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| <li><b>21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.11.2 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.0</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.0/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.2</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.2/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>Sizes of busybox-1.11.2 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| text data bss dec hex filename |
| 829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.2/busybox |
| 822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox |
| </pre> |
| |
| <p>New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir) |
| |
| <p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"</li> |
| <li>ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! </li> |
| <li>ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2</li> |
| <li>ash: fix segfault in "command -v"</li> |
| <li>ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator</li> |
| <li>ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading</li> |
| <li>ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before</li> |
| <li>hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all</li> |
| <li>hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not</li> |
| <li>hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case</li> |
| <li>hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites</li> |
| <li>hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)</li> |
| <li>hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements</li> |
| <li>hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case</li> |
| <li>hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')</li> |
| <li>hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names</li> |
| <li>libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| Other changes: |
| <ul> |
| <li>libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)</li> |
| <li>libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)</li> |
| <li>libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"</li> |
| <li>libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()</li> |
| <li>libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)</li> |
| <li>libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector</li> |
| <li>libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)</li> |
| <li>lineedit: fix use-after-free</li> |
| <li>libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too</li> |
| <li>bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])</li> |
| <li>open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor</li> |
| <li>open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit</li> |
| <li>arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)</li> |
| <li>ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code</li> |
| <li>awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. </li> |
| <li>build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op</li> |
| <li>bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)</li> |
| <li>b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)</li> |
| <li>comm: almost total rewrite</li> |
| <li>cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)</li> |
| <li>cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files</li> |
| <li>cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG</li> |
| <li>cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k</li> |
| <li>cpio: support some long options</li> |
| <li>crond: use execlp instead of execl</li> |
| <li>cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)</li> |
| <li>envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases</li> |
| <li>findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary</li> |
| <li>fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)</li> |
| <li>fuser: a bit of safety in scanf</li> |
| <li>grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes</li> |
| <li>halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT</li> |
| <li>httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de</li> |
| <li>ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks</li> |
| <li>ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li> |
| <li>ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li> |
| <li>inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found</li> |
| <li>insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing</li> |
| <li>install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)</li> |
| <li>install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)</li> |
| <li>lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies</li> |
| <li>ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable</li> |
| <li>man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com</li> |
| <li>man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given</li> |
| <li>man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable</li> |
| <li>man: fix missed NULL termination of an array</li> |
| <li>man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode</li> |
| <li>man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)</li> |
| <li>man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config</li> |
| <li>mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection</li> |
| <li>mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist</li> |
| <li>mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it</li> |
| <li>mdev: support for serializing hotplug</li> |
| <li>mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization</li> |
| <li>mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)</li> |
| <li>modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)</li> |
| <li>modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()</li> |
| <li>modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one</li> |
| <li>mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"</li> |
| <li>mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)</li> |
| <li>mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"</li> |
| <li>mount: testsuite for "-o mand"</li> |
| <li>msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)</li> |
| <li>mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints</li> |
| <li>netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)</li> |
| <li>nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)</li> |
| <li>od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)</li> |
| <li>pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)</li> |
| <li>printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)</li> |
| <li>printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite</li> |
| <li>printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)</li> |
| <li>sendmail: updates from Vladimir:</li> |
| <li>sendmail: do not discard all headers</li> |
| <li>sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes</li> |
| <li>sendmail: fixed mail recipient address</li> |
| <li>sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed</li> |
| <li>sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified</li> |
| <li>sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)</li> |
| <li>ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too</li> |
| <li>ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore</li> |
| <li>ssd: fix -a without -x case</li> |
| <li>ssd: use $PATH</li> |
| <li>tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0</li> |
| <li>tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection</li> |
| <li>taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy</li> |
| <li>tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")</li> |
| <li>tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way</li> |
| <li>telnetd: fix issue file printing</li> |
| <li>test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does</li> |
| <li>testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e</li> |
| <li>time: don't segfault with no arguments</li> |
| <li>touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)</li> |
| <li>tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354</li> |
| <li>tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)</li> |
| <li>tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)</li> |
| <li>unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)</li> |
| <li>vi: fix reversed checks for underflow</li> |
| <li>vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid</li> |
| <li>xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)</li> |
| <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact |
| the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. |
| </p> |
| |
| <li><b>12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.1</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.1/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk, |
| bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated</b> |
| <p> |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt"> |
| "How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc"</a> is updated |
| and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't |
| work for you. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| text data bss dec hex filename |
| 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4 |
| 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0 |
| </pre> |
| |
| <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova), |
| fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer) |
| |
| <p>Changes since previous release: |
| <ul> |
| <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li> |
| <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li> |
| <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li> |
| <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li> |
| <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li> |
| <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li> |
| <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li> |
| <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li> |
| <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li> |
| <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li> |
| <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li> |
| <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li> |
| <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li> |
| <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li> |
| <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li> |
| <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li> |
| <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li> |
| <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li> |
| <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li> |
| <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li> |
| <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li> |
| <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li> |
| <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact |
| the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> |
| <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support |
| for the BusyBox project: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html"> |
| TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided |
| a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start"> |
| Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. |
| <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a> |
| is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. |
| If you are an embedded device developer, |
| please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available |
| for download for this board. Visit |
| <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> |
| for more information. |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, |
| ip, mdev and syslogd. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof, |
| start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system. |
| <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please |
| report if you encounter any problems with it. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for |
| fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>, |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| text data bss dec hex filename |
| 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 |
| 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 |
| </pre> |
| <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> |
| busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: |
| echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 |
| bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 |
| discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 |
| discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 |
| echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 |
| discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 |
| find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 |
| readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 |
| ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 |
| iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 |
| </pre> |
| |
| <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), |
| findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), |
| lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), |
| sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. |
| </p> |
| <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. |
| </p> |
| <p>Changes since previous release: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li> |
| <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li> |
| <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li> |
| <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li> |
| <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li> |
| <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li> |
| <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li> |
| <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li> |
| <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li> |
| <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li> |
| <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li> |
| <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li> |
| <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li> |
| <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li> |
| <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li> |
| <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li> |
| <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li> |
| <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li> |
| <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li> |
| <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li> |
| <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li> |
| <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li> |
| <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li> |
| <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li> |
| <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li> |
| <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li> |
| <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li> |
| <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li> |
| <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li> |
| <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li> |
| <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li> |
| <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li> |
| <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li> |
| <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li> |
| <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li> |
| <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li> |
| <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li> |
| <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li> |
| <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li> |
| <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li> |
| <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> |
| <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li> |
| <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li> |
| <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li> |
| <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li> |
| <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li> |
| <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li> |
| <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages</li> |
| <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!</li> |
| <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li> |
| <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li> |
| <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li> |
| <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li> |
| <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li> |
| <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li> |
| <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li> |
| <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li> |
| <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li> |
| <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li> |
| <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li> |
| <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li> |
| <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li> |
| <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li> |
| <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li> |
| <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li> |
| <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li> |
| <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li> |
| <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li> |
| <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li> |
| <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li> |
| <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li> |
| <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li> |
| <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li> |
| <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li> |
| <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li> |
| <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li> |
| <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li> |
| <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li> |
| <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li> |
| <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li> |
| <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li> |
| <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li> |
| <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li> |
| <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li> |
| <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li> |
| <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li> |
| <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li> |
| <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li> |
| <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li> |
| <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li> |
| <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li> |
| <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li> |
| <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li> |
| <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li> |
| <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li> |
| <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li> |
| <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li> |
| <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li> |
| <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li> |
| <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li> |
| <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li> |
| <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li> |
| <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li> |
| <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li> |
| <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li> |
| <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li> |
| <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li> |
| <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li> |
| <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li> |
| <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li> |
| <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li> |
| <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li> |
| <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li> |
| <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li> |
| <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li> |
| <li>vi: many fixes</li> |
| <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li> |
| <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations |
| for future hot patches are in parentheses. |
| <p> |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a> |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>), |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a> |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>), |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a> |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>), |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a> |
| (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>). |
| <p> |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a> |
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