- 19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)

  BusyBox 1.10.1. (svn, patches, how to add a patch)

  Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.

  How to build static busybox against uclibc

  The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.

- 21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)

  BusyBox 1.10.0. (svn, patches, how to add a patch)

  Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):

         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       781405     679    7500  789584   c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
       773551     640    7372  781563   becfb busybox-1.10.0

  Top 10 stack users:

      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

  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.

  Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.

  Changes since previous release:

  - globally: add -Wunused-parameter
  - globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations
  - adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)
  - adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134
  - ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947
  - ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142
  - build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case
  - build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host
  - build system: make it do without "od -t"
  - build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376
  - build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU
  - cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
  - crontab: almost complete rewrite
  - dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets
  - dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed
  - eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)
  - fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels
  - fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)
  - fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/
  - fuser: substantial rewrite
  - getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com>
  - getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)
  - halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled
  - httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530
  - httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked
  - httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"
  - httpd: fix for POST upload
  - httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)
  - hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure
  - hush: more correct handling of piping
  - hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU
  - hush: report [v]fork failures
  - hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed
  - hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness
  - inetd: make "udp nowait" work
  - inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable
  - init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)
  - init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"
  - init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing
  - init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words
  - init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
  - ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)
  - last: do not go into endless loop on read error
  - less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)
  - less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now
  - less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars
  - less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption
  - 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
  - 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!
  - libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too
  - libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets
  - libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error
  - libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>
  - libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!
  - login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended
  - microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible
  - microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t
  - mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)
  - mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected
  - mount: add another mount helper call method
  - mount: allow and ignore _netdev option
  - mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
  - mount: optional support for -vv verbosity
  - mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command
  - mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)
  - mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root
  - mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143
  - mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make
  - msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)
  - msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin
  - msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing
  - msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)
  - msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed
  - msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway
  - msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters
  - netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc
  - nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]
  - nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com>
  - od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly
  - patch: don't trash permissions of patched file
  - ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time
  - ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns
  - reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414
  - rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com>
  - run-parts: add --reverse
  - script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output
  - sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214
  - sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591
  - stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)
  - switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425
  - syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls
  - syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead
  - syslogd: fix shmat error check
  - syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436
  - syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574
  - syslogd: tighten up hostname handling
  - tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)
  - tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end
  - tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992
  - tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
  - tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket
  - telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"
  - test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"
  - trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected
  - udhcp: make file paths configurable
  - udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports
  - udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE
  - udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)
  - udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)
  - umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint
  - umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro
  - umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604
  - unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>
  - unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)
  - unzip: handle short reads correctly
  - vi: many fixes
  - zcip: don't chdir to root
  - zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)
- 21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases

  Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations for future hot patches are in parentheses.

  1.9.2 (patches), 1.8.3 (patches), 1.7.5 (patches), 1.5.2 (patches).

  How to add a patch.

  How to build static busybox against uclibc

  The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.

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