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6 <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p>
7
8 Here goes release candidate 3...
9 <p>
10 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
11 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
12
13 <p>Have Fun!
14
15 <p>
16 <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p>
17
18 Here goes release candidate 2...
19 <p>
20 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
21 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
22
23 <p>Have Fun!
24
25 <p>
26 <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p>
27
28 Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems
29 that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of
30 kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better.
31 <p>
32
33 I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real
34 reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as
35 is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for
36 everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting,
37 it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well.
38 There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with
39 it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while
40 there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work
41 is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door....
42 <p>
43
44 Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this
45 time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a
46 bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you
47 explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch
48 has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your
49 bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]"
50 at the beginning of the email subject line!
51
52 <p>
53 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
54 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
55
56 <p>Have Fun!
57
58 <p>
59 On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away
60 yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about
61 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I
62 could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a
63 href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation
64 as scheduled.
65 <p>
66 As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come
67 to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS
68 this year.
69 <p>
70
71
72 <p>
73 <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p>
74
75 Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox
76 pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b>
77 want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not
78 bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only
79 bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if
80 people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit
81 improvements.
82
83 <p>
84 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
85 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
86
87 <p>Have Fun!
88 <p>
89
90
91 <p>
92 <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p>
93
94 Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for
95 bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this
96 week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at
97 this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be
98 <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation
99 and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the
100 documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some
101 assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets
102 match the features listed in the documentation.
103
104 <p>
105 I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but
106 <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796">
107 another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy...
108
109 <p>
110 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
111 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
112
113 <p>Have Fun!
114 <p>
115
116
117 <p>
118 <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p>
119
120 Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send
121 in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will
122 be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see
123 supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit,
124 please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release
125 out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre
126 series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you
127 spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the
128 busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could
129 help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be
130 especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the
131 various applets match the features listed in the documentation.
132
133 <p>
134
135 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
136 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
137
138 <p>Have Fun!
139 <p>
140
141
142 <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p>
143
144 There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
145 number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out
146 properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one
147 problem. In addition, this release fixes several other
148 problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing
149 the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates
150 from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
151 aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to
152 the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have
153 suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the
154 busybox mailing list.
155
156 <p>
157
158 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
159 the details. And as usual you can
160 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
161
162 <p>Have Fun!
163 <p>
164
165
166 <p>
167 <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p>
168
169 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
170 series. This release adds a number of size optimizations,
171 updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash
172 and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of
173 bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be
174 settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing
175 perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and
176 move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any
177 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please
178 feel free to email the busybox mailing list.
179
180 <p>
181
182 People who rely on the <a href= "downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a>
183 should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x
184 series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now
185 only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use
186 the naming scheme "busybox-&lt;date&gt;.tar.bz2". Please
187 adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.
188
189 <p>
190
191 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
192 the details. And as usual you can
193 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
194
195 <p>Have Fun!
196 <p>
197
198
199 <p>
200 <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p>
201
202 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
203 series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
204 a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
205 properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This
206 release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
207 fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
208 the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
209 modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
210 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
211 a few other odd fixes.
212
213 <p>
214
215 If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
216 always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
217 mailing list.
218
219 <p>
220
221 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
222 the details. And as usual you can
223 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
224
225 <p>Have Fun!
226 <p>
227
228
229
230 <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
231
232 Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
233 series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
234 rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
235 devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
236 the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
237 common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
238 of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
239 testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
240 thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
241 helping get patches merged!
242
243 <p>
244
245 And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
246 the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
247 things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
248 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
249 free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
250
251 <p>
252
253 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
254 the details. And as usual you can
255 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
256
257 <p>Have Fun!
258
259
260
261 <p>
262 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
263
264 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
265 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
266 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
267 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
268 the testing, bug reports, and patches!
269
270 <p>
271
272 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
273 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
274 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
275 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
276 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
277 mailing list!
278
279 <p>
280
281 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
282 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
283 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
284 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
285 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
286 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
287 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
288 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
289 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
290 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
291 module loading alone.
292
293 <p>
294
295 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
296 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
297 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
298 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
299 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
300 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
301 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
302 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
303 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
304 indeed.
305
306 <p>
307
308 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
309 the details. And as usual you can
310 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
311
312 <p>Have Fun!
313
314
315 <p>
316 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
317
318 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
319 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
320 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
321 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
322
323 <p>
324
325 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
326 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
327 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
328 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
329 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
330 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
331 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
332 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
333 <p>
334
335 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
336 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
337 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
338 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
339 BusyBox mailing list.
340 <p>
341
342 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
343 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
344 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
345 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
346 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
347 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
348 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
349 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
350 then...
351 <p>
352
353 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
354 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
355
356 <p>Have Fun!
357 <p>
358
359 <p>
360 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
361
362 The busybox development series has been under construction for
363 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
364 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
365 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
366 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
367 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
368 1.0.x...
369 <p>
370
371 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
372 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
373 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
374 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
375 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
376 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
377 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
378 of July.
379 <p>
380
381 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
382 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
383 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
384 happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
385 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
386 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
387 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
388 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
389 <p>
390
391 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
392 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
393 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
394 have made this release possible.
395 <p>
396
397 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
398 You don't really need to bother with the
399 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
400 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
401 But you can take a look if you really want too.
402
403 <p>Have Fun!
404 <p>
405
406
407
408 <p>
409 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
410
411 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
412 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
413 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
414 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
415 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
416 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
417 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
418 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
419 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
420 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
421 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
422 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
423 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
424
425 <p>
426 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
427 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
428 <p>Have Fun!
429 <p>
430
431 <p>
432 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
433
434 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
435 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
436 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
437 the problems that have turned up since the last
438 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
439 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
440 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
441 should soon be getting its first real release.
442
443 <p>
444 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
445 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
446 <p>Have Fun!
447 <p>
448
449
450 <p>
451 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
452
453 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
454 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
455 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
456 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
457 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
458 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
459 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
460
461 <p>
462 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
463 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
464 <p>Have Fun!
465 <p>
466
467
468 <p>
469 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
470
471 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
472 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
473 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
474 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
475 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
476 in Canada and
477 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
478 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
479 accessible for everyone!
480
481
482<li>
483<b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
484
485<p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
486users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
487(which is where you are probably reading this).
488Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
489living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
490line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
491busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
492the access needed to keep that system updated (for
493example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
494stopped some time ago).</p>
495
496<p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
497server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
498the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
499I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
500co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
501co-location effort, <a href=
502"http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
503(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
504his <a href=
505"http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
506for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
507system is co-located, the current speed problems
508should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
509some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
510sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
511
512<p><!--
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525 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
526donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
527rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
528spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
529upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
530has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
531google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
532not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
533ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
534far, donations received have been sufficient to
535cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
536have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
537we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
538everyone that has contributed!<br>
539 -Erik</p>
540</li>
541
542<li>
543<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
544
545<p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
5460.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
547one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
548series, and it should take care of most everyone's
549needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
550been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
551wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
552this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
553(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
554Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
555told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
556
557<p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
558powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
559should work with just about any Linux system you
560throw it at. See the <a href=
561"downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
562of</small> the details. The last release was
563<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
564be even better.</p>
565
566<p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
567<a href=
568"downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
569
570<p>Have Fun.<br>
571 -Erik</p>
572</li>
573
574<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
575
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589
590I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
591to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
592will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
593for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
594initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
595home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
596but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
597I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
598have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
599even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
600time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
601bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
602start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
603will start costing some money.
604<p>
605
606I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
607idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
608where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
609about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
610busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
611mailing list and web page. So...
612<p>
613
614I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
615up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
616know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
617individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
618contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
619would be wonderful!
620<p>
621
622
623<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
624<br>
625
626 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
627 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
628 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
629 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
630 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
631 here it is. Come and get it.
632 <p>
633 The
634 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
635 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
636 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
637 <p>Have Fun!
638 <p>
639
640
641<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
642<br>
643 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
644 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
645 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
646 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
647 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
648 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
649 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
650 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
651 cleans up a number of things.
652
653 <p>
654
655 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
656 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
657 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
658 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
659 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
660 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
661 <p>
662 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
663 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
664 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
665 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
666 to view the tutorial.
667 <p>
668
669 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
670 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
671 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
672 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
673 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
674 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
675 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
676 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
677 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
678 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
679 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
680 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
681 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
682 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
683 I will release that as a new stable release series.
684
685 <p>
686 The
687 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
688 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
689 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
690 <p>Have Fun!
691 <p>
692
693
694<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
695<br>
696
697 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
698 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
699 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
700 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
701 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
702 and ash).
703
704 <p>
705 The
706 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
707 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
708 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
709 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
710 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
711 <p>Have Fun!
712 <p>
713
714
715<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
716<br>
717The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
718of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
719viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
720
721<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
722can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
723turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
724<p>
725
726
727<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
728<br>
729
730 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
731 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
732 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
733 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
734 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
735 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
736 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
737 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
738 <p>
739
740 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
741 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
742 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
743 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
744 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
745 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
746 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
747 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
748 for letting me use their system!).
749 <p>
750 You can read the
751 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
752 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
753 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
754 <p>Have Fun!
755 <p>
756
757<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
758
759<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
760"downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
761image</a>. Here's how you use it:
762
763<ol>
764
765 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
766 Download the image</a>
767
768 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
769 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
770
771 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
772
773</ol>
774
775<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
776
777<pre>
778 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
779 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
780 umount /mnt
781 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
782 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
783</pre>
784
785
786<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
787<br>
788
789 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
790 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
791 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
792 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
793 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
794 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
795 <p>
796 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
797 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
798 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
799 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
800 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
801 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
802 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
803 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
804 currently in progress at
805 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
806 <p>
807
808
809<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
810<br>
811
812 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
813 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
814 For a list of the most interesting changes
815 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
816 <p>
817 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
818 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
819 out of town.
820 <p>
821 <em>Special Note</em><br>
822
823 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
824 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
825 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
826 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
827 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
828 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
829 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
830 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
831 release of BusyBox.
832 <p>
833
834<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
835<br>
836
837 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
838 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
839 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
840 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
841 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
842 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
843 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
844 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
845 <p>
846 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
847 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
848 <p>
849 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
850 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
851 <p>
852<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
853<br>
854
855 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
856 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
857 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
858 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
859 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
860 more correct option parsing.
861 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
862 for complete details.
863
864
865<p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
866<br>
867
868 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
869 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
870 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
871 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
872 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
873 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
874 for complete details.
875
876
877<p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
878<br>
879
880 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
881 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
882 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
883 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
884 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
885 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
886 details).
887 <p>
888 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
889 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
890 publically browsable
891 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
892 anonymous
893 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
894 for those that are actively contributing there is even
895 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
896 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
897 <p>
898 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
899 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
900 we are just skipping 0.44.
901 <p>
902 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
903 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
904
905
906<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
907<br>
908Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
909For example, with the following test app:
910<pre>
911#include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
912
913int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
914{
915 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
916 while(1) {
917 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
918 sleep(delay);
919 }
920 closelog();
921 return(0);
922};
923
924int main(void)
925{
926 if (fork()==0)
927 do_log("A", 2);
928 do_log("B", 3);
929}
930</pre>
931it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
932from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
933while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
934<p>
935Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
936Thanks Karl!
937
938
939<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
940<br>
941I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
942good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
943so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
944have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
945freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
946rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
947More details are available in the
948<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
949Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
950<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
951
952<p>
953Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
954and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
955Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
956Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
957There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
958<p>
959
960You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
961
962<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
963<br>
964Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
965do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
966to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
9675k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
968tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
969at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
970the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
971of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
972enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
973changes I still want to make.
974<p>
975The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
976Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
977
978<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
979<br>
980I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
981lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
982He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
983it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
984fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
985and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
986(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
987down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
988(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
989contrary).
990<p>
991Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
992labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
993<p>
994So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
995Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
996to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
997include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
998re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
999accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
1000problems.
1001
1002
1003<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
1004<br>
1005
1006 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
1007 bugs have been fixed. See the
1008 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
1009
1010 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
1011 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
1012 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
1013 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
1014 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
1015 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
1016 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
1017
1018<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
1019<br>
1020
1021 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
1022 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
1023 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
1024 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
1025 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
1026
1027<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
1028<br>
1029
1030 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
1031 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
1032 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
1033 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
1034 in some cases produced serious security problems.
1035 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
1036
1037<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
1038<br>
1039 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
1040 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
1041 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
1042 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
1043 what arguments its apps support, etc.
1044
1045<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
1046<br>
1047 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
1048 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
1049 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
1050<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
1051<br>
1052 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
1053 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
1054
1055
1056</ul>
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