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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index 0d90832..feb0a7c 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -14,129 +14,129 @@ <p>New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir) - <p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression): + <p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):</p> <ul> - <li>ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1" - <li>ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! - <li>ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2 - <li>ash: fix segfault in "command -v" - <li>ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator - <li>ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading - <li>ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before - <li>hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all - <li>hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not - <li>hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case - <li>hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites - <li>hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code) - <li>hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements - <li>hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case - <li>hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"') - <li>hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names - <li>libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets + <li>ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"</li> + <li>ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! </li> + <li>ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2</li> + <li>ash: fix segfault in "command -v"</li> + <li>ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator</li> + <li>ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading</li> + <li>ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before</li> + <li>hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all</li> + <li>hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not</li> + <li>hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case</li> + <li>hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites</li> + <li>hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)</li> + <li>hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements</li> + <li>hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case</li> + <li>hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')</li> + <li>hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names</li> + <li>libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets</li> </ul> - <p>Other changes: + Other changes: <ul> - <li>libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364) - <li>libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174) - <li>libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help" - <li>libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32() - <li>libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read) - <li>libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector - <li>libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir) - <li>lineedit: fix use-after-free - <li>libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too - <li>bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1]) - <li>open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor - <li>open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit - <li>arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564) - <li>ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code - <li>awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. - <li>build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op - <li>bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net) - <li>b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854) - <li>comm: almost total rewrite - <li>cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard) - <li>cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files - <li>cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG - <li>cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k - <li>cpio: support some long options - <li>crond: use execlp instead of execl - <li>cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544) - <li>envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases - <li>findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary - <li>fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir) - <li>fuser: a bit of safety in scanf - <li>grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes - <li>halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT - <li>httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de - <li>ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks - <li>ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) - <li>ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) - <li>inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found - <li>insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing - <li>install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa) - <li>install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584) - <li>lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies - <li>ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable - <li>man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com - <li>man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given - <li>man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable - <li>man: fix missed NULL termination of an array - <li>man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode - <li>man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de) - <li>man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config - <li>mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection - <li>mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist - <li>mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it - <li>mdev: support for serializing hotplug - <li>mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization - <li>mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com) - <li>modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras) - <li>modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads() - <li>modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one - <li>mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime" - <li>mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com) - <li>mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime" - <li>mount: testsuite for "-o mand" - <li>msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884) - <li>mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints - <li>netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu) - <li>nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594) - <li>od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104) - <li>pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054) - <li>printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214) - <li>printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite - <li>printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184) - <li>sendmail: updates from Vladimir: - <li>sendmail: do not discard all headers - <li>sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes - <li>sendmail: fixed mail recipient address - <li>sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed - <li>sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified - <li>sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat) - <li>ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too - <li>ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore - <li>ssd: fix -a without -x case - <li>ssd: use $PATH - <li>tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0 - <li>tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection - <li>taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy - <li>tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "") - <li>tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way - <li>telnetd: fix issue file printing - <li>test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does - <li>testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e - <li>time: don't segfault with no arguments - <li>touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile) - <li>tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354 - <li>tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374) - <li>tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374) - <li>unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard) - <li>vi: fix reversed checks for underflow - <li>vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid - <li>xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414) - <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets + <li>libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)</li> + <li>libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)</li> + <li>libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"</li> + <li>libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()</li> + <li>libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)</li> + <li>libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector</li> + <li>libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)</li> + <li>lineedit: fix use-after-free</li> + <li>libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too</li> + <li>bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])</li> + <li>open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor</li> + <li>open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit</li> + <li>arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)</li> + <li>ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code</li> + <li>awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. </li> + <li>build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op</li> + <li>bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)</li> + <li>b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)</li> + <li>comm: almost total rewrite</li> + <li>cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)</li> + <li>cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files</li> + <li>cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG</li> + <li>cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k</li> + <li>cpio: support some long options</li> + <li>crond: use execlp instead of execl</li> + <li>cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)</li> + <li>envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases</li> + <li>findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary</li> + <li>fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)</li> + <li>fuser: a bit of safety in scanf</li> + <li>grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes</li> + <li>halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT</li> + <li>httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de</li> + <li>ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks</li> + <li>ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li> + <li>ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li> + <li>inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found</li> + <li>insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing</li> + <li>install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)</li> + <li>install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)</li> + <li>lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies</li> + <li>ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable</li> + <li>man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com</li> + <li>man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given</li> + <li>man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable</li> + <li>man: fix missed NULL termination of an array</li> + <li>man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode</li> + <li>man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)</li> + <li>man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config</li> + <li>mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection</li> + <li>mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist</li> + <li>mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it</li> + <li>mdev: support for serializing hotplug</li> + <li>mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization</li> + <li>mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)</li> + <li>modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)</li> + <li>modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()</li> + <li>modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one</li> + <li>mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"</li> + <li>mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)</li> + <li>mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"</li> + <li>mount: testsuite for "-o mand"</li> + <li>msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)</li> + <li>mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints</li> + <li>netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)</li> + <li>nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)</li> + <li>od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)</li> + <li>pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)</li> + <li>printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)</li> + <li>printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite</li> + <li>printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)</li> + <li>sendmail: updates from Vladimir:</li> + <li>sendmail: do not discard all headers</li> + <li>sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes</li> + <li>sendmail: fixed mail recipient address</li> + <li>sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed</li> + <li>sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified</li> + <li>sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)</li> + <li>ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too</li> + <li>ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore</li> + <li>ssd: fix -a without -x case</li> + <li>ssd: use $PATH</li> + <li>tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0</li> + <li>tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection</li> + <li>taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy</li> + <li>tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")</li> + <li>tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way</li> + <li>telnetd: fix issue file printing</li> + <li>test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does</li> + <li>testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e</li> + <li>time: don't segfault with no arguments</li> + <li>touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)</li> + <li>tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354</li> + <li>tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)</li> + <li>tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)</li> + <li>unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)</li> + <li>vi: fix reversed checks for underflow</li> + <li>vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid</li> + <li>xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)</li> + <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> </ul> <p> The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk, bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi. </p> + </li> <li><b>11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated</b> <p> @@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't work for you. </p> + </li> <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>. @@ -181,41 +183,43 @@ <p>Changes since previous release: <ul> - <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX - <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes - <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes - <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead) - <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed - <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels - <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp - <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams - <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one - <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection - <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons) - <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines - <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund) - <li>date: make it accept ISO date format - <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo) - <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR - <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo - <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate - <li>ls: support Unicode in names - <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa) - <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat) - <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again - <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets + <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li> + <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li> + <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li> + <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li> + <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li> + <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li> + <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li> + <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li> + <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li> + <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li> + <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li> + <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li> + <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li> + <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li> + <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li> + <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li> + <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li> + <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li> + <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li> + <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li> + <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li> + <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li> + <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> </ul> <p> The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. </p> + </li> <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project: + </p> <ul> <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html"> - TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially. + TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li> <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start"> Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. @@ -226,8 +230,9 @@ for download for this board. Visit <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> for more information. + </li> </ul> - </p> + </li> <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. @@ -238,6 +243,7 @@ Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, ip, mdev and syslogd. </p> + </li> <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. @@ -250,6 +256,7 @@ <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please report if you encounter any problems with it. </p> + </li> <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. @@ -259,6 +266,7 @@ <p> Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. + </li> <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. @@ -289,131 +297,132 @@ iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. - + </p> <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. - + </p> <p>Changes since previous release: + </p> <ul> - <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter - <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations - <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>) - <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134 - <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947 - <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142 - <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case - <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host - <li>build system: make it do without "od -t" - <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376 - <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU - <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470 - <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite - <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets - <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed - <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth) - <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels - <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>) - <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/ - <li>fuser: substantial rewrite - <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> - <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>) - <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled - <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530 - <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked - <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/" - <li>httpd: fix for POST upload - <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>) - <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure - <li>hush: more correct handling of piping - <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU - <li>hush: report [v]fork failures - <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed - <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness - <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work - <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable - <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>) - <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n" - <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing - <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words - <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de) - <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var) - <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error - <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1) - <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now - <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars - <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption - <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages - <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern! - <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too - <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets - <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error - <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it> - <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now! - <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended - <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible - <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t - <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>) - <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected - <li>mount: add another mount helper call method - <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option - <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) - <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity - <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command - <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835) - <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root - <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143 - <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make - <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one) - <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin - <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing - <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time) - <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed - <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway - <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters - <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc - <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt] - <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com> - <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly - <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file - <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time - <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns - <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414 - <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com> - <li>run-parts: add --reverse - <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output - <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214 - <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591 - <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>) - <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425 - <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls - <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead - <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check - <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436 - <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574 - <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling - <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages) - <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end - <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992 - <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> - <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket - <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell" - <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args" - <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected - <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable - <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports - <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE - <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>) - <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>) - <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint - <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro - <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604 - <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com> - <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge) - <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly - <li>vi: many fixes - <li>zcip: don't chdir to root - <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket) + <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li> + <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li> + <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li> + <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li> + <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li> + <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li> + <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li> + <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li> + <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li> + <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li> + <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li> + <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li> + <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li> + <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li> + <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li> + <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li> + <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li> + <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li> + <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li> + <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li> + <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li> + <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li> + <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li> + <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li> + <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li> + <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li> + <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li> + <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li> + <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li> + <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li> + <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li> + <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li> + <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li> + <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li> + <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li> + <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li> + <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li> + <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li> + <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li> + <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li> + <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> + <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li> + <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li> + <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li> + <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li> + <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li> + <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li> + <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages</li> + <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!</li> + <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li> + <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li> + <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li> + <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li> + <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li> + <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li> + <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li> + <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li> + <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li> + <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li> + <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li> + <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li> + <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li> + <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li> + <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li> + <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li> + <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li> + <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li> + <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li> + <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li> + <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li> + <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li> + <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li> + <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li> + <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li> + <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li> + <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li> + <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li> + <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li> + <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li> + <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li> + <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li> + <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li> + <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li> + <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li> + <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li> + <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li> + <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li> + <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li> + <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li> + <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li> + <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li> + <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li> + <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li> + <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li> + <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li> + <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li> + <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li> + <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li> + <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li> + <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li> + <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li> + <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li> + <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li> + <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li> + <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li> + <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li> + <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li> + <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li> + <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li> + <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li> + <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li> + <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li> + <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li> + <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li> + <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li> + <li>vi: many fixes</li> + <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li> + <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li> </ul> - </p> + </li> <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> <p> @@ -435,8 +444,7 @@ iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 <li><b>Old News</b><p> <a href="oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> </p> - </li> - + </li> </ul> |