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Changelog for ugrep-6.2.0-lp155.142.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Wed Jul 10 2024 Andreas Stieger - update to 6.2.0:
* improved support for legacy grep color environment variable single ANSI color codes format
* improved zsh -ABC options completion
* improved option -% (--bool) when multiple -e PATTERN are specified; now aligns with the documentation of option -e to match any of the specified PATTERN (note that -% can be combined with options --and, --andnot, --not. -e amd -N)
* improved option -Q (--query) when combined with options --and, - -andnot, --not by activatating option -% (--bool) so that the combined search patterns can be edited as one Boolean query pattern in the TUI
* minor speed improvement when searching in large files with option -f with a file with hundreds, thousands or more words/strings to find (-fwords/4.txt in benchmarks)
* again extensively tested with randomized patterns
* Tue Jun 04 2024 Andreas Stieger - update to 6.1.0:
* improve option -w to support Unicode
* make [[:alpha:]] and other [::] character classes also match Unicode by default, like \\p{Class} already does, unless option - U (--ascii or --binary) is used
* Unicode word boundaries \\<, \\>, \\b, \\B unless option -U (--ascii or --binary) is used
* improve bash and zsh auto-completion usability
* Tue May 07 2024 Andreas Stieger - update to 6.0.0:
* faster search speeds on ARM CPUs
* overall optimization
* includes ugrep-indexer
* Wed Apr 10 2024 Andreas Stieger - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 (-AATT) 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 \
matching
* improve performance: faster -c and line matching
* improve performance: faster \"empty-matching\" pattern search
* Mon Aug 28 2023 Andreas Stieger - 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 - 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 - 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
* Wed Aug 23 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 4.0.2:
* additional speed up with improved parametrization of the matching algorithm decision logic
* Sun Aug 20 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 4.0.1:
* speed up option -l to search compressed files
* enable an important search optimization that was no longer enabled
* Fri Aug 18 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 4.0.0:
* faster async output, speeds up ugrep 3x when outputting many matching lines
* removed \"rest line\" buffering, speeds up ugrep up to 2x, depending on the output-related options used
* removed redundant \"binary file\" checking, speed-up 10%~20%
* double size input buffer, speeds up searching 5%~20% when searching very large files (GB) with none/infrequent pattern matches
* faster empty pattern matching, i.e. pattern \'\' matches all lines faster, as much as 10x faster
* removed redundant color escape codes from the output
* option -Q with an optional argument is now -Q=DELAY instead of - QDELAY, so -Q2 is -Q -2 (simple options should be composable/ separable) which searches 2 directory levels deep with the query TUI
* Tue Aug 15 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.12.7:
* compatibility improvement with one of GNU grep\'s idiosyncrasies: unpaired ) in regex are matched literally. This behavior is automatically in effect when the grep and egrep aliases of ugrep are used or explicitly with option -Y.
* Mon Aug 07 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.12.6:
* New option -S (--dereference-files) to follow symbolic links only to files, not to directories, when using option -r for recursive search.
* Updated default recursive search to strictly perform -r without following any symbolic links.
* New option --index for fast index-based search with the new ugrep-indexer tool.
* Sat Aug 05 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.12.5:
* New --iglob and --glob-ignore-case options
* Tue Jul 18 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.12.4:
* Faster search for common search patterns, such as a set of words, using SIMD AVX and neon/AArch64 intrinsics
* Sat Jul 15 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.12.3:
* Fixed a potential pattern match issue in the new v3.12 optimizations
* Tue Jul 11 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.12.2:
* Speed improvements to further speed up common search patterns
* Improved man page
* The ug and ug+ commands now enable --pretty by default (that is, if a .ugrep configuration file does not override it with no-pretty).
* Sun Jun 04 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.12.1:
* New ug+ and ugrep+ commands to search pdfs, documents and image metadata when the corresponding tools are installed
* improved --filter option
* speed improvements
* Sat Apr 08 2023 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.11.2:
* Improve --hyperlink with additional usability options
* Sun Apr 02 2023 Andreas Stieger - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - update to 3.9.3:
* Fix a PCRE2 library-related issues with -P (--perl-regexp) matching binary files
* Mon Aug 22 2022 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.9.2:
* Fixed an issue with invalid Unicode regex patterns
* Mon Aug 15 2022 Andreas Stieger - 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 - update to 3.8.3:
* fix search with tiny lz4 files
* skip empty zip files
* Sat Jun 11 2022 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.8.2:
* update documentation
* Tue Jun 07 2022 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.8.1:
* Fix bz2 issue cutting off decompression too soon
* Mon May 30 2022 Andreas Stieger - 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 - 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 - 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 - update to 3.7.9:
* Additional --stats results with total lines searched and matched, and time elapsed.
* Sat Apr 02 2022 Andreas Stieger - 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 - 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 - 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\"
* Tue Jan 04 2022 Dirk Müller - update to 3.4.0:
* New Boolean search query options --files and --lines. The specified Boolean search query conditions apply to lines by default. Because GNU/BSD grep and ugrep are generally line-based, - -lines is the default option. Specify --files --bool to apply the specified Boolean query to files as a whole: a file matches if all Boolean conditions are satisfied by matching patterns anywhere in the file
* Thu Jun 24 2021 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.3.4:
* New --hyperlink option for terminals that support it
* Revised and enhanced option -P (PCRE) compatible with GNU grep
* Improved query UI option -Q with quick Tab/Shift/Tab navigation
* CTRL-Y file viewing with --view to specify viewer
* Improved CTRL-X/CTRL-R bookmarking to restore search state
* Fix compatibility with GNU grep binary file search results
* fix an optimization preventing unnecessary backtracking
* performance improvement for option -P
* Thu May 13 2021 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.2.2:
* Add support for file search on zstd-compressed files: - z (.zst, .zstd, .tzstd) and advanced .zipx method zstd (93)
* Sat May 01 2021 Andreas Stieger - update to 3.1.15:
* fix a recursive search crash
* Wed Apr 28 2021 Wang Jun - ugrep 3.1.14:
* Fix names of the encodings, it\'s ISO-8859, not ISO-8869
* Fixed an issue when placing options --bool, -G, -F, -w, -x at the end of the command line
* Add missing header file \"limits\" in mmap.hpp
* Use option `-U` instead of `-C` for `diff`
* Minor --bool and --glob improvements; MinGW portability
* Update README.md with Alpine Linux
* Updated \\s pattern matching to exclude newline, compatible with GNU/BSD grep.
* Added format field %[NAME]# to output named capturing groups and %[NUM1|NAME1|NUM2|NAME2...]# to output the first capturing group that matched by num or name; option --bool improvements
* Fix #125 and fix #122
* Tue Feb 09 2021 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.1.7:
* various fixes, including fixes to globbing and regex
* Sun Jan 17 2021 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.1.3:
* fixes for other platforms only
* Sun Dec 27 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.1.1:
* clarifications on boolean search query pattern feature
* Fri Dec 18 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.1.0:
* New --bool option to specify a Boolean search query pattern
* New --and and --not options
* --format not supports -v
* Mon Dec 07 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.0.6:
* slightly improved error handling
* Thu Nov 26 2020 Wang Jun - ugrep 3.0.5:
* \'enable-color\' option deprecated, use \'disable-auto-color\'
* support wide Unicode strings
* update some documents
* Sun Oct 25 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.0.4:
* fix an issue with large zip files searched in the query UI
* Fri Oct 23 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 3.0.2:
* speed improvements
* Tue Sep 22 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.5.6:
* Interactive query UI usability improvements
* new query UI commands: Alt-[ (decrease fuzziness by one), Alt-] (increase fuzziness by one), Alt-{ (decrease context size by one line), Alt-} (increase context size by one line)
* Thu Sep 03 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.5.5:
* build improvements
* workaround missing lz4 macro
* updated Dockerfile
* updated tests
* Thu Aug 20 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.5.3:
* New --format option fields %a (basename) and %p (path)
* fast incremental stdin search
* updated --gitignore-files handling of negated globs
* Sun Aug 16 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.5.2:
* Query UI monitor enhancements
* Tue Aug 11 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.5.1:
* Query UI enhanced display updates; new option --not
* Tue Jul 28 2020 Martin Rey - ugrep 2.5.0:
* New query UI search commands: Tab to navigate into a directory or to select a single file to search; Shift-Tab to navigate up the directory tree or deselect the selected file. Press Ctrl-^ to go back to the starting working directory. These commands are best experienced with option -l (Alt-l (\"Alt-ell\") in the query UI) to navigate directories in the list view.
* Ctrl-S/Ctrl-W now also move down/up by directory in the query UI when viewing a list of files with options -l and -c.
* Faster query UI response to commands (the response to patterns entered is still determined by the DELAY parameter.)
* Option --pretty now also enables options -n and --sort in addition to --color, --heading, and -T when the output is sent to a terminal and if these options are not explicitly disabled or set already.
* Fixed minor issues to improve the overall user experience- ugrep 2.4.1:
* Support lz4-compressed files with extension .lz4
* Sat Jul 11 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.4.0:
* New ug command which is the same as ugrep --config with the new - -config option to use configuration files
* new option --save-config to create configuration files
* added --help [WHAT] for quick help on WHA
* drop reproducible.patch, upstream
* Sun Jul 05 2020 Bernhard Wiedemann - Disable avx- Add reproducible.patch to drop march=native to make package build reproducible (boo#1100677)
* Tue Jun 30 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.3.2:
* gcc10 fixes and minor improvements
* Mon Jun 22 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.3.1:
* Faster search context matching and display with new streaming implementation for options -A, -B, -C, and -y
* including when combined with options -v, -W, and -X
* remove the single-line search pattern constraint in prior versions for these options
* fixed minor issue with option -G
* Sun Jun 14 2020 Andreas Stieger - ugrep 2.2.1:
* improved query UI with Alt-g, corresponding to -g, --glob for interative globbing
* improved fuzzy matching
* Sat Jun 06 2020 Andreas Stieger - initial package, 2.2.0
 
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