0.1.9

Added

• texlive.pkgs is added to the EXTRA_SCOPES, i.e. Texlive packages can be searched now. (#254)
• Support for command-not-found for Nushell has been added. (#271)

Fixed

• Packages with no files in the index are now excluded, this significantly reduces the index size (~4MB → 1MB) (#266)
• debuginfo processing now skips symlinks which were contained inside of $debug/lib/debug. (#278)

Changed

• --top-level is now the default. To use the old default, add --all. (#243)
• Chore updates of the Flake lock, dependencies, clippy and a move to thiserror rather than error_chain. (#279)

New Contributors

• @anka-213 made their first contribution in #254
• @vkryachko made their first contribution in #266
• @ameertaweel made their first contribution in #271
• @Ma27 made their first contribution in #243

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.1.9

0.1.8

Added

• use HTTPS for cache.nixos.org (#246)
• client now use reqwest to obtain HTTPS, content decoding, timeouts and more for free (#247)

Fixed

• nix-community buildbot CI builds all attributes out of the box (#240)

Added

• improve help message for nix-locate --type (issue #204)
• improve error message when nix-env is killed by a signal

Fixed

• disable nixpkgs overlays (issue #161)
• fix Nix command suggestions for command-not-found.sh (issue #185)

Changed

• update dependencies

Added

• support setting NIX_INDEX_DATABASE environment variable to set database location (#213), thanks @mmarx
• this version and future versions will be published to https://crates.io/, simplifying library usage in other projects

Fixed

• fix crash when using wildcard pattern with nix-locate (issue #205)

added

• flake.nix added to repository, allows directly running nix-index from
  git (#162), thanks @matthewbauer
• support for proxies (#132), thanks @whizsid
• command-not-found.sh suggests new nix profile command if
  manifest.json exists (#135), thanks @matthewbauer
• support building project via Nix on Darwin (#175), thanks @BrianHicks
• indexer supports prefix filtering (#177), rhanks @virchau13
• command-line option to specify system for which to build the index
  (#183), thanks @usertam
• nix-channel-index: new command to build a programs.sqlite as currently
  distributed with nix channels (#192), thanks @K900

fixed

• command-not-found.sh never accesses undefined variables anymore
  (allows set -u) (#123), thanks @matthewbauer
• support xlibs renamed to xorg in recent nixpkgs (#179), thanks @cole-h
• rust dependencies updated to latest versions, fixes security warnings, thanks @edude03,
  @berbiche, @Sciecentistguy, @Mic92

changed

• nix-env is now invoked in parallel to query paths (improves
  performance)
• performance improvement: multithread compression (#152), thanks
  @enolan
• performance improvement: reduce compression level from 22 to 19
  (#152), thanks @enolan
• performance improvement: get store paths from nix-env in parallel
  (#152), thanks @enolan