Version 4.0.4

Bug fixes

• Fixed a man page typo (#144)

• Fixed the build on PowerPC macOS (#145)

• Fixed a bug introduced in bfs 4.0.3 that colorized every file as if it had capabilities on non-Linux systems (#146)

New Contributors

• @ryandesign made their first contribution in #144
• @jody-frankowski made their first contribution in #146

Full Changelog: 4.0.3...4.0.4

Version 4.0.3

Bug fixes

• Fixed an assertion failure when $LS_COLORS contained escaped NUL bytes like *\0.gz= (f5eaadb9)

• Fixed a use-after-free bug introduced in bfs 4.0 when unregistering and re-registering signal hooks. This could be reproduced with bfs -nocolor by repeatedly sending SIGINFO/SIGUSR1 to toggle the status bar. (39ff273)

• Fixed a hang present since bfs 3.0 colorizing paths like notdir/file, where notdir is a symlink pointing to a non-directory file. (b89f22cb)

Version 4.0.2

New features

• Implemented ./configure --version=X.Y.Z, mainly for packagers to override the version number (4a278d3)

Changes

• Minor refactoring of the build system

Bug fixes

• Fixed ./configure --help, which was broken since bfs 4.0 (07ae989)

• Fixed compiler flag auto-detection on systems with non-GNU sed. This fixes a potential race condition on FreeBSD since bfs 4.0 due to the switch to _Fork() without passing -z now to the linker. (34e6081)

• Fixed $MAKE distcheck when $MAKE is not make, e.g. gmake distcheck on BSD (2135b00)

• Fixed some roff syntax issues in the bfs manpage (812ecd1)

• Fixed an assertion failure optimizing expressions like bfs -not \( -prune , -type f \) since bfs 3.1. Release builds were not affected, since their assertions are disabled and the behaviour was otherwise correct. (b1a9998)

Version 4.0.1

Bug fixes

• bfs no longer prints a "suppressed errors" warning unless -noerror is actually suppressing errors 5d03c9d

Version 4.0

New features

• To match BSD find (and the POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines), multiple flags can now be given in a single argument like -LEXO2. Previously, you would have had to write -L -E -X -O2. (c0fd33a)

• Explicit timestamps can now be written as @SECONDS_SINCE_EPOCH. For example, bfs -newermt @946684800 will print files modified since January 1, 2000 (UTC). (c6bb003)

• The new -noerror option suppresses all error messages during traversal. (#142)

Changes

• -mount now excludes mount points entirely, to comply with the recently published POSIX 2024 standard. Use -xdev to include the mount point itself, but not its contents. bfs has been warning about this change since version 1.5.1 (September 2019). (33b85e1)

• -perm now takes the current file creation mask into account when parsing a symbolic mode like +rw, as clarified by POSIX defect 1392. This matches the behaviour of BSD find, contrary to the behaviour of GNU find. (6290ce4)

Bug fixes

• Fixed commands like ./configure CC=clang --enable-release that set variables before other options (49a5d48)

• Fixed the build on RISC-V with GCC versions older than 14 (e93a1dc)

• Fixed running bfs under Valgrind (a01cfac)

• Fixed the exit code when failing to execute a non-existent command with -exec/-ok on some platforms including OpenBSD and HPPA (8c130ca)

• Fixed $LS_COLORS case-sensitivity to match GNU ls more closely when the same extension is specified multiple times (08030ae)

• Fixed the -status bar on Solaris/Illumos

New Contributors

• @visciang made their first contribution in #140

Full Changelog: 3.3.1...4.0

Version 3.3.1

Bug fixes

• Reduced the scope of the symbolic link loop change in version 3.3. -xtype l remains true for symbolic link loops, matching a change in GNU findutils 4.10.0. However, -L will report an error, just like bfs prior to 3.3 and other find implementations, as required by POSIX.

Version 3.3

New features

• The -status bar can now be toggled by SIGINFO (Ctrl+T) on systems that support it, and SIGUSR1 on other systems

• -regextype now supports all regex types from GNU find (#21)

• File birth times are now supported on OpenBSD

Changes

• Symbolic link loops are now treated like other broken links, rather than an error

• ./configure now expects --with-libacl, --without-libcap, etc. rather than --enable-/--disable-

• The (space) flag is now restricted to numeric -printf specifiers

Bug fixes

• -regextype emacs now supports shy (non-capturing) groups

• Fixed -status bar visual corruption when the terminal is resized

• bfs now prints a reset escape sequence when terminated by a signal in the middle of colored output (#138)

• ./configure CFLAGS=... no longer overrides flags from pkg-config during configuration

Version 3.2

New features

• New -limit N action that quits immediately after N results

• Implemented -context (from GNU find) for matching SELinux contexts (#27)

• Implemented -printf %Z for printing SELinux contexts

Changes

• The build system has been rewritten, and there is now a configure step:

  $ ./configure
  $ make
  

  See ./configure --help or docs/BUILDING.md for more details.

• Improved platform support

  • Implemented -acl on Solaris/Illumos
  • Implemented -xattr on DragonFly BSD

Bug fixes

• Fixed some rarely-used code paths that clean up after allocation failures

Version 3.1.3

Bug fixes

• On Linux, the io_uring feature probing introduced in bfs 3.1.2 only applied to one thread, causing all other threads to avoid using io_uring entirely. The probe results are now copied to all threads correctly. (f64f76b)

Version 3.1.2

Bug fixes

• On Linux, we now check for supported io_uring operations before using them, which should fix bfs on 5.X series kernels that support io_uring but not all of openat()/close()/statx() (8bc72d6)

• Fixed a test failure triggered by certain filesystem types for /tmp (#131)

• Fixed parsing and interpretation of timezone offsets for explicit reference times used in -*since and -newerXt (a9f3cde)

• Fixed the build on m68k (c749c11)