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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
45 <li>
46 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
47
48 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
49 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
50 (which is where you are probably reading this).
51 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
52 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
53 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
54 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
55 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
56 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
57 stopped some time ago).</p>
58
59 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
60 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
61 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
62 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
63 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
64 co-location effort, <a href=
65 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
66 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
67 his <a href=
68 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
69 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
70 system is co-located, the current speed problems
71 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
72 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
73 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
74
75 <p><!--
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88 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
89 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
90 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
91 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
92 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
93 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
94 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
95 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
96 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
97 far, donations received have been sufficient to
98 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
99 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
100 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
101 everyone that has contributed!<br>
102 -Erik</p>
103 </li>
104
105 <li>
106 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
107
108 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
109 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
110 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
111 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
112 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
113 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
114 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
115 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
116 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
117 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
118 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
119
120 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
121 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
122 should work with just about any Linux system you
123 throw it at. See the <a href=
124 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
125 of</small> the details. The last release was
126 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
127 be even better.</p>
128
129 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
130 <a href=
131 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
132
133 <p>Have Fun.<br>
134 -Erik</p>
135 </li>
136
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]137 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
138
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152
153 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
154 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
155 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
156 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
157 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
158 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
159 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
160 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
161 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
162 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
163 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
164 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
165 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
166 will start costing some money.
167 <p>
168
169 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
170 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
171 where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
172 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
173 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
174 mailing list and web page. So...
175 <p>
176
177 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
178 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
179 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
180 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
181 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
182 would be wonderful!
183 <p>
184
185
186 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
187 <br>
188
189 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
190 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
191 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
192 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
193 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
194 here it is. Come and get it.
195 <p>
196 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]197 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]198 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]199 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]200 <p>Have Fun!
201 <p>
202
203
204 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
205 <br>
206 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
207 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
208 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
209 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
210 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
211 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
212 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
213 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
214 cleans up a number of things.
215
216 <p>
217
218 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
219 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
220 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
221 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
222 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
223 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
224 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]225 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]226 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
227 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
228 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
229 to view the tutorial.
230 <p>
231
232 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
233 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
234 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
235 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
236 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
237 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
238 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
239 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
240 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
241 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
242 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
243 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
244 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
245 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
246 I will release that as a new stable release series.
247
248 <p>
249 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]250 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]251 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]252 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]253 <p>Have Fun!
254 <p>
255
256
257 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
258 <br>
259
260 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
261 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
262 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
263 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
264 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
265 and ash).
266
267 <p>
268 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]269 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]270 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
271 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
272 BusyBox 0.52 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>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
279 <br>
280 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
281 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
282 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
283
284 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
285 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
286 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
287 <p>
288
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]289
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]290 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
291 <br>
292
293 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
294 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
295 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
296 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
297 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
298 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
299 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
300 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
301 <p>
302
303 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
304 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
305 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
306 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
307 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
308 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
309 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
310 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
311 for letting me use their system!).
312 <p>
313 You can read the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]314 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]315 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]316 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]317 <p>Have Fun!
318 <p>
319
320 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
321
322 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]323 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]324 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
325
326 <ol>
327
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]328 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]329 Download the image</a>
330
331 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
332 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
333
334 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
335
336 </ol>
337
338 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
339
340 <pre>
341 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
342 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
343 umount /mnt
344 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
345 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
346 </pre>
347
348
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]349 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
350 <br>
351
352 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
353 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
354 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
355 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
356 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]357 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]358 <p>
359 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
360 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
361 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
362 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
363 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
364 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
365 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
366 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
367 currently in progress at
368 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
369 <p>
370
371
372 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
373 <br>
374
375 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
376 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
377 For a list of the most interesting changes
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]378 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]379 <p>
380 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
381 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
382 out of town.
383 <p>
384 <em>Special Note</em><br>
385
386 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
387 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
388 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
389 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
390 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
391 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
392 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
393 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
394 release of BusyBox.
395 <p>
396
397 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
398 <br>
399
400 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
401 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
402 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
403 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
404 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
405 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
406 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
407 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
408 <p>
409 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]410 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]411 <p>
412 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
413 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
414 <p>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]415 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
416 <br>
417
418 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
419 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
420 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
421 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
422 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
423 more correct option parsing.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]424 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]425 for complete details.
426
427
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]428 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
429 <br>
430
431 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
432 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
433 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
434 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
435 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]436 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]437 for complete details.
438
439
440 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
441 <br>
442
443 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
444 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
445 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
446 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
447 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]448 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]449 details).
450 <p>
451 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]452 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]453 publically browsable
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]454 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]455 anonymous
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]456 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]457 for those that are actively contributing there is even
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]458 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]459 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
460 <p>
461 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
462 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
463 we are just skipping 0.44.
464 <p>
465 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
466 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
467
468
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]469 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
470 <br>
471 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
472 For example, with the following test app:
473<pre>
474 #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
475
476 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
477 {
478 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
479 while(1) {
480 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
481 sleep(delay);
482 }
483 closelog();
484 return(0);
485 };
486
487 int main(void)
488 {
489 if (fork()==0)
490 do_log("A", 2);
491 do_log("B", 3);
492 }
493</pre>
494 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
495 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
496 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
497 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]498 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]499 Thanks Karl!
500
501
502 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
503 <br>
504 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
505 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
506 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
507 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
508 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
509 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
510 More details are available in the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]511 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]512 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
513 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
514
515 <p>
516 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
517 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
518 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
519 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
520 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
521 <p>
522
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]523 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]524
525 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
526 <br>
527 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
528 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
529 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
530 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
531 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
532 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
533 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
534 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
535 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
536 changes I still want to make.
537 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]538 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]539 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
540
541 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
542 <br>
543 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
544 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
545 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
546 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
547 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
548 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
549 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
550 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
551 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
552 contrary).
553 <p>
554 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
555 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
556 <p>
557 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
558 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
559 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
560 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
561 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
562 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
563 problems.
564
565
566 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
567 <br>
568
569 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
570 bugs have been fixed. See the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]571 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]572
573 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
574 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
575 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
576 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
577 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
578 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
579 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
580
581 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
582 <br>
583
584 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
585 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
586 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
587 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]588 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]589
590 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
591 <br>
592
593 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
594 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
595 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
596 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
597 in some cases produced serious security problems.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]598 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]599
600 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
601 <br>
602 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
603 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
604 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
605 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
606 what arguments its apps support, etc.
607
608 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
609 <br>
610 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
611 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]612 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]613 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
614 <br>
615 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
616 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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635
636 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
637 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
638 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
639 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
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