes in version 0.23.1:
- New or updated translations:
  - Greek by Pierros Papadeas <pierros@papadeas.gr>
  - Traditional Chinese by Chai Zhenhua <watter1985@163.com> and
    Wei-Lun Chao <chaoweilun@gmail.com>

Changes in version 0.23:
- Don't prune no-op bind mounts (mounting a directory over itself)
- New or updated translations:
  - Arabic by Amjad Saad <moltaheb@hotmail.com> and Munzir Taha (منذر طه)
    <munzirtaha@gmail.com>
  - Bosnian by Nikola Pajtić <salgeras@gmail.com>, Miloš Komarčević
    <kmilos@gmail.com> and Edmon Begoli <ebegoli@fedoraproject.org>
  - German by Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org>
  - Persian by Mostafa <info@mostafadaneshvar.com>
  - Dutch by Geert Warrink <geert.warrink@onsnet.nu>

Changes in version 0.22.4:
- New or updated translations:
  - Hungarian by Peter Bojtos <ptr@ulx.hu>
  - Swedish by Göran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.se>
  - Ukrainian by Maxim V. Dzumanenko <dziumanenko@gmail.com>

Changes in version 0.22.3:
- New or updated translations:
  - Asturian by Marcos Alvarez Costales <marcos.alvarez.costales@gmail.com>
  - Greek by Pierros Papadeas <pierros@papadeas.gr>
  - British English by Bruce Cowan <bcowan@fastmail.co.uk>
  - Korean by Eunju Kim <eukim@redhat.com>
  - Russian by Anatoliy Guskov <anatoliy.guskov@gmail.com>, Raspopov Sergey
    <qwerty3456@mail.ru>, and Yulia <ypoyarko@redhat.com>
  - Simplified Chinese by CHAI Zhenhua <watter1985@163.com>

Changes in version 0.22.2:
- New or updated translations:
  - Portuguese by Rui Gouveia <rui.gouveia@globaltek.pt>
  - Japanese by Hyu_gabaru Ryu_ichi <hyu_gabaru@yahoo.co.jp>
  - Polish by Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag@gmail.com>

Changes in version 0.22.1:
- Fix mlocate.db format documentation.  Patch by Tomas Zellerin
  <zellerin@gmail.com>.
- New or updated translations:
  - Canadian by Xavier Queralt Mateu <xqueralt@gmail.com>
  - Danish by Kris Thomsen <lakristho@gmail.com>
  - German by Thomas Spura <tomspur@fedoraproject.org>
  - French by Charles-Antoine Couret <cacouret@wanadoo.fr>
  - Japanese by Hyu_gabaru Ryu_ichi <hyu_gabaru@yahoo.co.jp>
  - Dutch by R.E. van der Luit <nippur@fedoraproject.org>

Changes in version 0.22:
- Ignore --require-visibility in locate if the database is not owned by group
  mlocate or it is readable by others (#7).
- Refuse to open unprivileged databases in directories only accessible by
  group mlocate.
- New or updated translations:
  - Spanish by H. Daniel Cabrera <h.daniel.cabrera@gmail.com> and Domingo Becker
    <domingobecker@gmail.com>
  - Hungarian by Sulyok Péter <peti@fedoraproject.org>
  - Swedish by Magnus Glantz <mg@hacka.net>
  - Simplified Chinese by CHAI Zhenhua <watter1985@163.com>

Changes in version 0.21.1:
- Clarified updatedb.conf(5) a bit.
- New or updated translations:
  - Catalan by Xavier Queralt Mateu <xqueralt@gmail.com>
  - German by Thomas Spura <tomspur@fedoraproject.org>
  - Italian by Francesco Tombolini <tombo@adamantio.net>
  - Polish by Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag@gmail.com>
  - Brazilian Portuguese by Taylon Silmer <taylonsilva@gmail.com>
  - Serbian by Miloš Komarčević <kmilos@gmail.com>

Changes in version 0.21:
- New variable PRUNENAMES, new updatedb options --add-prunenames and
  --prunenames.  Resolves ticket:2.
- Fix prunepaths and bind mount pruning in certain cases.
- Lock the database in updatedb to avoid more than one updatedb running
  concurrently.
- Remove the temporary database file if updatedb aborts with an assertion
  failure.
- Fix sorting of prunefs if an entry contains uppercase characters.  Resolves
  ticket:3.
- New or updated translations:
  - Brazilian Portuguese by Igor Pires Soares <igor@projetofedora.org> and Ivo
    Nascimento <iannsp@gmail.com>
  - Czech
  - Hungarian by Nagy Enikő <vakegir@gmail.com>
  - Malay/Bahasa Melayu by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail <izhar@fedoraproject.org>

Changes in version 0.20:
- Fix more typos in man pages.  Patch by Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>.
- Workaround (make check) failures when running as root.
- New translations:
  - Brazilian Portuguese by Diego Búrigo Zacarão <diegobz@projetofedora.org>,
  - Bulgarian by Alexander Todorov <atodorov@redhat.com>,
  - French by Robert-André Mauchin <zebob.m@pengzone.org> and Thomas Canniot
    <mrtom@fedoraproject.org>,
  - German by Fabian Affolter <fab@fedoraproject.org>,
  - Italian by Silvio Pierro <perplesso82@gmail.com> and Gianluca Busiello
    <busiello@ceinge.unina.it>,
  - Polish by Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag@gmail.com>,
  - Serbian by Nikola Pajtić <salgeras@gmail.com> and Miloš Komarčević
    <kmilos@gmail.com>

Changes in version 0.19:
- New home page at https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/ .
- New updatedb option --debug-pruning.
- Fix typos in man pages.  Patch by A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>.
- Make some aspects of the source code more portable.  Patches by Steve Edwards
  <sgedward@korime.demon.co.uk>.

Changes in version 0.18:
- Fix uninitialized memory access when dbpath contains "-"
- Add some examples to the man pages

Changes in version 0.17:
- Don't hang if a NFS filesystem in an excluded subtree is unavailable.

Changes in version 0.16:
- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: The --database-root parameter of updatedb is always
  canonicalized.
- Allow global exclusion of bind mounts
- Fix string matching in some multibyte locales if no glob characters are used
- Use gnulib, for better portability to non-Linux systems
- Use O_NOATIME in updatedb
- Miscellaneous small fixes, efficiency improvements and cleanups.

Changes in version 0.15:
- Use /proc/self/mounts or /proc/mounts if available
- Add a test suite
- Fix typos in error messages

Changes in version 0.14:
- Fix case-insensitive search with rare bracket expression constructs.
- Speed up case-insensitive search about five times.

Changes in version 0.13:
- Fix a brown-paper-bag bug in Makefile.am, installing updatedb set-GID instead
  of locate.

Changes in version 0.12:
- Avoid assertion failures on invalid nanosecond times returned by Captive
  NTFS.

Changes in version 0.11:
- Nonprintable characters are replaced by `?' when stdout is a tty and --null
  is not specified.
- updatedb is installed to $(bindir).

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