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-
- <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
- <hr>
-
- <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="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 &lt;syslog.h&gt;
-
- 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.
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- <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.
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