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5 | <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b> | ||
6 | <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so | ||
7 | you can now | ||
8 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>, | ||
9 | the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of | ||
10 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new | ||
11 | functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of | ||
12 | several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more | ||
13 | <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards | ||
14 | compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're | ||
15 | still working out the <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p> | ||
16 | |||
17 | <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b> | ||
18 | |||
19 | <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox | ||
20 | 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred | ||
21 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small | ||
22 | fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p> | ||
23 | |||
24 | <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p> | ||
25 | |||
26 | Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The | ||
27 | developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep | ||
28 | in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own | ||
29 | name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report | ||
30 | from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the | ||
31 | <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a> | ||
32 | to post all the gory details. | ||
33 | |||
34 | <p> | ||
35 | |||
36 | The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch | ||
37 | is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch | ||
38 | to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is | ||
39 | properly considered. | ||
40 | |||
41 | |||
42 | <p> | ||
43 | <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p> | ||
44 | |||
45 | When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or | ||
46 | software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox. | ||
47 | With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and | ||
48 | who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices | ||
49 | is looking very bright. | ||
50 | |||
51 | <p> | ||
52 | |||
53 | It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every | ||
54 | device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date. | ||
55 | The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived! | ||
56 | |||
57 | <p> | ||
58 | |||
59 | Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous | ||
60 | improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux | ||
61 | KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel), | ||
62 | Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development | ||
63 | work and testing of thousands of people from around the world. | ||
64 | |||
65 | <p> | ||
66 | |||
67 | If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to | ||
68 | BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device | ||
69 | or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is | ||
70 | right for your application. If you need help getting started using | ||
71 | BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug | ||
72 | and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a | ||
73 | href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>. | ||
74 | |||
75 | <p> | ||
76 | |||
77 | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
78 | |||
79 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
80 | |||
81 | <p> | ||
82 | <li><b>Old News</b><p> | ||
83 | <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> | ||
84 | |||
85 | |||
86 | <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p> | ||
87 | |||
88 | Here goes release candidate 3... | ||
89 | <p> | ||
90 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
91 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
92 | |||
93 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
94 | |||
95 | <p> | ||
96 | <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p> | ||
97 | |||
98 | Here goes release candidate 2... | ||
99 | <p> | ||
100 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
101 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
102 | |||
103 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
104 | |||
105 | <p> | ||
106 | <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p> | ||
107 | |||
108 | Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems | ||
109 | that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of | ||
110 | kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better. | ||
111 | <p> | ||
112 | |||
113 | I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real | ||
114 | reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as | ||
115 | is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for | ||
116 | everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting, | ||
117 | it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well. | ||
118 | There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with | ||
119 | it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while | ||
120 | there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work | ||
121 | is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door.... | ||
122 | <p> | ||
123 | |||
124 | Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this | ||
125 | time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a | ||
126 | bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you | ||
127 | explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch | ||
128 | has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your | ||
129 | bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]" | ||
130 | at the beginning of the email subject line! | ||
131 | |||
132 | <p> | ||
133 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
134 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
135 | |||
136 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
137 | |||
138 | <p> | ||
139 | On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away | ||
140 | yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about | ||
141 | 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I | ||
142 | could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a | ||
143 | href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation | ||
144 | as scheduled. | ||
145 | <p> | ||
146 | As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come | ||
147 | to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS | ||
148 | this year. | ||
149 | <p> | ||
150 | |||
151 | |||
152 | <p> | ||
153 | <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p> | ||
154 | |||
155 | Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox | ||
156 | pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b> | ||
157 | want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not | ||
158 | bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only | ||
159 | bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if | ||
160 | people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit | ||
161 | improvements. | ||
162 | |||
163 | <p> | ||
164 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
165 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
166 | |||
167 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
168 | <p> | ||
169 | |||
170 | |||
171 | <p> | ||
172 | <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p> | ||
173 | |||
174 | Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for | ||
175 | bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this | ||
176 | week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at | ||
177 | this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be | ||
178 | <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation | ||
179 | and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the | ||
180 | documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some | ||
181 | assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets | ||
182 | match the features listed in the documentation. | ||
183 | |||
184 | <p> | ||
185 | I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but | ||
186 | <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796"> | ||
187 | another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy... | ||
188 | |||
189 | <p> | ||
190 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
191 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
192 | |||
193 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
194 | <p> | ||
195 | |||
196 | |||
197 | <p> | ||
198 | <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p> | ||
199 | |||
200 | Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send | ||
201 | in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will | ||
202 | be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see | ||
203 | supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, | ||
204 | please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release | ||
205 | out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre | ||
206 | series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you | ||
207 | spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the | ||
208 | busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could | ||
209 | help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be | ||
210 | especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the | ||
211 | various applets match the features listed in the documentation. | ||
212 | |||
213 | <p> | ||
214 | |||
215 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. | ||
216 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
217 | |||
218 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
219 | <p> | ||
220 | |||
221 | |||
222 | <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p> | ||
223 | |||
224 | There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a | ||
225 | number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out | ||
226 | properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one | ||
227 | problem. In addition, this release fixes several other | ||
228 | problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing | ||
229 | the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates | ||
230 | from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still | ||
231 | aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to | ||
232 | the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have | ||
233 | suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the | ||
234 | busybox mailing list. | ||
235 | |||
236 | <p> | ||
237 | |||
238 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
239 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
240 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
241 | |||
242 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
243 | <p> | ||
244 | |||
245 | |||
246 | <p> | ||
247 | <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p> | ||
248 | |||
249 | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
250 | series. This release adds a number of size optimizations, | ||
251 | updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash | ||
252 | and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of | ||
253 | bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be | ||
254 | settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing | ||
255 | perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and | ||
256 | move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any | ||
257 | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please | ||
258 | feel free to email the busybox mailing list. | ||
259 | |||
260 | <p> | ||
261 | |||
262 | People who rely on the <a href= "downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a> | ||
263 | should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x | ||
264 | series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now | ||
265 | only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use | ||
266 | the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please | ||
267 | adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly. | ||
268 | |||
269 | <p> | ||
270 | |||
271 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
272 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
273 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
274 | |||
275 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
276 | <p> | ||
277 | |||
278 | |||
279 | <p> | ||
280 | <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p> | ||
281 | |||
282 | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
283 | series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for | ||
284 | a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working | ||
285 | properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This | ||
286 | release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp, | ||
287 | fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like | ||
288 | the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x | ||
289 | modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete | ||
290 | 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and | ||
291 | a few other odd fixes. | ||
292 | |||
293 | <p> | ||
294 | |||
295 | If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as | ||
296 | always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox | ||
297 | mailing list. | ||
298 | |||
299 | <p> | ||
300 | |||
301 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
302 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
303 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
304 | |||
305 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
306 | <p> | ||
307 | |||
308 | |||
309 | |||
310 | <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p> | ||
311 | |||
312 | Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
313 | series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of | ||
314 | rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new | ||
315 | devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to | ||
316 | the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a | ||
317 | common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons | ||
318 | of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the | ||
319 | testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big | ||
320 | thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and | ||
321 | helping get patches merged! | ||
322 | |||
323 | <p> | ||
324 | |||
325 | And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed | ||
326 | the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully | ||
327 | things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any | ||
328 | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel | ||
329 | free to send an email to the busybox mailing list. | ||
330 | |||
331 | <p> | ||
332 | |||
333 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
334 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
335 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
336 | |||
337 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
338 | |||
339 | |||
340 | |||
341 | <p> | ||
342 | <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p> | ||
343 | |||
344 | Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
345 | series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under | ||
346 | testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number | ||
347 | of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all | ||
348 | the testing, bug reports, and patches! | ||
349 | |||
350 | <p> | ||
351 | |||
352 | If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox | ||
353 | mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your | ||
354 | patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has | ||
355 | somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. | ||
356 | Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox | ||
357 | mailing list! | ||
358 | |||
359 | <p> | ||
360 | |||
361 | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of | ||
362 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be | ||
363 | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature | ||
364 | (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO | ||
365 | list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the | ||
366 | modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have | ||
367 | patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be | ||
368 | integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports | ||
369 | a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit | ||
370 | more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x | ||
371 | module loading alone. | ||
372 | |||
373 | <p> | ||
374 | |||
375 | I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of | ||
376 | course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of | ||
377 | <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> | ||
378 | out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for | ||
379 | stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am | ||
380 | not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0 | ||
381 | -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September... | ||
382 | But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or | ||
383 | exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon | ||
384 | indeed. | ||
385 | |||
386 | <p> | ||
387 | |||
388 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
389 | the details. And as usual you can | ||
390 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
391 | |||
392 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
393 | |||
394 | |||
395 | <p> | ||
396 | <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> | ||
397 | |||
398 | Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable | ||
399 | series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of | ||
400 | testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of | ||
401 | bugs, and these problems have now been fixed. | ||
402 | |||
403 | <p> | ||
404 | |||
405 | Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up | ||
406 | with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added, | ||
407 | init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and | ||
408 | 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init. | ||
409 | an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows | ||
410 | read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the | ||
411 | 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were | ||
412 | tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed. | ||
413 | <p> | ||
414 | |||
415 | If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this | ||
416 | release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch | ||
417 | was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch. | ||
418 | That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the | ||
419 | BusyBox mailing list. | ||
420 | <p> | ||
421 | |||
422 | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of | ||
423 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be | ||
424 | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that | ||
425 | is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 | ||
426 | release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If | ||
427 | necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th. | ||
428 | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem | ||
429 | turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by | ||
430 | then... | ||
431 | <p> | ||
432 | |||
433 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
434 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
435 | |||
436 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
437 | <p> | ||
438 | |||
439 | <p> | ||
440 | <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> | ||
441 | |||
442 | The busybox development series has been under construction for | ||
443 | nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So | ||
444 | it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release | ||
445 | of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes | ||
446 | since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version | ||
447 | number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison | ||
448 | 1.0.x... | ||
449 | <p> | ||
450 | |||
451 | The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of | ||
452 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be | ||
453 | fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen | ||
454 | later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next | ||
455 | Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. | ||
456 | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns | ||
457 | up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end | ||
458 | of July. | ||
459 | <p> | ||
460 | |||
461 | If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release | ||
462 | and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was | ||
463 | rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That | ||
464 | happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches, | ||
465 | support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of | ||
466 | emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches | ||
467 | sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the | ||
468 | right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. | ||
469 | <p> | ||
470 | |||
471 | I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn | ||
472 | McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III | ||
473 | (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that | ||
474 | have made this release possible. | ||
475 | <p> | ||
476 | |||
477 | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
478 | You don't really need to bother with the | ||
479 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes | ||
480 | vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. | ||
481 | But you can take a look if you really want too. | ||
482 | |||
483 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
484 | <p> | ||
485 | |||
486 | |||
487 | |||
488 | <p> | ||
489 | <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> | ||
490 | |||
491 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) | ||
492 | is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for | ||
493 | the stable series to address all the problems that have turned | ||
494 | up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release | ||
495 | had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried | ||
496 | to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init | ||
497 | was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). | ||
498 | I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the | ||
499 | 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I | ||
500 | mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last | ||
501 | release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work | ||
502 | will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development | ||
503 | version to have its first real release very very soon now... | ||
504 | |||
505 | <p> | ||
506 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all | ||
507 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
508 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
509 | <p> | ||
510 | |||
511 | <p> | ||
512 | <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> | ||
513 | |||
514 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 | ||
515 | (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily | ||
516 | a bugfix release for the stable series to address all | ||
517 | the problems that have turned up since the last | ||
518 | release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. | ||
519 | I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done | ||
520 | on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and | ||
521 | should soon be getting its first real release. | ||
522 | |||
523 | <p> | ||
524 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all | ||
525 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
526 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
527 | <p> | ||
528 | |||
529 | |||
530 | <p> | ||
531 | <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> | ||
532 | |||
533 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is | ||
534 | now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release | ||
535 | for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since | ||
536 | the last release, and this should address most of those problems. | ||
537 | This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The | ||
538 | development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will | ||
539 | hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. | ||
540 | |||
541 | <p> | ||
542 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
543 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. | ||
544 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
545 | <p> | ||
546 | |||
547 | |||
548 | <p> | ||
549 | <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> | ||
550 | |||
551 | Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to | ||
552 | the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> | ||
553 | who are providing hosting for busybox.net and | ||
554 | uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: | ||
555 | <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> | ||
556 | in Canada and | ||
557 | <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> | ||
558 | in Germany. I hope this makes things much more | ||
559 | accessible for everyone! | ||
560 | |||
561 | |||
562 | <li> | ||
563 | <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> | ||
564 | |||
565 | <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox | ||
566 | users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net | ||
567 | (which is where you are probably reading this). | ||
568 | Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both | ||
569 | living on my home system (at the end of my DSL | ||
570 | line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of | ||
571 | busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have | ||
572 | the access needed to keep that system updated (for | ||
573 | example, you might notice the daily snapshots there | ||
574 | stopped some time ago).</p> | ||
575 | |||
576 | <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home | ||
577 | server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, | ||
578 | the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, | ||
579 | I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net | ||
580 | co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the | ||
581 | co-location effort, <a href= | ||
582 | "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> | ||
583 | (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated | ||
584 | his <a href= | ||
585 | "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer | ||
586 | for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this | ||
587 | system is co-located, the current speed problems | ||
588 | should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, | ||
589 | some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror | ||
590 | sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> | ||
591 | |||
592 | <p><!-- | ||
593 | <center> | ||
594 | Click here to help support busybox.net! | ||
595 | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> | ||
596 | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> | ||
597 | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> | ||
598 | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> | ||
599 | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg"> | ||
600 | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> | ||
601 | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> | ||
602 | </form> | ||
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604 | --> | ||
605 | Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox | ||
606 | donations, let me assure you that no one is getting | ||
607 | rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be | ||
608 | spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware | ||
609 | upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently | ||
610 | has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when | ||
611 | google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in | ||
612 | not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of | ||
613 | ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So | ||
614 | far, donations received have been sufficient to | ||
615 | cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may | ||
616 | have co-location fees to worry about, but for now | ||
617 | we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to | ||
618 | everyone that has contributed!<br> | ||
619 | -Erik</p> | ||
620 | </li> | ||
621 | |||
622 | <li> | ||
623 | <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> | ||
624 | |||
625 | <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox | ||
626 | 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This | ||
627 | one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable | ||
628 | series, and it should take care of most everyone's | ||
629 | needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have | ||
630 | been working on in CVS ready to release (with the | ||
631 | wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in | ||
632 | this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh | ||
633 | (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. | ||
634 | Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when | ||
635 | told to do complex things with backticks.</p> | ||
636 | |||
637 | <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and | ||
638 | powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it | ||
639 | should work with just about any Linux system you | ||
640 | throw it at. See the <a href= | ||
641 | "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most | ||
642 | of</small> the details. The last release was | ||
643 | <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should | ||
644 | be even better.</p> | ||
645 | |||
646 | <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from | ||
647 | <a href= | ||
648 | "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> | ||
649 | |||
650 | <p>Have Fun.<br> | ||
651 | -Erik</p> | ||
652 | </li> | ||
653 | |||
654 | <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> | ||
655 | |||
656 | <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> | ||
657 | <center> | ||
658 | Click here to help buy busybox.net! | ||
659 | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> | ||
660 | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> | ||
661 | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> | ||
662 | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> | ||
663 | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> | ||
664 | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> | ||
665 | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> | ||
666 | </form> | ||
667 | </center> | ||
668 | <!-- End PayPal Logo --> | ||
669 | |||
670 | I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing | ||
671 | to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but | ||
672 | will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee | ||
673 | for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will | ||
674 | initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my | ||
675 | home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, | ||
676 | but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth | ||
677 | I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there | ||
678 | have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't | ||
679 | even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the | ||
680 | time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this | ||
681 | bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I | ||
682 | start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth | ||
683 | will start costing some money. | ||
684 | <p> | ||
685 | |||
686 | I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that | ||
687 | idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument | ||
688 | where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas | ||
689 | about what we should spend our money on that don't involve | ||
690 | busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the | ||
691 | mailing list and web page. So... | ||
692 | <p> | ||
693 | |||
694 | I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick | ||
695 | up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I | ||
696 | know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as | ||
697 | individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to | ||
698 | contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that | ||
699 | would be wonderful! | ||
700 | <p> | ||
701 | |||
702 | |||
703 | <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> | ||
704 | <br> | ||
705 | |||
706 | This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes | ||
707 | up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in | ||
708 | the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> | ||
709 | serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no | ||
710 | new features, no new applets. So without further ado, | ||
711 | here it is. Come and get it. | ||
712 | <p> | ||
713 | The | ||
714 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
715 | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from | ||
716 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
717 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
718 | <p> | ||
719 | |||
720 | |||
721 | <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> | ||
722 | <br> | ||
723 | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of | ||
724 | BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, | ||
725 | and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on | ||
726 | x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number | ||
727 | of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. | ||
728 | Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice | ||
729 | stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes | ||
730 | a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and | ||
731 | cleans up a number of things. | ||
732 | |||
733 | <p> | ||
734 | |||
735 | Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can | ||
736 | use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> | ||
737 | to give it a try by downloading and compiling | ||
738 | <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. | ||
739 | You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. | ||
740 | Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. | ||
741 | <p> | ||
742 | Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> | ||
743 | BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires | ||
744 | a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the | ||
745 | the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> | ||
746 | to view the tutorial. | ||
747 | <p> | ||
748 | |||
749 | Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the | ||
750 | version number of this release, let me point out that this release | ||
751 | is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a | ||
752 | bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form | ||
753 | a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a | ||
754 | stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable | ||
755 | 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then | ||
756 | 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that | ||
757 | the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the | ||
758 | next release and I don't want that to break products that people | ||
759 | are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be | ||
760 | released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will | ||
761 | have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things | ||
762 | stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then | ||
763 | I will release that as a new stable release series. | ||
764 | |||
765 | <p> | ||
766 | The | ||
767 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all | ||
768 | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from | ||
769 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
770 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
771 | <p> | ||
772 | |||
773 | |||
774 | <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> | ||
775 | <br> | ||
776 | |||
777 | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of | ||
778 | BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This | ||
779 | release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons | ||
780 | of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds | ||
781 | several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, | ||
782 | and ash). | ||
783 | |||
784 | <p> | ||
785 | The | ||
786 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers | ||
787 | some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that | ||
788 | are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, | ||
789 | BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from | ||
790 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
791 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
792 | <p> | ||
793 | |||
794 | |||
795 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> | ||
796 | <br> | ||
797 | The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth | ||
798 | of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / | ||
799 | viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. | ||
800 | |||
801 | <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you | ||
802 | can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively | ||
803 | turning off whichever applets you don't need.) | ||
804 | <p> | ||
805 | |||
806 | |||
807 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> | ||
808 | <br> | ||
809 | |||
810 | BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This | ||
811 | release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, | ||
812 | contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only | ||
813 | 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. | ||
814 | There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in | ||
815 | the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in | ||
816 | 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially | ||
817 | deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. | ||
818 | <p> | ||
819 | |||
820 | There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For | ||
821 | one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov | ||
822 | added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC | ||
823 | compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility | ||
824 | functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now | ||
825 | all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes | ||
826 | maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now | ||
827 | compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters | ||
828 | for letting me use their system!). | ||
829 | <p> | ||
830 | You can read the | ||
831 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for | ||
832 | complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from | ||
833 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. | ||
834 | <p>Have Fun! | ||
835 | <p> | ||
836 | |||
837 | <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> | ||
838 | |||
839 | <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= | ||
840 | "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy | ||
841 | image</a>. Here's how you use it: | ||
842 | |||
843 | <ol> | ||
844 | |||
845 | <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> | ||
846 | Download the image</a> | ||
847 | |||
848 | <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img | ||
849 | of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> | ||
850 | |||
851 | <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. | ||
852 | |||
853 | </ol> | ||
854 | |||
855 | <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: | ||
856 | |||
857 | <pre> | ||
858 | mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos | ||
859 | cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp | ||
860 | umount /mnt | ||
861 | gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz | ||
862 | mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix | ||
863 | </pre> | ||
864 | |||
865 | |||
866 | <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> | ||
867 | <br> | ||
868 | |||
869 | This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, | ||
870 | and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the | ||
871 | shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable | ||
872 | expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made | ||
873 | smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the | ||
874 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
875 | <p> | ||
876 | lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it | ||
877 | now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as | ||
878 | long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. | ||
879 | Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and | ||
880 | environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that | ||
881 | this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible | ||
882 | framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of | ||
883 | business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell | ||
884 | currently in progress at | ||
885 | <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. | ||
886 | <p> | ||
887 | |||
888 | |||
889 | <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> | ||
890 | <br> | ||
891 | |||
892 | Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller | ||
893 | things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. | ||
894 | For a list of the most interesting changes | ||
895 | you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
896 | <p> | ||
897 | Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their | ||
898 | work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been | ||
899 | out of town. | ||
900 | <p> | ||
901 | <em>Special Note</em><br> | ||
902 | |||
903 | BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox | ||
904 | shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. | ||
905 | Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new | ||
906 | shell that will eventually replace lash is already under | ||
907 | construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry | ||
908 | Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in | ||
909 | progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> | ||
910 | and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next | ||
911 | release of BusyBox. | ||
912 | <p> | ||
913 | |||
914 | <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> | ||
915 | <br> | ||
916 | |||
917 | This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very | ||
918 | rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar | ||
919 | update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is | ||
920 | optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know | ||
921 | that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are | ||
922 | now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox | ||
923 | shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian | ||
924 | woody) a .udeb can now be generated. | ||
925 | <p> | ||
926 | The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading | ||
927 | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
928 | <p> | ||
929 | Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to | ||
930 | this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. | ||
931 | <p> | ||
932 | <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> | ||
933 | <br> | ||
934 | |||
935 | This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 | ||
936 | syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new | ||
937 | apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, | ||
938 | renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. | ||
939 | There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for | ||
940 | more correct option parsing. | ||
941 | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> | ||
942 | for complete details. | ||
943 | |||
944 | |||
945 | <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> | ||
946 | <br> | ||
947 | |||
948 | This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, | ||
949 | and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow | ||
950 | people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a | ||
951 | completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. | ||
952 | BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. | ||
953 | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> | ||
954 | for complete details. | ||
955 | |||
956 | |||
957 | <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> | ||
958 | <br> | ||
959 | |||
960 | This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this | ||
961 | point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This | ||
962 | release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, | ||
963 | mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and | ||
964 | telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see | ||
965 | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for | ||
966 | details). | ||
967 | <p> | ||
968 | Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own | ||
969 | <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, | ||
970 | publically browsable | ||
971 | <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, | ||
972 | anonymous | ||
973 | <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and | ||
974 | for those that are actively contributing there is even | ||
975 | <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. | ||
976 | I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. | ||
977 | <p> | ||
978 | Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced | ||
979 | a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion | ||
980 | we are just skipping 0.44. | ||
981 | <p> | ||
982 | Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release | ||
983 | of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! | ||
984 | |||
985 | |||
986 | <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> | ||
987 | <br> | ||
988 | Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. | ||
989 | For example, with the following test app: | ||
990 | <pre> | ||
991 | #include <syslog.h> | ||
992 | |||
993 | int do_log(char* msg, int delay) | ||
994 | { | ||
995 | openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); | ||
996 | while(1) { | ||
997 | syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); | ||
998 | sleep(delay); | ||
999 | } | ||
1000 | closelog(); | ||
1001 | return(0); | ||
1002 | }; | ||
1003 | |||
1004 | int main(void) | ||
1005 | { | ||
1006 | if (fork()==0) | ||
1007 | do_log("A", 2); | ||
1008 | do_log("B", 3); | ||
1009 | } | ||
1010 | </pre> | ||
1011 | it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff | ||
1012 | from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something | ||
1013 | while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). | ||
1014 | <p> | ||
1015 | Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. | ||
1016 | Thanks Karl! | ||
1017 | |||
1018 | |||
1019 | <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> | ||
1020 | <br> | ||
1021 | I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty | ||
1022 | good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release | ||
1023 | so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps | ||
1024 | have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, | ||
1025 | freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely | ||
1026 | rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. | ||
1027 | More details are available in the | ||
1028 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. | ||
1029 | Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive | ||
1030 | <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. | ||
1031 | |||
1032 | <p> | ||
1033 | Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches | ||
1034 | and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were | ||
1035 | Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, | ||
1036 | Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. | ||
1037 | There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. | ||
1038 | <p> | ||
1039 | |||
1040 | You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. | ||
1041 | |||
1042 | <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> | ||
1043 | <br> | ||
1044 | Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to | ||
1045 | do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people | ||
1046 | to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at | ||
1047 | 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing | ||
1048 | tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw | ||
1049 | at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because | ||
1050 | the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release | ||
1051 | of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable | ||
1052 | enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural | ||
1053 | changes I still want to make. | ||
1054 | <p> | ||
1055 | The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. | ||
1056 | Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. | ||
1057 | |||
1058 | <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> | ||
1059 | <br> | ||
1060 | I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 | ||
1061 | lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. | ||
1062 | He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and | ||
1063 | it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the | ||
1064 | fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody | ||
1065 | and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife | ||
1066 | (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying | ||
1067 | down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" | ||
1068 | (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the | ||
1069 | contrary). | ||
1070 | <p> | ||
1071 | Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting | ||
1072 | labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. | ||
1073 | <p> | ||
1074 | So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... | ||
1075 | Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect | ||
1076 | to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will | ||
1077 | include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a | ||
1078 | re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now | ||
1079 | accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking | ||
1080 | problems. | ||
1081 | |||
1082 | |||
1083 | <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> | ||
1084 | <br> | ||
1085 | |||
1086 | This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many | ||
1087 | bugs have been fixed. See the | ||
1088 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. | ||
1089 | |||
1090 | Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount | ||
1091 | filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and | ||
1092 | behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak | ||
1093 | loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, | ||
1094 | Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for | ||
1095 | their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound | ||
1096 | on it and let me know if you find any bugs. | ||
1097 | |||
1098 | <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> | ||
1099 | <br> | ||
1100 | |||
1101 | This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, | ||
1102 | mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, | ||
1103 | logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device | ||
1104 | support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. | ||
1105 | The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. | ||
1106 | |||
1107 | <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> | ||
1108 | <br> | ||
1109 | |||
1110 | This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), | ||
1111 | syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. | ||
1112 | New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. | ||
1113 | In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which | ||
1114 | in some cases produced serious security problems. | ||
1115 | As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. | ||
1116 | |||
1117 | <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> | ||
1118 | <br> | ||
1119 | I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) | ||
1120 | to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website | ||
1121 | will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also | ||
1122 | contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, | ||
1123 | what arguments its apps support, etc. | ||
1124 | |||
1125 | <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> | ||
1126 | <br> | ||
1127 | This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains | ||
1128 | the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full | ||
1129 | changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. | ||
1130 | <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> | ||
1131 | <br> | ||
1132 | This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, | ||
1133 | and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. | ||
1134 | |||
1135 | |||
1136 | </ul> | ||
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