Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | <!--#include file="header.html" --> |
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| 4 | <ul> |
Rob Landley | 530c3ef | 2006-09-29 22:43:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 5 | <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> |
| 8 | |
Rob Landley | 2aced7e | 2006-07-31 23:56:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | <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> |
| 14 | |
| 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> |
| 23 | |
| 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> |
| 33 | |
Rob Landley | 01772ae | 2006-06-30 22:40:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | <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> |
| 39 | |
| 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> |
| 44 | |
Rob Landley | 1df45cf | 2006-07-08 18:11:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | <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 Landley | c27c04c | 2006-05-17 19:59:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> |
Rob Landley | d2ccc2b | 2006-05-17 21:04:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | <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] | 49 | 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> |
| 55 | |
| 56 | <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> |
| 57 | |
Rob Landley | bb5b2ff | 2006-04-10 20:04:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | <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> |
| 64 | |
| 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 Vlasenko | 9213a9e | 2006-09-17 16:28:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | |
Rob Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | <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-Fischer | 3515f6e | 2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | <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] | 76 | 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> |
| 80 | |
| 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-Fischer | 3515f6e | 2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, |
Rob Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and |
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer | af07a00 | 2006-04-16 20:56:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | <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] | 88 | in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a |
| 89 | phrase you get to use every day.</p> |
| 90 | |
Rob Landley | 5fba250 | 2006-03-23 03:08:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | <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 Landley | 0949d30 | 2006-03-27 22:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | <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 Landley | 28ff966 | 2006-03-27 23:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around |
| 97 | June.</p> |
Rob Landley | 5fba250 | 2006-03-23 03:08:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | </li> |
Rob Landley | 734a779 | 2006-01-14 07:43:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | <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-Fischer | 3515f6e | 2006-04-10 19:16:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | (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] | 104 | 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> |
Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | |
Eric Andersen | c7bda1c | 2004-03-15 08:29:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | <li><b>Old News</b><p> |
Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> |
Rob Landley | d879ffb | 2006-06-27 21:29:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | </p> |
| 110 | </li> |
Eric Andersen | 539eef6 | 2003-12-10 12:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | |
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