<!--#include file="header.html" --> <ul> <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>, <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/>patches</a>, <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> <p> Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. <p> <a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a> <p> The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. </p> <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>, <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/>patches</a>, <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> text data bss dec hex filename 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 </pre> <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 </pre> <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. <p>Changes since previous release: <ul> <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>) <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134 <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947 <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142 <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host <li>build system: make it do without "od -t" <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376 <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470 <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth) <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>) <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/ <li>fuser: substantial rewrite <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>) <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530 <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/" <li>httpd: fix for POST upload <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>) <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure <li>hush: more correct handling of piping <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU <li>hush: report [v]fork failures <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>) <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n" <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de) <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var) <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1) <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern! <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it> <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now! <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>) <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected <li>mount: add another mount helper call method <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835) <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143 <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one) <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time) <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt] <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com> <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414 <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com> <li>run-parts: add --reverse <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214 <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591 <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>) <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425 <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436 <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574 <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages) <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992 <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell" <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args" <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>) <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>) <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604 <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com> <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge) <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly <li>vi: many fixes <li>zcip: don't chdir to root <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket) </ul> </p> <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> <p> Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations for future hot patches are in parentheses. <p> <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2>1.9.2</a> (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/>patches</a>), <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2>1.8.3</a> (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/>patches</a>), <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2>1.7.5</a> (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/>patches</a>), <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2>1.5.2</a> (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/>patches</a>). <p> <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>How to add a patch.</a> <p> <a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a> <p> The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. </p> <li><b>Old News</b><p> <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> </p> </li> </ul> <!--#include file="footer.html" -->