fd Files

Performance

• This release is all about performance, which has been significantly improved, both due to optimizations in the underlying ignore crate (#1429 by @tavianator), and in fd itself (#1422, [#1408], [#13620] by @tavianator). Benchmarks results show gains of 6-8x for full traversals of smaller directories (100k files) and up to 13x for larger directories (1M files).

• The default number of threads is now constrained to be at most 64. This should improve startup time on systems with many CPU cores. (#1203, [#1410], [#1412], [#1431]) - @tmccombs and @tavianator

• New flushing behavior when writing output to stdout, providing better performance for TTY and non-TTY use cases, see [#1452] and [#1313] (@tavianator).

Features

• Support character and block device file types, see [#1213] and [#1336] (@cgzones)
• Breaking: .git/ is now ignored by default when using --hidden / -H, use --no-ignore / -I or --no-ignore-vcs to override, see [#1387] and [#1396] (@skoriop)

Bugfixes

• Fix NO_COLOR support, see [#1421] (@acuteenvy)

Other

• Fixed documentation typos, see [#1409] (@marcospb19)

Thanks

Special thanks to @tavianator for his incredible work on performance in the ignore crate and fd itself.