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   <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>

     <li><b>Old News</b><p>
     <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
     </p>
     </li>


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	<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>

	<li><b>Old News</b><p>
	<a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
	</p>
	</li>


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