- - Take me back to the BusyBox web site.
-
-
-
-
- - 30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released
-
- 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.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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...
-
-
- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
-
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
-
- - 15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released
-
- 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...
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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 NOT 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- As usual you can download busybox here.
- You don't really need to bother with the
- changelog, 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.
-
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
-
- - 26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released
-
- 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...
-
-
- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
- - 18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released
-
- 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.
-
-
- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
- - 27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released
-
- 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.
-
-
- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
- - 6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!
-
- Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
- the fine folks at http://i-netinnovations.com/
- who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
- uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
- http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/
- in Canada and
- http://busybox.csservers.de/
- in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
- accessible for everyone!
-
-
- -
- 3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!
-
-
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).
-
- 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, Mark Whitley
- (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
- his NetWinder 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.
-
-
- 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 HUGE thank-you goes out to
- everyone that has contributed!
- -Erik
-
-
- -
- 20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released
-
-
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.
-
- 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 changelog for most
- of the details. The last release was
- very solid for people, and this one should
- be even better.
-
- As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
- http://www.busybox.net/downloads.
-
- Have Fun.
- -Erik
-
-
- - 18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!
-
-
-
- Click here to help buy busybox.net!
-
-
-
-
- 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 know 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.
+
+ - 15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released
+
+ 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...
- I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
- idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
- where she wins and I don't> 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...
+ 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.
+
+
+ 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 NOT 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.
- 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!
+ 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.
+ As usual you can download busybox here.
+ You don't really need to bother with the
+ changelog, 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.
- - 23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released
-
-
- 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 too
- 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.
-
- The
- changelog has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
- - 2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released
-
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
- and uClibc 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.
-
-
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
- use User-Mode Linux
- to give it a try by downloading and compiling
- buildroot.tar.gz.
- 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.
-
- Another cool thing is the nifty
- BusyBox Tutorial contributed by K Computing. This requires
- a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
- the GPLed shockwave viewer from here
- to view the tutorial.
-
-
- Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
- version number of this release, let me point out that this release
- is not 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.
-
-
- The
- changelog has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
- - 7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released
-
-
- 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 many 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).
-
-
- The
- changelog 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
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
- - 10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth
-
- 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 right here.
-
- (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.)
-
-
-
- - 10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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!).
-
- You can read the
- changelog for
- complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
- - Busybox Boot-Floppy Image
-
-
Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy
- image. Here's how you use it:
-
-
-
- -
- Download the image
-
-
- dd it onto a floppy like so: dd if=busybox.floppy.img
- of=/dev/fd0 ; sync
-
-
- Pop it in a machine and boot up.
-
-
-
- If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
-
-
- 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
-
-
-
- - 15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released
-
-
- 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
- changelog.
-
- 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
- Larry Doolittle's website.
-
-
-
- - 27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released
-
-
- 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 changelog.
-
- 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.
-
- Special Note
-
- 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 Larry's website
- and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
- release of BusyBox.
-
-
- - 13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released
-
-
- 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.
-
- The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
- the changelog.
-
- Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
- this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
-
- - 26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released
-
-
- 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 changelog
- for complete details.
-
-
- - 11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released
-
-
- 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 changelog
- for complete details.
-
-
- - 21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released
-
-
- 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 changelog for
- details).
-
- Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
- mailing list,
- publically browsable
- CVS tree,
- anonymous
- CVS access, and
- for those that are actively contributing there is even
- CVS write access.
- I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
-
- 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.
-
- Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
- of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
-
-
- - 19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix
-
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
- For example, with the following test app:
-
- #include <syslog.h>
-
- 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);
- }
-
- 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).
-
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
- Thanks Karl!
-
-
- - 18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)
-
- 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
- changelog.
- Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
- documentation, complete with examples and full usage information.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here.
-
- - 9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release
-
- 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.
-
- The pre-release can be found here.
- Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs.
-
- - 28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release
-
- 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).
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-
- - 11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released
-
-
- This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
- bugs have been fixed. See the
- changelog 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.
-
- - 19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released
-
-
- 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 here.
-
- - 7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released
-
-
- 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 here.
-
- - 11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website
-
- 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.
-
- - 10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released
-
- 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 here.
- - 5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released
-
- This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
- and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
-
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