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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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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