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| <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b> |
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| <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> |
| <br> |
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| This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 |
| syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new |
| apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, |
| renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. |
| There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for |
| more correct option parsing. |
| See the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| for complete details. |
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| <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> |
| <br> |
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| This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, |
| and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow |
| people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a |
| completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. |
| BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. |
| See the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| for complete details. |
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| <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> |
| <br> |
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| This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this |
| point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This |
| release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, |
| mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and |
| telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see |
| the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| details). |
| <p> |
| Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, |
| publically browsable |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, |
| anonymous |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and |
| for those that are actively contributing there is even |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. |
| I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. |
| <p> |
| Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced |
| a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion |
| we are just skipping 0.44. |
| <p> |
| Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release |
| of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! |
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| <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> |
| <br> |
| Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. |
| For example, with the following test app: |
| <pre> |
| #include <syslog.h> |
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| int do_log(char* msg, int delay) |
| { |
| openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); |
| while(1) { |
| syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); |
| sleep(delay); |
| } |
| closelog(); |
| return(0); |
| }; |
| |
| int main(void) |
| { |
| if (fork()==0) |
| do_log("A", 2); |
| do_log("B", 3); |
| } |
| </pre> |
| it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff |
| from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something |
| while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). |
| <p> |
| Karl M. Hegbloom has created a |
| <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>. |
| Thanks Karl! |
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| <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> |
| <br> |
| I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty |
| good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release |
| so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps |
| have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, |
| freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely |
| rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. |
| More details are available in the |
| <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive |
| <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. |
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| <p> |
| Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches |
| and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were |
| Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, |
| Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. |
| There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. |
| <p> |
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| You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>. |
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| <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> |
| <br> |
| Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to |
| do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people |
| to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at |
| 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing |
| tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw |
| at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because |
| the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release |
| of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable |
| enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural |
| changes I still want to make. |
| <p> |
| The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>. |
| Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. |
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| <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> |
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| I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 |
| lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. |
| He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and |
| it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the |
| fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody |
| and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife |
| (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying |
| down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" |
| (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the |
| contrary). |
| <p> |
| Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting |
| labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. |
| <p> |
| So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... |
| Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect |
| to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will |
| include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a |
| re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now |
| accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking |
| problems. |
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| <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> |
| <br> |
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| This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many |
| bugs have been fixed. See the |
| <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. |
| |
| Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount |
| filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and |
| behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak |
| loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, |
| Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for |
| their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound |
| on it and let me know if you find any bugs. |
| |
| <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> |
| <br> |
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| This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, |
| mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, |
| logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device |
| support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. |
| The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>. |
| |
| <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> |
| <br> |
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| This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), |
| syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. |
| New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. |
| In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which |
| in some cases produced serious security problems. |
| As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>. |
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| <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> |
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| I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) |
| to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website |
| will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also |
| contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, |
| what arguments its apps support, etc. |
| |
| <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> |
| <br> |
| This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains |
| the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full |
| changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>. |
| <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> |
| <br> |
| This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, |
| and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. |
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| <li> <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">Take me back to http://busybox.lineo.com/</a>. |
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| <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/"> |
| Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br> |
| The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written |
| by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website. |
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| <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html"> |
| Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> |
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| <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>. |
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| <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>. |
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| <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development. |
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