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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>
Eric Andersen7a6a7732003-07-30 09:33:54 +0000[diff] [blame]46 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
47
48 The busybox development series has been under construction for
49 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
50 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
51 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
52 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
53 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
54 1.0.x...
55 <p>
56
57 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
58 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
59 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
60 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
61 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
62 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
63 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
64 of July.
65 <p>
66
67 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
68 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
69 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
70 happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
71 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
72 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
73 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
74 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
75 <p>
76
77 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
78 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
79 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
80 have made this release possible.
81 <p>
82
83 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
84 You don't really need to bother with the
85 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
86 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
87 But you can take a look if you really want too.
88
89 <p>Have Fun!
90 <p>
91
92
93
94 <p>
Eric Andersenc9897242003-07-15 07:52:41 +0000[diff] [blame]95 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
96
97 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
98 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
99 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
100 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
101 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
102 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
103 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
104 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
105 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
106 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
107 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
108 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
109 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
110
111 <p>
112 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
113 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
114 <p>Have Fun!
115 <p>
116
117 <p>
118 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
119
120 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
121 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
122 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
123 the problems that have turned up since the last
124 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
125 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
126 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
127 should soon be getting its first real release.
128
129 <p>
130 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
131 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
132 <p>Have Fun!
133 <p>
134
135
136 <p>
137 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
138
139 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
140 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
141 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
142 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
143 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
144 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
145 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
146
147 <p>
148 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
149 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
150 <p>Have Fun!
151 <p>
152
153
154 <p>
155 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
156
157 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
158 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
159 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
160 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
161 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
162 in Canada and
163 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
164 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
165 accessible for everyone!
166
167
Eric Andersena3603e82002-04-11 20:40:00 +0000[diff] [blame]168 <li>
169 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
170
171 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
172 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
173 (which is where you are probably reading this).
174 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
175 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
176 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
177 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
178 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
179 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
180 stopped some time ago).</p>
181
182 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
183 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
184 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
185 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
186 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
187 co-location effort, <a href=
188 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
189 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
190 his <a href=
191 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
192 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
193 system is co-located, the current speed problems
194 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
195 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
196 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
197
198 <p><!--
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211 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
212 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
213 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
214 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
215 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
216 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
217 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
218 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
219 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
220 far, donations received have been sufficient to
221 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
222 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
223 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
224 everyone that has contributed!<br>
225 -Erik</p>
226 </li>
227
228 <li>
229 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
230
231 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
232 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
233 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
234 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
235 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
236 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
237 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
238 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
239 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
240 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
241 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
242
243 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
244 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
245 should work with just about any Linux system you
246 throw it at. See the <a href=
247 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
248 of</small> the details. The last release was
249 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
250 be even better.</p>
251
252 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
253 <a href=
254 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
255
256 <p>Have Fun.<br>
257 -Erik</p>
258 </li>
259
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]260 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
261
262 <!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
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264 Click here to help buy busybox.net!
265 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
266 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
267 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
Eric Andersen1785ddc2002-07-08 01:40:02 +0000[diff] [blame]268 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
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275
276 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
277 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
278 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
279 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
280 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
281 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
282 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
283 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
284 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
285 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
286 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
287 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
288 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
289 will start costing some money.
290 <p>
291
292 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
293 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
294 where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
295 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
296 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
297 mailing list and web page. So...
298 <p>
299
300 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
301 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
302 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
303 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
304 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
305 would be wonderful!
306 <p>
307
308
309 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
310 <br>
311
312 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
313 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
314 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
315 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
316 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
317 here it is. Come and get it.
318 <p>
319 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]320 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]321 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]322 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]323 <p>Have Fun!
324 <p>
325
326
327 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
328 <br>
329 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
330 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
331 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
332 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
333 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
334 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
335 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
336 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
337 cleans up a number of things.
338
339 <p>
340
341 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
342 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
343 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
344 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
345 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
346 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
347 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]348 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]349 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
350 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
351 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
352 to view the tutorial.
353 <p>
354
355 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
356 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
357 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
358 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
359 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
360 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
361 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
362 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
363 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
364 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
365 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
366 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
367 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
368 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
369 I will release that as a new stable release series.
370
371 <p>
372 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]373 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]374 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]375 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]376 <p>Have Fun!
377 <p>
378
379
380 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
381 <br>
382
383 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
384 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
385 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
386 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
387 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
388 and ash).
389
390 <p>
391 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]392 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]393 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
394 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
395 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]396 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]397 <p>Have Fun!
398 <p>
399
400
401 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
402 <br>
403 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
404 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
405 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
406
407 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
408 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
409 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
410 <p>
411
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]412
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]413 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
414 <br>
415
416 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
417 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
418 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
419 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
420 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
421 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
422 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
423 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
424 <p>
425
426 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
427 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
428 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
429 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
430 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
431 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
432 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
433 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
434 for letting me use their system!).
435 <p>
436 You can read the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]437 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]438 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]439 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]440 <p>Have Fun!
441 <p>
442
443 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
444
445 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]446 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]447 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
448
449 <ol>
450
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]451 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]452 Download the image</a>
453
454 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
455 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
456
457 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
458
459 </ol>
460
461 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
462
463 <pre>
464 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
465 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
466 umount /mnt
467 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
468 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
469 </pre>
470
471
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]472 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
473 <br>
474
475 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
476 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
477 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
478 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
479 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]480 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]481 <p>
482 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
483 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
484 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
485 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
486 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
487 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
488 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
489 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
490 currently in progress at
491 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
492 <p>
493
494
495 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
496 <br>
497
498 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
499 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
500 For a list of the most interesting changes
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]501 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]502 <p>
503 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
504 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
505 out of town.
506 <p>
507 <em>Special Note</em><br>
508
509 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
510 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
511 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
512 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
513 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
514 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
515 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
516 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
517 release of BusyBox.
518 <p>
519
520 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
521 <br>
522
523 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
524 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
525 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
526 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
527 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
528 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
529 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
530 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
531 <p>
532 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]533 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]534 <p>
535 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
536 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
537 <p>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]538 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
539 <br>
540
541 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
542 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
543 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
544 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
545 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
546 more correct option parsing.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]547 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]548 for complete details.
549
550
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]551 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
552 <br>
553
554 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
555 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
556 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
557 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
558 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]559 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]560 for complete details.
561
562
563 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
564 <br>
565
566 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
567 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
568 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
569 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
570 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]571 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]572 details).
573 <p>
574 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]575 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]576 publically browsable
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]577 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]578 anonymous
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]579 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]580 for those that are actively contributing there is even
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]581 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]582 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
583 <p>
584 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
585 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
586 we are just skipping 0.44.
587 <p>
588 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
589 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
590
591
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]592 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
593 <br>
594 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
595 For example, with the following test app:
596<pre>
597 #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
598
599 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
600 {
601 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
602 while(1) {
603 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
604 sleep(delay);
605 }
606 closelog();
607 return(0);
608 };
609
610 int main(void)
611 {
612 if (fork()==0)
613 do_log("A", 2);
614 do_log("B", 3);
615 }
616</pre>
617 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
618 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
619 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
620 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]621 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]622 Thanks Karl!
623
624
625 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
626 <br>
627 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
628 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
629 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
630 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
631 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
632 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
633 More details are available in the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]634 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]635 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
636 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
637
638 <p>
639 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
640 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
641 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
642 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
643 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
644 <p>
645
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]646 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]647
648 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
649 <br>
650 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
651 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
652 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
653 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
654 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
655 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
656 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
657 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
658 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
659 changes I still want to make.
660 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]661 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]662 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
663
664 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
665 <br>
666 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
667 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
668 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
669 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
670 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
671 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
672 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
673 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
674 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
675 contrary).
676 <p>
677 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
678 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
679 <p>
680 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
681 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
682 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
683 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
684 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
685 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
686 problems.
687
688
689 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
690 <br>
691
692 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
693 bugs have been fixed. See the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]694 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]695
696 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
697 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
698 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
699 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
700 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
701 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
702 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
703
704 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
705 <br>
706
707 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
708 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
709 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
710 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]711 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]712
713 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
714 <br>
715
716 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
717 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
718 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
719 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
720 in some cases produced serious security problems.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]721 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]722
723 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
724 <br>
725 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
726 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
727 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
728 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
729 what arguments its apps support, etc.
730
731 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
732 <br>
733 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
734 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]735 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]736 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
737 <br>
738 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
739 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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758
759 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
760 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
761 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
762 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
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