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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index 5e546f4..c8cf331 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -1,6 +1,116 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> <ul> + <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 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 <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> + + <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> |