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40
41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
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43
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame^]44 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
45 <br>
46
47 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
48 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
49 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
50 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
51 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
52 See the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>
53 for complete details.
54
55
56 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
57 <br>
58
59 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
60 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
61 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
62 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
63 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
64 the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
65 details).
66 <p>
67 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
68 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
69 publically browsable
70 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
71 anonymous
72 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
73 for those that are actively contributing there is even
74 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
75 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
76 <p>
77 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
78 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
79 we are just skipping 0.44.
80 <p>
81 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
82 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
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Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]85 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
86 <br>
87 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
88 For example, with the following test app:
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90 #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
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92 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
93 {
94 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
95 while(1) {
96 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
97 sleep(delay);
98 }
99 closelog();
100 return(0);
101 };
102
103 int main(void)
104 {
105 if (fork()==0)
106 do_log("A", 2);
107 do_log("B", 3);
108 }
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110 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
111 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
112 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
113 <p>
114 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
115 <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
116 Thanks Karl!
117
118
119 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
120 <br>
121 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
122 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
123 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
124 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
125 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
126 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
127 More details are available in the
128 <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
129 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
130 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
131
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133 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
134 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
135 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
136 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
137 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
138 <p>
139
140 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
141
142 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
143 <br>
144 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
145 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
146 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
147 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
148 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
149 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
150 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
151 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
152 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
153 changes I still want to make.
154 <p>
155 The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
156 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
157
158 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
159 <br>
160 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
161 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
162 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
163 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
164 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
165 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
166 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
167 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
168 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
169 contrary).
170 <p>
171 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
172 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
173 <p>
174 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
175 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
176 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
177 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
178 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
179 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
180 problems.
181
182
183 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
184 <br>
185
186 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
187 bugs have been fixed. See the
188<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
189
190 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
191 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
192 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
193 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
194 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
195 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
196 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
197
198 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
199 <br>
200
201 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
202 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
203 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
204 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
205 The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
206
207 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
208 <br>
209
210 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
211 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
212 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
213 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
214 in some cases produced serious security problems.
215 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
216
217 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
218 <br>
219 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
220 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
221 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
222 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
223 what arguments its apps support, etc.
224
225 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
226 <br>
227 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
228 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
229 changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
230 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
231 <br>
232 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
233 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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250 <li> <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">Take me back to http://busybox.lineo.com/</a>.
251 <p>
252
253 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
254 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
255 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
256 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
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259 <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
260 Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
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262
263 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
264 <p>
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266 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
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