ugrep v4.3.5

What's new?

• updated option --index for accelerated index-based search, now also indexes and searches archives and compressed files with option -z
• new ugrep.exe with option --index for accelerated index-based search on Windows
• updated ugrep-indexer project to support archive/compressed file indexing with a new ugrep-indexer.exe version for Windows
• updated MacOS macports moar-pager #328
• faster search with -ABC context options #329

Future plans

• a major 5.0 release with performance enhancement #288 by updating the regex engine to advance fast to a partial match and then "look backward" for a full match
• also faster file reading with io_uring on Linux systems seems worthwhile to add to ugrep
• make the ugrep-indexer command part of the ugrep tools when the ugrep-indexer project graduates to stable (ugrep-indexer is currently 0.9.3 beta)
• Unicode searching with Unicode pattern normalizing #298
• other additions and improvements

Thank you!

A big thank you to all project contributors and ugrep users and enthusiasts!