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+ <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 &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 timestanp 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>
+ </p>
+
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></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>,
@@ -8,7 +118,6 @@
<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>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p>
</li>
<li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>