What's new?

updated option --index for accelerated index-based search, now also indexes and searches archives and compressed files with option -z
new ugrep.exe with option --index for accelerated index-based search on Windows
updated ugrep-indexer project to support archive/compressed file indexing with a new ugrep-indexer.exe version for Windows
updated MacOS macports moar-pager #328
faster search with -ABC context options #329

Future plans

a major 4.4 or 5.0 release with performance enhancement #288 by updating the regex engine to advance fast to a partial match and then "look backward" for a full match
also faster file reading with io_uring on Linux systems seems worthwhile to add to ugrep
make the ugrep-indexer command part of the ugrep tools when the ugrep-indexer project graduates to stable (ugrep-indexer is currently 0.9.3 beta)
Unicode searching with Unicode pattern normalizing #298
other additions and improvements

A big thank you to all project contributors and ugrep users and enthusiasts!