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author | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2007-11-04 15:43:26 +0000 |
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committer | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2007-11-04 15:43:26 +0000 |
commit | 6cee58e9cfedfa09ede3f5499eb5f635fc2bb77c (patch) | |
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Announce 1.8.01_8_0
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1 | <!--#include file="header.html" --> | 1 | <!--#include file="header.html" --> |
2 | 2 | ||
3 | <ul> | 3 | <ul> |
4 | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b> | ||
5 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.0</a>. | ||
6 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>, | ||
7 | <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/>patches</a>, | ||
8 | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
9 | |||
10 | <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush. | ||
11 | |||
12 | <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x: | ||
13 | <p>httpd: | ||
14 | <ul> | ||
15 | <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd | ||
16 | <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length | ||
17 | <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau) | ||
18 | <li>optional support for partial downloads | ||
19 | <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me) | ||
20 | <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) | ||
21 | <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) | ||
22 | </ul> | ||
23 | |||
24 | <p>top: | ||
25 | <ul> | ||
26 | <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command | ||
27 | <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1) | ||
28 | <li>fix for command line wrapping | ||
29 | </ul> | ||
30 | |||
31 | <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles). | ||
32 | |||
33 | <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre> | ||
34 | Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds: | ||
35 | text data bss dec hex filename | ||
36 | 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox | ||
37 | 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre> | ||
38 | |||
39 | <p>New applets: | ||
40 | <ul> | ||
41 | <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru> | ||
42 | <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> | ||
43 | <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code | ||
44 | <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> | ||
45 | <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) | ||
46 | </ul> | ||
47 | |||
48 | <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): | ||
49 | <ul> | ||
50 | <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat) | ||
51 | <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion | ||
52 | <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link | ||
53 | <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T | ||
54 | <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement | ||
55 | <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat) | ||
56 | <li>wget: allow dots in header field names. | ||
57 | <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits. | ||
58 | <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us | ||
59 | <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing | ||
60 | <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly | ||
61 | <li>hush: fix glob() | ||
62 | <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us | ||
63 | <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection | ||
64 | <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) | ||
65 | <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good | ||
66 | <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points | ||
67 | <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only) | ||
68 | <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match | ||
69 | <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files | ||
70 | <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov) | ||
71 | <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b | ||
72 | <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too) | ||
73 | <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> | ||
74 | <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec | ||
75 | <li>less: make 'f' key page forward | ||
76 | <li>libiproute: add missing break statements | ||
77 | <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) | ||
78 | <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first | ||
79 | <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth | ||
80 | <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>) | ||
81 | <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64 | ||
82 | <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time | ||
83 | <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> | ||
84 | <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i | ||
85 | <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines | ||
86 | <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>) | ||
87 | <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C | ||
88 | <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> | ||
89 | <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked) | ||
90 | <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes) | ||
91 | <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled | ||
92 | <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API) | ||
93 | <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK | ||
94 | <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug | ||
95 | <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there | ||
96 | <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestanp stderr too | ||
97 | <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket | ||
98 | <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read() | ||
99 | <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>) | ||
100 | <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) | ||
101 | <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name | ||
102 | <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug | ||
103 | <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes | ||
104 | <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs | ||
105 | <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences | ||
106 | <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms) | ||
107 | <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM | ||
108 | </ul> | ||
109 | </p> | ||
110 | |||
111 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p> | ||
112 | </li> | ||
113 | |||
4 | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b> | 114 | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b> |
5 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>. | 115 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>. |
6 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>, | 116 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>, |
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8 | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> | 118 | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
9 | 119 | ||
10 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p> | 120 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p> |
11 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p> | ||
12 | </li> | 121 | </li> |
13 | 122 | ||
14 | <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b> | 123 | <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b> |