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-<h3>News archive</h3>
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-<ul>
-
- <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>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
- 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0
-</pre>
-
- <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova),
- fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Reutner-Fischer)
-
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <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.</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.
- <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a>
- is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable.
- If you are an embedded device developer,
- please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available
- for download for this board. Visit
- <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a>
- for more information.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </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>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p>
- 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>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p>
- Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof,
- start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system.
- <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>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <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>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
- 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0
-</pre>
- <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
-busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0:
-echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112
-bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096
-discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096
-discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
-echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
-discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152
-find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952
-readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492
-ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464
-iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308
-</pre>
-
- <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
- findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
- lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;),
- sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;), 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>
- <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li>
- <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;)</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&gt;/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 &lt;roy at marples.name&gt;)</li>
- <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr &gt;= 256 * 256)/(blknr &lt; 256 * 256)/</li>
- <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li>
- <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.com&gt;</li>
- <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund &lt;Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se&gt;)</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 &lt;jacmet AT uclibc.org&gt;)</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 &lt;eugebo AT gmail.com&gt;)</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], [/], &lt;enter search pattern&gt;, [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 &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;</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 &lt;timo.teras at iki.fi&gt;)</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 &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)</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 &lt;mailinglist.cache at gmail.com&gt;</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 &lt;roberto.gordo AT gmail.com&gt;</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 &lt;Ralf.Friedl AT online.de&gt;)</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 &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;</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 &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com&gt;)</li>
- <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson &lt;jonas.danielsson AT axis.com&gt;)</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 &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;</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>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b>
- <p>
- Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
- for future hot patches are in parentheses.
- <p>
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a>
- (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>),
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a>
- (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>),
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a>
- (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>),
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a>
- (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>).
- <p>
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a>
- </p>
-
-
- <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck,
- iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p>
- <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is
- inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork).
- The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.0</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2
- 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0
-</pre>
- <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
-busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0:
-input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116
-umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112
-rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096
-xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096
-sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096
-mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096
-mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096
-grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
-unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
-parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152
-</pre>
-
- <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost
- the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works
- on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU,
- though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush.
-
- <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes
- problems for you.
-
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>Build system improvements
- <li>Testsuite additions
- <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions
- <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both
- <li>New applets: hd, sestatus
- <li>Removed applets: lash
- <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins
- <li>init: simplify forking of children
- <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed
- <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root
- <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets
- (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)
- <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for
- (Stefan Hellermann &lt;stefan at the2masters.de&gt;)
- <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping)
- (Jonas Danielsson &lt;jonas.danielsson at axis.com&gt;)
- <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length
- <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths
- <li>vi: Del key works
- <li>sed: support GNUism '\t'
- <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying
- <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy
- <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd
- <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too
- <li>netstat: wide output mode
- <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth &lt;masta at perlgolf.de&gt;)
- <li>test: become NOFORK applet
- <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser &lt;alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at&gt;)
- <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com&gt;)
- <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com&gt;)
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>These are bugfix-only releases.
- 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
- 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
-
- <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
- <p>httpd:
- <ul>
- <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
- <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
- <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
- <li>optional support for partial downloads
- <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
- <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino &lt;Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
- <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- </ul>
-
- <p>top:
- <ul>
- <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
- <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
- <li>fix for command line wrapping
- </ul>
-
- <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
-
- <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
-Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
- 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>
-
- <p>New applets:
- <ul>
- <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.ru&gt;
- <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie &lt;loic.grenie at gmail.com&gt;
- <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
- <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie &lt;loic.grenie at gmail.com&gt;
- <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
- </ul>
-
- <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
- <ul>
- <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
- <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
- <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
- <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
- <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
- <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
- <li>wget: allow dots in header field names
- <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
- <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
- <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
- <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
- <li>hush: fix glob()
- <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
- <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
- <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;)
- <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
- <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
- <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
- <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
- <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
- <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
- <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
- <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
- <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter &lt;jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de&gt;
- <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
- <li>less: make 'f' key page forward
- <li>libiproute: add missing break statements
- <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
- <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
- <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
- <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie &lt;loic.grenie at gmail.com&gt;)
- <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
- <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
- <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei &lt;kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com&gt;
- <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
- <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
- <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.ru&gt;)
- <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
- <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei &lt;kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com&gt;
- <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
- <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
- <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
- <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
- <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
- <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
- <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
- <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
- <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
- <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
- <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA &lt;kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp&gt;)
- <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;)
- <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
- <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
- <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
- <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
- <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
- <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
- <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
- <p>httpd:
- <ul>
- <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;)
- <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
- <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras &lt;genepi at sympatico.ca&gt;)
- <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
- <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
- <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
- <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras &lt;genepi at sympatico.ca&gt;)
- <li>add support for Status: CGI header
- <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
- <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
- </ul>
-
- <p>udhcp[cd]:
- <ul>
- <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
- <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
- <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats at blue2net.com&gt; (Blue2Net AB))
- <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
- <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
- <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
- <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
- </ul>
-
- <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
- <ul>
- <li>simpler loadavg processing
- <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
- <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
- <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
- <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
- <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
- <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
- <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
- <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
- </ul>
-
- <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
- generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
- scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
-
- <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
-Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
- 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
- 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
-
-Same .config built against static uclibc:
- 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
-
- <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
- test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
- runit/*, in libbb.
-
- <p>New applets:
- <ul>
- <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
- <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
- <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin &lt;virtuoso at slind.org&gt;)
- <li>slattach, ttysize
- </ul>
-
- <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
- by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
- qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
- for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
-
- <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
- <ul>
- <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
- <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;
- <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
- <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
- <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
- <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy &lt;pclouds at gmail.com&gt;)
- <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
- <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
- <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;)
- <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
- <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
- <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
- <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
- <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
- <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;
- <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
- <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
- <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei &lt;kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp&gt;)
- <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
- <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)
- <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
- <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
- <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon at freebox.fr&gt; (Freebox))
- <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon at freebox.fr&gt; (Freebox))
- <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
- <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. &gt; 255
- <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
- <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
- <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
- <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms &lt;wharms at bfs.de&gt;)
- <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
- <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
- <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;
- <li>login: optional support for PAM
- <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
- <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
- <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
- <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
- <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
- <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN &lt;yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr&gt;)
- <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher &lt;tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca&gt;
- <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
- <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
- <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
- <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy &lt;pclouds at gmail.com&gt;)
- <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
- <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon &lt;bc-info at styx.cabel.net&gt;)
- <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
- <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni &lt;kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in&gt;)
- <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
- <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
- <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
- <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy &lt;pclouds at gmail.com&gt;)
- <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;
- <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
- <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
- <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
- <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
- <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
- <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
- <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
- <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof &lt;jcz at google.com&gt;
- <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;
- <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
- <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
- <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
- (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/">patches</a>,
- <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
- </li>
-
- <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://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</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 &lt;uberlord at gentoo.org&gt;)
-<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 &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
-<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 &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
-<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
-<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 &lt;lists at zelow.no&gt;)
-<li>cttyhack: new applet
-<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens &lt;develop at cle-mens.de&gt;)
-<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
-<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
-<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard &lt;peter.korsgaard at barco.com&gt;)
-<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 &lt;Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com&gt;)
-<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 &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
-<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 &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;)
-<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 &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;)
-<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
-<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier &lt;niteblade at gmx.net&gt;)
-<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov &lt;lich at math.spbu.ru&gt;)
-<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 &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;
-<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete &lt;amirabete at catix.cat&gt;)
-<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 &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;
-<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 &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
-<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
-<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less &lt;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 &lt;somlo at cmu.edu&gt;
-<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 &lt;s.hauer at pengutronix.de&gt;)
-<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 &lt;pape at smarden.org&gt;, 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>
- </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>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
- and sed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <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>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
- label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
- <p>Notable changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
- <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
- <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
- <li>less: regex search improved
- <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
- <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
- <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
- <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
- <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
- <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
- <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
- <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
- <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
- not only in /cgi-bin/
- <li>chrt: new applet
- <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
- new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
- <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
- improper usage of string constants.
- <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
- targets.
- <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
- sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
- <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
- udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
- <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
- syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <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>
-
- <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <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>
-
- <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <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>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
- than usual.</p>
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
- the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
- it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
- ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
- <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
- (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
- don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
- anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
- as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
- for general use now.
- <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
- upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
- already much better than what we had previously.
- <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
- <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
- of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
- <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
- <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
- <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
- <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
- <li>chown: user.grp works again.
- <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
- ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <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>
- <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>
-
- <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <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>
-
- <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
- needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. 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 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>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b>
- <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
- you can now
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>,
- the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new
- functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
- several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
- <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards
- compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
- still working out the <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p>
-
- <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b>
-
- <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox
- 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small
- fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p>
-
- <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p>
-
- Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
- developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
- in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
- name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
- from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the
- <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a>
- to post all the gory details.
-
- <p>
-
- The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
- is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
- to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
- properly considered.
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p>
-
- When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or
- software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox.
- With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and
- who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices
- is looking very bright.
-
- <p>
-
- It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every
- device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date.
- The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!
-
- <p>
-
- Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous
- improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux
- KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel),
- Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development
- work and testing of thousands of people from around the world.
-
- <p>
-
- If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
- BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device
- or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is
- right for your application. If you need help getting started using
- BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug
- and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a
- href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>.
-
- <p>
-
- As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
-
- <p>
- <li><b>Old News</b><p>
- <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
-
-
- <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes release candidate 3...
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
- And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
-
- <p>
- <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes release candidate 2...
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
- And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
-
- <p>
- <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems
- that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of
- kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better.
- <p>
-
- I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real
- reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as
- is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for
- everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting,
- it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well.
- There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with
- it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while
- there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work
- is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door....
- <p>
-
- Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this
- time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a
- bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you
- explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch
- has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your
- bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]"
- at the beginning of the email subject line!
-
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
- And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
-
- <p>
- On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away
- yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about
- 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I
- could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a
- href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation
- as scheduled.
- <p>
- As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come
- to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS
- this year.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p>
-
- Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox
- pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b>
- want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not
- bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only
- bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if
- people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit
- improvements.
-
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
- And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for
- bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this
- week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at
- this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be
- <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation
- and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the
- documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some
- assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets
- match the features listed in the documentation.
-
- <p>
- I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but
- <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796">
- another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy...
-
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
- And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send
- in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will
- be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see
- supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit,
- please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release
- out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre
- series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you
- spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the
- busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could
- help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be
- especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the
- various applets match the features listed in the documentation.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
- And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p>
-
- There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
- number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out
- properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one
- problem. In addition, this release fixes several other
- problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing
- the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates
- from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
- aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to
- the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have
- suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the
- busybox mailing list.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. This release adds a number of size optimizations,
- updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash
- and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of
- bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be
- settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing
- perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and
- move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any
- problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please
- feel free to email the busybox mailing list.
-
- <p>
-
- People who rely on the <a href="downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a>
- should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x
- series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now
- only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use
- the naming scheme "busybox-&lt;date&gt;.tar.bz2". Please
- adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
- a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
- properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This
- release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
- fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
- the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
- modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
- 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
- a few other odd fixes.
-
- <p>
-
- If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
- always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
- mailing list.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-
- <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
- rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
- devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
- the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
- common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
- of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
- testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
- thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
- helping get patches merged!
-
- <p>
-
- And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
- the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
- things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
- problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
- free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
- testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
- of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
- the testing, bug reports, and patches!
-
- <p>
-
- If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
- mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
- patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
- somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
- Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
- mailing list!
-
- <p>
-
- The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
- people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
- fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
- (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
- list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
- modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
- patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
- integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
- a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
- more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
- module loading alone.
-
- <p>
-
- I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
- course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
- out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
- stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
- not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
- -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
- But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
- exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
- indeed.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
- testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
- bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
-
- <p>
-
- Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
- with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
- init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
- 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
- an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
- read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
- 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
- tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
- <p>
-
- If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
- release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
- was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
- That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
- BusyBox mailing list.
- <p>
-
- The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
- people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
- fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
- is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
- release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
- necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
- Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
- turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
- then...
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
- <p>
- <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
-
- The busybox development series has been under construction for
- nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
- it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
- of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
- since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
- number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
- 1.0.x...
- <p>
-
- The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
- people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
- fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
- later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
- Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
- Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
- up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
- of July.
- <p>
-
- If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
- and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
- rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
- happens sometimes. Please do <b>NOT</b> send all your patches,
- support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
- emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
- sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
- right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
- <p>
-
- I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
- McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
- (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
- have made this release possible.
- <p>
-
- As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
- You don't really need to bother with the
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
- vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
- But you can take a look if you really want too.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
-
- I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
- is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
- the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
- up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
- had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
- to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
- was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
- I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
- 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
- mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
- release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
- will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
- version to have its first real release very very soon now...
-
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
- <p>
- <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
-
- I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
- (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
- a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
- the problems that have turned up since the last
- release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
- I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
- on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
- should soon be getting its first real release.
-
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
-
- I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
- now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
- for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
- the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
- This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
- development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
- hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
-
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
-
- Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
- the fine folks at <a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
- who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
- uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
- <a href="http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
- in Canada and
- <a href="http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
- in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
- accessible for everyone!
-
-
-<li>
-<b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
-
-<p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
-users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
-(which is where you are probably reading this).
-Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
-living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
-line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
-busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
-the access needed to keep that system updated (for
-example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
-stopped some time ago).</p>
-
-<p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
-server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
-the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
-I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
-co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
-co-location effort, <a href=
-"http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
-(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
-his <a href=
-"http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
-for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
-system is co-located, the current speed problems
-should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
-some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
-sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
-
-<p><!--
- <center>
- Click here to help support busybox.net!
- <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
- <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
- <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
- <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
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- </center>
- -->
- Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
-donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
-rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
-spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
-upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
-has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
-google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
-not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
-ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
-far, donations received have been sufficient to
-cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
-have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
-we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
-everyone that has contributed!<br>
- -Erik</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
-
-<p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
-0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
-one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
-series, and it should take care of most everyone's
-needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
-been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
-wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
-this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
-(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
-Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
-told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
-
-<p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
-powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
-should work with just about any Linux system you
-throw it at. See the <a href=
-"downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
-of</small> the details. The last release was
-<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
-be even better.</p>
-
-<p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
-<a href=
-"downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Have Fun.<br>
- -Erik</p>
-</li>
-
-<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
-
-<!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
-<center>
-Click here to help buy busybox.net!
-<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
-<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
-<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
-<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
-<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
-<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
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-</form>
-</center>
-<!-- End PayPal Logo -->
-
-I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
-to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
-will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
-for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
-initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
-home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
-but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
-I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
-have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
-even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
-time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
-bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
-start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
-will start costing some money.
-<p>
-
-I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
-idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
-where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
-about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
-busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
-mailing list and web page. So...
-<p>
-
-I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
-up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
-know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
-individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
-contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
-would be wonderful!
-<p>
-
-
-<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
- up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
- the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
- serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
- new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
- here it is. Come and get it.
- <p>
- The
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
- <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
-<br>
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
- and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
- x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
- of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
- Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
- stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
- a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
- cleans up a number of things.
-
- <p>
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
- use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
- to give it a try by downloading and compiling
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
- You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
- Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
- <p>
- Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
- BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
- a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
- the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
- to view the tutorial.
- <p>
-
- Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
- version number of this release, let me point out that this release
- is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
- bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
- a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
- stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
- 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
- 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
- the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
- next release and I don't want that to break products that people
- are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
- released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
- have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
- stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
- I will release that as a new stable release series.
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
- <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
-<br>
-
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
- release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
- of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
- several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
- and ash).
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
- some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
- are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
- BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
- <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
-<br>
-The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
-of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
-viewing <a href="busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
-
-<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
-can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
-turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
-<p>
-
-
-<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
-<br>
-
- BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
- release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
- contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
- 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
- There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
- the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
- 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
- deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
- <p>
-
- There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
- one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
- added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
- compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
- functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
- all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
- maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
- compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
- for letting me use their system!).
- <p>
- You can read the
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
- complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
- <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
-
-<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
-"downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
-image</a>. Here's how you use it:
-
-<ol>
-
- <li> <a href="downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
- Download the image</a>
-
- <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
- of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
-
- <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
-
-</ol>
-
-<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
-
-<pre>
- mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
- cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
- umount /mnt
- gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
- mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
-</pre>
-
-
-<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
- and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
- shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
- expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
- smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
- now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
- long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
- Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
- environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
- this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
- framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
- business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
- currently in progress at
- <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
- <p>
-
-
-<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
-<br>
-
- Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
- things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
- For a list of the most interesting changes
- you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
- work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
- out of town.
- <p>
- <em>Special Note</em><br>
-
- BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
- shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
- Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
- shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
- construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
- Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
- progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
- and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
- release of BusyBox.
- <p>
-
-<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
- rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
- update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
- optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
- that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
- now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
- shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
- woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
- <p>
- The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
- the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
- this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
- <p>
-<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
- syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
- apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
- renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
- There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
- more correct option parsing.
- See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
- for complete details.
-
-
-<p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
- and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
- people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
- completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
- BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
- See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
- for complete details.
-
-
-<p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
- point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
- release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
- mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
- telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
- the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
- details).
- <p>
- Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
- <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
- publically browsable
- <a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
- anonymous
- <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
- for those that are actively contributing there is even
- <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
- I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
- <p>
- Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
- a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
- we are just skipping 0.44.
- <p>
- Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
- of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
-
-
-<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
-<br>
-Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
-For example, with the following test app:
-<pre>
-#include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
-
-int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
-{
- openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
- while(1) {
- syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
- sleep(delay);
- }
- closelog();
- return(0);
-};
-
-int main(void)
-{
- if (fork()==0)
- do_log("A", 2);
- do_log("B", 3);
-}
-</pre>
-it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
-from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
-while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
-<p>
-Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
-Thanks Karl!
-
-
-<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
-<br>
-I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
-good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
-so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
-have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
-freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
-rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
-More details are available in the
-<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
-Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
-<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
-
-<p>
-Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
-and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
-Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
-Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
-There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
-<p>
-
-You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
-
-<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
-<br>
-Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
-do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
-to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
-5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
-tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
-at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
-the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
-of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
-enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
-changes I still want to make.
-<p>
-The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
-Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
-
-<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
-<br>
-I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
-lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
-He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
-it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
-fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
-and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
-(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
-down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
-(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
-contrary).
-<p>
-Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
-labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
-<p>
-So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
-Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
-to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
-include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
-re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
-accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
-problems.
-
-
-<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
- bugs have been fixed. See the
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
-
- Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
- filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
- behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
- loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
- Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
- their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
- on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
-
-<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
- mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
- logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
- support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
- The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
-
-<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
-<br>
-
- This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
- syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
- New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
- In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
- in some cases produced serious security problems.
- As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
-
-<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
-<br>
- I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
- to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
- will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
- contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
- what arguments its apps support, etc.
-
-<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
-<br>
- This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
- the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
- changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
-<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
-<br>
- This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
- and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
-
-
-</ul>
-
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