9.0.0-rc1

Why RC1: Feature set is stable and I use it daily, but have not updated test suite to catch up with the new features yet.

• Changed default cache size from 100 to 10000

  • Index after compression doesn't take up that much space, and storage is
    generally cheap enough these days

• Adjusted cache eviction behaviour to be less strict on when eviction happens
  and thus less expensive

• Renamed --cache-size to --cache-soft-limit

• Removed periodic GC compact call to avoid freezes when working with many
  files

• Removed GC compact call during file indexing core loops to reduce overhead

• Added progress bars to initial document processing stage

• Swapped to using C backend for BLAKE2B hashing, this gives >20x speedup depending on CPU

• Swapped from JSON+GZIP to CBOR+GZIP serialization for indices

• Changed help info rotation key from h to ?

• Renamed discard mode to drop mode

• Added command history editing functionality

• Added --commands-from command line argument

• Added --tokens-per-search-scope-level command line argument

• Concurrency related bug fixes

  • Unlikely to encounter in normal workflows with human input speed

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• Replaced print mode with copy mode

• Replaced single file view with key binding to change screen split ratio
  to remove feature discrepencies

• Added narrow mode for search scope narrowing

• Renamed --index-chunk-token-count to --index-chunk-size

• Renamed --sample-count-per-doc to --samples-per-doc

8.0.3

• Fixed single file view crash

8.0.2

• Reworked asynchronous search/filter UI code to avoid noticeable lag due to
  waiting for cancellations that take too long

  • Previously there was still a lockstep somewhere that would prevent UI
    from progressing if previous search was still being cancelled

  • The current implementation allows newest requests to override older
    requests entirely, and not wait for cancellations at all

• Adjusted document counter in multi-file view to be visible even when no files
  are listed

8.0.1

• Fixed missing file path filter field update when undoing or redoing document
  store updates

• Fixed case insensitive marker handling in glob command line arguments

8.0.0

• Removed --markdown-headings atx from pandoc commandline
  arguments

• Removed Alt+U undo key binding

• Removed Alt+E redo key binding

• Removed Ctrl+Q exit key binding

• Added documentation for undo redo key bindings

• Added clear mode and moved clear search field key binding
  under this mode for multi-file view

• Added file path filtering functionality to multi-file view

7.1.0

• Added initial macOS support

  • Likely to have bugs, but will need macOS users to report back

• Major speedup from letting pdftotext output everything in one pass and split
  on Docfd side instead of asking pdftotext to output one page per invocation

  • For very large PDFs the indexing used to take minutes but now only takes
    seconds

  • Page count may be inaccurate if the PDF page contains form feed character
    itself (not fully sure if pdftotext filters the form feed character from
    content), but should be rare

• Significant reduction of index file size by adding GZIP
  compression to the index JSON

7.0.0

• Added discard mode to multi-file view

• Changed to using thin bars as pane separators, i.e. tmux style

• Added g and G key bindings for going to top and bottom of document list respectively

• Added -l/--files-with-match and --files-without-match for printing just paths
  in non-interactive mode

• Grouped print key bindings under print mode

• Added more print key bindings

• Grouped reload key bindings under reload mode

• Added fixes to ensure Docfd does not exit until all printing is done

• Slimmed down memory usage by switching to OCaml 5.2 which enables use of Gc.compact

  • Still no auto-compaction yet, however, will need to wait for a future
    OCaml release

• Added h key binding to rotate key binding info grid

• Added exact, prefix and suffix search syntax from fzf

• Fixed extraneous document path print in non-interactive mode when documents have no search results

• Added "explicit spaces" token ~ to match spaces

7.0.0-alpha.2

Changes so far for 7.0.0:

• Added discard mode to multi-file view

• Changed to using thin bars as pane separators, i.e. tmux style

• Added g and G key bindings for going to top and bottom of document list respectively

• Added -l/--files-with-match and --files-without-match for printing just paths
  in non-interactive mode

• Grouped print key bindings under print mode

• Added more print key bindings

• Grouped reload key bindings under reload mode

• Added fixes to ensure Docfd does not exit until all printing is done

• Slimmed down memory usage by switching to OCaml 5.2 which enables use of Gc.compact

  • Still no auto-compaction yet, however, will need to wait for a future
    OCaml release

• Added h key binding to rotate key binding info grid

• Added exact, prefix and suffix search syntax from fzf

• Fixed extraneous document path print in non-interactive mode when documents have no search results

7.0.0-alpha.1

Changes so far for 7.0.0:

• Added discard mode to multi-file view

• Changed to using thin bars as pane separators, i.e. tmux style

• Added g and G key bindings for going to top and bottom of document list respectively

• Added -l/--files-with-match and --files-without-match for printing just paths
  in non-interactive mode

• Grouped print key bindings under print mode

• Added more print key bindings

• Grouped reload key bindings under reload mode

• Added fixes to ensure Docfd does not exit until all printing is done

• Slimmed down memory usage by switching to OCaml 5.2 which enables use of Gc.compact

  • Still no auto-compaction yet, however, will need to wait for a future
    OCaml release

6.0.1

• Fixed random UI freezes when updating search field

  • This is due to a race condition in the search cancellation mechanism that
    may cause UI fiber to starve and wait forever for a cancellation
    acknowledgement

  • This mechanism was put in place for asynchronous search since 4.0.0

  • As usual with race conditions, this only manifests under some specific
    timing by chance