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fd v7.4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-09-15 // over 4 years ago

  • 🐎 Performance improvements

    • 📇 Reduce number of stat syscalls, improving the performance for searches where file metadata is
      👀 required (--type, --size, --changed-within, …), see #434 (@tavianator)
    • 🐎 Use jemalloc by default, improving the performance for almost all searches, see #481. Note that
      Windows and *musl* builds do not profit from this.

    🔋 Features

    • ➕ Added a new -g/--glob option to switch to glob-based searches (instead of regular expression
      based searches). This is accompanied by a new --regex option that can be used to switch back,
      👀 if users want to alias fd="fd --glob". See #284
    • ➕ Added a new --path-separator <sep> option which can be useful for Windows users who
      👀 want/need fd to use / instead of \, see #428 and #153 (@mookid)
    • ➕ Added support for hidden files on Windows, see #379
    • When fd is run with the --exec-batch/-X option, it now exposes the exit status of the
      👀 command that was run, see #333.
    • 👀 Exit immediately when Ctrl-C has been pressed twice, see #423

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 👀 Make --changed-within/--changed-before work for directories, see #470

    Other

    • 👀 Pre-built fd binaries should now be available for armhf targets, see #457 (@detly)
    • 🐧 fd is now available on Alpine Linux, see #451 (@5paceToast)
    • 👀 fd is now in the officla FreeBSD repositories, see #412 (@t6)
    • ➕ Added OpenBSD install instructions, see #421 (@evitalis)
    • ➕ Added metadata to the Debian package, see #416 (@cathalgarvey)
    • 👀 fd can be installed via npm, see #438 (@pablopunk)