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10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released -
- - 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. -
- - 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!). -
- You can read the - changelog for - complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from - ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox. -
Have Fun! -
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Busybox Boot-Floppy Image - -
Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy - image. Here's how you use it: - -
1. - Download the image - -
2. dd it onto a floppy like so: dd if=busybox.floppy.img - of=/dev/fd0 ; sync - -
3. Pop it in a machine and boot up. - -
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If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: - -
```
-	    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
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```
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15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released -
- - 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 - changelog. -
- 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 - Larry Doolittle's website. -
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27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released -
- - 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 changelog. -
- 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. -
- Special Note
- - 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 Larry's website - and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next - release of BusyBox. -
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13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released -
- - 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. -
- The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading - the changelog. -
- Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to - this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. -
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26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released -
- - 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 changelog - for complete details. - - -
11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released -
- - 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 changelog - for complete details. - - -
21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released -
- - 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 changelog for - details). -
- Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own - mailing list, - publically browsable - CVS tree, - anonymous - CVS access, and - for those that are actively contributing there is even - CVS write access. - I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. -
- 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. -
- Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release - of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! - - -
19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix -
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. - For example, with the following test app: -
```
-	#include <syslog.h>
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-	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);
-	}
-
```
- 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). -
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a - fix for the problem. - Thanks Karl! - - -
18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!) -
- 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 - changelog. - Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive - documentation, complete with examples and full usage information. - -
- 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. -
- - You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here. - -
9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release -
- 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. -
- The pre-release can be found here. - Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs. - -
28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release -
- 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). -
- 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. -
- 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. - - -
11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released -
- - This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many - bugs have been fixed. See the -changelog 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. - -
19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released -
- - 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 here. - -
7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released -
- - 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 here. - -
11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website -
- 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. - -
10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released -
- 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 here. -
5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released -
- 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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- The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written - by Bruce Perens. This is his BusyBox website. -
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