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<h3>News archive</h3>
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<li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>.
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>.
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
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text data bss dec hex filename
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800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
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798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0
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</pre>
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<p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova),
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fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer)
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<p>Changes since previous release:
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<ul>
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<li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li>
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<li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li>
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<li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li>
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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)</li>
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<li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li>
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<li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li>
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<li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li>
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<li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li>
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<li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li>
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<li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li>
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<li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li>
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<li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li>
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<li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li>
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<li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li>
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<li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li>
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<li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li>
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<li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li>
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<li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li>
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<li>ls: support Unicode in names</li>
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<li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li>
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<li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li>
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<li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li>
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<li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
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the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b>
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<p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support
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for the BusyBox project:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html">
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TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided
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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.
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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
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<a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a>
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for more information.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>.
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>
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Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush,
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ip, mdev and syslogd.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>.
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>
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Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof,
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start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system.
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<p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please
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report if you encounter any problems with it.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>.
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>
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Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
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fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.
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</li>
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<li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>.
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
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781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
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773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0
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</pre>
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<p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
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busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0:
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echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112
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bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096
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discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096
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discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
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echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
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discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152
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find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952
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readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492
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ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464
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iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308
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</pre>
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<p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>),
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findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>),
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lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>),
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sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd.
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</p>
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<p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.
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</p>
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<p>Changes since previous release:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li>
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<li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li>
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<li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li>
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<li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li>
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<li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li>
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<li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li>
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<li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li>
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<li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li>
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<li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li>
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<li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li>
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<li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li>
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<li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li>
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<li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li>
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<li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li>
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<li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li>
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<li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li>
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<li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li>
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<li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li>
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<li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li>
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<li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li>
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<li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li>
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<li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li>
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<li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li>
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<li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li>
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<li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li>
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<li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li>
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<li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li>
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<li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li>
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<li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li>
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<li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li>
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<li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li>
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<li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li>
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<li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li>
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<li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li>
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<li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li>
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<li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li>
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<li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li>
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<li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li>
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<li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li>
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<li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li>
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<li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li>
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<li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li>
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<li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li>
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<li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li>
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<li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li>
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<li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li>
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<li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li>
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<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>
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<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>
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<li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li>
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<li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li>
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<li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li>
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<li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li>
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<li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li>
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<li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li>
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<li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li>
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<li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li>
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<li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li>
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<li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li>
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<li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li>
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<li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li>
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<li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li>
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<li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li>
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<li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li>
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<li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li>
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<li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li>
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<li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li>
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<li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li>
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<li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li>
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<li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li>
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<li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li>
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<li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li>
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<li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li>
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<li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li>
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<li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li>
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<li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li>
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<li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li>
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<li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li>
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<li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li>
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<li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li>
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<li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li>
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<li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li>
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<li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li>
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<li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li>
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<li>run-parts: add --reverse</li>
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<li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li>
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<li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li>
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<li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li>
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<li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li>
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<li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li>
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<li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li>
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<li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li>
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<li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li>
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<li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li>
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<li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li>
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<li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li>
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<li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li>
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<li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li>
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<li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li>
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<li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li>
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<li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li>
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<li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li>
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<li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li>
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<li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li>
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<li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li>
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<li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li>
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<li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li>
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<li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li>
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<li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li>
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<li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li>
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<li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li>
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<li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li>
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<li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li>
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<li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li>
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<li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li>
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<li>vi: many fixes</li>
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<li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li>
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<li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b>
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<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.
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<p>
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a>
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>),
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a>
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>),
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a>
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>),
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a>
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>).
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<p>
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a>
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</p>
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<li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>.
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/">patches</a>,
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck,
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iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p>
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<p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is
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inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork).
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The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p>
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</li>
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|
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<li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.0</a>.
|
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(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>,
|
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/">patches</a>,
|
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<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
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<p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
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text data bss dec hex filename
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792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2
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783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0
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</pre>
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<p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
|
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busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0:
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input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116
|
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umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112
|
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rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096
|
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xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096
|
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sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096
|
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mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096
|
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mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096
|
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grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
|
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unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
|
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parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152
|
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</pre>
|
|
|
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<p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost
|
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the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works
|
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on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU,
|
|
though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush.
|
|
|
|
<p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes
|
|
problems for you.
|
|
|
|
<p>Changes since previous release:
|
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<ul>
|
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<li>Build system improvements
|
|
<li>Testsuite additions
|
|
<li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions
|
|
<li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both
|
|
<li>New applets: hd, sestatus
|
|
<li>Removed applets: lash
|
|
<li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins
|
|
<li>init: simplify forking of children
|
|
<li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed
|
|
<li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root
|
|
<li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets
|
|
(Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
|
|
<li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for
|
|
(Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>)
|
|
<li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping)
|
|
(Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>)
|
|
<li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length
|
|
<li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths
|
|
<li>vi: Del key works
|
|
<li>sed: support GNUism '\t'
|
|
<li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying
|
|
<li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy
|
|
<li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd
|
|
<li>renice: accepts priority with +N too
|
|
<li>netstat: wide output mode
|
|
<li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth <masta at perlgolf.de>)
|
|
<li>test: become NOFORK applet
|
|
<li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>)
|
|
<li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
|
|
<li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>These are bugfix-only releases.
|
|
1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
|
|
1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
|
|
|
|
<p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
|
|
<p>httpd:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
|
|
<li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
|
|
<li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
|
|
<li>optional support for partial downloads
|
|
<li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
|
|
<li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
|
|
<li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>top:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
|
|
<li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
|
|
<li>fix for command line wrapping
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
|
|
|
|
<p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
|
|
Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
|
|
text data bss dec hex filename
|
|
768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
|
|
759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>New applets:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>
|
|
<li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
|
|
<li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
|
|
<li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
|
|
<li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
|
|
<li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
|
|
<li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
|
|
<li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
|
|
<li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
|
|
<li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
|
|
<li>wget: allow dots in header field names
|
|
<li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
|
|
<li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
|
|
<li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
|
|
<li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
|
|
<li>hush: fix glob()
|
|
<li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
|
|
<li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
|
|
<li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
|
|
<li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
|
|
<li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
|
|
<li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
|
|
<li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
|
|
<li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
|
|
<li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
|
|
<li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
|
|
<li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
|
|
<li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
|
|
<li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
|
|
<li>less: make 'f' key page forward
|
|
<li>libiproute: add missing break statements
|
|
<li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
|
|
<li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
|
|
<li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
|
|
<li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>)
|
|
<li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
|
|
<li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
|
|
<li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
|
|
<li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
|
|
<li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
|
|
<li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>)
|
|
<li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
|
|
<li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
|
|
<li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
|
|
<li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
|
|
<li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
|
|
<li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
|
|
<li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
|
|
<li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
|
|
<li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
|
|
<li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
|
|
<li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
|
|
<li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
|
|
<li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>)
|
|
<li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
|
|
<li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
|
|
<li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
|
|
<li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
|
|
<li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
|
|
<li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
|
|
<li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
|
|
<li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
|
|
<p>httpd:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
|
|
<li>indexer example is rewritten in C
|
|
<li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
|
|
<li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
|
|
<li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
|
|
<li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
|
|
<li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
|
|
<li>add support for Status: CGI header
|
|
<li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
|
|
<li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>udhcp[cd]:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
|
|
<li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
|
|
<li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB))
|
|
<li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
|
|
<li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
|
|
<li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
|
|
<li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>simpler loadavg processing
|
|
<li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
|
|
<li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
|
|
<li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
|
|
<li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
|
|
<li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
|
|
<li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
|
|
<li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
|
|
<li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
|
|
generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
|
|
scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
|
|
|
|
<p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
|
|
Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
|
|
text data bss dec hex filename
|
|
672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
|
|
662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
|
|
662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
|
|
|
|
Same .config built against static uclibc:
|
|
765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
|
|
test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
|
|
runit/*, in libbb.
|
|
|
|
<p>New applets:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
|
|
<li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
|
|
<li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>)
|
|
<li>slattach, ttysize
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
|
|
by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
|
|
qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
|
|
for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
|
|
|
|
<p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
|
|
<li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
|
|
<li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
|
|
<li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
|
|
<li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
|
|
<li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
|
|
<li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
|
|
<li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
|
|
<li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
|
|
<li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
|
|
<li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
|
|
<li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
|
|
<li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
|
|
<li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
|
|
<li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
|
|
<li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
|
|
<li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
|
|
<li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>)
|
|
<li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
|
|
<li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
|
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<li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
|
|
<li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
|
|
<li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
|
|
<li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
|
|
<li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
|
|
<li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255
|
|
<li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
|
|
<li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
|
|
<li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
|
|
<li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>)
|
|
<li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
|
|
<li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
|
|
<li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
|
|
<li>login: optional support for PAM
|
|
<li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
|
|
<li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
|
|
<li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
|
|
<li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
|
|
<li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
|
|
<li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>)
|
|
<li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
|
|
<li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
|
|
<li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
|
|
<li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
|
|
<li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
|
|
<li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
|
|
<li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>)
|
|
<li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
|
|
<li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>)
|
|
<li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
|
|
<li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
|
|
<li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
|
|
<li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
|
|
<li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>
|
|
<li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
|
|
<li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
|
|
<li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
|
|
<li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
|
|
<li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
|
|
<li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
|
|
<li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
|
|
<li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com>
|
|
<li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
|
|
<li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
|
|
<li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
|
|
<li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
|
|
label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
|
|
<p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
|
|
but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
|
|
report any such cases.</p>
|
|
<p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
|
|
and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt">Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p>
|
|
<p>Other changes since previous release:
|
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<ul>
|
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<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
|
|
<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
|
|
<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
|
|
<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
|
|
<li>SELinux: load_policy applet
|
|
<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>)
|
|
<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 at 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 at comhem.se>)
|
|
<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at 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 at zelow.no>)
|
|
<li>cttyhack: new applet
|
|
<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>)
|
|
<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
|
|
<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
|
|
<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at gmx.net>)
|
|
<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at 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 at comhem.se>
|
|
<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at 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 at 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: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
|
|
<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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)
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
|
|
and sed.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/">patches</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
|
|
label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
|
|
<p>Notable changes since previous release:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
|
|
<li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
|
|
<li>ping[6]: unified code for both
|
|
<li>less: regex search improved
|
|
<li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
|
|
<li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
|
|
<li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
|
|
<li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
|
|
<li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
|
|
<li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
|
|
<li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
|
|
<li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
|
|
<li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
|
|
not only in /cgi-bin/
|
|
<li>chrt: new applet
|
|
<li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
|
|
new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
|
|
<li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
|
|
improper usage of string constants.
|
|
<li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
|
|
targets.
|
|
<li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
|
|
sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
|
|
<li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
|
|
udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
|
|
<li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
|
|
syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
|
|
</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/">patches</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
|
|
</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/">patches</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
|
|
than usual.</p>
|
|
<p>Changes since previous release:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
|
|
the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
|
|
it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
|
|
ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
|
|
<li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
|
|
(although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
|
|
don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
|
|
anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
|
|
as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
|
|
for general use now.
|
|
<li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
|
|
upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
|
|
already much better than what we had previously.
|
|
<li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
|
|
<li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
|
|
of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
|
|
<li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
|
|
<li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
|
|
<li>sed: better hadling of NULs
|
|
<li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
|
|
<li>chown: user.grp works again.
|
|
<li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
|
|
ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
|
|
</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/">patches</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
|
|
</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
|
|
(<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/">patches</a>)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
|
|
needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
|
|
and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
|
|
bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
|
|
busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
|
|
adventurous desktop users.
|
|
<p>Changes since previous release:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>find: taking many more of standard options
|
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<li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
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<li>cp: added -s, -l
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<li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
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<li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
|
|
incompatible)
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<li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
|
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on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
|
|
(Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
|
|
Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
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<li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
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directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
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<li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
|
|
other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
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<li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
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(these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
|
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<li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
|
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fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
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</ul>
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<p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
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1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
|
|
|
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<p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
|
|
produces buggy executables.
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</li>
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<li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
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<p>It's a bit overdue, but
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2">here is
|
|
BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
|
|
branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
|
|
generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
|
|
umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
|
|
name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
|
|
delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
|
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in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
|
|
fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
|
|
fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
|
|
modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
|
|
foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
|
|
terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
|
|
ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
|
|
gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
|
|
fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>As <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/">Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
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|
this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
|
|
Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href="http://landley.net/code">other things</a>.
|
|
</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
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<li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
|
|
<p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
|
|
the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
|
|
|
|
<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
|
|
1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
|
|
over the weekend.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
|
|
cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
|
|
try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
|
|
we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
|
|
1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
|
|
memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
|
|
mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
|
|
background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
|
|
timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
|
|
segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
|
|
<p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches
|
|
backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
|
|
for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
|
|
find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
|
|
for more info.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
|
|
will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
|
|
to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
|
|
bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
|
|
<p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
|
|
maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
|
|
uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
|
|
by Erik's father's law firm, and the
|
|
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
|
|
scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
|
|
together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
|
|
<a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
|
|
referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
|
|
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
|
|
has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
|
|
free and open source software projects (such as
|
|
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
|
|
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
|
|
<a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
|
|
in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
|
|
phrase you get to use every day.</p>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
|
|
<p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="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>
|
|
<p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
|
|
the various small fixes have been collected together into a
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
|
|
and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
|
|
June.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
|
|
<p>The new stable release is
|
|
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
|
|
1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
|
|
(It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
|
|
but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
|
|
that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b>
|
|
<p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
|
|
you can now
|
|
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>,
|
|
the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of
|
|
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new
|
|
functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
|
|
several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
|
|
<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards
|
|
compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
|
|
still working out the <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox
|
|
1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
|
|
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small
|
|
fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p>
|
|
|
|
<li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
|
|
developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
|
|
in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
|
|
name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
|
|
from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the
|
|
<a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a>
|
|
to post all the gory details.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
|
|
is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
|
|
to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
|
|
properly considered.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or
|
|
software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox.
|
|
With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and
|
|
who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices
|
|
is looking very bright.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every
|
|
device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date.
|
|
The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous
|
|
improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux
|
|
KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel),
|
|
Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development
|
|
work and testing of thousands of people from around the world.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
|
|
BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device
|
|
or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is
|
|
right for your application. If you need help getting started using
|
|
BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug
|
|
and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a
|
|
href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>Old News</b><p>
|
|
<a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Here goes release candidate 3...
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
|
|
And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Here goes release candidate 2...
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
|
|
And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems
|
|
that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of
|
|
kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real
|
|
reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as
|
|
is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for
|
|
everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting,
|
|
it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well.
|
|
There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with
|
|
it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while
|
|
there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work
|
|
is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door....
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this
|
|
time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a
|
|
bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you
|
|
explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch
|
|
has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your
|
|
bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]"
|
|
at the beginning of the email subject line!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
|
|
And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away
|
|
yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about
|
|
2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I
|
|
could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a
|
|
href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation
|
|
as scheduled.
|
|
<p>
|
|
As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come
|
|
to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS
|
|
this year.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox
|
|
pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b>
|
|
want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not
|
|
bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only
|
|
bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if
|
|
people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit
|
|
improvements.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
|
|
And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for
|
|
bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this
|
|
week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at
|
|
this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be
|
|
<b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation
|
|
and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the
|
|
documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some
|
|
assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets
|
|
match the features listed in the documentation.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but
|
|
<a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796">
|
|
another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy...
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
|
|
And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send
|
|
in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will
|
|
be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see
|
|
supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit,
|
|
please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release
|
|
out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre
|
|
series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you
|
|
spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the
|
|
busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could
|
|
help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be
|
|
especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the
|
|
various applets match the features listed in the documentation.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
|
|
And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
|
|
number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out
|
|
properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one
|
|
problem. In addition, this release fixes several other
|
|
problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing
|
|
the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates
|
|
from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
|
|
aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to
|
|
the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have
|
|
suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the
|
|
busybox mailing list.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. And as usual you can
|
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<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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<p>Have Fun!
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<p>
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<p>
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<li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p>
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Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
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series. This release adds a number of size optimizations,
|
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updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash
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and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of
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bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be
|
|
settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing
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perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and
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move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any
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problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please
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feel free to email the busybox mailing list.
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<p>
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People who rely on the <a href="downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a>
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should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x
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series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now
|
|
only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use
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the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please
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adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.
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<p>
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The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
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the details. And as usual you can
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|
<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
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<p>Have Fun!
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<p>
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<p>
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<li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p>
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Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
|
|
series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
|
|
a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
|
|
properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This
|
|
release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
|
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fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
|
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the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
|
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modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
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'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
|
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a few other odd fixes.
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<p>
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If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
|
|
always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
|
|
mailing list.
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<p>
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|
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The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. And as usual you can
|
|
<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
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<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
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<li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
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Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
|
|
series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
|
|
rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
|
|
devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
|
|
the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
|
|
common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
|
|
of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
|
|
testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
|
|
thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
|
|
helping get patches merged!
|
|
|
|
<p>
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|
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And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
|
|
the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
|
|
things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
|
|
problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
|
|
free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. And as usual you can
|
|
<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
|
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|
|
Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
|
|
series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
|
|
testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
|
|
of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
|
|
the testing, bug reports, and patches!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
|
|
mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
|
|
patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
|
|
somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
|
|
Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
|
|
mailing list!
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
|
|
people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
|
|
fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
|
|
(besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
|
|
list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
|
|
modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
|
|
patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
|
|
integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
|
|
a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
|
|
more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
|
|
module loading alone.
|
|
|
|
<p>
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|
|
|
I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
|
|
course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
|
|
<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
|
|
out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
|
|
stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
|
|
not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
|
|
-pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
|
|
But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
|
|
exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
|
|
indeed.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. And as usual you can
|
|
<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
|
|
series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
|
|
testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
|
|
bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
|
|
with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
|
|
init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
|
|
'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
|
|
an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
|
|
read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
|
|
'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
|
|
tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
|
|
release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
|
|
was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
|
|
That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
|
|
BusyBox mailing list.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
|
|
people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
|
|
fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
|
|
is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
|
|
release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
|
|
necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
|
|
Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
|
|
turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
|
|
then...
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
The busybox development series has been under construction for
|
|
nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
|
|
it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
|
|
of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
|
|
since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
|
|
number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
|
|
1.0.x...
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
|
|
people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
|
|
fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
|
|
later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
|
|
Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
|
|
Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
|
|
up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
|
|
of July.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
|
|
and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
|
|
rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
|
|
happens sometimes. Please do <b>NOT</b> send all your patches,
|
|
support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
|
|
emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
|
|
sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
|
|
right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
|
|
McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
|
|
(mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
|
|
have made this release possible.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
You don't really need to bother with the
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
|
|
vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
|
|
But you can take a look if you really want too.
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
|
|
is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
|
|
the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
|
|
up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
|
|
had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
|
|
to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
|
|
was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
|
|
I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
|
|
0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
|
|
mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
|
|
release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
|
|
will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
|
|
version to have its first real release very very soon now...
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
|
|
(stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
|
|
a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
|
|
the problems that have turned up since the last
|
|
release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
|
|
I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
|
|
on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
|
|
should soon be getting its first real release.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
|
|
|
|
I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
|
|
now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
|
|
for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
|
|
the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
|
|
This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
|
|
development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
|
|
hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
|
|
|
|
Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
|
|
the fine folks at <a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
|
|
who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
|
|
uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
|
|
in Canada and
|
|
<a href="http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
|
|
in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
|
|
accessible for everyone!
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
|
|
|
|
<p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
|
|
users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
|
|
(which is where you are probably reading this).
|
|
Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
|
|
living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
|
|
line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
|
|
busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
|
|
the access needed to keep that system updated (for
|
|
example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
|
|
stopped some time ago).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
|
|
server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
|
|
the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
|
|
I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
|
|
co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
|
|
co-location effort, <a href=
|
|
"http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
|
|
(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
|
|
his <a href=
|
|
"http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
|
|
for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
|
|
system is co-located, the current speed problems
|
|
should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
|
|
some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
|
|
sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><!--
|
|
<center>
|
|
Click here to help support busybox.net!
|
|
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
|
|
<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
|
|
</form>
|
|
</center>
|
|
-->
|
|
Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
|
|
donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
|
|
rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
|
|
spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
|
|
upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
|
|
has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
|
|
google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
|
|
not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
|
|
ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
|
|
far, donations received have been sufficient to
|
|
cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
|
|
have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
|
|
we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
|
|
everyone that has contributed!<br>
|
|
-Erik</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
|
|
|
|
<p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
|
|
0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
|
|
one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
|
|
series, and it should take care of most everyone's
|
|
needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
|
|
been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
|
|
wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
|
|
this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
|
|
(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
|
|
Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
|
|
told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
|
|
powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
|
|
should work with just about any Linux system you
|
|
throw it at. See the <a href=
|
|
"downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
|
|
of</small> the details. The last release was
|
|
<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
|
|
be even better.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
|
|
<a href=
|
|
"downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Have Fun.<br>
|
|
-Erik</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
|
|
|
|
<!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
|
|
<center>
|
|
Click here to help buy busybox.net!
|
|
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
|
|
<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
|
|
</form>
|
|
</center>
|
|
<!-- End PayPal Logo -->
|
|
|
|
I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
|
|
to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
|
|
will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
|
|
for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
|
|
initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
|
|
home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
|
|
but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
|
|
I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
|
|
have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
|
|
even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
|
|
time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
|
|
bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
|
|
start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
|
|
will start costing some money.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
|
|
idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
|
|
where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
|
|
about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
|
|
busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
|
|
mailing list and web page. So...
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
|
|
up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
|
|
know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
|
|
individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
|
|
contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
|
|
would be wonderful!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
|
|
up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
|
|
the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
|
|
serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
|
|
new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
|
|
here it is. Come and get it.
|
|
<p>
|
|
The
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
|
|
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
|
|
BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
|
|
and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
|
|
x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
|
|
of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
|
|
Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
|
|
stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
|
|
a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
|
|
cleans up a number of things.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
|
|
use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
|
|
to give it a try by downloading and compiling
|
|
<a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
|
|
You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
|
|
Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
|
|
<p>
|
|
Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
|
|
BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
|
|
a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
|
|
the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
|
|
to view the tutorial.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
|
|
version number of this release, let me point out that this release
|
|
is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
|
|
bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
|
|
a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
|
|
stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
|
|
0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
|
|
0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
|
|
the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
|
|
next release and I don't want that to break products that people
|
|
are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
|
|
released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
|
|
have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
|
|
stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
|
|
I will release that as a new stable release series.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
|
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
|
|
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
|
|
BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
|
|
release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
|
|
of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
|
|
several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
|
|
and ash).
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
The
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
|
|
some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
|
|
are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
|
|
BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
|
|
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
|
|
of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
|
|
viewing <a href="busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
|
|
can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
|
|
turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
|
|
release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
|
|
contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
|
|
22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
|
|
There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
|
|
the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
|
|
0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
|
|
deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
|
|
one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
|
|
added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
|
|
compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
|
|
functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
|
|
all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
|
|
maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
|
|
compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
|
|
for letting me use their system!).
|
|
<p>
|
|
You can read the
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
|
|
complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
|
|
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
|
<p>Have Fun!
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
|
|
|
|
<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
|
|
"downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
|
|
image</a>. Here's how you use it:
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
|
|
<li> <a href="downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
|
|
Download the image</a>
|
|
|
|
<li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
|
|
of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
|
|
|
|
<li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
|
|
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
|
|
|
|
<pre>
|
|
mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
|
|
cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
|
|
umount /mnt
|
|
gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
|
|
mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
|
|
and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
|
|
shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
|
|
expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
|
|
smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
|
<p>
|
|
lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
|
|
now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
|
|
long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
|
|
Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
|
|
environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
|
|
this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
|
|
framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
|
|
business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
|
|
currently in progress at
|
|
<a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
|
|
things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
|
|
For a list of the most interesting changes
|
|
you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
|
<p>
|
|
Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
|
|
work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
|
|
out of town.
|
|
<p>
|
|
<em>Special Note</em><br>
|
|
|
|
BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
|
|
shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
|
|
Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
|
|
shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
|
|
construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
|
|
Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
|
|
progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
|
|
and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
|
|
release of BusyBox.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
|
|
rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
|
|
update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
|
|
optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
|
|
that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
|
|
now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
|
|
shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
|
|
woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
|
|
<p>
|
|
The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
|
|
the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
|
<p>
|
|
Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
|
|
this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
|
|
<p>
|
|
<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
|
|
syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
|
|
apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
|
|
renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
|
|
There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
|
|
more correct option parsing.
|
|
See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
|
|
for complete details.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
|
|
and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
|
|
people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
|
|
completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
|
|
BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
|
|
See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
|
|
for complete details.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
|
|
point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
|
|
release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
|
|
mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
|
|
telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
|
|
the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
|
|
details).
|
|
<p>
|
|
Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
|
|
<a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
|
|
publically browsable
|
|
<a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
|
|
anonymous
|
|
<a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
|
|
for those that are actively contributing there is even
|
|
<a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
|
|
I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
|
|
<p>
|
|
Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
|
|
a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
|
|
we are just skipping 0.44.
|
|
<p>
|
|
Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
|
|
of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
|
|
For example, with the following test app:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
#include <syslog.h>
|
|
|
|
int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
|
|
{
|
|
openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
|
|
while(1) {
|
|
syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
|
|
sleep(delay);
|
|
}
|
|
closelog();
|
|
return(0);
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
int main(void)
|
|
{
|
|
if (fork()==0)
|
|
do_log("A", 2);
|
|
do_log("B", 3);
|
|
}
|
|
</pre>
|
|
it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
|
|
from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
|
|
while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
|
|
<p>
|
|
Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
|
|
Thanks Karl!
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
|
|
good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
|
|
so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
|
|
have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
|
|
freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
|
|
rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
|
|
More details are available in the
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
|
Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
|
|
<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
|
|
and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
|
|
Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
|
|
Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
|
|
There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
|
|
do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
|
|
to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
|
|
5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
|
|
tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
|
|
at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
|
|
the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
|
|
of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
|
|
enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
|
|
changes I still want to make.
|
|
<p>
|
|
The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
|
|
Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
|
|
lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
|
|
He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
|
|
it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
|
|
fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
|
|
and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
|
|
(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
|
|
down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
|
|
(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
|
|
contrary).
|
|
<p>
|
|
Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
|
|
labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
|
|
<p>
|
|
So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
|
|
Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
|
|
to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
|
|
include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
|
|
re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
|
|
accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
|
|
problems.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
|
|
bugs have been fixed. See the
|
|
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
|
|
|
|
Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
|
|
filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
|
|
behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
|
|
loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
|
|
Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
|
|
their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
|
|
on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
|
|
mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
|
|
logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
|
|
support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
|
|
The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
|
|
This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
|
|
syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
|
|
New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
|
|
In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
|
|
in some cases produced serious security problems.
|
|
As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
|
|
to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
|
|
will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
|
|
contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
|
|
what arguments its apps support, etc.
|
|
|
|
<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
|
|
the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
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changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
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<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
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This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
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and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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