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For example, find, chmod + and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly + bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make + busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly + adventurous desktop users. + <p>Changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>find: taking many more of standard options + <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented + <li>cp: added -s, -l + <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h + <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally + incompatible) + <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage + on a big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers + (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs. + Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks). + <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for + directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes. + <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support, + other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb. + <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/ + (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys) + <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp, + fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod. + </ul> + <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different. + 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess. + </p> + </li> + + <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> + <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> + + <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development + branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation + generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix + umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by + name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev + delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault + in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build + fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test + fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in + modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf + foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the + terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in + ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in + gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning + fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p> + + <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>, + this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis + Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>. + </p> + </li> + + <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> + + <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b> + <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I + might as well point you all at + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox + 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p> + + <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without + saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and + one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three + embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks + (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the + libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated + tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge + in a pear... Ahem.</p> + + <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty + gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains + the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return + value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent + a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from + switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather + than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that + /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf + in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p> + + <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b> + <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox + 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog + over the weekend.</p> + + <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development + cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to + try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time + we fix enough bugs. :)</p> + + <p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p> + + <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox + 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a + memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes + mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill + background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a + timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could + segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p> + + <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> + + <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b> + <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches + backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes + for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for + find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball + for more info.</p> + + <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3 + will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is + to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable + bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p> + + <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> + <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox + maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and + uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation + by Erik's father's law firm, and the + <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't + scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads + together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of + <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She + referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> + + <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the + <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> + has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other + free and open source software projects (such as + <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, + <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and + <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a> + in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a + phrase you get to use every day.</p> + + <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> + <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p> + <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, + the various small fixes have been collected together into a + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, + and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around + June.</p> + </li> + <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> + <p>The new stable release is + <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox + 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets. + (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>, + but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how + that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p> + + <li><b>Old News</b><p> + <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> + </p> + </li> + + +</ul> + +<!--#include file="footer.html" --> + |