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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html index 1017b69..d6bd581 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html @@ -2,6 +2,805 @@ <ul> + <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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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 <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) + <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for + (Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>) + <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping) + (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>) + <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 <masta at perlgolf.de>) + <li>test: become NOFORK applet + <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>) + <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) + <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) + </ul> + </p> + + <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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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 <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) + <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <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 <dronnikov at gmail.ru> + <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> + <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code + <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> + <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + </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 <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) + <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 <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> + <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec + <li>less: make 'f' key page forward + <li>libiproute: add missing break statements + <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + <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 <loic.grenie at gmail.com>) + <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 <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> + <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i + <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines + <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>) + <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C + <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> + <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 <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>) + <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) + <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> + </p> + + </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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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 <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) + <li>indexer example is rewritten in C + <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) + <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 <genepi at sympatico.ca>) + <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 <mats at blue2net.com> (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 <farmatito at tiscali.it>) + <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>) + <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 <farmatito at tiscali.it>) + <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> + <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 <pclouds at gmail.com>) + <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 <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) + <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 <farmatito at tiscali.it> + <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 <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>) + <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 <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) + <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 <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) + <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (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. > 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 <wharms at bfs.de>) + <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 <farmatito at tiscali.it> + <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 <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>) + <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca> + <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 <pclouds at gmail.com>) + <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision. + <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>) + <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6 + <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>) + <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + <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 <pclouds at gmail.com>) + <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com> + <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 <jcz at google.com> + <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> + <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> + </p> + </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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/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 <uberlord at gentoo.org>) +<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito) +<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) +<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling +<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore +<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337 +<li>awk: guard against empty environment +<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller) +<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens +<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text +<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>) +<li>cttyhack: new applet +<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>) +<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) +<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N +<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>) +<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged +<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) +<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes +<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes) +<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it +<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code +<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) +<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa) +<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it +<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) +<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array +<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>) +<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>) +<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links +<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused +<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se> +<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>) +<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier +<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp +<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> +<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file) +<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off +<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b +<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array() +<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter +<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes) +<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes) +<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin +<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd +<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements. +<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH) +<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets +<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop +<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe +<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL +<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable +<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y) +<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use +<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions +<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file +<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them +<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!) +<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes +<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes) +<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that) +<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1 +<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox +<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets +<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes +<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore +<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice +<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373) +<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer) +<li>run_parts: rewrite +<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu> +<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f +<li>split: new applet +<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas +<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>) +<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM +<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N" +<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/ +<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction +<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken +<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it +<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair +<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize +<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management +<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) + </ul> + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>. + (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>, + <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <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> + </p> + </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> + </p> + </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 |