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Denis Vlasenko16b7cb42007-06-30 17:12:14 +00004 <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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +000013 <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-Fischer66db2642007-06-09 09:12:45 +000015 (<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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +000017 <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 &lt;uberlord@gentoo.org&gt;)
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 &lt;farmatito@tiscali.it&gt;)
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 &lt;mats.andersson64@comhem.se&gt;)
40<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats.andersson64@comhem.se&gt;)
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 &lt;lists@zelow.no&gt;)
47<li>cttyhack: new applet
48<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens &lt;develop@cle-mens.de&gt;)
49<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito &lt;farmatito@tiscali.it&gt;)
50<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
51<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard &lt;peter.korsgaard@barco.com&gt;)
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 &lt;Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com&gt;)
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 &lt;mats.andersson64@comhem.se&gt;)
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 &lt;natanael.copa@gmail.com&gt;)
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 &lt;natanael.copa@gmail.com&gt;)
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 &lt;niteblade@gmx.net&gt;)
65<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov &lt;lich@math.spbu.ru&gt;)
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 &lt;mats.andersson64@comhem.se&gt;
69<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete &lt;amirabete@catix.cat&gt;)
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 &lt;natanael.copa@gmail.com&gt;
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 &lt;mats.andersson64@comhem.se&gt;)
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 &lt;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 &lt;somlo@cmu.edu&gt;
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 &lt;s.hauer@pengutronix.de&gt;)
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 &lt;pape@smarden.org&gt;, 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 Vlasenkofe52a742007-05-20 17:12:43 +0000128 <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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000136 <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
Denis Vlasenko7d108232007-03-22 23:31:29 +0000137 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
Denis Vlasenkofdf63a32007-04-07 09:35:56 +0000138 (<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 Vlasenko9eb51ad2007-03-31 10:32:27 +0000140
Denis Vlasenko7d108232007-03-22 23:31:29 +0000141 <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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000176 <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
Denis Vlasenko1c86a292007-03-18 18:21:44 +0000177 <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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000184 <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
Denis Vlasenko5ff8f3d2007-01-26 23:35:12 +0000185 <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 Vlasenko30abe972007-01-25 21:10:43 +0000187
188 <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
189 </p>
190 </li>
191
Denis Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000192 <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
Denis Vlasenko52848ee2007-01-22 23:39:08 +0000193 <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 Vlasenko31273582007-01-20 20:38:57 +0000195
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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000227 <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
Bernhard Reutner-Fischerb3f3c232007-01-20 21:46:20 +0000228 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
Denis Vlasenko31273582007-01-20 20:38:57 +0000229
230 <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
231 </p>
232 </li>
233
Denis Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000234 <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
Denis Vlasenko9cd7a242006-12-27 07:57:29 +0000235 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
Denis Vlasenkoc1a33992006-12-28 21:44:43 +0000236 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
Denis Vlasenkof959bee2006-12-27 05:06:27 +0000237
238 <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
239 </p>
240 </li>
241
Denis Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000242 <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
Denis Vlasenko79e77cd2006-12-15 22:10:07 +0000243 <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 Vlasenkof7b0d4a2006-12-14 00:22:51 +0000245
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 Vlasenkof7996f32007-01-11 17:20:00 +0000260 <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
Denis Vlasenkoba092332006-12-27 09:47:53 +0000261 on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
Denis Vlasenkof7b0d4a2006-12-14 00:22:51 +0000262 (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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000278 <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
Denis Vlasenko41be5b82006-10-29 19:34:49 +0000279 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
Denis Vlasenko8d463072006-10-29 19:30:55 +0000280
281 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
282 produces buggy executables.
283 </li>
284
Denis Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000285 <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
Rob Landley44c79172006-10-24 21:46:19 +0000286 <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 Vlasenkoa0d75082007-06-01 14:40:03 +0000312 <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
Rob Landley530c3ef2006-09-29 22:43:12 +0000313 <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 Landley2aced7e2006-07-31 23:56:26 +0000316 <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 Landley01772ae2006-06-30 22:40:13 +0000341 <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 Landley1df45cf2006-07-08 18:11:00 +0000352 <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 Landleyc27c04c2006-05-17 19:59:24 +0000354 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
Rob Landleyd2ccc2b2006-05-17 21:04:53 +0000355 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
Rob Landleyc27c04c2006-05-17 19:59:24 +0000356 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 Landleybb5b2ff2006-04-10 20:04:32 +0000365 <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 Vlasenko9213a9e2006-09-17 16:28:10 +0000376
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000377 <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-Fischer3515f6e2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000382 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000383 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-Fischer3515f6e2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000392 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000393 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
Bernhard Reutner-Fischeraf07a002006-04-16 20:56:03 +0000394 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000395 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 Landley5fba2502006-03-23 03:08:09 +0000398 <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 Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000400 <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 Landley28ff9662006-03-27 23:22:16 +0000403 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
404 June.</p>
Rob Landley5fba2502006-03-23 03:08:09 +0000405 </li>
Rob Landley734a7792006-01-14 07:43:22 +0000406 <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-Fischer3515f6e2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000410 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
Rob Landley734a7792006-01-14 07:43:22 +0000411 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 Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000413
Eric Andersenc7bda1c2004-03-15 08:29:22 +0000414 <li><b>Old News</b><p>
Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000415 <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
Rob Landleyd879ffb2006-06-27 21:29:56 +0000416 </p>
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