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diff --git a/release/src/router/busybox/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html b/release/src/router/busybox/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html index 0dbf993a..444af74a 100755..100644 --- a/release/src/router/busybox/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html +++ b/release/src/router/busybox/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html @@ -1,824 +1,2214 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<!--#include file="header.html" --> -<HTML> -<HEAD> -<TITLE>BusyBox</TITLE> -</HEAD> +<h3>News archive</h3> -<body text="#000000" alink="#660000" link="#660000" bgcolor="#dee2de" vlink="#660000"> +<ul> -<basefont face="lucida, helvetica, arial" size="3"> + <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> + text data bss dec hex filename + 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4 + 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0 +</pre> + <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova), + fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Reutner-Fischer) + + <p>Changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li> + <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li> + <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li> + <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li> + <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li> + <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li> + <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li> + <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li> + <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li> + <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li> + <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li> + <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li> + <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li> + <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li> + <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li> + <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li> + <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li> + <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li> + <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li> + <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li> + <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li> + <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li> + <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> + </ul> + <p> + The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact + the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> + <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support + for the BusyBox project: + </p> + <ul> + <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html"> + TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li> + <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided + a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start"> + Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. + <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a> + is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. + If you are an embedded device developer, + please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available + for download for this board. Visit + <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> + for more information. + </li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p> + Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, + ip, mdev and syslogd. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p> + Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof, + start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system. + <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please + report if you encounter any problems with it. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p> + Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for + fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. + </li> + + <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> + text data bss dec hex filename + 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 + 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 +</pre> + <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> +busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: +echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 +bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 +discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 +discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 +echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 +discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 +find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 +readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 +ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 +iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 +</pre> -<CENTER> - <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=2> - <TR> - <td bgcolor="#000000"> - <FONT FACE="lucida, helvetica" COLOR="#ccccc0"> - <B>B u s y B o x</B> - </FONT> - </TD> - </TR> - </TABLE> - <a href="/"><IMG SRC="images/busybox2.jpg" alt="BusyBox" border="0" width="360" height="230"</a><BR> + <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), + findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), + lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), + sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. + </p> + <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. + </p> + <p>Changes since previous release: + </p> + <ul> + <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li> + <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li> + <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li> + <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li> + <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li> + <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li> + <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li> + <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li> + <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li> + <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li> + <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li> + <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li> + <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li> + <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li> + <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li> + <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li> + <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li> + <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li> + <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li> + <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li> + <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li> + <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li> + <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li> + <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li> + <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li> + <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li> + <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li> + <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li> + <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li> + <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li> + <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li> + <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li> + <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li> + <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li> + <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li> + <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li> + <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li> + <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li> + <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li> + <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li> + <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> + <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li> + <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li> + <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li> + <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li> + <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li> + <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li> + <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> + <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> + <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li> + <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li> + <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li> + <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li> + <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li> + <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li> + <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li> + <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li> + <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li> + <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li> + <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li> + <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li> + <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li> + <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li> + <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li> + <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li> + <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li> + <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li> + <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li> + <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li> + <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li> + <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li> + <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li> + <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li> + <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li> + <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li> + <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li> + <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li> + <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li> + <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li> + <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li> + <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li> + <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li> + <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li> + <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li> + <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li> + <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li> + <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li> + <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li> + <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li> + <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li> + <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li> + <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li> + <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li> + <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li> + <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li> + <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li> + <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li> + <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li> + <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li> + <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li> + <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li> + <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li> + <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li> + <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li> + <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li> + <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li> + <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li> + <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li> + <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li> + <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li> + <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li> + <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li> + <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li> + <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li> + <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li> + <li>vi: many fixes</li> + <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li> + <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> + <p> + Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations + for future hot patches are in parentheses. + <p> + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>), + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>), + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>), + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>). + <p> + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a> + </p> + + + <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck, + iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p> + <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is + inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork). + The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.0</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> + text data bss dec hex filename + 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2 + 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0 +</pre> + <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> +busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0: +input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116 +umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112 +rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096 +xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096 +sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096 +mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096 +mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096 +grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 +unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 +parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152 +</pre> + <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost + the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works + on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU, + though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush. + + <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes + problems for you. + + <p>Changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>Build system improvements + <li>Testsuite additions + <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions + <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both + <li>New applets: hd, sestatus + <li>Removed applets: lash + <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins + <li>init: simplify forking of children + <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed + <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root + <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets + (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) + <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for + (Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>) + <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping) + (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>) + <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length + <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths + <li>vi: Del key works + <li>sed: support GNUism '\t' + <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying + <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy + <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd + <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too + <li>netstat: wide output mode + <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth <masta at perlgolf.de>) + <li>test: become NOFORK applet + <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>) + <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) + <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.4</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>These are bugfix-only releases. + 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system. + 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.1</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.0</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush. + + <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x: + <p>httpd: + <ul> + <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd + <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length + <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau) + <li>optional support for partial downloads + <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me) + <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) + <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) + </ul> + + <p>top: + <ul> + <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command + <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1) + <li>fix for command line wrapping + </ul> + + <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles). + + <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre> +Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds: + text data bss dec hex filename + 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox + 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre> + + <p>New applets: + <ul> + <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru> + <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> + <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code + <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> + <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + </ul> + + <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): + <ul> + <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat) + <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion + <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link + <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T + <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement + <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat) + <li>wget: allow dots in header field names + <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits + <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us + <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing + <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly + <li>hush: fix glob() + <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us + <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection + <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) + <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good + <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points + <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only) + <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match + <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files + <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov) + <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b + <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too) + <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> + <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec + <li>less: make 'f' key page forward + <li>libiproute: add missing break statements + <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first + <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth + <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>) + <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64 + <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time + <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> + <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i + <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines + <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>) + <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C + <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> + <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked) + <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes) + <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled + <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API) + <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK + <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug + <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there + <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too + <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket + <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read() + <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>) + <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) + <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name + <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug + <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes + <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs + <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences + <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms) + <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.3</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.2</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.1</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.0</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x: + <p>httpd: + <ul> + <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) + <li>indexer example is rewritten in C + <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) + <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads + <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs + <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT + <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) + <li>add support for Status: CGI header + <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd) + <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me... + </ul> + + <p>udhcp[cd]: + <ul> + <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options + <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug + <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB)) + <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order + <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines + <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt() + <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing + </ul> + + <p>top, ps, killall, pidof: + <ul> + <li>simpler loadavg processing + <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars + <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu) + <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code + <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) + <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!) + <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable + <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display + <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense + </ul> + + <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need, + generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link + scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things). + + <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre> +Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds: + text data bss dec hex filename + 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox + 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox + 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld + +Same .config built against static uclibc: + 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre> + + <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode, + test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode, + runit/*, in libbb. + + <p>New applets: + <ul> + <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) + <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>) + <li>slattach, ttysize + </ul> + + <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled + by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing + qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website) + for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine. + + <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): + <ul> + <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) + <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> + <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed + <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output) + <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login + <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) + <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters + <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty) + <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) + <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning) + <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling + <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message + <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version) + <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified + <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> + <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo + <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset + <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>) + <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find + <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) + <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one + <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing + <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) + <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) + <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack + <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255 + <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable + <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...) + <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir + <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>) + <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off + <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options + <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> + <li>login: optional support for PAM + <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes) + <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames + <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum + <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading + <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off + <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>) + <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca> + <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr) + <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd" + <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling + <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) + <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision. + <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>) + <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6 + <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>) + <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) + <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code + <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case + <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) + <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com> + <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV + <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that + <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing + <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process + <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644 + <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable + <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"' + <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com> + <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> + <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes + <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width + <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.1</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.0</a>. + (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" + label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p> + <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now, + but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please + report any such cases.</p> + <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0 + and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p> + <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> + <p>Other changes since previous release: + <ul> +<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places +<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs +<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action +<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU +<li>SELinux: load_policy applet +<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>) +<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito) +<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) +<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling +<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore +<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337 +<li>awk: guard against empty environment +<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller) +<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens +<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text +<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>) +<li>cttyhack: new applet +<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>) +<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) +<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N +<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>) +<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged +<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>) +<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes +<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes) +<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it +<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code +<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) +<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa) +<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it +<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) +<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array +<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>) +<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>) +<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links +<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused +<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se> +<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>) +<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier +<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp +<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> +<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file) +<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off +<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b +<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array() +<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter +<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes) +<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes) +<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin +<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd +<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. +<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH) +<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) +<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets +<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop +<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe +<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL +<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable +<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y) +<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use +<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions +<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file +<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them +<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!) +<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes +<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes) +<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that) +<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 +<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox +<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets +<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes +<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore +<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice +<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373) +<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer) +<li>run_parts: rewrite +<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> +<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f +<li>split: new applet +<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas +<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>) +<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM +<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N" +<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/ +<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction +<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken +<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it +<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair +<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize +<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management +<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.1</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps + and sed.</p> + </li> + + <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.0</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" + label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p> + <p>Notable changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm + <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module + <li>ping[6]: unified code for both + <li>less: regex search improved + <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added + <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed + <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX) + <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again + <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them + <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files + <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes) + <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs + <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir, + not only in /cgi-bin/ + <li>chrt: new applet + <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets, + new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon. + <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch + improper usage of string constants. + <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU + targets. + <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize, + sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp + <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock, + udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp + <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix, + syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.2</a>. + </p> + + <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.1</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/">patches</a>)</p> + + <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.0</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/">patches</a>)</p> + + <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable" + than usual.</p> + <p>Changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain, + the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because + it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can + ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up. + <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files + (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars + don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy + anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input + as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it + for general use now. + <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are + upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is + already much better than what we had previously. + <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman). + <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90% + of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it). + <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten. + <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit. + <li>sed: better hadling of NULs + <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output + <li>chown: user.grp works again. + <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar, + ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,... + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p> + + <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1 + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.1</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/">patches</a>)</p> + + <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0 + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.0</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/">patches</a>)</p> + + <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features + needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod + and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly + bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make + busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly + adventurous desktop users. + <p>Changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>find: taking many more of standard options + <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented + <li>cp: added -s, -l + <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h + <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally + incompatible) + <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage + on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers + (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs. + Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks). + <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for + directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes. + <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support, + other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb. + <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/ + (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys) + <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp, + fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod. + </ul> + <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different. + 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p> + + <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc + produces buggy executables. + </li> + + <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b> + <p>It's a bit overdue, but + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2">here is + BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p> + + <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development + branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation + generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix + umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by + name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev + delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault + in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build + fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test + fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in + modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf + foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the + terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in + ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in + gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning + fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p> + + <p>As <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/">Linux Weekly News noted</a>, + this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis + Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href="http://landley.net/code">other things</a>. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b> + <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact + the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p> + + <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b> + <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I + might as well point you all at + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox + 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p> + + <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without + saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and + one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three + embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks + (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the + libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated + tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge + in a pear... Ahem.</p> + + <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty + gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains + the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return + value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent + a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from + switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather + than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that + /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf + in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p> + + <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b> + <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox + 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog + over the weekend.</p> + + <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development + cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to + try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time + we fix enough bugs. :)</p> + + <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> + + <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox + 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a + memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes + mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill + background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a + timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could + segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p> + + <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> + + <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b> + <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 + backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes + for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for + find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball + for more info.</p> + + <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3 + will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is + to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable + bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p> + + <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> + <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox + maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and + uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation + by Erik's father's law firm, and the + <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't + scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads + together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of + <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She + referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> + + <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the + <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> + has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other + free and open source software projects (such as + <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, + <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and + <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a> + in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a + phrase you get to use every day.</p> + + <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> + <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> + <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, + the various small fixes have been collected together into a + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, + and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around + June.</p> + </li> + <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> + <p>The new stable release is + <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox + 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets. + (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>, + but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how + that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p> + + <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b> + <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so + you can now + <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>, + the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of + <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new + functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of + several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more + <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards + compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're + still working out the <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p> + + <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b> + + <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox + 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred + <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small + fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p> + + <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p> + + Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The + developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep + in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own + name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report + from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the + <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a> + to post all the gory details. -<TABLE WIDTH=95% CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1> + <p> -<!-- Begin Older News section --> + The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch + is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch + to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is + properly considered. -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> - <A NAME="news"> - <BIG><B> - Older BusyBox News</A> - </B></BIG> - </A> -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> -<ul> + <p> + <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p> - <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b> - <hr> - - - <p> - <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> - - The busybox development series has been under construction for - nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So - it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release - of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes - since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version - number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison - 1.0.x... - <p> - - The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of - people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be - fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen - later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next - Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. - Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns - up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end - of July. - <p> - - If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release - and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was - rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That - happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches, - support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of - emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches - sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the - right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. - <p> - - I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn - McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III - (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that - have made this release possible. - <p> - - As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. - You don't really need to bother with the - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes - vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. - But you can take a look if you really want too. - - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - - - <p> - <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> - - I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) - is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for - the stable series to address all the problems that have turned - up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release - had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried - to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init - was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). - I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the - 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I - mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last - release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work - will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development - version to have its first real release very very soon now... - - <p> - The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all - the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - <p> - <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> - - I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 - (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily - a bugfix release for the stable series to address all - the problems that have turned up since the last - release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. - I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done - on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and - should soon be getting its first real release. - - <p> - The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all - the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - - <p> - <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> - - I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is - now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release - for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since - the last release, and this should address most of those problems. - This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The - development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will - hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. - - <p> - The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all - the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - - <p> - <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> - - Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to - the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> - who are providing hosting for busybox.net and - uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: - <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> - in Canada and - <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> - in Germany. I hope this makes things much more - accessible for everyone! - - - <li> - <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> - - <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox - users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net - (which is where you are probably reading this). - Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both - living on my home system (at the end of my DSL - line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of - busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have - the access needed to keep that system updated (for - example, you might notice the daily snapshots there - stopped some time ago).</p> - - <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home - server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, - the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, - I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net - co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the - co-location effort, <a href= - "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> - (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated - his <a href= - "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer - for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this - system is co-located, the current speed problems - should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, - some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror - sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> - - <p><!-- - <center> - Click here to help support busybox.net! - <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> - <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> - <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> - <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> - <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg"> - <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> - <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> - </form> - </center> - --> - Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox - donations, let me assure you that no one is getting - rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be - spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware - upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently - has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when - google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in - not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of - ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So - far, donations received have been sufficient to - cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may - have co-location fees to worry about, but for now - we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to - everyone that has contributed!<br> - -Erik</p> - </li> - - <li> - <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> - - <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox - 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This - one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable - series, and it should take care of most everyone's - needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have - been working on in CVS ready to release (with the - wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in - this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh - (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. - Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when - told to do complex things with backticks.</p> - - <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and - powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it - should work with just about any Linux system you - throw it at. See the <a href= - "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most - of</small> the details. The last release was - <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should - be even better.</p> - - <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from - <a href= - "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> - - <p>Have Fun.<br> - -Erik</p> - </li> - - <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> - - <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> - <center> - Click here to help buy busybox.net! - <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> - <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> - <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> - <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> - <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> - <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> - <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> - </form> - </center> - <!-- End PayPal Logo --> - - I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing - to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but - will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee - for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will - initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my - home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, - but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth - I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there - have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't - even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the - time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this - bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I - start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth - will start costing some money. - <p> - - I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that - idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument - where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas - about what we should spend our money on that don't involve - busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the - mailing list and web page. So... - <p> - - I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick - up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I - know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as - individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to - contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that - would be wonderful! - <p> - - - <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> - <br> - - This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes - up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in - the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> - serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no - new features, no new applets. So without further ado, - here it is. Come and get it. - <p> - The - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all - the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from - <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - - <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> - <br> - I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of - BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, - and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on - x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number - of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. - Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice - stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes - a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and - cleans up a number of things. - - <p> - - Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can - use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> - to give it a try by downloading and compiling - <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. - You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. - Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. - <p> - Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> - BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires - a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the - the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> - to view the tutorial. - <p> - - Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the - version number of this release, let me point out that this release - is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a - bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form - a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a - stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable - 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then - 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that - the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the - next release and I don't want that to break products that people - are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be - released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will - have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things - stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then - I will release that as a new stable release series. - - <p> - The - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all - the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from - <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - - <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> - <br> - - I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of - BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This - release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons - of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds - several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, - and ash). - - <p> - The - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers - some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that - are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, - BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from - <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - - <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> - <br> - The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth - of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / - viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. - - <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you - can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively - turning off whichever applets you don't need.) - <p> - - - <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> - <br> - - BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This - release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, - contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only - 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. - There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in - the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in - 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially - deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. - <p> - - There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For - one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov - added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC - compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility - functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now - all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes - maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now - compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters - for letting me use their system!). - <p> - You can read the - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for - complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from - <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> - - <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= - "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy - image</a>. Here's how you use it: - - <ol> - - <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> - Download the image</a> - - <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img - of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> - - <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. - - </ol> - - <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: - - <pre> - mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos - cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp - umount /mnt - gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz - mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix - </pre> - - - <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> - <br> - - This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, - and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the - shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable - expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made - smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. - <p> - lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it - now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as - long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. - Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and - environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that - this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible - framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of - business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell - currently in progress at - <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. - <p> - - - <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> - <br> - - Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller - things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. - For a list of the most interesting changes - you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. - <p> - Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their - work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been - out of town. - <p> - <em>Special Note</em><br> - - BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox - shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. - Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new - shell that will eventually replace lash is already under - construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry - Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in - progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> - and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next - release of BusyBox. - <p> - - <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> - <br> - - This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very - rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar - update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is - optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know - that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are - now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox - shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian - woody) a .udeb can now be generated. - <p> - The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading - the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. - <p> - Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to - this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. - <p> - <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> - <br> - - This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 - syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new - apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, - renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. - There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for - more correct option parsing. - See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> - for complete details. - - - <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> - <br> - - This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, - and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow - people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a - completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. - BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. - See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> - for complete details. - - - <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> - <br> - - This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this - point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This - release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, - mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and - telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see - the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for - details). - <p> - Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own - <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, - publically browsable - <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, - anonymous - <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and - for those that are actively contributing there is even - <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. - I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. - <p> - Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced - a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion - we are just skipping 0.44. - <p> - Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release - of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! - - - <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> - <br> - Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. - For example, with the following test app: -<pre> - #include <syslog.h> - - int do_log(char* msg, int delay) - { - openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); - while(1) { - syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); - sleep(delay); - } - closelog(); - return(0); - }; - - int main(void) - { - if (fork()==0) - do_log("A", 2); - do_log("B", 3); - } -</pre> - it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff - from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something - while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). - <p> - Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. - Thanks Karl! - - - <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> - <br> - I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty - good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release - so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps - have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, - freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely - rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. - More details are available in the - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. - Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive - <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. - - <p> - Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches - and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were - Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, - Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. - There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. - <p> - - You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. - - <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> - <br> - Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to - do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people - to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at - 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing - tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw - at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because - the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release - of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable - enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural - changes I still want to make. - <p> - The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. - Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. - - <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> - <br> - I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 - lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. - He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and - it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the - fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody - and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife - (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying - down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" - (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the - contrary). - <p> - Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting - labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. - <p> - So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... - Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect - to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will - include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a - re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now - accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking - problems. - - - <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> - <br> - - This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many - bugs have been fixed. See the - <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. - - Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount - filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and - behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak - loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, - Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for - their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound - on it and let me know if you find any bugs. - - <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> - <br> - - This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, - mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, - logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device - support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. - The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. - - <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> - <br> - - This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), - syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. - New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. - In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which - in some cases produced serious security problems. - As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. - - <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> - <br> - I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) - to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website - will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also - contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, - what arguments its apps support, etc. - - <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> - <br> - This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains - the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full - changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. - <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> - <br> - This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, - and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. -</ul> + When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or + software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox. + With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and + who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices + is looking very bright. + <p> -<!-- Begin Links section --> + It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every + device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date. + The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived! -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> - <A NAME="links"> - <BIG><B> - Important Links</A> - </B></BIG> - </A> -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> + <p> -<ul> + Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous + improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux + KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel), + Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development + work and testing of thousands of people from around the world. - <li> <a href="/">Take me back to http://busybox.net/</a>. <p> - <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/"> - Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br> - The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written - by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website. + If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to + BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device + or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is + right for your application. If you need help getting started using + BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug + and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a + href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>. + <p> - <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html"> - Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> + As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + <li><b>Old News</b><p> + <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> -</ul> + <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p> + + Here goes release candidate 3... + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. + And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + + <p> + <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p> + + Here goes release candidate 2... + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. + And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + + <p> + <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p> + + Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems + that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of + kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better. + <p> + + I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real + reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as + is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for + everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting, + it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well. + There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with + it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while + there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work + is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door.... + <p> + + Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this + time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a + bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you + explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch + has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your + bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]" + at the beginning of the email subject line! + + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. + And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + + <p> + On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away + yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about + 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I + could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a + href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation + as scheduled. + <p> + As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come + to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS + this year. + <p> + + + <p> + <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p> + + Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox + pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b> + want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not + bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only + bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if + people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit + improvements. + + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. + And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + <p> + <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p> + + Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for + bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this + week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at + this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be + <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation + and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the + documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some + assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets + match the features listed in the documentation. + + <p> + I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but + <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796"> + another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy... + + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. + And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + <p> + <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p> + + Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send + in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will + be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see + supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, + please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release + out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre + series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you + spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the + busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could + help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be + especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the + various applets match the features listed in the documentation. + + <p> + + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. + And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p> + + There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a + number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out + properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one + problem. In addition, this release fixes several other + problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing + the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates + from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still + aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to + the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have + suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the + busybox mailing list. + + <p> + + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. And as usual you can + <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + <p> + <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p> + + Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable + series. This release adds a number of size optimizations, + updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash + and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of + bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be + settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing + perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and + move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any + problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please + feel free to email the busybox mailing list. + + <p> + + People who rely on the <a href="downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a> + should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x + series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now + only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use + the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please + adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly. + + <p> + + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. And as usual you can + <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + <p> + <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p> + + Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable + series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for + a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working + properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This + release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp, + fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like + the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x + modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete + 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and + a few other odd fixes. + + <p> + + If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as + always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox + mailing list. + + <p> + + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. And as usual you can + <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + + <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p> + + Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable + series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of + rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new + devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to + the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a + common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons + of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the + testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big + thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and + helping get patches merged! + + <p> + + And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed + the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully + things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any + problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel + free to send an email to the busybox mailing list. + + <p> + + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. And as usual you can + <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + + + + <p> + <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p> + + Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable + series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under + testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number + of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all + the testing, bug reports, and patches! + + <p> + + If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox + mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your + patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has + somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. + Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox + mailing list! + + <p> + + The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of + people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be + fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature + (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO + list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the + modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have + patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be + integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports + a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit + more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x + module loading alone. + + <p> + + I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of + course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> + out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for + stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am + not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0 + -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September... + But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or + exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon + indeed. + + <p> + + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. And as usual you can + <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + + <p>Have Fun! + + + <p> + <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> + + Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable + series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of + testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of + bugs, and these problems have now been fixed. + + <p> + + Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up + with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added, + init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and + 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init. + an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows + read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the + 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were + tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed. + <p> -<!-- End of Table --> + If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this + release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch + was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch. + That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the + BusyBox mailing list. + <p> -</TD></TR> -</TABLE> -</P> + The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of + people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be + fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that + is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 + release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If + necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th. + Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem + turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by + then... + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> -<!-- Footer --> -<HR> -<TABLE WIDTH="100%"> - <TR> - <TD> - <font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> - Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to - <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a><BR> - The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik Andersen. - </font> - </TD> + <p> + <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> + + The busybox development series has been under construction for + nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So + it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release + of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes + since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version + number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison + 1.0.x... + <p> - <TD> - <a href="http://www.vim.org"><img border=0 width=88 height=32 - src="images/anim.written.in.vi.gif" - alt="This site created with the vi editor"></a> - </TD> + The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of + people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be + fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen + later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next + Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. + Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns + up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end + of July. + <p> - <TD> - <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border=0 width=88 height=38 - src="images/gfx_by_gimp.gif" alt="Graphics by GIMP"></a> - </TD> + If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release + and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was + rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That + happens sometimes. Please do <b>NOT</b> send all your patches, + support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of + emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches + sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the + right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. + <p> - <TD> - <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width=90 height=36 - src="images/ltbutton2.jpg" alt="Linux Today"></a> - </TD> + I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn + McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III + (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that + have made this release possible. + <p> - <TD> - <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width=90 height=36 - src="images/sdsmall.gif" alt="Slashdot"></a> - </TD> + As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + You don't really need to bother with the + <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes + vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. + But you can take a look if you really want too. - <TD> - <a href="http://freshmeat.net"><img width=90 height=36 - src="images/fm.mini.jpg" alt="Freshmeat"></a> - </TD> + <p>Have Fun! + <p> - </TR> -</TABLE> -</BODY> -</HTML> + <p> + <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> + + I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) + is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for + the stable series to address all the problems that have turned + up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release + had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried + to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init + was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). + I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the + 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I + mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last + release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work + will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development + version to have its first real release very very soon now... + + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all + the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + <p> + <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> + + I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 + (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily + a bugfix release for the stable series to address all + the problems that have turned up since the last + release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. + I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done + on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and + should soon be getting its first real release. + + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all + the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + <p> + <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> + + I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is + now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release + for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since + the last release, and this should address most of those problems. + This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The + development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will + hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. + + <p> + The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + + <p> + <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> + + Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to + the fine folks at <a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> + who are providing hosting for busybox.net and + uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: + <a href="http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> + in Canada and + <a href="http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> + in Germany. I hope this makes things much more + accessible for everyone! + + +<li> +<b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> + +<p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox +users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net +(which is where you are probably reading this). +Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both +living on my home system (at the end of my DSL +line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of +busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have +the access needed to keep that system updated (for +example, you might notice the daily snapshots there +stopped some time ago).</p> + +<p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home +server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, +the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, +I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net +co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the +co-location effort, <a href= +"http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> +(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated +his <a href= +"http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer +for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this +system is co-located, the current speed problems +should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, +some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror +sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> + +<p><!-- + <center> + Click here to help support busybox.net! + <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> + <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> + <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> + <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> + <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg"> + <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> + <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> + </form> + </center> + --> + Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox +donations, let me assure you that no one is getting +rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be +spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware +upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently +has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when +google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in +not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of +ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So +far, donations received have been sufficient to +cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may +have co-location fees to worry about, but for now +we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to +everyone that has contributed!<br> + -Erik</p> +</li> + +<li> +<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> + +<p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox +0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This +one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable +series, and it should take care of most everyone's +needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have +been working on in CVS ready to release (with the +wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in +this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh +(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. +Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when +told to do complex things with backticks.</p> + +<p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and +powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it +should work with just about any Linux system you +throw it at. See the <a href= +"downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most +of</small> the details. The last release was +<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should +be even better.</p> + +<p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from +<a href= +"downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> + +<p>Have Fun.<br> + -Erik</p> +</li> + +<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> + +<!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> +<center> +Click here to help buy busybox.net! +<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> +<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> +<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> +<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> +<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> +<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> +<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> +</form> +</center> +<!-- End PayPal Logo --> + +I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing +to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but +will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee +for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will +initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my +home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, +but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth +I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there +have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't +even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the +time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this +bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I +start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth +will start costing some money. +<p> + +I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that +idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument +where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas +about what we should spend our money on that don't involve +busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the +mailing list and web page. So... +<p> + +I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick +up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I +know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as +individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to +contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that +would be wonderful! +<p> + + +<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> +<br> + + This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes + up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in + the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> + serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no + new features, no new applets. So without further ado, + here it is. Come and get it. + <p> + The + <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from + <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + +<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> +<br> + I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of + BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, + and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on + x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number + of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. + Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice + stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes + a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and + cleans up a number of things. + + <p> + + Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can + use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> + to give it a try by downloading and compiling + <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. + You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. + Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. + <p> + Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> + BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires + a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the + the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> + to view the tutorial. + <p> + + Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the + version number of this release, let me point out that this release + is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a + bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form + a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a + stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable + 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then + 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that + the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the + next release and I don't want that to break products that people + are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be + released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will + have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things + stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then + I will release that as a new stable release series. + + <p> + The + <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all + the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from + <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + +<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> +<br> + + I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of + BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This + release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons + of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds + several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, + and ash). + + <p> + The + <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers + some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that + are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, + BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from + <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + + +<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> +<br> +The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth +of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / +viewing <a href="busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. + +<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you +can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively +turning off whichever applets you don't need.) +<p> + + +<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> +<br> + + BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This + release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, + contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only + 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. + There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in + the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in + 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially + deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. + <p> + + There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For + one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov + added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC + compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility + functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now + all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes + maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now + compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters + for letting me use their system!). + <p> + You can read the + <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for + complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from + <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. + <p>Have Fun! + <p> + +<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> + +<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= +"downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy +image</a>. Here's how you use it: + +<ol> + + <li> <a href="downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> + Download the image</a> + + <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img + of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> + + <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. + +</ol> + +<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: + +<pre> + mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos + cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp + umount /mnt + gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz + mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix +</pre> + + +<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> +<br> + + This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, + and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the + shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable + expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made + smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the + <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. + <p> + lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it + now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as + long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. + Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and + environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that + this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible + framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of + business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell + currently in progress at + <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. + <p> + + +<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> +<br> + + Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller + things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. + For a list of the most interesting changes + you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. + <p> + Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their + work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been + out of town. + <p> + <em>Special Note</em><br> + + BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox + shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. + Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new + shell that will eventually replace lash is already under + construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry + Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in + progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> + and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next + release of BusyBox. + <p> + +<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> +<br> + + This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very + rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar + update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is + optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know + that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are + now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox + shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian + woody) a .udeb can now be generated. + <p> + The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading + the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. + <p> + Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to + this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. + <p> +<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> +<br> + + This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 + syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new + apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, + renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. + There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for + more correct option parsing. + See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> + for complete details. + + +<p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> +<br> + + This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, + and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow + people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a + completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. + BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. + See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> + for complete details. + + +<p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> +<br> + + This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this + point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This + release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, + mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and + telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see + the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for + details). + <p> + Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own + <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, + publically browsable + <a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, + anonymous + <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and + for those that are actively contributing there is even + <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. + I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. + <p> + Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced + a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion + we are just skipping 0.44. + <p> + Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release + of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! + + +<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> +<br> +Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. +For example, with the following test app: +<pre> +#include <syslog.h> + +int do_log(char* msg, int delay) +{ + openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); + while(1) { + syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); + sleep(delay); + } + closelog(); + return(0); +}; + +int main(void) +{ + if (fork()==0) + do_log("A", 2); + do_log("B", 3); +} +</pre> +it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff +from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something +while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). +<p> +Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. +Thanks Karl! + + +<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> +<br> +I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty +good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release +so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps +have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, +freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely +rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. +More details are available in the +<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. +Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive +<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. + +<p> +Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches +and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were +Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, +Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. +There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. +<p> + +You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. + +<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> +<br> +Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to +do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people +to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at +5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing +tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw +at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because +the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release +of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable +enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural +changes I still want to make. +<p> +The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. +Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. + +<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> +<br> +I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 +lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. +He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and +it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the +fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody +and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife +(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying +down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" +(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the +contrary). +<p> +Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting +labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. +<p> +So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... +Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect +to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will +include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a +re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now +accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking +problems. + + +<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> +<br> + + This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many + bugs have been fixed. See the + <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. + + Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount + filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and + behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak + loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, + Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for + their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound + on it and let me know if you find any bugs. + +<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> +<br> + + This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, + mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, + logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device + support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. + The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. + +<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> +<br> + + This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), + syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. + New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. + In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which + in some cases produced serious security problems. + As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. + +<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> +<br> + I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) + to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website + will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also + contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, + what arguments its apps support, etc. + +<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> +<br> + This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains + the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full + changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. +<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> +<br> + This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, + and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. + + +</ul> + + +<!--#include file="footer.html" --> |