<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>)
<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
<li>awk: guard against empty environment
<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists@zelow.no>)
<li>cttyhack: new applet
<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop@cle-mens.de>)
<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>)
<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>)
<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com>)
<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>)
<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>)
<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade@gmx.net>)
<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich@math.spbu.ru>)
<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>
<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete@catix.cat>)
<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements.
<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1
<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
<li>run_parts: rewrite
<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
<li>split: new applet
<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>)
<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
<p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <ahref="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>