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Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | <ul> |
Denis Vlasenko | 16b7cb4 | 2007-06-30 17:12:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b> |
| 5 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>. |
| 6 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>, |
| 7 | <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>, |
| 8 | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| 9 | |
| 10 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p> |
| 11 | </li> |
| 12 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b> |
| 14 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>. |
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer | 66db264 | 2007-06-09 09:12:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>, |
| 16 | <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>, |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| 18 | |
| 19 | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" |
| 20 | label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p> |
| 21 | <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now, |
| 22 | but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please |
| 23 | report any such cases.</p> |
| 24 | <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0 |
| 25 | and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p> |
| 26 | <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> |
| 27 | <p>Other changes since previous release: |
| 28 | <ul> |
| 29 | <li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places |
| 30 | <li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs |
| 31 | <li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action |
| 32 | <li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU |
| 33 | <li>SELinux: load_policy applet |
| 34 | <li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>) |
| 35 | <li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito) |
| 36 | <li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>) |
| 37 | <li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling |
| 38 | <li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore |
| 39 | <li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) |
| 40 | <li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) |
| 41 | <li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337 |
| 42 | <li>awk: guard against empty environment |
| 43 | <li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller) |
| 44 | <li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens |
| 45 | <li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text |
| 46 | <li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists@zelow.no>) |
| 47 | <li>cttyhack: new applet |
| 48 | <li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop@cle-mens.de>) |
| 49 | <li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>) |
| 50 | <li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N |
| 51 | <li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>) |
| 52 | <li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged |
| 53 | <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@bluegiga.com>) |
| 54 | <li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes |
| 55 | <li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) |
| 56 | <li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes) |
| 57 | <li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it |
| 58 | <li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code |
| 59 | <li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>) |
| 60 | <li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa) |
| 61 | <li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it |
| 62 | <li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>) |
| 63 | <li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array |
| 64 | <li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade@gmx.net>) |
| 65 | <li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich@math.spbu.ru>) |
| 66 | <li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links |
| 67 | <li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused |
| 68 | <li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se> |
| 69 | <li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete@catix.cat>) |
| 70 | <li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier |
| 71 | <li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp |
| 72 | <li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> |
| 73 | <li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file) |
| 74 | <li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off |
| 75 | <li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b |
| 76 | <li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array() |
| 77 | <li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter |
| 78 | <li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes) |
| 79 | <li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes) |
| 80 | <li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin |
| 81 | <li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd |
| 82 | <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. |
| 83 | <li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH) |
| 84 | <li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64@comhem.se>) |
| 85 | <li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets |
| 86 | <li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop |
| 87 | <li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe |
| 88 | <li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL |
| 89 | <li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable |
| 90 | <li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y) |
| 91 | <li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use |
| 92 | <li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions |
| 93 | <li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file |
| 94 | <li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them |
| 95 | <li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!) |
| 96 | <li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes |
| 97 | <li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes) |
| 98 | <li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that) |
| 99 | <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 |
| 100 | <li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox |
| 101 | <li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets |
| 102 | <li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes |
| 103 | <li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore |
| 104 | <li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice |
| 105 | <li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373) |
| 106 | <li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer) |
| 107 | <li>run_parts: rewrite |
| 108 | <li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu> |
| 109 | <li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f |
| 110 | <li>split: new applet |
| 111 | <li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas |
| 112 | <li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>) |
| 113 | <li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM |
| 114 | <li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N" |
| 115 | <li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/ |
| 116 | <li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction |
| 117 | <li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken |
| 118 | <li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it |
| 119 | <li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair |
| 120 | <li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize |
| 121 | <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management |
| 122 | <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) |
| 123 | </ul> |
| 124 | </p> |
| 125 | </li> |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | fe52a74 | 2007-05-20 17:12:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>. |
| 129 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>, |
| 130 | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| 131 | |
| 132 | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps |
| 133 | and sed.</p> |
| 134 | </li> |
| 135 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | 7d10823 | 2007-03-22 23:31:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>. |
Denis Vlasenko | fdf63a3 | 2007-04-07 09:35:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>, |
| 139 | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | 9eb51ad | 2007-03-31 10:32:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | |
Denis Vlasenko | 7d10823 | 2007-03-22 23:31:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" |
| 142 | label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p> |
| 143 | <p>Notable changes since previous release: |
| 144 | <ul> |
| 145 | <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm |
| 146 | <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module |
| 147 | <li>ping[6]: unified code for both |
| 148 | <li>less: regex search improved |
| 149 | <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added |
| 150 | <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed |
| 151 | <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX) |
| 152 | <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again |
| 153 | <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them |
| 154 | <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files |
| 155 | <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes) |
| 156 | <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs |
| 157 | <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir, |
| 158 | not only in /cgi-bin/ |
| 159 | <li>chrt: new applet |
| 160 | <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets, |
| 161 | new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon. |
| 162 | <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch |
| 163 | improper usage of string constants. |
| 164 | <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU |
| 165 | targets. |
| 166 | <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize, |
| 167 | sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp |
| 168 | <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock, |
| 169 | udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp |
| 170 | <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix, |
| 171 | syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd |
| 172 | </ul> |
| 173 | </p> |
| 174 | </li> |
| 175 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | 1c86a29 | 2007-03-18 18:21:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>. |
| 178 | </p> |
| 179 | |
| 180 | <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1. |
| 181 | </p> |
| 182 | </li> |
| 183 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | 5ff8f3d | 2007-01-26 23:35:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>. |
| 186 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | 30abe97 | 2007-01-25 21:10:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | |
| 188 | <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0. |
| 189 | </p> |
| 190 | </li> |
| 191 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | 52848ee | 2007-01-22 23:39:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>. |
| 194 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | 3127358 | 2007-01-20 20:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | |
| 196 | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable" |
| 197 | than usual.</p> |
| 198 | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| 199 | <ul> |
| 200 | <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain, |
| 201 | the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because |
| 202 | it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can |
| 203 | ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up. |
| 204 | <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files |
| 205 | (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars |
| 206 | don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy |
| 207 | anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input |
| 208 | as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it |
| 209 | for general use now. |
| 210 | <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are |
| 211 | upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is |
| 212 | already much better than what we had previously. |
| 213 | <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman). |
| 214 | <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90% |
| 215 | of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it). |
| 216 | <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten. |
| 217 | <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit. |
| 218 | <li>sed: better hadling of NULs |
| 219 | <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output |
| 220 | <li>chown: user.grp works again. |
| 221 | <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar, |
| 222 | ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,... |
| 223 | </ul> |
| 224 | </p> |
| 225 | </li> |
| 226 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> |
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer | b3f3c23 | 2007-01-20 21:46:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 228 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | 3127358 | 2007-01-20 20:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | |
| 230 | <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1 |
| 231 | </p> |
| 232 | </li> |
| 233 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 234 | <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | 9cd7a24 | 2006-12-27 07:57:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>. |
Denis Vlasenko | c1a3399 | 2006-12-28 21:44:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | f959bee | 2006-12-27 05:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 237 | |
| 238 | <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0 |
| 239 | </p> |
| 240 | </li> |
| 241 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | 79e77cd | 2006-12-15 22:10:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>. |
| 244 | (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | f7b0d4a | 2006-12-14 00:22:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | |
| 246 | <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features |
| 247 | needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod |
| 248 | and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly |
| 249 | bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make |
| 250 | busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly |
| 251 | adventurous desktop users. |
| 252 | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| 253 | <ul> |
| 254 | <li>find: taking many more of standard options |
| 255 | <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented |
| 256 | <li>cp: added -s, -l |
| 257 | <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h |
| 258 | <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally |
| 259 | incompatible) |
Denis Vlasenko | f7996f3 | 2007-01-11 17:20:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage |
Denis Vlasenko | ba09233 | 2006-12-27 09:47:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 261 | on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers |
Denis Vlasenko | f7b0d4a | 2006-12-14 00:22:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 262 | (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs. |
| 263 | Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks). |
| 264 | <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for |
| 265 | directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes. |
| 266 | <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support, |
| 267 | other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb. |
| 268 | <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/ |
| 269 | (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys) |
| 270 | <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp, |
| 271 | fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod. |
| 272 | </ul> |
| 273 | <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different. |
| 274 | 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess. |
| 275 | </p> |
| 276 | </li> |
| 277 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b> |
Denis Vlasenko | 41be5b8 | 2006-10-29 19:34:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 279 | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | 8d46307 | 2006-10-29 19:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 280 | |
| 281 | <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc |
| 282 | produces buggy executables. |
| 283 | </li> |
| 284 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 285 | <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b> |
Rob Landley | 44c7917 | 2006-10-24 21:46:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | <p>It's a bit overdue, but |
| 287 | <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is |
| 288 | BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p> |
| 289 | |
| 290 | <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development |
| 291 | branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation |
| 292 | generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix |
| 293 | umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by |
| 294 | name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev |
| 295 | delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault |
| 296 | in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build |
| 297 | fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test |
| 298 | fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in |
| 299 | modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf |
| 300 | foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the |
| 301 | terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in |
| 302 | ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in |
| 303 | gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning |
| 304 | fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p> |
| 305 | |
| 306 | <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>, |
| 307 | this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis |
| 308 | Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>. |
| 309 | </p> |
| 310 | </li> |
| 311 | |
Denis Vlasenko | a0d7508 | 2007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b> |
Rob Landley | 530c3ef | 2006-09-29 22:43:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact |
| 314 | the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p> |
| 315 | |
Rob Landley | 2aced7e | 2006-07-31 23:56:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b> |
| 317 | <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I |
| 318 | might as well point you all at |
| 319 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox |
| 320 | 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p> |
| 321 | |
| 322 | <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without |
| 323 | saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and |
| 324 | one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three |
| 325 | embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks |
| 326 | (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the |
| 327 | libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated |
| 328 | tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge |
| 329 | in a pear... Ahem.</p> |
| 330 | |
| 331 | <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty |
| 332 | gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains |
| 333 | the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return |
| 334 | value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent |
| 335 | a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from |
| 336 | switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather |
| 337 | than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that |
| 338 | /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf |
| 339 | in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p> |
| 340 | |
Rob Landley | 01772ae | 2006-06-30 22:40:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b> |
| 342 | <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is |
| 343 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox |
| 344 | 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog |
| 345 | over the weekend.</p> |
| 346 | |
| 347 | <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development |
| 348 | cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to |
| 349 | try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time |
| 350 | we fix enough bugs. :)</p> |
| 351 | |
Rob Landley | 1df45cf | 2006-07-08 18:11:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | <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> |
| 353 | |
Rob Landley | c27c04c | 2006-05-17 19:59:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> |
Rob Landley | d2ccc2b | 2006-05-17 21:04:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 355 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox |
Rob Landley | c27c04c | 2006-05-17 19:59:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 356 | 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a |
| 357 | memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes |
| 358 | mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill |
| 359 | background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a |
| 360 | timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could |
| 361 | segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p> |
| 362 | |
| 363 | <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> |
| 364 | |
Rob Landley | bb5b2ff | 2006-04-10 20:04:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b> |
| 366 | <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 |
| 367 | backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes |
| 368 | for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for |
| 369 | find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball |
| 370 | for more info.</p> |
| 371 | |
| 372 | <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3 |
| 373 | will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is |
| 374 | to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable |
| 375 | bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p> |
Denis Vlasenko | 9213a9e | 2006-09-17 16:28:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | |
Rob Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> |
| 378 | <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox |
| 379 | maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and |
| 380 | uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation |
| 381 | by Erik's father's law firm, and the |
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer | 3515f6e | 2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't |
Rob Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads |
| 384 | together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of |
| 385 | <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She |
| 386 | referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> |
| 387 | |
| 388 | <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the |
| 389 | <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> |
| 390 | has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other |
| 391 | free and open source software projects (such as |
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer | 3515f6e | 2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, |
Rob Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and |
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer | af07a00 | 2006-04-16 20:56:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a> |
Rob Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a |
| 396 | phrase you get to use every day.</p> |
| 397 | |
Rob Landley | 5fba250 | 2006-03-23 03:08:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> |
| 399 | <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> |
Rob Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, |
| 401 | the various small fixes have been collected together into a |
| 402 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, |
Rob Landley | 28ff966 | 2006-03-27 23:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around |
| 404 | June.</p> |
Rob Landley | 5fba250 | 2006-03-23 03:08:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 405 | </li> |
Rob Landley | 734a779 | 2006-01-14 07:43:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 406 | <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> |
| 407 | <p>The new stable release is |
| 408 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox |
| 409 | 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets. |
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer | 3515f6e | 2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>, |
Rob Landley | 734a779 | 2006-01-14 07:43:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how |
| 412 | that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p> |
Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | |
Eric Andersen | c7bda1c | 2004-03-15 08:29:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 414 | <li><b>Old News</b><p> |
Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> |
Rob Landley | d879ffb | 2006-06-27 21:29:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 416 | </p> |
| 417 | </li> |
Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 418 | |
| 419 | |
| 420 | </ul> |
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