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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 BusyBox project:
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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 Content Management System development agency</a> contributes financially.
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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 Debices 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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</ul>
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</p>
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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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<a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt>
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How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc</a>
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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><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><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><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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text data bss dec hex filename
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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>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.
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<p>Changes since previous release:
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<ul>
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<li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter
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<li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations
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<li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)
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<li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134
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<li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947
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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
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<li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case
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<li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host
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<li>build system: make it do without "od -t"
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<li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376
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<li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU
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<li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
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<li>crontab: almost complete rewrite
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<li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets
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<li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed
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<li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)
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<li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels
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<li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)
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<li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/
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<li>fuser: substantial rewrite
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<li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com>
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<li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)
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<li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled
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<li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530
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<li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked
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<li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"
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<li>httpd: fix for POST upload
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<li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)
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<li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure
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<li>hush: more correct handling of piping
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<li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU
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<li>hush: report [v]fork failures
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<li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed
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<li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness
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<li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work
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<li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable
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<li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)
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<li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"
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<li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing
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<li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words
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<li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
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<li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)
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<li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error
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<li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)
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<li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now
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<li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars
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<li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption
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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
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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!
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<li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too
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<li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets
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<li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error
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<li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>
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<li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!
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<li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended
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<li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible
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<li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t
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<li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)
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<li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected
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<li>mount: add another mount helper call method
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<li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option
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<li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
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<li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity
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<li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command
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<li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)
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<li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root
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<li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143
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<li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make
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<li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)
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<li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin
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<li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing
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<li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)
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<li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed
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<li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway
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<li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters
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<li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc
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<li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]
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<li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com>
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<li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly
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<li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file
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<li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time
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<li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns
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<li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414
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<li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com>
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<li>run-parts: add --reverse
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<li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output
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<li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214
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<li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591
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<li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)
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<li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425
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<li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls
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<li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead
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<li>syslogd: fix shmat error check
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<li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436
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<li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574
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<li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling
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<li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)
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<li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end
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<li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992
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<li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
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<li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket
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<li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"
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<li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"
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<li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected
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<li>udhcp: make file paths configurable
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<li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports
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<li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE
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<li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)
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<li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)
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<li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint
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<li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro
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<li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604
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<li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>
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<li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)
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<li>unzip: handle short reads correctly
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<li>vi: many fixes
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<li>zcip: don't chdir to root
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<li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)
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</p>
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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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<a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a>
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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><b>Old News</b><p>
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<a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
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