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  <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.2</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
    <p>
    Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof,
    start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system.
    <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please
    report if you encounter any problems with it.
    <p>
    <a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a>
    <p>
    The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
    the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
    </p>

  <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
    <p>
    Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
    fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.

  <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 781405     679    7500  789584   c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
 773551     640    7372  781563   becfb busybox-1.10.0
</pre>
    <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
busybox-1.9.2:               busybox-1.10.0:
echo_dg                 4116 bb_full_fd_action       4112
bb_full_fd_action       4112 find_list_entry2        4096
discard_dg              4108 readlink_main           4096
discard_dg              4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush    3900
echo_stream             4096 iproute_list_or_flush   3680
discard_stream          4096 insmod_main             3152
find_list_entry2        4096 fallbackSort            2952
readlink_main           4096 do_iproute              2492
ipaddr_list_or_flush    3900 cal_main                2464
iproute_list_or_flush   3680 readhere                2308
</pre>

    <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
	findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
	lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;),
	sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;), tac, tftpd.

    <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.

    <p>Changes since previous release:
      <ul>
	<li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter
	<li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations
	<li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;)
	<li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134
	<li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947
	<li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2&gt;/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142
	<li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case
	<li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host
	<li>build system: make it do without "od -t"
	<li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376
	<li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU
	<li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
	<li>crontab: almost complete rewrite
	<li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets
	<li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed
	<li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)
	<li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels
	<li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples &lt;roy at marples.name&gt;)
	<li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr &gt;= 256 * 256)/(blknr &lt; 256 * 256)/
	<li>fuser: substantial rewrite
	<li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.com&gt;
	<li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund &lt;Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se&gt;)
	<li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled
	<li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530
	<li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked
	<li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"
	<li>httpd: fix for POST upload
	<li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard &lt;jacmet AT uclibc.org&gt;)
	<li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure
	<li>hush: more correct handling of piping
	<li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU
	<li>hush: report [v]fork failures
	<li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed
	<li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness
	<li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work
	<li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable
	<li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher &lt;eugebo AT gmail.com&gt;)
	<li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"
	<li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing
	<li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words
	<li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
	<li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)
	<li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error
	<li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)
	<li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now
	<li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars
	<li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption
	<li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages
	<li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], &lt;enter search pattern&gt;, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!
	<li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too
	<li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets
	<li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error
	<li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;
	<li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!
	<li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended
	<li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible
	<li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t
	<li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras &lt;timo.teras at iki.fi&gt;)
	<li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected
	<li>mount: add another mount helper call method
	<li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option
	<li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)
	<li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity
	<li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command
	<li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)
	<li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root
	<li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143
	<li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make
	<li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)
	<li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin
	<li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing
	<li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)
	<li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed
	<li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway
	<li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters
	<li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc
	<li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]
	<li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin &lt;mailinglist.cache at gmail.com&gt;
	<li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly
	<li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file
	<li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time
	<li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns
	<li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414
	<li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez &lt;roberto.gordo AT gmail.com&gt;
	<li>run-parts: add --reverse
	<li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output
	<li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214
	<li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591
	<li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl &lt;Ralf.Friedl AT online.de&gt;)
	<li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425
	<li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls
	<li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead
	<li>syslogd: fix shmat error check
	<li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436
	<li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574
	<li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling
	<li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)
	<li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end
	<li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992
	<li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt; 
	<li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket
	<li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"
	<li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"
	<li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected
	<li>udhcp: make file paths configurable
	<li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports
	<li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE
	<li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com&gt;)
	<li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson &lt;jonas.danielsson AT axis.com&gt;)
	<li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint
	<li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro
	<li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604
	<li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;
	<li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)
	<li>unzip: handle short reads correctly
	<li>vi: many fixes
	<li>zcip: don't chdir to root
	<li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)
      </ul>
    </p>

  <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b>
    <p>
    Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
    for future hot patches are in parentheses.
    <p>
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2>1.9.2</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/>patches</a>),
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2>1.8.3</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/>patches</a>),
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2>1.7.5</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/>patches</a>),
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2>1.5.2</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/>patches</a>).
    <p>
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>How to add a patch.</a>
    <p>
    <a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a>
    <p>
    The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
    the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
    </p>


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