Announce 1.2.1

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Rob Landley 2006-07-31 23:56:26 +00:00
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<li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
<p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
might as well point you all at
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
<p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
(dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
in a pear... Ahem.</p>
<p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
/etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
<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