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.
10 Changes from 1.31 to 1.40
12 - Added option to omit the first file in each group
14 - Added escaping of filenames containing spaces when
15 sameline option is specified. [AL]
16 - Changed version indicator format from "fdupes version X.Y"
17 to the simpler "fdupes X.Y". [AL]
18 - Changed ordering of options appearing in the help
19 text (--help), manpage, and README file. [AL]
21 Changes from 1.30 to 1.31
23 - Added interactive option to preserve all files during
24 delete procedure (something similar was already in
25 place, but now it's official). [AL]
26 - Updated delete procedure prompt format. [AL]
27 - Cosmetic code changes. [AL]
29 Changes from 1.20 to 1.30
31 - Added size option to display size of duplicates. [LB, AL]
32 - Added missing typecast for proper compilation under g++. [LB]
33 - Better handling of errors occurring during retrieval
34 of a file's signature. [KK, AL]
35 - No longer displays an error message when specified
36 directories contain no files. [AL]
37 - Added red-black tree structure (experimental compile-time
38 option, disabled by default). [AL]
40 Changes from 1.12 to 1.20
42 - Fixed bug where program would crash when files being
43 scanned were named pipes or sockets. [FD]
44 - Fix against security risk resulting from the use of a
45 temporary file to store md5sum output. [FD, AL]
46 - Using an external md5sum program is now optional. Started
47 using L. Peter Deutsh's MD5 library instead. [FD, AL]
48 - Added hardlinks option to distinguish between hard links
49 and actual duplicate files. [FD, AL]
50 - Added noempty option to exclude zero-length files
51 from consideration [AL]
53 Changes from 1.11 to 1.12
55 - Improved handling of extremely long input on preserve
56 prompt (delete option). [SSD, AL]
58 Changes from 1.1 to 1.11
60 - Started checking file sizes before signatures
61 for better performance. [AB, AL]
62 - Added fdupes manpage. [AB, AL]
64 Changes from 1.0 to 1.1
66 - Added delete option for semi-automatic deletion
67 of duplicate files. [AL]