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| <ul> |
| <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.1</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.0</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x: |
| <p>httpd: |
| <ul> |
| <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| <li>indexer example is rewritten in C |
| <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) |
| <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads |
| <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs |
| <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT |
| <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) |
| <li>add support for Status: CGI header |
| <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd) |
| <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me... |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>udhcp[cd]: |
| <ul> |
| <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options |
| <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug |
| <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB)) |
| <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order |
| <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines |
| <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt() |
| <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>top, ps, killall, pidof: |
| <ul> |
| <li>simpler loadavg processing |
| <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars |
| <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu) |
| <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code |
| <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name) |
| <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!) |
| <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable |
| <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display |
| <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>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). |
| |
| <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre> |
| 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</pre> |
| |
| <p>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. |
| |
| <p>New applets: |
| <ul> |
| <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>) |
| <li>slattach, ttysize |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>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. |
| |
| <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): |
| <ul> |
| <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> |
| <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed |
| <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output) |
| <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login |
| <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) |
| <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters |
| <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty) |
| <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning) |
| <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling |
| <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message |
| <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version) |
| <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified |
| <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> |
| <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo |
| <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset |
| <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>) |
| <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find |
| <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) |
| <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one |
| <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing |
| <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) |
| <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) |
| <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack |
| <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255 |
| <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable |
| <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...) |
| <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir |
| <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>) |
| <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off |
| <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options |
| <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> |
| <li>login: optional support for PAM |
| <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes) |
| <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames |
| <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum |
| <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading |
| <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off |
| <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>) |
| <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca> |
| <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr) |
| <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd" |
| <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling |
| <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) |
| <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision. |
| <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>) |
| <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6 |
| <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>) |
| <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code |
| <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case |
| <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) |
| <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com> |
| <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV |
| <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that |
| <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing |
| <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process |
| <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644 |
| <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable |
| <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"' |
| <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com> |
| <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> |
| <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes |
| <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width |
| <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>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.</p> |
| <p>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.</p> |
| <p>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.</p> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p> |
| <p>Other changes since previous release: |
| <ul> |
| <li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places |
| <li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs |
| <li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action |
| <li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU |
| <li>SELinux: load_policy applet |
| <li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>) |
| <li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito) |
| <li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| <li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling |
| <li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore |
| <li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| <li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| <li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337 |
| <li>awk: guard against empty environment |
| <li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller) |
| <li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens |
| <li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text |
| <li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>) |
| <li>cttyhack: new applet |
| <li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>) |
| <li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| <li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N |
| <li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>) |
| <li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged |
| <li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) |
| <li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes |
| <li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| <li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes) |
| <li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it |
| <li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code |
| <li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) |
| <li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa) |
| <li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it |
| <li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) |
| <li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array |
| <li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>) |
| <li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>) |
| <li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links |
| <li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused |
| <li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se> |
| <li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>) |
| <li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier |
| <li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp |
| <li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> |
| <li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file) |
| <li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off |
| <li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b |
| <li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array() |
| <li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter |
| <li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes) |
| <li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes) |
| <li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin |
| <li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd |
| <li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements. |
| <li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH) |
| <li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| <li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets |
| <li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop |
| <li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe |
| <li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL |
| <li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable |
| <li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y) |
| <li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use |
| <li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions |
| <li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file |
| <li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them |
| <li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!) |
| <li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes |
| <li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes) |
| <li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that) |
| <li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1 |
| <li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox |
| <li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets |
| <li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes |
| <li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore |
| <li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice |
| <li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373) |
| <li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer) |
| <li>run_parts: rewrite |
| <li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu> |
| <li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f |
| <li>split: new applet |
| <li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas |
| <li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>) |
| <li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM |
| <li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N" |
| <li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/ |
| <li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction |
| <li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken |
| <li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it |
| <li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair |
| <li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize |
| <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management |
| <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps |
| and sed.</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>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.</p> |
| <p>Notable changes since previous release: |
| <ul> |
| <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm |
| <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module |
| <li>ping[6]: unified code for both |
| <li>less: regex search improved |
| <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added |
| <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed |
| <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX) |
| <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again |
| <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them |
| <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files |
| <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes) |
| <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs |
| <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir, |
| not only in /cgi-bin/ |
| <li>chrt: new applet |
| <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets, |
| new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon. |
| <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch |
| improper usage of string constants. |
| <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU |
| targets. |
| <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize, |
| sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp |
| <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock, |
| udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp |
| <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix, |
| syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable" |
| than usual.</p> |
| <p>Changes since previous release: |
| <ul> |
| <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain, |
| the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because |
| it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can |
| ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up. |
| <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files |
| (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars |
| don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy |
| anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input |
| as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it |
| for general use now. |
| <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are |
| upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is |
| already much better than what we had previously. |
| <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman). |
| <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90% |
| of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it). |
| <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten. |
| <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit. |
| <li>sed: better hadling of NULs |
| <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output |
| <li>chown: user.grp works again. |
| <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar, |
| ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,... |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1 |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0 |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>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. |
| <p>Changes since previous release: |
| <ul> |
| <li>find: taking many more of standard options |
| <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented |
| <li>cp: added -s, -l |
| <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h |
| <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally |
| incompatible) |
| <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage |
| on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers |
| (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs. |
| Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks). |
| <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for |
| directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes. |
| <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support, |
| other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb. |
| <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/ |
| (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys) |
| <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp, |
| fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod. |
| </ul> |
| <p>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. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc |
| produces buggy executables. |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b> |
| <p>It's a bit overdue, but |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is |
| BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>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.</p> |
| |
| <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>, |
| this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis |
| Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b> |
| <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact |
| the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p> |
| |
| <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I |
| might as well point you all at |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox |
| 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p> |
| |
| <p>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.</p> |
| |
| <p>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.</p> |
| |
| <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b> |
| <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox |
| 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog |
| over the weekend.</p> |
| |
| <p>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. :)</p> |
| |
| <p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p> |
| |
| <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox |
| 1.1.3</a> 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.</p> |
| |
| <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> |
| |
| <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b> |
| <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, 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.</p> |
| |
| <p>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.)</p> |
| |
| <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> |
| <p>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 |
| <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), 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 |
| <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She |
| referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> |
| |
| <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the |
| <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> |
| has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other |
| free and open source software projects (such as |
| <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, |
| <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and |
| <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a> |
| in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a |
| phrase you get to use every day.</p> |
| |
| <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> |
| <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p> |
| <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, |
| the various small fixes have been collected together into a |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, |
| and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around |
| June.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> |
| <p>The new stable release is |
| <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox |
| 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets. |
| (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>, |
| but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how |
| that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p> |
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