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+<ul>
+
+  <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">
+    <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
+    <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
+    <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
+    </form>
+    </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">
+<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
+</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="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/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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