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Rob Landley530c3ef2006-09-29 22:43:12 +00005 <li><b>Sep 29, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
6 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
7 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
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Rob Landley2aced7e2006-07-31 23:56:26 +00009 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
10 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
11 might as well point you all at
12 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
13 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
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15 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
16 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
17 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
18 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
19 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
20 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
21 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
22 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
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24 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
25 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
26 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
27 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
28 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
29 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
30 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
31 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
32 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
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Rob Landley01772ae2006-06-30 22:40:13 +000034 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
35 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
36 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
37 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
38 over the weekend.</p>
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40 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
41 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
42 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
43 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
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Rob Landley1df45cf2006-07-08 18:11:00 +000045 <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>
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Rob Landleyc27c04c2006-05-17 19:59:24 +000047 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
Rob Landleyd2ccc2b2006-05-17 21:04:53 +000048 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
Rob Landleyc27c04c2006-05-17 19:59:24 +000049 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
50 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
51 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
52 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
53 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
54 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
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56 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
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Rob Landleybb5b2ff2006-04-10 20:04:32 +000058 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
59 <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
60 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
61 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
62 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
63 for more info.</p>
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65 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
66 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
67 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
68 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
Denis Vlasenko9213a9e2006-09-17 16:28:10 +000069
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +000070 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
71 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
72 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
73 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
74 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3515f6e2006-04-10 19:16:50 +000075 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +000076 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
77 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
78 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
79 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
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81 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
82 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
83 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
84 free and open source software projects (such as
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3515f6e2006-04-10 19:16:50 +000085 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +000086 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
Bernhard Reutner-Fischeraf07a002006-04-16 20:56:03 +000087 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
Rob Landley0949d302006-03-27 22:43:40 +000088 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
89 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
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Rob Landley5fba2502006-03-23 03:08:09 +000091 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
92 <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 +000093 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
94 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
95 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
Rob Landley28ff9662006-03-27 23:22:16 +000096 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
97 June.</p>
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Rob Landley734a7792006-01-14 07:43:22 +000099 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
100 <p>The new stable release is
101 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
102 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3515f6e2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000103 (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 +0000104 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
105 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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