v0.2.0

Bug Fixes

• prune gitignored directories during index build (#58)
• redesign daemon event loop with RefreshState, remove is_relevant_event (#57)
• optimize index build with varint postings and unified visibility (#54)
• eliminate #[allow], split benchmarks per module, add profiling (#22)
• rustfmt import formatting
• remove unused rel_match_context helper, use string literals
• Windows clippy, context prefix formatting, and expanded tests

Documentation

• rewrite READMEs and AGENTS.md for clarity and index generality (#32)
• mark no-op flags (line-buffered, block-buffered, mmap, no-mmap) explicitly
• rewrite READMEs and add AGENTS.md to all projects and modules (#18)
• update Linux benchsuite snapshot with fresh results and chart
• tighten agent notes — scannable layout, no policy essays
• branch-per-phase workflow before roadmap slices

Features

• redesign daemon architecture with explicit config, spawn lock, and --once mode (#56)
• unified Index trait, auto-init, incremental updates with fingerprint-based change detection (#31)
• modular public-API-only benchmarks (#26)
• comprehensive unit and integration test coverage for sift-core (#25)
• add --no-config, --unicode/--no-unicode, --colors, --regex-size-limit, --dfa-size-limit, -M/--max-columns, --max-columns-preview flags
• add --no-config, --unicode/--no-unicode, --colors, --regex-size-limit, --dfa-size-limit, -M/--max-columns, --max-columns-preview flags
• add -j/--threads, --line-buffered, --block-buffered, --path-separator, --one-file-system, -U/--multiline, --multiline-dotall, --crlf, --mmap/--no-mmap flags
• add -j/--threads, --line-buffered, --block-buffered, --path-separator, --one-file-system, -U/--multiline, --multiline-dotall, --crlf, --mmap/--no-mmap flags
• add -r/--replace, --trim, -b/--byte-offset, --passthru, --include-zero flags
• add -r/--replace, --trim, -b/--byte-offset, --passthru, --include-zero flags
• add --no-ignore-parent, --no-ignore-global, --no-ignore-exclude, --no-messages, --no-ignore-messages, --no-ignore-files, --ignore-file flags
• add --no-ignore-parent, --no-ignore-global, --no-ignore-exclude, --no-messages, --no-ignore-messages, --no-ignore-files, --ignore-file flags
• add -a/--text and --binary flags for binary file handling
• add -a/--text and --binary flags for binary file handling
• add filter flags for max-depth, max-filesize, types, iglob, files, sort
• add --max-depth, --max-filesize, --iglob, --ignore-file, --files, -t/--type, -T/--type-not, --type-list, --type-add, --type-clear, --sort/--sortr filter flags
• add --context-separator, --no-context-separator, --field-match-separator, --field-context-separator flags (#10)
• add --column, --vimgrep, --pretty, -N/--no-line-number, --version flags (#9)
• implement scope-based path display resolution
• --json JSON Lines output (ripgrep-compatible) (#6)
• bytes searched in SearchStats and --stats (#5)
• elapsed time in SearchStats and --stats output (#4)
• --stats and SearchStats counters (#3)
• --color, --null, grouped output structs (#2)
• context lines (-A/-B/-C) for standard search
• search parity — paths, ignores, follow, filter pipeline

Miscellaneous

• bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2 to 3 (#34)
• bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 (#35)
• bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 8 (#36)
• add release infrastructure — changelog, release script, ARM64, checksums, dependabot (#33)
• remove sift-profile binary from core crate (#23)
• fix pre-existing clippy lints (map_or, is_ok_and, byte str literals) (#17)
• remove fff.nvim
• remove useless scripts
• remove unused #[allow(dead_code)] from rel_match_context

Performance

• optimized trigram index build with packed sort and codec removal (#55)
• parallel corpus walk with WalkBuilder::build_parallel() (#47)
• extract trigrams from raw bytes instead of lossy UTF-8 (#48)
• reduce PathBuf allocations in resolve_candidates (#49)
• parallelize save_to_dir index file writes (#50)
• avoid materializing Vec in all_file_ids (#51)
• sift-profile revamp, matcher/searcher caches, parallel and index tuning

Refactor

• split search and grep modules, add index intersection planning (#30)
• remove parallel threshold, always use Rayon (#28)
• split grep module into domain folders (#27)
• restructure core into index/, grep/, and query/ modules (#24)
• harden integration test suite with TestProject helper (#21)
• organize CLI into domain-oriented modules (#19)
• replace Option with ColumnAction enum for max_columns
• avoid needless String allocation and double trim_start()
• add doc comments to ignore-granular structs
• rename parse_filesize to parse_size_suffix for consistency

Testing

• add 200 inline unit tests, convert CLI to lib+bin layout (#20)

Deps

• bump clap from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (#37)
• bump serde_json from 1.0.149 to 1.0.150 (#38)
• bump rayon from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0 (#39)
• bump bitflags from 2.11.0 to 2.11.1 (#40)