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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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for + complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from + <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</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= + "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy + image</a>. Here's how you use it: + + <ol> + + <li> <a href= "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for + details). + <p> + Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own + <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, + publically browsable + <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, + anonymous + <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and + for those that are actively contributing there is even + <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/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 + <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>. + 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="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/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="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">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="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">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="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/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="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/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="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/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="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/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> + + +<!-- Begin Links section --> + +<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> + <A NAME="links"> + <BIG><B> + Important Links</A> + </B></BIG> + </A> +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> + +<ul> + + <li> <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">Take me back to http://busybox.lineo.com/</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. + <p> + + <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html"> + Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> + <p> + + <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>. + <p> + + <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>. + <p> + + <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development. + <p> + +</ul> + + +<!-- End of Table --> + +</TD></TR> +</TABLE> +</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@lineo.com">Erik Andersen</a><BR> + The Busybox logo is copyright 1999,2000, Erik Andersen. + </font> + </TD> + + <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> + + <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> + + <TD> + <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width=90 height=36 + src="images/ltbutton2.jpg" alt="Linux Today"></a> + </TD> + + <TD> + <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width=90 height=36 + src="images/sdsmall.gif" alt="Slashdot"></a> + </TD> + + <TD> + <a href="http://freshmeat.net"><img width=90 height=36 + src="images/fm.mini.jpg" alt="Freshmeat"></a> + </TD> + + </TR> +</TABLE> + + +</BODY> +</HTML> + |