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<li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
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<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>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>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
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label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
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<p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
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but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
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report any such cases.</p>
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<p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
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and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
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<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>
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<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
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<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
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<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
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<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
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<li>SELinux: load_policy applet
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<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>)
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<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
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<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>)
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<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
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<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
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<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
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<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
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<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
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<li>awk: guard against empty environment
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<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
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<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
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<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
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<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists@zelow.no>)
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<li>cttyhack: new applet
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<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop@cle-mens.de>)
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<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>)
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<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
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<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>)
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<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
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<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com>)
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<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
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<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
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<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
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<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
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<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
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<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>)
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<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
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<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
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<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>)
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<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
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<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade@gmx.net>)
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<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich@math.spbu.ru>)
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<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
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<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
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<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>
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<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete@catix.cat>)
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<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
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<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
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<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
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<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
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<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
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<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
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<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
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<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
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<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
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<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
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<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
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<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
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<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.
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<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
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<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>)
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<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
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<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
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<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
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<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
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<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
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<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
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<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
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<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
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<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
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<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
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<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
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<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
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<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
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<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
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<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
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<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
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<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
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<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
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<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
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<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
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<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
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<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
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<li>run_parts: rewrite
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<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
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<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
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<li>split: new applet
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<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
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<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>)
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<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
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<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
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<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
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<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
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<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
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<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
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<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
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<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
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<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
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<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
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</ul>
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>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 hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
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and sed.</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>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>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
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label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
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<p>Notable changes since previous release:
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<ul>
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<li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
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<li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
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<li>ping[6]: unified code for both
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<li>less: regex search improved
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<li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
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<li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
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<li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
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<li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
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<li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
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<li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
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<li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
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<li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
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<li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
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not only in /cgi-bin/
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<li>chrt: new applet
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<li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
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new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
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<li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
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improper usage of string constants.
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<li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
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targets.
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<li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
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sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
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<li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
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udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
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<li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
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syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
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</ul>
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
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</p>
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<p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p>
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<p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>
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<p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
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than usual.</p>
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<p>Changes since previous release:
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<ul>
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<li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
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the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
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it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
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ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
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<li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
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(although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
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don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
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anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
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as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
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for general use now.
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<li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
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upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
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already much better than what we had previously.
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<li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
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<li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
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of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
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<li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
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<li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
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<li>sed: better hadling of NULs
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<li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
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<li>chown: user.grp works again.
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<li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
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ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
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</ul>
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
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<p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
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<p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
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<p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
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needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
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and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
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bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
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busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
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adventurous desktop users.
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<p>Changes since previous release:
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<ul>
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<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
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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
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(Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
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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,
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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
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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
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BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
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<p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
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branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
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generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
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umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
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name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
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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
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fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
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fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
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modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
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foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
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terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
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ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
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gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
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fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
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<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
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Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
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<p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
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the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
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<li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
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<p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
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might as well point you all at
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
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1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
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<p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
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saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
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one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
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embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
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(dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
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libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
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tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
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in a pear... Ahem.</p>
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<p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
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gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
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the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
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value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
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a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
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switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
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than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
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/etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
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in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
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<li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
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<p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
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1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
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over the weekend.</p>
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<p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
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cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
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try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
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we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
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<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>
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<li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
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1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
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memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
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mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
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background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
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timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
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segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
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<p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
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<li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
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<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
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backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
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for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
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find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
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for more info.</p>
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<p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
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will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
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to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
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bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
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<li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
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<p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
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maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
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uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
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by Erik's father's law firm, and the
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<a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
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scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
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together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
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<a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
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referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
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<p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
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<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
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has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
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free and open source software projects (such as
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<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
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<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
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<a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
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in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
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phrase you get to use every day.</p>
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<li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
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<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>
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<p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
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the various small fixes have been collected together into a
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
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and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
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June.</p>
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<li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
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<p>The new stable release is
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<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
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1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
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(It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
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but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
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that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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