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3 | <h3>News archive</h3> | ||
4 | |||
5 | <ul> | ||
6 | |||
7 | <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b> | ||
8 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>. | ||
9 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
10 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>, | ||
11 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
12 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>. | ||
13 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
14 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>, | ||
15 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
16 | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> | ||
17 | text data bss dec hex filename | ||
18 | 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4 | ||
19 | 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0 | ||
20 | </pre> | ||
21 | |||
22 | <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova), | ||
23 | fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Reutner-Fischer) | ||
24 | |||
25 | <p>Changes since previous release: | ||
26 | <ul> | ||
27 | <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li> | ||
28 | <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li> | ||
29 | <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li> | ||
30 | <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li> | ||
31 | <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li> | ||
32 | <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li> | ||
33 | <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li> | ||
34 | <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li> | ||
35 | <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li> | ||
36 | <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li> | ||
37 | <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li> | ||
38 | <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li> | ||
39 | <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li> | ||
40 | <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li> | ||
41 | <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li> | ||
42 | <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li> | ||
43 | <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li> | ||
44 | <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li> | ||
45 | <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li> | ||
46 | <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li> | ||
47 | <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li> | ||
48 | <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li> | ||
49 | <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> | ||
50 | </ul> | ||
51 | <p> | ||
52 | The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact | ||
53 | the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. | ||
54 | </p> | ||
55 | </li> | ||
56 | |||
57 | <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> | ||
58 | <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support | ||
59 | for the BusyBox project: | ||
60 | </p> | ||
61 | <ul> | ||
62 | <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html"> | ||
63 | TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li> | ||
64 | <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided | ||
65 | a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start"> | ||
66 | Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. | ||
67 | <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a> | ||
68 | is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. | ||
69 | If you are an embedded device developer, | ||
70 | please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available | ||
71 | for download for this board. Visit | ||
72 | <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> | ||
73 | for more information. | ||
74 | </li> | ||
75 | </ul> | ||
76 | </li> | ||
77 | |||
78 | <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> | ||
79 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. | ||
80 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
81 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>, | ||
82 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
83 | <p> | ||
84 | Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, | ||
85 | ip, mdev and syslogd. | ||
86 | </p> | ||
87 | </li> | ||
88 | |||
89 | <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> | ||
90 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. | ||
91 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
92 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>, | ||
93 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
94 | <p> | ||
95 | Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof, | ||
96 | start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system. | ||
97 | <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please | ||
98 | report if you encounter any problems with it. | ||
99 | </p> | ||
100 | </li> | ||
101 | |||
102 | <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> | ||
103 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. | ||
104 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
105 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>, | ||
106 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
107 | <p> | ||
108 | Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for | ||
109 | fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. | ||
110 | </li> | ||
111 | |||
112 | <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> | ||
113 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. | ||
114 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
115 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>, | ||
116 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
117 | |||
118 | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> | ||
119 | text data bss dec hex filename | ||
120 | 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 | ||
121 | 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 | ||
122 | </pre> | ||
123 | <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> | ||
124 | busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: | ||
125 | echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 | ||
126 | bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 | ||
127 | discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 | ||
128 | discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 | ||
129 | echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 | ||
130 | discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 | ||
131 | find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 | ||
132 | readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 | ||
133 | ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 | ||
134 | iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 | ||
135 | </pre> | ||
136 | |||
137 | <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), | ||
138 | findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), | ||
139 | lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), | ||
140 | sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. | ||
141 | </p> | ||
142 | <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. | ||
143 | </p> | ||
144 | <p>Changes since previous release: | ||
145 | </p> | ||
146 | <ul> | ||
147 | <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li> | ||
148 | <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li> | ||
149 | <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li> | ||
150 | <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li> | ||
151 | <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li> | ||
152 | <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li> | ||
153 | <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li> | ||
154 | <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li> | ||
155 | <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li> | ||
156 | <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li> | ||
157 | <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li> | ||
158 | <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li> | ||
159 | <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li> | ||
160 | <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li> | ||
161 | <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li> | ||
162 | <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li> | ||
163 | <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li> | ||
164 | <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li> | ||
165 | <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li> | ||
166 | <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li> | ||
167 | <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li> | ||
168 | <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li> | ||
169 | <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li> | ||
170 | <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li> | ||
171 | <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li> | ||
172 | <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li> | ||
173 | <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li> | ||
174 | <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li> | ||
175 | <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li> | ||
176 | <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li> | ||
177 | <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li> | ||
178 | <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li> | ||
179 | <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li> | ||
180 | <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li> | ||
181 | <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li> | ||
182 | <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li> | ||
183 | <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li> | ||
184 | <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li> | ||
185 | <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li> | ||
186 | <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li> | ||
187 | <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> | ||
188 | <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li> | ||
189 | <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li> | ||
190 | <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li> | ||
191 | <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li> | ||
192 | <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li> | ||
193 | <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li> | ||
194 | <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages</li> | ||
195 | <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!</li> | ||
196 | <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li> | ||
197 | <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li> | ||
198 | <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li> | ||
199 | <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li> | ||
200 | <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li> | ||
201 | <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li> | ||
202 | <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li> | ||
203 | <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li> | ||
204 | <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li> | ||
205 | <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li> | ||
206 | <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li> | ||
207 | <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li> | ||
208 | <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li> | ||
209 | <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li> | ||
210 | <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li> | ||
211 | <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li> | ||
212 | <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li> | ||
213 | <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li> | ||
214 | <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li> | ||
215 | <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li> | ||
216 | <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li> | ||
217 | <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li> | ||
218 | <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li> | ||
219 | <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li> | ||
220 | <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li> | ||
221 | <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li> | ||
222 | <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li> | ||
223 | <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li> | ||
224 | <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li> | ||
225 | <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li> | ||
226 | <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li> | ||
227 | <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li> | ||
228 | <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li> | ||
229 | <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li> | ||
230 | <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li> | ||
231 | <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li> | ||
232 | <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li> | ||
233 | <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li> | ||
234 | <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li> | ||
235 | <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li> | ||
236 | <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li> | ||
237 | <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li> | ||
238 | <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li> | ||
239 | <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li> | ||
240 | <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li> | ||
241 | <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li> | ||
242 | <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li> | ||
243 | <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li> | ||
244 | <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li> | ||
245 | <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li> | ||
246 | <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li> | ||
247 | <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li> | ||
248 | <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li> | ||
249 | <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li> | ||
250 | <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li> | ||
251 | <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li> | ||
252 | <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li> | ||
253 | <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li> | ||
254 | <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li> | ||
255 | <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li> | ||
256 | <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li> | ||
257 | <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li> | ||
258 | <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li> | ||
259 | <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li> | ||
260 | <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li> | ||
261 | <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li> | ||
262 | <li>vi: many fixes</li> | ||
263 | <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li> | ||
264 | <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li> | ||
265 | </ul> | ||
266 | </li> | ||
267 | |||
268 | <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> | ||
269 | <p> | ||
270 | Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations | ||
271 | for future hot patches are in parentheses. | ||
272 | <p> | ||
273 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a> | ||
274 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>), | ||
275 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a> | ||
276 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>), | ||
277 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a> | ||
278 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>), | ||
279 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a> | ||
280 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>). | ||
281 | <p> | ||
282 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a> | ||
283 | </p> | ||
284 | |||
285 | |||
286 | <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b> | ||
287 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>. | ||
288 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
289 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/">patches</a>, | ||
290 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
291 | |||
292 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck, | ||
293 | iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p> | ||
294 | <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is | ||
295 | inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork). | ||
296 | The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p> | ||
297 | </li> | ||
298 | |||
299 | <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b> | ||
300 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.0</a>. | ||
301 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
302 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/">patches</a>, | ||
303 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
304 | |||
305 | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> | ||
306 | text data bss dec hex filename | ||
307 | 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2 | ||
308 | 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0 | ||
309 | </pre> | ||
310 | <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> | ||
311 | busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0: | ||
312 | input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116 | ||
313 | umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112 | ||
314 | rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096 | ||
315 | xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096 | ||
316 | sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096 | ||
317 | mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096 | ||
318 | mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096 | ||
319 | grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 | ||
320 | unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 | ||
321 | parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152 | ||
322 | </pre> | ||
323 | |||
324 | <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost | ||
325 | the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works | ||
326 | on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU, | ||
327 | though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush. | ||
328 | |||
329 | <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes | ||
330 | problems for you. | ||
331 | |||
332 | <p>Changes since previous release: | ||
333 | <ul> | ||
334 | <li>Build system improvements | ||
335 | <li>Testsuite additions | ||
336 | <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions | ||
337 | <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both | ||
338 | <li>New applets: hd, sestatus | ||
339 | <li>Removed applets: lash | ||
340 | <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins | ||
341 | <li>init: simplify forking of children | ||
342 | <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed | ||
343 | <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root | ||
344 | <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets | ||
345 | (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) | ||
346 | <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for | ||
347 | (Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>) | ||
348 | <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping) | ||
349 | (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>) | ||
350 | <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length | ||
351 | <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths | ||
352 | <li>vi: Del key works | ||
353 | <li>sed: support GNUism '\t' | ||
354 | <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying | ||
355 | <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy | ||
356 | <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd | ||
357 | <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too | ||
358 | <li>netstat: wide output mode | ||
359 | <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth <masta at perlgolf.de>) | ||
360 | <li>test: become NOFORK applet | ||
361 | <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>) | ||
362 | <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) | ||
363 | <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) | ||
364 | </ul> | ||
365 | </li> | ||
366 | |||
367 | <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b> | ||
368 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>. | ||
369 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
370 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/">patches</a>, | ||
371 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
372 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.4</a>. | ||
373 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
374 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/">patches</a>, | ||
375 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
376 | |||
377 | <p>These are bugfix-only releases. | ||
378 | 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system. | ||
379 | 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p> | ||
380 | </li> | ||
381 | |||
382 | <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b> | ||
383 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.1</a>. | ||
384 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
385 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/">patches</a>, | ||
386 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
387 | |||
388 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p> | ||
389 | </li> | ||
390 | |||
391 | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b> | ||
392 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.0</a>. | ||
393 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
394 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/">patches</a>, | ||
395 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
396 | |||
397 | <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush. | ||
398 | |||
399 | <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x: | ||
400 | <p>httpd: | ||
401 | <ul> | ||
402 | <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd | ||
403 | <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length | ||
404 | <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau) | ||
405 | <li>optional support for partial downloads | ||
406 | <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me) | ||
407 | <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) | ||
408 | <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) | ||
409 | </ul> | ||
410 | |||
411 | <p>top: | ||
412 | <ul> | ||
413 | <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command | ||
414 | <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1) | ||
415 | <li>fix for command line wrapping | ||
416 | </ul> | ||
417 | |||
418 | <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles). | ||
419 | |||
420 | <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre> | ||
421 | Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds: | ||
422 | text data bss dec hex filename | ||
423 | 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox | ||
424 | 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre> | ||
425 | |||
426 | <p>New applets: | ||
427 | <ul> | ||
428 | <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru> | ||
429 | <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> | ||
430 | <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code | ||
431 | <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> | ||
432 | <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) | ||
433 | </ul> | ||
434 | |||
435 | <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): | ||
436 | <ul> | ||
437 | <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat) | ||
438 | <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion | ||
439 | <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link | ||
440 | <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T | ||
441 | <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement | ||
442 | <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat) | ||
443 | <li>wget: allow dots in header field names | ||
444 | <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits | ||
445 | <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us | ||
446 | <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing | ||
447 | <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly | ||
448 | <li>hush: fix glob() | ||
449 | <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us | ||
450 | <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection | ||
451 | <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) | ||
452 | <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good | ||
453 | <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points | ||
454 | <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only) | ||
455 | <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match | ||
456 | <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files | ||
457 | <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov) | ||
458 | <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b | ||
459 | <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too) | ||
460 | <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> | ||
461 | <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec | ||
462 | <li>less: make 'f' key page forward | ||
463 | <li>libiproute: add missing break statements | ||
464 | <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) | ||
465 | <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first | ||
466 | <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth | ||
467 | <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>) | ||
468 | <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64 | ||
469 | <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time | ||
470 | <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> | ||
471 | <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i | ||
472 | <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines | ||
473 | <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>) | ||
474 | <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C | ||
475 | <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> | ||
476 | <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked) | ||
477 | <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes) | ||
478 | <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled | ||
479 | <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API) | ||
480 | <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK | ||
481 | <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug | ||
482 | <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there | ||
483 | <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too | ||
484 | <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket | ||
485 | <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read() | ||
486 | <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>) | ||
487 | <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) | ||
488 | <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name | ||
489 | <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug | ||
490 | <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes | ||
491 | <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs | ||
492 | <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences | ||
493 | <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms) | ||
494 | <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM | ||
495 | </ul> | ||
496 | </li> | ||
497 | |||
498 | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b> | ||
499 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.3</a>. | ||
500 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
501 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/">patches</a>, | ||
502 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
503 | |||
504 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p> | ||
505 | </li> | ||
506 | |||
507 | <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b> | ||
508 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.2</a>. | ||
509 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
510 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/">patches</a>, | ||
511 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
512 | |||
513 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p> | ||
514 | </li> | ||
515 | |||
516 | <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b> | ||
517 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.1</a>. | ||
518 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
519 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/">patches</a>, | ||
520 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
521 | |||
522 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p> | ||
523 | </li> | ||
524 | |||
525 | <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b> | ||
526 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.0</a>. | ||
527 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
528 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/">patches</a>, | ||
529 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
530 | |||
531 | <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x: | ||
532 | <p>httpd: | ||
533 | <ul> | ||
534 | <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) | ||
535 | <li>indexer example is rewritten in C | ||
536 | <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) | ||
537 | <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads | ||
538 | <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs | ||
539 | <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT | ||
540 | <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) | ||
541 | <li>add support for Status: CGI header | ||
542 | <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd) | ||
543 | <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me... | ||
544 | </ul> | ||
545 | |||
546 | <p>udhcp[cd]: | ||
547 | <ul> | ||
548 | <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options | ||
549 | <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug | ||
550 | <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB)) | ||
551 | <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order | ||
552 | <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines | ||
553 | <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt() | ||
554 | <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing | ||
555 | </ul> | ||
556 | |||
557 | <p>top, ps, killall, pidof: | ||
558 | <ul> | ||
559 | <li>simpler loadavg processing | ||
560 | <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars | ||
561 | <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu) | ||
562 | <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code | ||
563 | <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name) | ||
564 | <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!) | ||
565 | <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable | ||
566 | <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display | ||
567 | <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense | ||
568 | </ul> | ||
569 | |||
570 | <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need, | ||
571 | generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link | ||
572 | scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things). | ||
573 | |||
574 | <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre> | ||
575 | Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds: | ||
576 | text data bss dec hex filename | ||
577 | 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox | ||
578 | 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox | ||
579 | 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld | ||
580 | |||
581 | Same .config built against static uclibc: | ||
582 | 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre> | ||
583 | |||
584 | <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode, | ||
585 | test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode, | ||
586 | runit/*, in libbb. | ||
587 | |||
588 | <p>New applets: | ||
589 | <ul> | ||
590 | <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) | ||
591 | <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) | ||
592 | <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>) | ||
593 | <li>slattach, ttysize | ||
594 | </ul> | ||
595 | |||
596 | <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled | ||
597 | by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing | ||
598 | qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website) | ||
599 | for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine. | ||
600 | |||
601 | <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): | ||
602 | <ul> | ||
603 | <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) | ||
604 | <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> | ||
605 | <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed | ||
606 | <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output) | ||
607 | <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login | ||
608 | <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) | ||
609 | <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters | ||
610 | <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty) | ||
611 | <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) | ||
612 | <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning) | ||
613 | <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling | ||
614 | <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message | ||
615 | <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version) | ||
616 | <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified | ||
617 | <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> | ||
618 | <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo | ||
619 | <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset | ||
620 | <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>) | ||
621 | <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find | ||
622 | <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) | ||
623 | <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one | ||
624 | <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing | ||
625 | <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) | ||
626 | <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) | ||
627 | <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack | ||
628 | <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255 | ||
629 | <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable | ||
630 | <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...) | ||
631 | <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir | ||
632 | <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>) | ||
633 | <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off | ||
634 | <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options | ||
635 | <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> | ||
636 | <li>login: optional support for PAM | ||
637 | <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes) | ||
638 | <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames | ||
639 | <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum | ||
640 | <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading | ||
641 | <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off | ||
642 | <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>) | ||
643 | <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca> | ||
644 | <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr) | ||
645 | <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd" | ||
646 | <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling | ||
647 | <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) | ||
648 | <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision. | ||
649 | <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>) | ||
650 | <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6 | ||
651 | <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>) | ||
652 | <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) | ||
653 | <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code | ||
654 | <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case | ||
655 | <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) | ||
656 | <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com> | ||
657 | <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV | ||
658 | <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that | ||
659 | <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing | ||
660 | <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process | ||
661 | <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644 | ||
662 | <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable | ||
663 | <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"' | ||
664 | <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com> | ||
665 | <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> | ||
666 | <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes | ||
667 | <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width | ||
668 | <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday | ||
669 | </ul> | ||
670 | </li> | ||
671 | |||
672 | <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b> | ||
673 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.1</a>. | ||
674 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
675 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/">patches</a>, | ||
676 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
677 | |||
678 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p> | ||
679 | </li> | ||
680 | |||
681 | <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b> | ||
682 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.0</a>. | ||
683 | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>, | ||
684 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/">patches</a>, | ||
685 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
686 | |||
687 | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" | ||
688 | label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p> | ||
689 | <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now, | ||
690 | but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please | ||
691 | report any such cases.</p> | ||
692 | <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0 | ||
693 | and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p> | ||
694 | <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> | ||
695 | <p>Other changes since previous release: | ||
696 | <ul> | ||
697 | <li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places | ||
698 | <li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs | ||
699 | <li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action | ||
700 | <li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU | ||
701 | <li>SELinux: load_policy applet | ||
702 | <li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>) | ||
703 | <li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito) | ||
704 | <li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) | ||
705 | <li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling | ||
706 | <li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore | ||
707 | <li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) | ||
708 | <li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) | ||
709 | <li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337 | ||
710 | <li>awk: guard against empty environment | ||
711 | <li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller) | ||
712 | <li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens | ||
713 | <li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text | ||
714 | <li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>) | ||
715 | <li>cttyhack: new applet | ||
716 | <li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>) | ||
717 | <li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) | ||
718 | <li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N | ||
719 | <li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>) | ||
720 | <li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged | ||
721 | <li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) | ||
722 | <li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes | ||
723 | <li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) | ||
724 | <li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes) | ||
725 | <li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it | ||
726 | <li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code | ||
727 | <li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) | ||
728 | <li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa) | ||
729 | <li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it | ||
730 | <li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) | ||
731 | <li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array | ||
732 | <li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>) | ||
733 | <li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>) | ||
734 | <li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links | ||
735 | <li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused | ||
736 | <li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se> | ||
737 | <li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>) | ||
738 | <li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier | ||
739 | <li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp | ||
740 | <li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> | ||
741 | <li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file) | ||
742 | <li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off | ||
743 | <li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b | ||
744 | <li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array() | ||
745 | <li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter | ||
746 | <li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes) | ||
747 | <li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes) | ||
748 | <li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin | ||
749 | <li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd | ||
750 | <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. | ||
751 | <li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH) | ||
752 | <li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) | ||
753 | <li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets | ||
754 | <li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop | ||
755 | <li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe | ||
756 | <li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL | ||
757 | <li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable | ||
758 | <li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y) | ||
759 | <li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use | ||
760 | <li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions | ||
761 | <li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file | ||
762 | <li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them | ||
763 | <li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!) | ||
764 | <li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes | ||
765 | <li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes) | ||
766 | <li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that) | ||
767 | <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 | ||
768 | <li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox | ||
769 | <li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets | ||
770 | <li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes | ||
771 | <li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore | ||
772 | <li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice | ||
773 | <li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373) | ||
774 | <li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer) | ||
775 | <li>run_parts: rewrite | ||
776 | <li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu> | ||
777 | <li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f | ||
778 | <li>split: new applet | ||
779 | <li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas | ||
780 | <li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>) | ||
781 | <li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM | ||
782 | <li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N" | ||
783 | <li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/ | ||
784 | <li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction | ||
785 | <li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken | ||
786 | <li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it | ||
787 | <li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair | ||
788 | <li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize | ||
789 | <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management | ||
790 | <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) | ||
791 | </ul> | ||
792 | </li> | ||
793 | |||
794 | <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> | ||
795 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.1</a>. | ||
796 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/">patches</a>, | ||
797 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
798 | |||
799 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps | ||
800 | and sed.</p> | ||
801 | </li> | ||
802 | |||
803 | <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b> | ||
804 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.0</a>. | ||
805 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/">patches</a>, | ||
806 | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> | ||
807 | |||
808 | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" | ||
809 | label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p> | ||
810 | <p>Notable changes since previous release: | ||
811 | <ul> | ||
812 | <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm | ||
813 | <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module | ||
814 | <li>ping[6]: unified code for both | ||
815 | <li>less: regex search improved | ||
816 | <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added | ||
817 | <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed | ||
818 | <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX) | ||
819 | <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again | ||
820 | <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them | ||
821 | <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files | ||
822 | <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes) | ||
823 | <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs | ||
824 | <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir, | ||
825 | not only in /cgi-bin/ | ||
826 | <li>chrt: new applet | ||
827 | <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets, | ||
828 | new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon. | ||
829 | <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch | ||
830 | improper usage of string constants. | ||
831 | <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU | ||
832 | targets. | ||
833 | <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize, | ||
834 | sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp | ||
835 | <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock, | ||
836 | udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp | ||
837 | <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix, | ||
838 | syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd | ||
839 | </ul> | ||
840 | </li> | ||
841 | |||
842 | <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> | ||
843 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.2</a>. | ||
844 | </p> | ||
845 | |||
846 | <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1. | ||
847 | </p> | ||
848 | </li> | ||
849 | |||
850 | <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b> | ||
851 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.1</a>. | ||
852 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/">patches</a>)</p> | ||
853 | |||
854 | <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0. | ||
855 | </p> | ||
856 | </li> | ||
857 | |||
858 | <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b> | ||
859 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.0</a>. | ||
860 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/">patches</a>)</p> | ||
861 | |||
862 | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable" | ||
863 | than usual.</p> | ||
864 | <p>Changes since previous release: | ||
865 | <ul> | ||
866 | <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain, | ||
867 | the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because | ||
868 | it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can | ||
869 | ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up. | ||
870 | <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files | ||
871 | (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars | ||
872 | don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy | ||
873 | anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input | ||
874 | as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it | ||
875 | for general use now. | ||
876 | <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are | ||
877 | upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is | ||
878 | already much better than what we had previously. | ||
879 | <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman). | ||
880 | <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90% | ||
881 | of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it). | ||
882 | <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten. | ||
883 | <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit. | ||
884 | <li>sed: better hadling of NULs | ||
885 | <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output | ||
886 | <li>chown: user.grp works again. | ||
887 | <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar, | ||
888 | ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,... | ||
889 | </ul> | ||
890 | </li> | ||
891 | |||
892 | <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> | ||
893 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p> | ||
894 | |||
895 | <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1 | ||
896 | </p> | ||
897 | </li> | ||
898 | |||
899 | <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b> | ||
900 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.1</a>. | ||
901 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/">patches</a>)</p> | ||
902 | |||
903 | <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0 | ||
904 | </p> | ||
905 | </li> | ||
906 | |||
907 | <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b> | ||
908 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.0</a>. | ||
909 | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/">patches</a>)</p> | ||
910 | |||
911 | <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features | ||
912 | needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod | ||
913 | and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly | ||
914 | bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make | ||
915 | busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly | ||
916 | adventurous desktop users. | ||
917 | <p>Changes since previous release: | ||
918 | <ul> | ||
919 | <li>find: taking many more of standard options | ||
920 | <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented | ||
921 | <li>cp: added -s, -l | ||
922 | <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h | ||
923 | <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally | ||
924 | incompatible) | ||
925 | <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage | ||
926 | on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers | ||
927 | (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs. | ||
928 | Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks). | ||
929 | <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for | ||
930 | directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes. | ||
931 | <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support, | ||
932 | other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb. | ||
933 | <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/ | ||
934 | (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys) | ||
935 | <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp, | ||
936 | fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod. | ||
937 | </ul> | ||
938 | <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different. | ||
939 | 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess. | ||
940 | </p> | ||
941 | </li> | ||
942 | |||
943 | <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b> | ||
944 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p> | ||
945 | |||
946 | <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc | ||
947 | produces buggy executables. | ||
948 | </li> | ||
949 | |||
950 | <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b> | ||
951 | <p>It's a bit overdue, but | ||
952 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2">here is | ||
953 | BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p> | ||
954 | |||
955 | <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development | ||
956 | branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation | ||
957 | generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix | ||
958 | umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by | ||
959 | name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev | ||
960 | delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault | ||
961 | in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build | ||
962 | fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test | ||
963 | fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in | ||
964 | modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf | ||
965 | foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the | ||
966 | terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in | ||
967 | ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in | ||
968 | gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning | ||
969 | fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p> | ||
970 | |||
971 | <p>As <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/">Linux Weekly News noted</a>, | ||
972 | this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis | ||
973 | Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href="http://landley.net/code">other things</a>. | ||
974 | </p> | ||
975 | </li> | ||
976 | |||
977 | <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b> | ||
978 | <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact | ||
979 | the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p> | ||
980 | |||
981 | <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b> | ||
982 | <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I | ||
983 | might as well point you all at | ||
984 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox | ||
985 | 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p> | ||
986 | |||
987 | <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without | ||
988 | saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and | ||
989 | one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three | ||
990 | embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks | ||
991 | (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the | ||
992 | libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated | ||
993 | tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge | ||
994 | in a pear... Ahem.</p> | ||
995 | |||
996 | <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty | ||
997 | gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains | ||
998 | the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return | ||
999 | value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent | ||
1000 | a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from | ||
1001 | switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather | ||
1002 | than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that | ||
1003 | /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf | ||
1004 | in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p> | ||
1005 | |||
1006 | <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b> | ||
1007 | <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is | ||
1008 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox | ||
1009 | 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog | ||
1010 | over the weekend.</p> | ||
1011 | |||
1012 | <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development | ||
1013 | cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to | ||
1014 | try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time | ||
1015 | we fix enough bugs. :)</p> | ||
1016 | |||
1017 | <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> | ||
1018 | |||
1019 | <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> | ||
1020 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox | ||
1021 | 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a | ||
1022 | memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes | ||
1023 | mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill | ||
1024 | background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a | ||
1025 | timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could | ||
1026 | segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p> | ||
1027 | |||
1028 | <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> | ||
1029 | |||
1030 | <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b> | ||
1031 | <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 | ||
1032 | backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes | ||
1033 | for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for | ||
1034 | find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball | ||
1035 | for more info.</p> | ||
1036 | |||
1037 | <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3 | ||
1038 | will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is | ||
1039 | to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable | ||
1040 | bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p> | ||
1041 | |||
1042 | <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> | ||
1043 | <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox | ||
1044 | maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and | ||
1045 | uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation | ||
1046 | by Erik's father's law firm, and the | ||
1047 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't | ||
1048 | scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads | ||
1049 | together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of | ||
1050 | <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She | ||
1051 | referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> | ||
1052 | |||
1053 | <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the | ||
1054 | <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> | ||
1055 | has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other | ||
1056 | free and open source software projects (such as | ||
1057 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, | ||
1058 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and | ||
1059 | <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a> | ||
1060 | in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a | ||
1061 | phrase you get to use every day.</p> | ||
1062 | |||
1063 | <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> | ||
1064 | <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> | ||
1065 | <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, | ||
1066 | the various small fixes have been collected together into a | ||
1067 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, | ||
1068 | and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around | ||
1069 | June.</p> | ||
1070 | </li> | ||
1071 | <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> | ||
1072 | <p>The new stable release is | ||
1073 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox | ||
1074 | 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets. | ||
1075 | (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>, | ||
1076 | but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how | ||
1077 | that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p> | ||
1078 | |||
1079 | <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b> | ||
1080 | <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so | ||
1081 | you can now | ||
1082 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>, | ||
1083 | the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of | ||
1084 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new | ||
1085 | functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of | ||
1086 | several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more | ||
1087 | <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards | ||
1088 | compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're | ||
1089 | still working out the <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p> | ||
1090 | |||
1091 | <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b> | ||
1092 | |||
1093 | <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox | ||
1094 | 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred | ||
1095 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small | ||
1096 | fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p> | ||
1097 | |||
1098 | <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p> | ||
1099 | |||
1100 | Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The | ||
1101 | developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep | ||
1102 | in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own | ||
1103 | name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report | ||
1104 | from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the | ||
1105 | <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a> | ||
1106 | to post all the gory details. | ||
1107 | |||
1108 | <p> | ||
1109 | |||
1110 | The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch | ||
1111 | is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch | ||
1112 | to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is | ||
1113 | properly considered. | ||
1114 | |||
1115 | |||
1116 | <p> | ||
1117 | <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p> | ||
1118 | |||
1119 | When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or | ||
1120 | software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox. | ||
1121 | With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and | ||
1122 | who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices | ||
1123 | is looking very bright. | ||
1124 | |||
1125 | <p> | ||
1126 | |||
1127 | It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every | ||
1128 | device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date. | ||
1129 | The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived! | ||
1130 | |||
1131 | <p> | ||
1132 | |||
1133 | Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous | ||
1134 | improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux | ||
1135 | KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel), | ||
1136 | Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development | ||
1137 | work and testing of thousands of people from around the world. | ||
1138 | |||
1139 | <p> | ||
1140 | |||
1141 | If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to | ||
1142 | BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device | ||
1143 | or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is | ||
1144 | right for your application. If you need help getting started using | ||
1145 | BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug | ||
1146 | and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a | ||
1147 | href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>. | ||
1148 | |||
1149 | <p> | ||
1150 | |||
1151 | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1152 | |||
1153 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1154 | |||
1155 | <p> | ||
1156 | <li><b>Old News</b><p> | ||
1157 | <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> | ||
1158 | |||
1159 | |||
1160 | <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p> | ||
1161 | |||
1162 | Here goes release candidate 3... | ||
1163 | <p> | ||
1164 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
1165 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1166 | |||
1167 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1168 | |||
1169 | <p> | ||
1170 | <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p> | ||
1171 | |||
1172 | Here goes release candidate 2... | ||
1173 | <p> | ||
1174 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
1175 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1176 | |||
1177 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1178 | |||
1179 | <p> | ||
1180 | <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p> | ||
1181 | |||
1182 | Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems | ||
1183 | that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of | ||
1184 | kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better. | ||
1185 | <p> | ||
1186 | |||
1187 | I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real | ||
1188 | reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as | ||
1189 | is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for | ||
1190 | everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting, | ||
1191 | it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well. | ||
1192 | There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with | ||
1193 | it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while | ||
1194 | there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work | ||
1195 | is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door.... | ||
1196 | <p> | ||
1197 | |||
1198 | Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this | ||
1199 | time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a | ||
1200 | bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you | ||
1201 | explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch | ||
1202 | has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your | ||
1203 | bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]" | ||
1204 | at the beginning of the email subject line! | ||
1205 | |||
1206 | <p> | ||
1207 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
1208 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1209 | |||
1210 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1211 | |||
1212 | <p> | ||
1213 | On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away | ||
1214 | yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about | ||
1215 | 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I | ||
1216 | could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a | ||
1217 | href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation | ||
1218 | as scheduled. | ||
1219 | <p> | ||
1220 | As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come | ||
1221 | to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS | ||
1222 | this year. | ||
1223 | <p> | ||
1224 | |||
1225 | |||
1226 | <p> | ||
1227 | <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p> | ||
1228 | |||
1229 | Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox | ||
1230 | pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b> | ||
1231 | want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not | ||
1232 | bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only | ||
1233 | bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if | ||
1234 | people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit | ||
1235 | improvements. | ||
1236 | |||
1237 | <p> | ||
1238 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
1239 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1240 | |||
1241 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1242 | <p> | ||
1243 | |||
1244 | |||
1245 | <p> | ||
1246 | <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p> | ||
1247 | |||
1248 | Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for | ||
1249 | bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this | ||
1250 | week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at | ||
1251 | this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be | ||
1252 | <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation | ||
1253 | and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the | ||
1254 | documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some | ||
1255 | assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets | ||
1256 | match the features listed in the documentation. | ||
1257 | |||
1258 | <p> | ||
1259 | I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but | ||
1260 | <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796"> | ||
1261 | another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy... | ||
1262 | |||
1263 | <p> | ||
1264 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
1265 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1266 | |||
1267 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1268 | <p> | ||
1269 | |||
1270 | |||
1271 | <p> | ||
1272 | <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p> | ||
1273 | |||
1274 | Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send | ||
1275 | in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will | ||
1276 | be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see | ||
1277 | supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, | ||
1278 | please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release | ||
1279 | out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre | ||
1280 | series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you | ||
1281 | spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the | ||
1282 | busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could | ||
1283 | help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be | ||
1284 | especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the | ||
1285 | various applets match the features listed in the documentation. | ||
1286 | |||
1287 | <p> | ||
1288 | |||
1289 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
1290 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1291 | |||
1292 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1293 | <p> | ||
1294 | |||
1295 | |||
1296 | <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p> | ||
1297 | |||
1298 | There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a | ||
1299 | number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out | ||
1300 | properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one | ||
1301 | problem. In addition, this release fixes several other | ||
1302 | problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing | ||
1303 | the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates | ||
1304 | from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still | ||
1305 | aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to | ||
1306 | the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have | ||
1307 | suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the | ||
1308 | busybox mailing list. | ||
1309 | |||
1310 | <p> | ||
1311 | |||
1312 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1313 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
1314 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1315 | |||
1316 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1317 | <p> | ||
1318 | |||
1319 | |||
1320 | <p> | ||
1321 | <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p> | ||
1322 | |||
1323 | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
1324 | series. This release adds a number of size optimizations, | ||
1325 | updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash | ||
1326 | and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of | ||
1327 | bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be | ||
1328 | settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing | ||
1329 | perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and | ||
1330 | move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any | ||
1331 | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please | ||
1332 | feel free to email the busybox mailing list. | ||
1333 | |||
1334 | <p> | ||
1335 | |||
1336 | People who rely on the <a href="downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a> | ||
1337 | should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x | ||
1338 | series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now | ||
1339 | only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use | ||
1340 | the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please | ||
1341 | adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly. | ||
1342 | |||
1343 | <p> | ||
1344 | |||
1345 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1346 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
1347 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1348 | |||
1349 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1350 | <p> | ||
1351 | |||
1352 | |||
1353 | <p> | ||
1354 | <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p> | ||
1355 | |||
1356 | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
1357 | series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for | ||
1358 | a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working | ||
1359 | properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This | ||
1360 | release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp, | ||
1361 | fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like | ||
1362 | the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x | ||
1363 | modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete | ||
1364 | 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and | ||
1365 | a few other odd fixes. | ||
1366 | |||
1367 | <p> | ||
1368 | |||
1369 | If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as | ||
1370 | always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox | ||
1371 | mailing list. | ||
1372 | |||
1373 | <p> | ||
1374 | |||
1375 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1376 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
1377 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1378 | |||
1379 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1380 | <p> | ||
1381 | |||
1382 | |||
1383 | |||
1384 | <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p> | ||
1385 | |||
1386 | Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
1387 | series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of | ||
1388 | rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new | ||
1389 | devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to | ||
1390 | the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a | ||
1391 | common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons | ||
1392 | of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the | ||
1393 | testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big | ||
1394 | thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and | ||
1395 | helping get patches merged! | ||
1396 | |||
1397 | <p> | ||
1398 | |||
1399 | And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed | ||
1400 | the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully | ||
1401 | things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any | ||
1402 | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel | ||
1403 | free to send an email to the busybox mailing list. | ||
1404 | |||
1405 | <p> | ||
1406 | |||
1407 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1408 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
1409 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1410 | |||
1411 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1412 | |||
1413 | |||
1414 | |||
1415 | <p> | ||
1416 | <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p> | ||
1417 | |||
1418 | Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
1419 | series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under | ||
1420 | testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number | ||
1421 | of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all | ||
1422 | the testing, bug reports, and patches! | ||
1423 | |||
1424 | <p> | ||
1425 | |||
1426 | If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox | ||
1427 | mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your | ||
1428 | patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has | ||
1429 | somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. | ||
1430 | Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox | ||
1431 | mailing list! | ||
1432 | |||
1433 | <p> | ||
1434 | |||
1435 | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of | ||
1436 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be | ||
1437 | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature | ||
1438 | (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO | ||
1439 | list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the | ||
1440 | modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have | ||
1441 | patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be | ||
1442 | integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports | ||
1443 | a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit | ||
1444 | more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x | ||
1445 | module loading alone. | ||
1446 | |||
1447 | <p> | ||
1448 | |||
1449 | I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of | ||
1450 | course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of | ||
1451 | <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> | ||
1452 | out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for | ||
1453 | stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am | ||
1454 | not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0 | ||
1455 | -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September... | ||
1456 | But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or | ||
1457 | exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon | ||
1458 | indeed. | ||
1459 | |||
1460 | <p> | ||
1461 | |||
1462 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1463 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
1464 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1465 | |||
1466 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1467 | |||
1468 | |||
1469 | <p> | ||
1470 | <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> | ||
1471 | |||
1472 | Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
1473 | series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of | ||
1474 | testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of | ||
1475 | bugs, and these problems have now been fixed. | ||
1476 | |||
1477 | <p> | ||
1478 | |||
1479 | Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up | ||
1480 | with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added, | ||
1481 | init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and | ||
1482 | 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init. | ||
1483 | an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows | ||
1484 | read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the | ||
1485 | 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were | ||
1486 | tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed. | ||
1487 | <p> | ||
1488 | |||
1489 | If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this | ||
1490 | release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch | ||
1491 | was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch. | ||
1492 | That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the | ||
1493 | BusyBox mailing list. | ||
1494 | <p> | ||
1495 | |||
1496 | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of | ||
1497 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be | ||
1498 | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that | ||
1499 | is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 | ||
1500 | release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If | ||
1501 | necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th. | ||
1502 | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem | ||
1503 | turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by | ||
1504 | then... | ||
1505 | <p> | ||
1506 | |||
1507 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1508 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1509 | |||
1510 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1511 | <p> | ||
1512 | |||
1513 | <p> | ||
1514 | <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> | ||
1515 | |||
1516 | The busybox development series has been under construction for | ||
1517 | nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So | ||
1518 | it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release | ||
1519 | of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes | ||
1520 | since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version | ||
1521 | number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison | ||
1522 | 1.0.x... | ||
1523 | <p> | ||
1524 | |||
1525 | The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of | ||
1526 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be | ||
1527 | fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen | ||
1528 | later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next | ||
1529 | Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. | ||
1530 | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns | ||
1531 | up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end | ||
1532 | of July. | ||
1533 | <p> | ||
1534 | |||
1535 | If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release | ||
1536 | and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was | ||
1537 | rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That | ||
1538 | happens sometimes. Please do <b>NOT</b> send all your patches, | ||
1539 | support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of | ||
1540 | emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches | ||
1541 | sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the | ||
1542 | right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. | ||
1543 | <p> | ||
1544 | |||
1545 | I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn | ||
1546 | McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III | ||
1547 | (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that | ||
1548 | have made this release possible. | ||
1549 | <p> | ||
1550 | |||
1551 | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1552 | You don't really need to bother with the | ||
1553 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes | ||
1554 | vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. | ||
1555 | But you can take a look if you really want too. | ||
1556 | |||
1557 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1558 | <p> | ||
1559 | |||
1560 | |||
1561 | |||
1562 | <p> | ||
1563 | <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> | ||
1564 | |||
1565 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) | ||
1566 | is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for | ||
1567 | the stable series to address all the problems that have turned | ||
1568 | up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release | ||
1569 | had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried | ||
1570 | to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init | ||
1571 | was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). | ||
1572 | I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the | ||
1573 | 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I | ||
1574 | mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last | ||
1575 | release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work | ||
1576 | will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development | ||
1577 | version to have its first real release very very soon now... | ||
1578 | |||
1579 | <p> | ||
1580 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all | ||
1581 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1582 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1583 | <p> | ||
1584 | |||
1585 | <p> | ||
1586 | <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> | ||
1587 | |||
1588 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 | ||
1589 | (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily | ||
1590 | a bugfix release for the stable series to address all | ||
1591 | the problems that have turned up since the last | ||
1592 | release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. | ||
1593 | I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done | ||
1594 | on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and | ||
1595 | should soon be getting its first real release. | ||
1596 | |||
1597 | <p> | ||
1598 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all | ||
1599 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1600 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1601 | <p> | ||
1602 | |||
1603 | |||
1604 | <p> | ||
1605 | <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> | ||
1606 | |||
1607 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is | ||
1608 | now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release | ||
1609 | for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since | ||
1610 | the last release, and this should address most of those problems. | ||
1611 | This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The | ||
1612 | development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will | ||
1613 | hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. | ||
1614 | |||
1615 | <p> | ||
1616 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1617 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
1618 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1619 | <p> | ||
1620 | |||
1621 | |||
1622 | <p> | ||
1623 | <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> | ||
1624 | |||
1625 | Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to | ||
1626 | the fine folks at <a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> | ||
1627 | who are providing hosting for busybox.net and | ||
1628 | uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: | ||
1629 | <a href="http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> | ||
1630 | in Canada and | ||
1631 | <a href="http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> | ||
1632 | in Germany. I hope this makes things much more | ||
1633 | accessible for everyone! | ||
1634 | |||
1635 | |||
1636 | <li> | ||
1637 | <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> | ||
1638 | |||
1639 | <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox | ||
1640 | users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net | ||
1641 | (which is where you are probably reading this). | ||
1642 | Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both | ||
1643 | living on my home system (at the end of my DSL | ||
1644 | line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of | ||
1645 | busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have | ||
1646 | the access needed to keep that system updated (for | ||
1647 | example, you might notice the daily snapshots there | ||
1648 | stopped some time ago).</p> | ||
1649 | |||
1650 | <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home | ||
1651 | server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, | ||
1652 | the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, | ||
1653 | I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net | ||
1654 | co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the | ||
1655 | co-location effort, <a href= | ||
1656 | "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> | ||
1657 | (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated | ||
1658 | his <a href= | ||
1659 | "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer | ||
1660 | for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this | ||
1661 | system is co-located, the current speed problems | ||
1662 | should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, | ||
1663 | some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror | ||
1664 | sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> | ||
1665 | |||
1666 | <p><!-- | ||
1667 | <center> | ||
1668 | Click here to help support busybox.net! | ||
1669 | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> | ||
1670 | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> | ||
1671 | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> | ||
1672 | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> | ||
1673 | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg"> | ||
1674 | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> | ||
1675 | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> | ||
1676 | </form> | ||
1677 | </center> | ||
1678 | --> | ||
1679 | Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox | ||
1680 | donations, let me assure you that no one is getting | ||
1681 | rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be | ||
1682 | spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware | ||
1683 | upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently | ||
1684 | has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when | ||
1685 | google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in | ||
1686 | not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of | ||
1687 | ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So | ||
1688 | far, donations received have been sufficient to | ||
1689 | cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may | ||
1690 | have co-location fees to worry about, but for now | ||
1691 | we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to | ||
1692 | everyone that has contributed!<br> | ||
1693 | -Erik</p> | ||
1694 | </li> | ||
1695 | |||
1696 | <li> | ||
1697 | <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> | ||
1698 | |||
1699 | <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox | ||
1700 | 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This | ||
1701 | one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable | ||
1702 | series, and it should take care of most everyone's | ||
1703 | needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have | ||
1704 | been working on in CVS ready to release (with the | ||
1705 | wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in | ||
1706 | this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh | ||
1707 | (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. | ||
1708 | Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when | ||
1709 | told to do complex things with backticks.</p> | ||
1710 | |||
1711 | <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and | ||
1712 | powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it | ||
1713 | should work with just about any Linux system you | ||
1714 | throw it at. See the <a href= | ||
1715 | "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most | ||
1716 | of</small> the details. The last release was | ||
1717 | <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should | ||
1718 | be even better.</p> | ||
1719 | |||
1720 | <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from | ||
1721 | <a href= | ||
1722 | "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> | ||
1723 | |||
1724 | <p>Have Fun.<br> | ||
1725 | -Erik</p> | ||
1726 | </li> | ||
1727 | |||
1728 | <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> | ||
1729 | |||
1730 | <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> | ||
1731 | <center> | ||
1732 | Click here to help buy busybox.net! | ||
1733 | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> | ||
1734 | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> | ||
1735 | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> | ||
1736 | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> | ||
1737 | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> | ||
1738 | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> | ||
1739 | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> | ||
1740 | </form> | ||
1741 | </center> | ||
1742 | <!-- End PayPal Logo --> | ||
1743 | |||
1744 | I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing | ||
1745 | to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but | ||
1746 | will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee | ||
1747 | for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will | ||
1748 | initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my | ||
1749 | home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, | ||
1750 | but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth | ||
1751 | I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there | ||
1752 | have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't | ||
1753 | even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the | ||
1754 | time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this | ||
1755 | bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I | ||
1756 | start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth | ||
1757 | will start costing some money. | ||
1758 | <p> | ||
1759 | |||
1760 | I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that | ||
1761 | idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument | ||
1762 | where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas | ||
1763 | about what we should spend our money on that don't involve | ||
1764 | busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the | ||
1765 | mailing list and web page. So... | ||
1766 | <p> | ||
1767 | |||
1768 | I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick | ||
1769 | up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I | ||
1770 | know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as | ||
1771 | individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to | ||
1772 | contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that | ||
1773 | would be wonderful! | ||
1774 | <p> | ||
1775 | |||
1776 | |||
1777 | <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> | ||
1778 | <br> | ||
1779 | |||
1780 | This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes | ||
1781 | up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in | ||
1782 | the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> | ||
1783 | serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no | ||
1784 | new features, no new applets. So without further ado, | ||
1785 | here it is. Come and get it. | ||
1786 | <p> | ||
1787 | The | ||
1788 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1789 | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from | ||
1790 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
1791 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1792 | <p> | ||
1793 | |||
1794 | |||
1795 | <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> | ||
1796 | <br> | ||
1797 | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of | ||
1798 | BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, | ||
1799 | and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on | ||
1800 | x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number | ||
1801 | of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. | ||
1802 | Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice | ||
1803 | stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes | ||
1804 | a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and | ||
1805 | cleans up a number of things. | ||
1806 | |||
1807 | <p> | ||
1808 | |||
1809 | Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can | ||
1810 | use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> | ||
1811 | to give it a try by downloading and compiling | ||
1812 | <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. | ||
1813 | You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. | ||
1814 | Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. | ||
1815 | <p> | ||
1816 | Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> | ||
1817 | BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires | ||
1818 | a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the | ||
1819 | the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> | ||
1820 | to view the tutorial. | ||
1821 | <p> | ||
1822 | |||
1823 | Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the | ||
1824 | version number of this release, let me point out that this release | ||
1825 | is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a | ||
1826 | bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form | ||
1827 | a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a | ||
1828 | stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable | ||
1829 | 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then | ||
1830 | 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that | ||
1831 | the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the | ||
1832 | next release and I don't want that to break products that people | ||
1833 | are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be | ||
1834 | released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will | ||
1835 | have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things | ||
1836 | stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then | ||
1837 | I will release that as a new stable release series. | ||
1838 | |||
1839 | <p> | ||
1840 | The | ||
1841 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
1842 | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from | ||
1843 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
1844 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1845 | <p> | ||
1846 | |||
1847 | |||
1848 | <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> | ||
1849 | <br> | ||
1850 | |||
1851 | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of | ||
1852 | BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This | ||
1853 | release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons | ||
1854 | of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds | ||
1855 | several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, | ||
1856 | and ash). | ||
1857 | |||
1858 | <p> | ||
1859 | The | ||
1860 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers | ||
1861 | some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that | ||
1862 | are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, | ||
1863 | BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from | ||
1864 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
1865 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1866 | <p> | ||
1867 | |||
1868 | |||
1869 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> | ||
1870 | <br> | ||
1871 | The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth | ||
1872 | of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / | ||
1873 | viewing <a href="busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. | ||
1874 | |||
1875 | <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you | ||
1876 | can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively | ||
1877 | turning off whichever applets you don't need.) | ||
1878 | <p> | ||
1879 | |||
1880 | |||
1881 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> | ||
1882 | <br> | ||
1883 | |||
1884 | BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This | ||
1885 | release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, | ||
1886 | contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only | ||
1887 | 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. | ||
1888 | There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in | ||
1889 | the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in | ||
1890 | 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially | ||
1891 | deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. | ||
1892 | <p> | ||
1893 | |||
1894 | There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For | ||
1895 | one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov | ||
1896 | added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC | ||
1897 | compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility | ||
1898 | functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now | ||
1899 | all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes | ||
1900 | maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now | ||
1901 | compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters | ||
1902 | for letting me use their system!). | ||
1903 | <p> | ||
1904 | You can read the | ||
1905 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for | ||
1906 | complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from | ||
1907 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
1908 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
1909 | <p> | ||
1910 | |||
1911 | <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> | ||
1912 | |||
1913 | <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= | ||
1914 | "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy | ||
1915 | image</a>. Here's how you use it: | ||
1916 | |||
1917 | <ol> | ||
1918 | |||
1919 | <li> <a href="downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> | ||
1920 | Download the image</a> | ||
1921 | |||
1922 | <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img | ||
1923 | of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> | ||
1924 | |||
1925 | <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. | ||
1926 | |||
1927 | </ol> | ||
1928 | |||
1929 | <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: | ||
1930 | |||
1931 | <pre> | ||
1932 | mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos | ||
1933 | cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp | ||
1934 | umount /mnt | ||
1935 | gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz | ||
1936 | mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix | ||
1937 | </pre> | ||
1938 | |||
1939 | |||
1940 | <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> | ||
1941 | <br> | ||
1942 | |||
1943 | This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, | ||
1944 | and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the | ||
1945 | shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable | ||
1946 | expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made | ||
1947 | smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the | ||
1948 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
1949 | <p> | ||
1950 | lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it | ||
1951 | now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as | ||
1952 | long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. | ||
1953 | Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and | ||
1954 | environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that | ||
1955 | this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible | ||
1956 | framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of | ||
1957 | business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell | ||
1958 | currently in progress at | ||
1959 | <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. | ||
1960 | <p> | ||
1961 | |||
1962 | |||
1963 | <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> | ||
1964 | <br> | ||
1965 | |||
1966 | Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller | ||
1967 | things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. | ||
1968 | For a list of the most interesting changes | ||
1969 | you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
1970 | <p> | ||
1971 | Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their | ||
1972 | work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been | ||
1973 | out of town. | ||
1974 | <p> | ||
1975 | <em>Special Note</em><br> | ||
1976 | |||
1977 | BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox | ||
1978 | shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. | ||
1979 | Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new | ||
1980 | shell that will eventually replace lash is already under | ||
1981 | construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry | ||
1982 | Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in | ||
1983 | progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> | ||
1984 | and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next | ||
1985 | release of BusyBox. | ||
1986 | <p> | ||
1987 | |||
1988 | <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> | ||
1989 | <br> | ||
1990 | |||
1991 | This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very | ||
1992 | rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar | ||
1993 | update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is | ||
1994 | optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know | ||
1995 | that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are | ||
1996 | now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox | ||
1997 | shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian | ||
1998 | woody) a .udeb can now be generated. | ||
1999 | <p> | ||
2000 | The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading | ||
2001 | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
2002 | <p> | ||
2003 | Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to | ||
2004 | this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. | ||
2005 | <p> | ||
2006 | <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> | ||
2007 | <br> | ||
2008 | |||
2009 | This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 | ||
2010 | syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new | ||
2011 | apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, | ||
2012 | renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. | ||
2013 | There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for | ||
2014 | more correct option parsing. | ||
2015 | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> | ||
2016 | for complete details. | ||
2017 | |||
2018 | |||
2019 | <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> | ||
2020 | <br> | ||
2021 | |||
2022 | This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, | ||
2023 | and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow | ||
2024 | people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a | ||
2025 | completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. | ||
2026 | BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. | ||
2027 | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> | ||
2028 | for complete details. | ||
2029 | |||
2030 | |||
2031 | <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> | ||
2032 | <br> | ||
2033 | |||
2034 | This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this | ||
2035 | point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This | ||
2036 | release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, | ||
2037 | mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and | ||
2038 | telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see | ||
2039 | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for | ||
2040 | details). | ||
2041 | <p> | ||
2042 | Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own | ||
2043 | <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, | ||
2044 | publically browsable | ||
2045 | <a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, | ||
2046 | anonymous | ||
2047 | <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and | ||
2048 | for those that are actively contributing there is even | ||
2049 | <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. | ||
2050 | I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. | ||
2051 | <p> | ||
2052 | Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced | ||
2053 | a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion | ||
2054 | we are just skipping 0.44. | ||
2055 | <p> | ||
2056 | Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release | ||
2057 | of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! | ||
2058 | |||
2059 | |||
2060 | <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> | ||
2061 | <br> | ||
2062 | Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. | ||
2063 | For example, with the following test app: | ||
2064 | <pre> | ||
2065 | #include <syslog.h> | ||
2066 | |||
2067 | int do_log(char* msg, int delay) | ||
2068 | { | ||
2069 | openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); | ||
2070 | while(1) { | ||
2071 | syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); | ||
2072 | sleep(delay); | ||
2073 | } | ||
2074 | closelog(); | ||
2075 | return(0); | ||
2076 | }; | ||
2077 | |||
2078 | int main(void) | ||
2079 | { | ||
2080 | if (fork()==0) | ||
2081 | do_log("A", 2); | ||
2082 | do_log("B", 3); | ||
2083 | } | ||
2084 | </pre> | ||
2085 | it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff | ||
2086 | from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something | ||
2087 | while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). | ||
2088 | <p> | ||
2089 | Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. | ||
2090 | Thanks Karl! | ||
2091 | |||
2092 | |||
2093 | <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> | ||
2094 | <br> | ||
2095 | I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty | ||
2096 | good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release | ||
2097 | so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps | ||
2098 | have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, | ||
2099 | freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely | ||
2100 | rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. | ||
2101 | More details are available in the | ||
2102 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
2103 | Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive | ||
2104 | <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. | ||
2105 | |||
2106 | <p> | ||
2107 | Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches | ||
2108 | and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were | ||
2109 | Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, | ||
2110 | Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. | ||
2111 | There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. | ||
2112 | <p> | ||
2113 | |||
2114 | You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. | ||
2115 | |||
2116 | <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> | ||
2117 | <br> | ||
2118 | Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to | ||
2119 | do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people | ||
2120 | to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at | ||
2121 | 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing | ||
2122 | tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw | ||
2123 | at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because | ||
2124 | the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release | ||
2125 | of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable | ||
2126 | enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural | ||
2127 | changes I still want to make. | ||
2128 | <p> | ||
2129 | The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. | ||
2130 | Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. | ||
2131 | |||
2132 | <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> | ||
2133 | <br> | ||
2134 | I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 | ||
2135 | lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. | ||
2136 | He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and | ||
2137 | it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the | ||
2138 | fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody | ||
2139 | and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife | ||
2140 | (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying | ||
2141 | down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" | ||
2142 | (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the | ||
2143 | contrary). | ||
2144 | <p> | ||
2145 | Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting | ||
2146 | labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. | ||
2147 | <p> | ||
2148 | So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... | ||
2149 | Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect | ||
2150 | to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will | ||
2151 | include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a | ||
2152 | re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now | ||
2153 | accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking | ||
2154 | problems. | ||
2155 | |||
2156 | |||
2157 | <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> | ||
2158 | <br> | ||
2159 | |||
2160 | This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many | ||
2161 | bugs have been fixed. See the | ||
2162 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. | ||
2163 | |||
2164 | Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount | ||
2165 | filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and | ||
2166 | behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak | ||
2167 | loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, | ||
2168 | Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for | ||
2169 | their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound | ||
2170 | on it and let me know if you find any bugs. | ||
2171 | |||
2172 | <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> | ||
2173 | <br> | ||
2174 | |||
2175 | This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, | ||
2176 | mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, | ||
2177 | logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device | ||
2178 | support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. | ||
2179 | The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. | ||
2180 | |||
2181 | <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> | ||
2182 | <br> | ||
2183 | |||
2184 | This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), | ||
2185 | syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. | ||
2186 | New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. | ||
2187 | In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which | ||
2188 | in some cases produced serious security problems. | ||
2189 | As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. | ||
2190 | |||
2191 | <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> | ||
2192 | <br> | ||
2193 | I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) | ||
2194 | to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website | ||
2195 | will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also | ||
2196 | contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, | ||
2197 | what arguments its apps support, etc. | ||
2198 | |||
2199 | <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> | ||
2200 | <br> | ||
2201 | This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains | ||
2202 | the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full | ||
2203 | changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. | ||
2204 | <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> | ||
2205 | <br> | ||
2206 | This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, | ||
2207 | and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. | ||
2208 | |||
2209 | |||
2210 | </ul> | ||
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