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Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]42 <hr>
Eric Andersena3603e82002-04-11 20:40:00 +0000[diff] [blame]43
44
Eric Andersenc9897242003-07-15 07:52:41 +0000[diff] [blame]45 <p>
46 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
47
48 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
49 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
50 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
51 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
52 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
53 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
54 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
55 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
56 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
57 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
58 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
59 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
60 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
61
62 <p>
63 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
64 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
65 <p>Have Fun!
66 <p>
67
68 <p>
69 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
70
71 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
72 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
73 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
74 the problems that have turned up since the last
75 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
76 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
77 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
78 should soon be getting its first real release.
79
80 <p>
81 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
82 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
83 <p>Have Fun!
84 <p>
85
86
87 <p>
88 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
89
90 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
91 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
92 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
93 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
94 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
95 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
96 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
97
98 <p>
99 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
100 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
101 <p>Have Fun!
102 <p>
103
104
105 <p>
106 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
107
108 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
109 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
110 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
111 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
112 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
113 in Canada and
114 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
115 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
116 accessible for everyone!
117
118
Eric Andersena3603e82002-04-11 20:40:00 +0000[diff] [blame]119 <li>
120 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
121
122 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
123 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
124 (which is where you are probably reading this).
125 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
126 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
127 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
128 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
129 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
130 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
131 stopped some time ago).</p>
132
133 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
134 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
135 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
136 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
137 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
138 co-location effort, <a href=
139 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
140 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
141 his <a href=
142 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
143 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
144 system is co-located, the current speed problems
145 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
146 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
147 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
148
149 <p><!--
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162 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
163 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
164 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
165 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
166 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
167 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
168 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
169 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
170 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
171 far, donations received have been sufficient to
172 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
173 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
174 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
175 everyone that has contributed!<br>
176 -Erik</p>
177 </li>
178
179 <li>
180 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
181
182 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
183 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
184 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
185 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
186 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
187 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
188 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
189 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
190 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
191 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
192 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
193
194 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
195 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
196 should work with just about any Linux system you
197 throw it at. See the <a href=
198 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
199 of</small> the details. The last release was
200 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
201 be even better.</p>
202
203 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
204 <a href=
205 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
206
207 <p>Have Fun.<br>
208 -Erik</p>
209 </li>
210
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]211 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
212
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226
227 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
228 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
229 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
230 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
231 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
232 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
233 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
234 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
235 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
236 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
237 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
238 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
239 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
240 will start costing some money.
241 <p>
242
243 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
244 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
245 where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
246 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
247 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
248 mailing list and web page. So...
249 <p>
250
251 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
252 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
253 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
254 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
255 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
256 would be wonderful!
257 <p>
258
259
260 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
261 <br>
262
263 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
264 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
265 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
266 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
267 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
268 here it is. Come and get it.
269 <p>
270 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]271 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]272 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]273 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]274 <p>Have Fun!
275 <p>
276
277
278 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
279 <br>
280 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
281 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
282 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
283 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
284 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
285 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
286 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
287 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
288 cleans up a number of things.
289
290 <p>
291
292 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
293 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
294 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
295 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
296 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
297 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
298 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]299 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]300 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
301 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
302 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
303 to view the tutorial.
304 <p>
305
306 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
307 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
308 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
309 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
310 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
311 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
312 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
313 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
314 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
315 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
316 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
317 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
318 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
319 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
320 I will release that as a new stable release series.
321
322 <p>
323 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]324 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]325 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]326 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]327 <p>Have Fun!
328 <p>
329
330
331 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
332 <br>
333
334 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
335 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
336 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
337 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
338 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
339 and ash).
340
341 <p>
342 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]343 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]344 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
345 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
346 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]347 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]348 <p>Have Fun!
349 <p>
350
351
352 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
353 <br>
354 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
355 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
356 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
357
358 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
359 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
360 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
361 <p>
362
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]363
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]364 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
365 <br>
366
367 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
368 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
369 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
370 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
371 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
372 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
373 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
374 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
375 <p>
376
377 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
378 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
379 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
380 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
381 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
382 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
383 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
384 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
385 for letting me use their system!).
386 <p>
387 You can read the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]388 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]389 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]390 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]391 <p>Have Fun!
392 <p>
393
394 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
395
396 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]397 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]398 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
399
400 <ol>
401
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]402 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]403 Download the image</a>
404
405 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
406 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
407
408 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
409
410 </ol>
411
412 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
413
414 <pre>
415 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
416 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
417 umount /mnt
418 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
419 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
420 </pre>
421
422
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]423 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
424 <br>
425
426 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
427 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
428 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
429 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
430 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]431 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]432 <p>
433 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
434 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
435 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
436 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
437 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
438 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
439 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
440 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
441 currently in progress at
442 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
443 <p>
444
445
446 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
447 <br>
448
449 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
450 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
451 For a list of the most interesting changes
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]452 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]453 <p>
454 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
455 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
456 out of town.
457 <p>
458 <em>Special Note</em><br>
459
460 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
461 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
462 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
463 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
464 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
465 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
466 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
467 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
468 release of BusyBox.
469 <p>
470
471 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
472 <br>
473
474 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
475 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
476 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
477 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
478 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
479 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
480 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
481 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
482 <p>
483 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]484 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]485 <p>
486 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
487 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
488 <p>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]489 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
490 <br>
491
492 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
493 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
494 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
495 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
496 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
497 more correct option parsing.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]498 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]499 for complete details.
500
501
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]502 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
503 <br>
504
505 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
506 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
507 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
508 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
509 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]510 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]511 for complete details.
512
513
514 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
515 <br>
516
517 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
518 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
519 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
520 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
521 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]522 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]523 details).
524 <p>
525 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]526 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]527 publically browsable
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]528 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]529 anonymous
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]530 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]531 for those that are actively contributing there is even
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]532 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]533 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
534 <p>
535 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
536 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
537 we are just skipping 0.44.
538 <p>
539 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
540 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
541
542
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]543 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
544 <br>
545 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
546 For example, with the following test app:
547<pre>
548 #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
549
550 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
551 {
552 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
553 while(1) {
554 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
555 sleep(delay);
556 }
557 closelog();
558 return(0);
559 };
560
561 int main(void)
562 {
563 if (fork()==0)
564 do_log("A", 2);
565 do_log("B", 3);
566 }
567</pre>
568 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
569 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
570 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
571 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]572 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]573 Thanks Karl!
574
575
576 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
577 <br>
578 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
579 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
580 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
581 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
582 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
583 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
584 More details are available in the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]585 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]586 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
587 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
588
589 <p>
590 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
591 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
592 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
593 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
594 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
595 <p>
596
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]597 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]598
599 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
600 <br>
601 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
602 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
603 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
604 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
605 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
606 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
607 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
608 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
609 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
610 changes I still want to make.
611 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]612 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]613 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
614
615 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
616 <br>
617 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
618 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
619 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
620 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
621 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
622 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
623 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
624 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
625 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
626 contrary).
627 <p>
628 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
629 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
630 <p>
631 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
632 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
633 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
634 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
635 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
636 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
637 problems.
638
639
640 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
641 <br>
642
643 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
644 bugs have been fixed. See the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]645 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]646
647 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
648 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
649 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
650 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
651 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
652 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
653 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
654
655 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
656 <br>
657
658 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
659 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
660 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
661 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]662 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]663
664 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
665 <br>
666
667 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
668 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
669 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
670 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
671 in some cases produced serious security problems.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]672 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]673
674 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
675 <br>
676 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
677 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
678 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
679 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
680 what arguments its apps support, etc.
681
682 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
683 <br>
684 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
685 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]686 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]687 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
688 <br>
689 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
690 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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