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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index f77698e..0eee9fc 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -1,8 +1,120 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> - <ul> - <li><b>20 May, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> + <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>. + (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>, + <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" + label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p> + <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now, + but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please + report any such cases.</p> + <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0 + and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p> + <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p> + <p>Other changes since previous release: + <ul> +<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places +<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs +<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action +<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU +<li>SELinux: load_policy applet +<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>) +<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito) +<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>) +<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling +<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore +<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) +<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) +<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337 +<li>awk: guard against empty environment +<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller) +<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens +<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text +<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists@zelow.no>) +<li>cttyhack: new applet +<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop@cle-mens.de>) +<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>) +<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N +<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>) +<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged +<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com>) +<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes +<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) +<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes) +<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it +<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code +<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>) +<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa) +<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it +<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>) +<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array +<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade@gmx.net>) +<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich@math.spbu.ru>) +<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links +<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused +<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se> +<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete@catix.cat>) +<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier +<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp +<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> +<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file) +<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off +<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b +<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array() +<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter +<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes) +<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes) +<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin +<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd +<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements. +<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH) +<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) +<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets +<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop +<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe +<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL +<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable +<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y) +<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use +<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions +<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file +<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them +<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!) +<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes +<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes) +<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that) +<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1 +<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox +<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets +<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes +<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore +<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice +<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373) +<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer) +<li>run_parts: rewrite +<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu> +<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f +<li>split: new applet +<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas +<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>) +<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM +<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N" +<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/ +<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction +<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken +<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it +<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair +<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize +<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management +<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) + </ul> + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>, <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> @@ -11,7 +123,7 @@ and sed.</p> </li> - <li><b>23 March, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b> + <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>, <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> @@ -51,7 +163,7 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>18 March, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> + <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>. </p> @@ -59,7 +171,7 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>25 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b> + <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p> @@ -67,7 +179,7 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>20 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b> + <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p> @@ -102,14 +214,14 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>20 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> + <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p> <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1 </p> </li> - <li><b>27 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b> + <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p> @@ -117,7 +229,7 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>14 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b> + <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p> @@ -153,14 +265,14 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b> + <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p> <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc produces buggy executables. </li> - <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b> + <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b> <p>It's a bit overdue, but <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p> @@ -187,7 +299,7 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b> + <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b> <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p> |