ugrep v7.1.3

What's new?

• fix a problem with option -i (--ignore-case) that in rare and specific circumstances may not match all of the specified alternate sub-patterns #451.

ugrep v7.1.2

What's new?

• feature request: support the latest bzip3 library upgrades #446 *)
• feature request: permit su search of "unreadable" files #447
• feature request: do not exit with code 2 when some files can't be decompressed #448

*) please note that./build.sh --with-bzip3 or ./configure --with-bzip3 && make enables bzip3 in ugrep, when libbzip3 is present and found, otherwise ugrep and the indexer skip bz3 files; for help with configuration, run ./build.sh --help

Thank you for your feedback to help improve ugrep for everyone!

ugrep v7.1.1

What's new?

• fix negative character classes when option -i or --ignore-case is used and make ugrep closely emulate GNU grep's character class behavior when options -i and -P are used #445
• appease -Woverload-virtual and -Wshadow warnings when building the RE/flex library, the TUI, and indexer (some warnings remain in ugrep.cpp) #444

ugrep v7.1

What's new?

• add syntax highlighting to the TUI glob editor #443 and other TUI improvements
• add support for option --filter to Windows ug.exe and ugrep.exe #442
• make the ug+ and ugrep+ scripts work if no helper is available #440

ugrep v7.0.4

What's new?

• fix Windows ugrep.exe TUI issue #438 after TUI usability improvements #435, #436 and #437, which caused some users to struggle with TUI usability issues due to Windows API peculiarities with different Windows OS and different terminal apps

ugrep v7.0.3

What's new?

• make Windows ugrep.exe TUI cursor keys behave with ConEmu #435
• fix Windows ugrep.exe TUI CTRL-Y file viewing for non-ASCII filenames #436
• minor usability improvements suggested by ugrep users. Thank you for your feedback!

ugrep v7.0.2

Fix #434 ugrep v7 regression bug: an issue with the regex ^ anchor due to a misaligned begin-of-line position in the buffer after the buffer shifts on large input files. As a result, the -v option did not always work properly on large input files when searching with regex ^ anchors. Reverted to the old logic. Included a minor change to handle hex context lines #428. All extensively tested.

ugrep v7.0

What's new?

• rewritten SIMD acceleration logic and the search algorithm selection decision logic to speed up pattern matching (the actual speedup depends on the type of regex patterns specified) #432
• improved regex anchors and word boundary matching speed and support #426 and #427
• fix option --xml pathnames with special characters, which are unlikely to occur in pathnames, but aren't strictly forbidden #430
• updated option --hexdump with -ABC context hex lines before and after a match #428
• the TUI now also uses the VISUAL environment variable if PAGER is not set

ugrep v6.5

What's new?

• faster binary file checking with SIMD (SSE2/AVX2/NEON) UTF-8 validation #421 and benchmarks
• new option --context-separator=SEP
• options -W and -X now also apply to --format fields %o and %O to output hex
• ugrep-indexer option -z (indexes compressed files and zip/7z/tar/cpio/pax archives) no longer indexes hidden directories and files (i.e. "dotfiles") stored in archives, to save space
• fix ugrep-indexer option -z, which was broken due to a code refactoring mistake in a single line of code

ugrep v6.4.1

Fix #417