v0.2.0

Stride v0.2.0 Release Notes

📌 Overview

Stride v0.2.0 brings significant performance improvements, enhanced symlink handling, and a more maintainable codebase. This release focuses on:

• Optimizing core file traversal functionality
• Reducing external dependencies
• Improving error handling

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🚀 Key Improvements

⚡ Performance Enhancements

• Replaced godirwalk with filepath.WalkDir
  • Migrated to the standard library’s more efficient filepath.WalkDir function, resulting in up to 70% faster performance for core find operations.
• Optimized Worker Concurrency
  • Benchmarks show optimal performance with 4-8 workers, with diminishing returns beyond that.
• Improved Memory Usage
  • Reduced memory allocations in core operations for better efficiency.

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🔗 Enhanced Symlink Handling

• Custom Symlink Implementation
  • Implemented a robust symlink handling solution that supports all three modes:
    • SymlinkIgnore – Skip symlinks entirely
    • SymlinkReport – Process symlinks as regular files/directories without following them
    • SymlinkFollow – Follow symlinks and process their targets
• Cycle Detection
  • Added protection against symlink cycles when following symlinks.
• Virtual Path Preservation
  • When following symlinks to directories, the original symlink path is preserved in results.

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🛠️ Error Handling Improvements

• Better Context Cancellation
  • Improved handling of context cancellation, ensuring proper cleanup of resources.
• Detailed Error Messages
  • Enhanced error messages with more context about the failure location.
• Consolidated Error Reporting
  • Multiple errors are now collected and reported in a more structured way.

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🚀 Upgrade to Stride v0.2.0 for improved performance, enhanced symlink support, and better error handling!