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Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +000041 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +000042 <hr>
Eric Andersena3603e82002-04-11 20:40:00 +000043
44
Eric Andersen23bc8362003-09-12 06:59:17 +000045 <p>
46 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
47
48 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
49 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
50 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
51 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
52
53 <p>
54
55 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
56 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
57 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
58 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
59 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
60 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
61 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
62 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
63 <p>
64
65 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
66 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
67 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
68 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
69 BusyBox mailing list.
70 <p>
71
72 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
73 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
74 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
75 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
76 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
77 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
78 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
79 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
80 then...
81 <p>
82
83 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
84 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
85
86 <p>Have Fun!
87 <p>
88
89
90
Eric Andersenc9897242003-07-15 07:52:41 +000091 <p>
Eric Andersen7a6a7732003-07-30 09:33:54 +000092 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
93
94 The busybox development series has been under construction for
95 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
96 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
97 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
98 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
99 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
100 1.0.x...
101 <p>
102
103 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
104 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
105 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
106 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
107 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
108 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
109 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
110 of July.
111 <p>
112
113 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
114 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
115 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
116 happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
117 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
118 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
119 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
120 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
121 <p>
122
123 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
124 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
125 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
126 have made this release possible.
127 <p>
128
129 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
130 You don't really need to bother with the
131 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
132 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
133 But you can take a look if you really want too.
134
135 <p>Have Fun!
136 <p>
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Eric Andersenc9897242003-07-15 07:52:41 +0000141 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
142
143 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
144 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
145 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
146 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
147 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
148 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
149 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
150 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
151 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
152 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
153 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
154 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
155 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
156
157 <p>
158 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
159 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
160 <p>Have Fun!
161 <p>
162
163 <p>
164 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
165
166 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
167 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
168 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
169 the problems that have turned up since the last
170 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
171 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
172 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
173 should soon be getting its first real release.
174
175 <p>
176 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
177 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
178 <p>Have Fun!
179 <p>
180
181
182 <p>
183 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
184
185 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
186 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
187 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
188 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
189 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
190 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
191 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
192
193 <p>
194 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
195 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
196 <p>Have Fun!
197 <p>
198
199
200 <p>
201 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
202
203 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
204 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
205 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
206 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
207 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
208 in Canada and
209 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
210 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
211 accessible for everyone!
212
213
Eric Andersena3603e82002-04-11 20:40:00 +0000214 <li>
215 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
216
217 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
218 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
219 (which is where you are probably reading this).
220 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
221 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
222 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
223 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
224 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
225 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
226 stopped some time ago).</p>
227
228 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
229 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
230 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
231 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
232 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
233 co-location effort, <a href=
234 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
235 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
236 his <a href=
237 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
238 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
239 system is co-located, the current speed problems
240 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
241 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
242 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
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257 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
258 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
259 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
260 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
261 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
262 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
263 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
264 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
265 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
266 far, donations received have been sufficient to
267 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
268 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
269 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
270 everyone that has contributed!<br>
271 -Erik</p>
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274 <li>
275 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
276
277 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
278 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
279 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
280 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
281 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
282 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
283 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
284 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
285 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
286 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
287 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
288
289 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
290 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
291 should work with just about any Linux system you
292 throw it at. See the <a href=
293 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
294 of</small> the details. The last release was
295 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
296 be even better.</p>
297
298 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
299 <a href=
300 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
301
302 <p>Have Fun.<br>
303 -Erik</p>
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Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000306 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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321
322 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
323 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
324 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
325 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
326 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
327 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
328 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
329 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
330 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
331 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
332 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
333 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
334 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
335 will start costing some money.
336 <p>
337
338 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
339 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
340 where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
341 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
342 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
343 mailing list and web page. So...
344 <p>
345
346 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
347 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
348 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
349 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
350 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
351 would be wonderful!
352 <p>
353
354
355 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
356 <br>
357
358 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
359 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
360 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
361 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
362 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
363 here it is. Come and get it.
364 <p>
365 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000366 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000367 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000368 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000369 <p>Have Fun!
370 <p>
371
372
373 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
374 <br>
375 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
376 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
377 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
378 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
379 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
380 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
381 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
382 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
383 cleans up a number of things.
384
385 <p>
386
387 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
388 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
389 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
390 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
391 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
392 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
393 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000394 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000395 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
396 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
397 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
398 to view the tutorial.
399 <p>
400
401 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
402 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
403 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
404 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
405 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
406 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
407 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
408 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
409 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
410 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
411 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
412 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
413 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
414 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
415 I will release that as a new stable release series.
416
417 <p>
418 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000419 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000420 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000421 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000422 <p>Have Fun!
423 <p>
424
425
426 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
427 <br>
428
429 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
430 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
431 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
432 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
433 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
434 and ash).
435
436 <p>
437 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000438 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000439 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
440 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
441 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000442 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000443 <p>Have Fun!
444 <p>
445
446
447 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
448 <br>
449 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
450 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
451 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
452
453 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
454 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
455 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
456 <p>
457
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000458
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000459 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
460 <br>
461
462 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
463 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
464 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
465 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
466 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
467 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
468 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
469 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
470 <p>
471
472 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
473 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
474 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
475 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
476 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
477 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
478 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
479 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
480 for letting me use their system!).
481 <p>
482 You can read the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000483 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000484 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000485 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000486 <p>Have Fun!
487 <p>
488
489 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
490
491 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000492 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000493 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
494
495 <ol>
496
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000497 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000498 Download the image</a>
499
500 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
501 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
502
503 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
504
505 </ol>
506
507 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
508
509 <pre>
510 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
511 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
512 umount /mnt
513 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
514 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
515 </pre>
516
517
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000518 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
519 <br>
520
521 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
522 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
523 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
524 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
525 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000526 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000527 <p>
528 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
529 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
530 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
531 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
532 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
533 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
534 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
535 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
536 currently in progress at
537 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
538 <p>
539
540
541 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
542 <br>
543
544 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
545 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
546 For a list of the most interesting changes
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000547 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000548 <p>
549 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
550 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
551 out of town.
552 <p>
553 <em>Special Note</em><br>
554
555 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
556 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
557 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
558 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
559 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
560 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
561 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
562 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
563 release of BusyBox.
564 <p>
565
566 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
567 <br>
568
569 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
570 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
571 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
572 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
573 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
574 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
575 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
576 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
577 <p>
578 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000579 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000580 <p>
581 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
582 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
583 <p>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000584 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
585 <br>
586
587 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
588 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
589 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
590 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
591 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
592 more correct option parsing.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000593 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000594 for complete details.
595
596
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000597 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
598 <br>
599
600 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
601 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
602 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
603 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
604 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000605 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000606 for complete details.
607
608
609 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
610 <br>
611
612 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
613 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
614 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
615 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
616 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000617 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000618 details).
619 <p>
620 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000621 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000622 publically browsable
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000623 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000624 anonymous
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000625 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000626 for those that are actively contributing there is even
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000627 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000628 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
629 <p>
630 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
631 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
632 we are just skipping 0.44.
633 <p>
634 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
635 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
636
637
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000638 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
639 <br>
640 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
641 For example, with the following test app:
642<pre>
643 #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
644
645 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
646 {
647 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
648 while(1) {
649 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
650 sleep(delay);
651 }
652 closelog();
653 return(0);
654 };
655
656 int main(void)
657 {
658 if (fork()==0)
659 do_log("A", 2);
660 do_log("B", 3);
661 }
662</pre>
663 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
664 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
665 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
666 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000667 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000668 Thanks Karl!
669
670
671 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
672 <br>
673 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
674 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
675 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
676 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
677 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
678 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
679 More details are available in the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000680 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000681 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
682 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
683
684 <p>
685 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
686 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
687 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
688 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
689 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
690 <p>
691
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000692 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000693
694 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
695 <br>
696 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
697 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
698 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
699 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
700 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
701 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
702 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
703 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
704 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
705 changes I still want to make.
706 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000707 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000708 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
709
710 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
711 <br>
712 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
713 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
714 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
715 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
716 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
717 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
718 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
719 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
720 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
721 contrary).
722 <p>
723 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
724 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
725 <p>
726 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
727 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
728 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
729 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
730 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
731 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
732 problems.
733
734
735 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
736 <br>
737
738 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
739 bugs have been fixed. See the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000740 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000741
742 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
743 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
744 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
745 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
746 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
747 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
748 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
749
750 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
751 <br>
752
753 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
754 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
755 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
756 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000757 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000758
759 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
760 <br>
761
762 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
763 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
764 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
765 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
766 in some cases produced serious security problems.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000767 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000768
769 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
770 <br>
771 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
772 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
773 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
774 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
775 what arguments its apps support, etc.
776
777 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
778 <br>
779 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
780 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000781 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000782 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
783 <br>
784 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
785 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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806 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
807 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
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