From 4aca87515a5083ae0e31ce3177189fd43b6d05ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Baumann BusyBox 1.11.0.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) BusyBox 1.10.4.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build): New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova),
+ fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Reutner-Fischer)
+
+ Changes since previous release:
+
+ The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
+ the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
+ We want to thank the following companies which are providing support
+ for the BusyBox project:
+ BusyBox 1.10.3.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch)
+ Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush,
+ ip, mdev and syslogd.
+ BusyBox 1.10.2.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch)
+ 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.
+ Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please
+ report if you encounter any problems with it.
+ BusyBox 1.10.1.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch)
+ Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
+ fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.
+ BusyBox 1.10.0.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build): Top 10 stack users: 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.
+ Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.
+ Changes since previous release:
+
+ Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
+ for future hot patches are in parentheses.
+
+ 1.9.2
+ (patches),
+ 1.8.3
+ (patches),
+ 1.7.5
+ (patches),
+ 1.5.2
+ (patches).
+ BusyBox 1.9.1.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck,
+ iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip. 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. BusyBox 1.9.0.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build): Top 10 stack users: 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.
+
+ init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes
+ problems for you.
+
+ Changes since previous release:
+ BusyBox 1.8.2.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) BusyBox 1.7.4.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) 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. BusyBox 1.8.1.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip. BusyBox 1.8.0.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
+
+ Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
+ httpd:
+ top:
+ Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
+
+ Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3: New applets:
+ Other changes since previous release (abridged):
+ BusyBox 1.7.3.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail. BusyBox 1.7.2.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing. BusyBox 1.7.1.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system. BusyBox 1.7.0.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
+ httpd:
+ udhcp[cd]:
+ top, ps, killall, pidof:
+ 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).
+
+ Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1: 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.
+
+ New applets:
+ 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.
+
+ Other changes since previous release (abridged):
+ BusyBox 1.6.1.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget. BusyBox 1.6.0.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch) 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. 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. 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. Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still Other changes since previous release:
+ BusyBox 1.5.1.
+ (patches,
+ how to add a patch) This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
+ and sed. BusyBox 1.5.0.
+ (patches,
+ how to add a patch) 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. Notable changes since previous release:
+ This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
+ BusyBox 1.4.1.
+ (patches) This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
+ BusyBox 1.4.0.
+ (patches) Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
+ than usual. Changes since previous release:
+ This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
+ BusyBox 1.3.1.
+ (patches) Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
+ BusyBox 1.3.0.
+ (patches) 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.
+ Changes since previous release:
+ 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.
+ Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
+ produces buggy executables.
+ It's a bit overdue, but
+ here is
+ BusyBox 1.2.2. 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. As Linux Weekly News noted,
+ this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
+ Vlasenko, I'm off to do other things.
+ The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
+ the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
+ might as well point you all at
+ Busybox
+ 1.2.1, a bugfix-only release with no new features. 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. 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. The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
+ Busybox
+ 1.2.0. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
+ over the weekend. 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. :) Update: Here are the first few bug fixes that will go into 1.2.1. BusyBox
+ 1.1.3 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. Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release. You can now download BusyBox 1.1.2, 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. 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.) 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
+ Hall of Shame), 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
+ Groklaw for suggestions. She
+ referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org. As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
+ Software Freedom Law Center
+ has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
+ free and open source software projects (such as
+ X.org,
+ Wine, and
+ Plone
+ in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
+ phrase you get to use every day. The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is BusyBox 1.1.1. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...) Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
+ the various small fixes have been collected together into a
+ patch,
+ and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
+ June. The new stable release is
+ BusyBox
+ 1.1.0. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
+ (It also has a few rough spots,
+ but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
+ that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.) The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
+ you can now
+ download,
+ the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of
+ new
+ functionality: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
+ several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
+ standards
+ compliant than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
+ still working out the bugs. A new stable release (BusyBox
+ 1.01) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
+ small
+ fixes that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.
+
+ 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
+ shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System
+ to post all the gory details.
-
-
+ 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.
-
+
-
-
-
- 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...
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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 NOT 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- As usual you can download busybox here.
- You don't really need to bother with the
- changelog, 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.
-
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 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...
-
-
- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
- the fine folks at http://i-netinnovations.com/
- who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
- uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
- http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/
- in Canada and
- http://busybox.csservers.de/
- in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
- accessible for everyone!
-
-
- 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). 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, Mark Whitley
- (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
- his NetWinder 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.
- 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 HUGE thank-you goes out to
- everyone that has contributed! 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. 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 changelog for most
- of the details. The last release was
- very solid for people, and this one should
- be even better. As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
- http://www.busybox.net/downloads. Have Fun.
-
- 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...
-
-
- 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!
-
-
-
-
- The
- changelog has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
- use User-Mode Linux
- to give it a try by downloading and compiling
- buildroot.tar.gz.
- 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.
-
- Another cool thing is the nifty
- BusyBox Tutorial contributed by K Computing. This requires
- a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
- the GPLed shockwave viewer from here
- to view the tutorial.
-
-
- Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
- version number of this release, let me point out that this release
- is not 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.
-
-
- The
- changelog has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
-
- The
- changelog 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
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
- (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.)
-
-
-
-
-
- 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
- http://busybox.net/downloads.
- Have Fun!
-
-
- Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy
- image. Here's how you use it:
-
- If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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)!
-
-
-
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
- Thanks Karl!
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- The pre-release can be found here.
- Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
+ 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!
-
-
-
- Have Fun!
+
+
+
+ Here goes release candidate 3...
+
+ The changelog has all the details.
+ And as usual you can download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+ Here goes release candidate 2...
+
+ The changelog has all the details.
+ And as usual you can download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ I really 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....
+
+
+ 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!
+
+
+ The changelog has all the details.
+ And as usual you can download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+ 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 OLS and give my presentation
+ as scheduled.
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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 really
+ 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 very helpful if
+ people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit
+ improvements.
+
+
+ The changelog has all the details.
+ And as usual you can download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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
+ very 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.
+
+
+ I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but
+
+ another release on 1 March 2004 has kept me busy...
+
+
+ The changelog has all the details.
+ And as usual you can download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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 very 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.
+
+
+
+ The changelog has all the details.
+ And as usual you can download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ The changelog has all
+ the details. And as usual you can
+ download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ People who rely on the daily BusyBox snapshots
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ The changelog has all
+ the details. And as usual you can
+ download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
+ always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
+ mailing list.
+
+
+
+ The changelog has all
+ the details. And as usual you can
+ download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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!
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ The changelog has all
+ the details. And as usual you can
+ download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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!
+
+
+
+ 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!
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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
+ uClibc
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ The changelog has all
+ the details. And as usual you can
+ download busybox here.
+
+ Have Fun!
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
-
+ 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.
+
-News archive
-
+
-
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
+ 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
+ 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0
+
+
+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
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
- B u s y B o x
-
-
-
+
+
+
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2
+ 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
- Older BusyBox News
-
-
-
-
+
+ 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.
+
-
-
-
- -Erik
- -Erik
-
- 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 too
- 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.
-
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
- and uClibc 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.
-
-
-
- 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 many 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).
-
-
- 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 right here.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
-
- 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
-
-
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
- 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).
-
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
- For example, with the following test app:
-
- #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);
- }
-
- 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).
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
- 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).
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- Important Links
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+ 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.
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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.
+ 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 BusyBox FAQ.
+
+ The changelog has all + the details. As usual you can download busybox here. +
Have Fun! +
- -
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- Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to
- Erik Andersen - The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik Andersen. - - |
+ - - | + 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. +- - | + 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 NOT 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. +- - | + 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. +- | + As usual you can download busybox here. + You don't really need to bother with the + changelog, 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. -- - | +
+
+ + 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... + +
+ The changelog has all + the details. As usual you can download busybox here. +
Have Fun! +
+ +
+
+ + 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. + +
+ The changelog has all + the details. As usual you can download busybox here. +
Have Fun! +
+ + +
+
+ + 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. + +
+ The changelog has all + the details. As usual you can download busybox here. +
Have Fun! +
+ + +
+
+ + Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to + the fine folks at http://i-netinnovations.com/ + who are providing hosting for busybox.net and + uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: + http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/ + in Canada and + http://busybox.csservers.de/ + in Germany. I hope this makes things much more + accessible for everyone! + + +
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).
+ +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, Mark Whitley +(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated +his NetWinder 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.
+ +
+ 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 HUGE thank-you goes out to
+everyone that has contributed!
+ -Erik
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.
+ +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 changelog for most +of the details. The last release was +very solid for people, and this one should +be even better.
+ +As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from +http://www.busybox.net/downloads.
+ +Have Fun.
+ -Erik
+ +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... +
+ +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! +
+ + +
+ The + changelog has all + the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from + http://busybox.net/downloads. +
Have Fun! +
+ + +
+ + Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can + use User-Mode Linux + to give it a try by downloading and compiling + buildroot.tar.gz. + 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. +
+ Another cool thing is the nifty + BusyBox Tutorial contributed by K Computing. This requires + a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the + the GPLed shockwave viewer from here + to view the tutorial. +
+ + Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the + version number of this release, let me point out that this release + is not 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. + +
+ The + changelog has all + the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from + http://busybox.net/downloads. +
Have Fun! +
+ + +
+ The + changelog 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 + http://busybox.net/downloads. +
Have Fun! +
+ + +
(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.) +
+ + +
+ + 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 + http://busybox.net/downloads. +
Have Fun! +
+ +
Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy +image. Here's how you use it: + +
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 ++ + +
+ 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. +
+ + +
+ 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.
+
+ +
+ 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. +
+
+ 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)! + + +
+#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); +} ++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! + + +
+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. + +
+The pre-release can be found here. +Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs. + +
+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. + + +