0.9.0

📦 Findutils 0.9.0 Release:

We are thrilled to announce the release of Findutils 0.9.0! This release is a major milestone: it introduces the first implementations of locate and updatedb, bringing the project much closer to a complete drop-in replacement for the GNU findutils suite. Alongside these new utilities, this version adds the interactive -ok/-okdir actions, new xargs options (-E, -l, and hyphenated -I/-E values), chained -type arguments, and many correctness fixes. We've also hardened the project with a security audit workflow, a SECURITY.md, and CodSpeed performance benchmarks for all four utilities.

This release also lands as the broader uutils effort reaches a new level of adoption: Microsoft now ships uutils-based tooling (microsoft/coreutils), a strong validation of the project's drop-in, cross-platform approach.

This release saw contributions from 11 new developers.

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GNU Test Suite Compatibility

Here's how version 0.9.0 compares to the previous release:

Result	Previous (0.8.0)	Current (0.9.0)	Change	% Total Previous	% Total Current	% Change
Pass	503	518	+15	80.87%	83.28%	+2.41%
Skip	1	1	0	0.16%	0.16%	0.00%
Fail	117	103	-14	18.81%	16.56%	-2.25%
Error	1	0	-1	0.16%	0.00%	-0.16%
Total	622	622	0

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Highlights

New utilities: locate and updatedb

• Initial implementation of locate and updatedb by @Qelxiros in #536
• locate/updatedb made to work on Windows by @sylvestre in #704
• updatedb: improve perf and error messages, and a clear error when the output database can't be created by @sylvestre in #713

find

• Implement -ok and -okdir by @jmr in #650
• Match the GNU prompt format for -ok/-okdir by @sylvestre in #699
• Implement chained -type matcher arguments by @Crypto-Darth in #527
• Replace the {} placeholder in the -exec utility name by @mvanhorn in #647
• Fix -fstype with stacked mounts by @tavianator in #532
• Avoid a redundant stat per -fstype evaluation by @sylvestre
• Avoid a panic on -fprintf with missing arguments by @sylvestre in #698
• Handle write failures when printing --help/--version by @Xylphy in #656
• Update the --help text by @jmr in #707
• Use div_ceil for proper blocks computation by @KartikDua1504 in #529

xargs

• Add support for -E by @brian-pane in #593
• Add support for -l by @brian-pane in #601
• Ignore -E/-e when a delimiter is specified by @brian-pane in #603
• Accept hyphenated -I and -E values by @kevinburke in #668

Project, CI & quality

• Add SECURITY.md by @xtqqczze in #663
• Add a security audit workflow by @xtqqczze in #660
• Add CodSpeed benchmarks for find and xargs by @sylvestre in #703
• Add CodSpeed benchmarks for updatedb and locate by @sylvestre in #705
• Port the tests to uutests by @jmr in #645
• Enable the clippy all/cargo/pedantic lint groups, mirroring uutils/coreutils by @sylvestre in #715
• Fix warnings from the filter_next lint by @cakebaker in #604
• Publish the release as a draft first, and publish the binary from main by @sylvestre / @oech3 in #530, #618
• Add a release-small profile and rename the dist profile by @oech3 in #586
• Faster CI: use preinstalled Rust & CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 by @oech3 in #619

Dependencies

Numerous dependency bumps via Dependabot, including clap (4.5.35 → 4.6.1), regex (1.11.1 → 1.12.3), nix (0.29.0 → 0.31.3), chrono (0.4.40 → 0.4.45), tempfile (3.19.1 → 3.27.0), ctor (0.6.3 → 1.0.7), uucore (0.0.30 → 0.9.0), uutests (0.7.0 → 0.9.0), onig (6.4.0 → 6.5.3), argmax (0.3.1 → 0.4.0), filetime, serial_test, assert_cmd, rstest, terminal_size, and several GitHub Actions. Yanked futures-util, scc, and getrandom 0.3.1 were removed.

New Contributors

• @KartikDua1504 made their first contribution in #529
• @tdulcet made their first contribution in #545
• @Qelxiros made their first contribution in #547
• @oech3 made their first contribution in #586
• @brian-pane made their first contribution in #593
• @jmr made their first contribution in #645
• @xtqqczze made their first contribution in #659
• @kevinburke made their first contribution in #668
• @vip892766gma made their first contribution in #687
• @mvanhorn made their first contribution in #647
• @Xylphy made their first contribution in #656

Full Changelog: 0.8.0...0.9.0

Install findutils 0.9.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/uutils/findutils/releases/download/0.9.0/findutils-installer.sh | sh

Download findutils 0.9.0

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