1 The following list, organized by fdupes version, documents changes
2 to fdupes. Every item on the list includes, inside square brackets,
3 a list of indentifiers referring to the people who contributed
4 that particular item. When more than one person is listed the person
5 who contributed the patch or idea appears first, followed by
6 those who've otherwise worked on that item. For a list of
7 contributors names and identifiers please see the CONTRIBUTORS file.
9 Changes from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1:
11 - Fix 'invalid option' error for -I. [AL]
13 Changes from 1.51 to 1.6.0:
15 - Add --nohidden option. [MC]
16 - Add --permissions option. [MV]
17 - Add --order option. [SB]
18 - Add --reverse option. [AL]
19 - Add --immediate option. [AL]
20 - Speed up file comparison. [SB, ST]
21 - Fix bug where fdupes fails to consistently ignore hardlinks, depending on
22 file processing order, when F_CONSIDERHARDLINKS flag is not set. [AL]
23 - Fix bug in is_hardlink(): Proper traversal of duplicates is done via
24 dupe->duplicates, not via dupe->next. [AL]
25 - Revise md5.c to compile under OSX. [TH]
26 - Remove EXTERNAL_MD5 configuration option. [ID]
27 - Various other changes (see git log).
29 Changes from 1.50 to 1.51
31 - Added support for 64-bit file offsets on 32-bit systems.
32 - Using tty for interactive input instead of regular stdin. This is to
33 allow feeding filenames via stdin in future versions of fdupes without
34 breaking interactive deletion feature.
35 - Fixed some typos in --help.
36 - Turned C++ style comments into C style comments.
38 Changes from 1.40 to 1.50-PR2
40 - Fixed memory leak. [JB]
41 - Added "--summarize" option. [AL]
42 - Added "--recurse:" selective recursion option. [AL]
43 - Added "--noprompt" option for totally automated deletion of
45 - Now sorts duplicates (old to new) for consistent order when
46 listing or deleteing duplicate files.
47 - Now tests for early matching of files, which should help speed up
48 the matching process when large files are involved.
49 - Added warning whenever a file cannot be deleted. [CHL, AL]
50 - Fixed bug where some files would not be closed after failure. [AL]
51 - Fixed bug where confirmmatch() function wouldn't always deal
52 properly with zero-length files. [AL]
53 - Fixed bug where progress indicator would not be cleared
54 when no files were found. [AL]
55 - Removed experimental red-black tree code (it was slower on
56 my system than the default code). [AL]
57 - Modified md5/md5.c to avoid compiler warning. [CHL]
58 - Changes to fdupes.c for compilation under platforms where
59 getopt_long is unavailable. [LR, AL]
60 - Changes to help text for clarity. [AL]
61 - Various changes and improvements to Makefile. [PB, AL]
63 Changes from 1.31 to 1.40
65 - Added option to omit the first file in each group
67 - Added escaping of filenames containing spaces when
68 sameline option is specified. [AL]
69 - Changed version indicator format from "fdupes version X.Y"
70 to the simpler "fdupes X.Y". [AL]
71 - Changed ordering of options appearing in the help
72 text (--help), manpage, and README file. [AL]
74 Changes from 1.30 to 1.31
76 - Added interactive option to preserve all files during
77 delete procedure (something similar was already in
78 place, but now it's official). [AL]
79 - Updated delete procedure prompt format. [AL]
80 - Cosmetic code changes. [AL]
82 Changes from 1.20 to 1.30
84 - Added size option to display size of duplicates. [LB, AL]
85 - Added missing typecast for proper compilation under g++. [LB]
86 - Better handling of errors occurring during retrieval
87 of a file's signature. [KK, AL]
88 - No longer displays an error message when specified
89 directories contain no files. [AL]
90 - Added red-black tree structure (experimental compile-time
91 option, disabled by default). [AL]
93 Changes from 1.12 to 1.20
95 - Fixed bug where program would crash when files being
96 scanned were named pipes or sockets. [FD]
97 - Fix against security risk resulting from the use of a
98 temporary file to store md5sum output. [FD, AL]
99 - Using an external md5sum program is now optional. Started
100 using L. Peter Deutsh's MD5 library instead. [FD, AL]
101 - Added hardlinks option to distinguish between hard links
102 and actual duplicate files. [FD, AL]
103 - Added noempty option to exclude zero-length files
104 from consideration [AL]
106 Changes from 1.11 to 1.12
108 - Improved handling of extremely long input on preserve
109 prompt (delete option). [SSD, AL]
111 Changes from 1.1 to 1.11
113 - Started checking file sizes before signatures
114 for better performance. [AB, AL]
115 - Added fdupes manpage. [AB, AL]
117 Changes from 1.0 to 1.1
119 - Added delete option for semi-automatic deletion
120 of duplicate files. [AL]