<!--#include file="header.html" --> <ul> <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b> <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog over the weekend.</p> <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time we fix enough bugs. :)</p> <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p> <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b> <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball for more info.</p> <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p> <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation by Erik's father's law firm, and the <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other free and open source software projects (such as <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a> in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a phrase you get to use every day.</p> <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p> <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, the various small fixes have been collected together into a <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around June.</p> </li> <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> <p>The new stable release is <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets. (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>, but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</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" -->