Version 3.1

New features

• On Linux, bfs now uses io_uring for async I/O

• On all platforms, bfs can now perform stat() calls in parallel, accelerating queries like -links, -newer, and -size, as well as colorized output

• On FreeBSD, -type w now works to find whiteouts like the system find

Changes

• Improved bfs -j2 performance (b2ab7a1)

• Optimized -exec by using posix_spawn() when possible, which can avoid the overhead of fork() (95fbde1)

• -execdir and -okdir are now rejected if $PATH contains a relative path, matching the behaviour of GNU find (163baf1)

• Leading whitespace is no longer accepted in integer command line arguments like -links ' 1' (e0d7dc5)

Bug Fixes

• -quit and -exit could be ignored in the iterative deepening modes (-S {ids,eds}). This is now fixed (670ebd9). The bug was introduced in version 3.0.3 (commit 5f16169).

• Fixed two possible errors in sort mode (-s):

  • Too many open files (710c083)
  • Out of memory (76ffc8d)

• Fixed handling of FreeBSD union mounts (3ac3bee)

• Fixed NO_COLOR handling when it's set to the empty string (79aee58)

• Fixed some portability issues:

  • OpenBSD
  • NetBSD
  • DragonFly BSD
  • Illumos