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<li><b>21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable)</b>
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.0</a>.
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.0/">patches</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>Sizes of busybox-1.11.1 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
text data bss dec hex filename
829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.1/busybox
822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox
</pre>
<p>New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir)
<p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
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<ul>
<li>ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"
<li>ash: dont allow e.g. exec &lt;&10 to attach to script's fd!
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<li>ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2
<li>ash: fix segfault in "command -v"
<li>ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator
<li>ash: prevent exec NN&gt;&amp;- from closing fd used for script reading
<li>ash: teach ash about 123&gt;file. It could take only 0..9 before
<li>hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all
<li>hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not
<li>hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case
<li>hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites
<li>hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)
<li>hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements
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<li>hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case
<li>hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')
<li>hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names
<li>libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets
</ul>
<p>Other changes:
<ul>
<li>libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)
<li>libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)
<li>libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"
<li>libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()
<li>libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)
<li>libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector
<li>libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)
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<li>lineedit: fix use-after-free
<li>libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too
<li>bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])
<li>open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor
<li>open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit
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<li>arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)
<li>ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code
<li>awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading.
<li>build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op
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<li>bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)
<li>b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)
<li>comm: almost total rewrite
<li>cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)
<li>cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files
<li>cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG
<li>cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k
<li>cpio: support some long options
<li>crond: use execlp instead of execl
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<li>cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)
<li>envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases
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<li>findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary
<li>fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)
<li>fuser: a bit of safety in scanf
<li>grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes
<li>halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT
<li>httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de
<li>ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks
<li>ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
<li>ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
<li>inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found
<li>insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing
<li>install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)
<li>install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)
<li>lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies
<li>ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable
<li>man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com
<li>man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given
<li>man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable
<li>man: fix missed NULL termination of an array
<li>man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode
<li>man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)
<li>man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config
<li>mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection
<li>mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist
<li>mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it
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<li>mdev: support for serializing hotplug
<li>mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization
<li>mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)
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<li>modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)
<li>modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()
<li>modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one
<li>mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"
<li>mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)
<li>mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"
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<li>mount: testsuite for "-o mand"
<li>msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)
<li>mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints
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<li>netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)
<li>nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)
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<li>od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)
<li>pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)
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<li>printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)
<li>printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite
<li>printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)
<li>sendmail: updates from Vladimir:
<li>sendmail: do not discard all headers
<li>sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes
<li>sendmail: fixed mail recipient address
<li>sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed
<li>sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified
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<li>sleep: if FANCY &amp;&amp; DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)
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<li>ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too
<li>ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore
<li>ssd: fix -a without -x case
<li>ssd: use $PATH
<li>tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0
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<li>tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection
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<li>taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy
<li>tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")
<li>tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way
<li>telnetd: fix issue file printing
<li>test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does
<li>testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e
<li>time: don't segfault with no arguments
<li>touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)
<li>tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354
<li>tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)
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<li>tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)
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<li>unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)
<li>vi: fix reversed checks for underflow
<li>vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid
<li>xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)
<li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets
</ul>
<p>
The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
</p>
2008-07-12 03:41:50 +05:30
<li><b>12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)</b>
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.1</a>.
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.1/">patches</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>
Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk,
bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi.
</p>
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<li><b>11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated</b>
<p>
<a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt">
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"How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc"</a> is updated
and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't
work for you.
</p>
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<li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b>
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>.
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>.
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
2008-06-25 21:28:00 +05:30
<p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
text data bss dec hex filename
800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0
</pre>
<p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova),
fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer)
<p>Changes since previous release:
<ul>
<li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX
<li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes
<li>hush: lots and lots of fixes
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<li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)
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<li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed
<li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels
<li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp
<li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams
<li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one
<li>mdev: fix block/char device detection
<li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)
<li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines
<li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)
<li>date: make it accept ISO date format
<li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)
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<li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR
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<li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo
<li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate
<li>ls: support Unicode in names
<li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)
<li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)
<li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again
<li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets
</ul>
<p>
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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</p>
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<li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b>
<p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support
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for the BusyBox project:
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<ul>
<li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html">
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TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.
<li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided
a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start">
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Blackfin development board</a> free of charge.
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<a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a>
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is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable.
If you are an embedded device developer,
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please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available
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for download for this board. Visit
<a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a>
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for more information.
</ul>
</p>
<li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b>
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>.
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
2008-06-05 06:47:49 +05:30
<p>
Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush,
ip, mdev and syslogd.
</p>
2008-05-08 21:06:54 +05:30
<li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b>
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>.
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>,
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
2008-04-19 09:58:21 +05:30
<p>
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Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof,
start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system.
<p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please
report if you encounter any problems with it.
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</p>
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<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>
2008-05-08 21:06:54 +05:30
<p>
Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.
<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 &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;),
sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;), 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 &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;)
<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&gt;/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 &lt;roy at marples.name&gt;)
<li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr &gt;= 256 * 256)/(blknr &lt; 256 * 256)/
<li>fuser: substantial rewrite
<li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.com&gt;
<li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund &lt;Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se&gt;)
<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 &lt;jacmet AT uclibc.org&gt;)
<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 &lt;eugebo AT gmail.com&gt;)
<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], [/], &lt;enter search pattern&gt;, [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 &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;
<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 &lt;timo.teras at iki.fi&gt;)
<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 &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)
<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 &lt;mailinglist.cache at gmail.com&gt;
<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 &lt;roberto.gordo AT gmail.com&gt;
<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 &lt;Ralf.Friedl AT online.de&gt;)
<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 &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;
<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 &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com&gt;)
<li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson &lt;jonas.danielsson AT axis.com&gt;)
<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 &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;
<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
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<li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)
</ul>
</p>
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<li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b>
<p>
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Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
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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>
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