<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