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40
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 Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]43
44
45 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
46
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60
61 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
62 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
63 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
64 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
65 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
66 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
67 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
68 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
69 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
70 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
71 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
72 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
73 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
74 will start costing some money.
75 <p>
76
77 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
78 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
79 where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
80 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
81 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
82 mailing list and web page. So...
83 <p>
84
85 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
86 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
87 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
88 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
89 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
90 would be wonderful!
91 <p>
92
93
94 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
95 <br>
96
97 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
98 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
99 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
100 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
101 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
102 here it is. Come and get it.
103 <p>
104 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]105 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]106 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]107 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]108 <p>Have Fun!
109 <p>
110
111
112 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
113 <br>
114 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
115 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
116 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
117 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
118 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
119 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
120 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
121 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
122 cleans up a number of things.
123
124 <p>
125
126 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
127 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
128 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
129 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
130 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
131 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
132 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]133 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]134 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
135 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
136 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
137 to view the tutorial.
138 <p>
139
140 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
141 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
142 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
143 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
144 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
145 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
146 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
147 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
148 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
149 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
150 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
151 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
152 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
153 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
154 I will release that as a new stable release series.
155
156 <p>
157 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]158 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]159 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]160 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]161 <p>Have Fun!
162 <p>
163
164
165 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
166 <br>
167
168 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
169 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
170 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
171 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
172 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
173 and ash).
174
175 <p>
176 The
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]177 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]178 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
179 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
180 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]181 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersen4fa2bb52002-01-04 00:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]182 <p>Have Fun!
183 <p>
184
185
186 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
187 <br>
188 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
189 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
190 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
191
192 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
193 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
194 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
195 <p>
196
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]197
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]198 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
199 <br>
200
201 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
202 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
203 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
204 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
205 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
206 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
207 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
208 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
209 <p>
210
211 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
212 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
213 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
214 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
215 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
216 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
217 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
218 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
219 for letting me use their system!).
220 <p>
221 You can read the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]222 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]223 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]224 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]225 <p>Have Fun!
226 <p>
227
228 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
229
230 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]231 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]232 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
233
234 <ol>
235
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]236 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
Eric Andersenceece812001-07-07 09:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]237 Download the image</a>
238
239 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
240 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
241
242 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
243
244 </ol>
245
246 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
247
248 <pre>
249 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
250 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
251 umount /mnt
252 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
253 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
254 </pre>
255
256
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]257 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
258 <br>
259
260 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
261 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
262 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
263 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
264 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]265 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]266 <p>
267 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
268 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
269 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
270 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
271 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
272 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
273 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
274 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
275 currently in progress at
276 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
277 <p>
278
279
280 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
281 <br>
282
283 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
284 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
285 For a list of the most interesting changes
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]286 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]287 <p>
288 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
289 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
290 out of town.
291 <p>
292 <em>Special Note</em><br>
293
294 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
295 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
296 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
297 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
298 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
299 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
300 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
301 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
302 release of BusyBox.
303 <p>
304
305 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
306 <br>
307
308 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
309 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
310 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
311 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
312 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
313 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
314 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
315 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
316 <p>
317 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]318 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen7b2dfc62001-07-07 08:44:25 +0000[diff] [blame]319 <p>
320 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
321 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
322 <p>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]323 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
324 <br>
325
326 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
327 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
328 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
329 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
330 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
331 more correct option parsing.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]332 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]333 for complete details.
334
335
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]336 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
337 <br>
338
339 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
340 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
341 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
342 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
343 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]344 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]345 for complete details.
346
347
348 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
349 <br>
350
351 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
352 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
353 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
354 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
355 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]356 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]357 details).
358 <p>
359 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]360 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]361 publically browsable
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]362 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]363 anonymous
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]364 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]365 for those that are actively contributing there is even
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]366 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
Eric Andersen43622002000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000[diff] [blame]367 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
368 <p>
369 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
370 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
371 we are just skipping 0.44.
372 <p>
373 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
374 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
375
376
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]377 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
378 <br>
379 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
380 For example, with the following test app:
381<pre>
382 #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
383
384 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
385 {
386 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
387 while(1) {
388 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
389 sleep(delay);
390 }
391 closelog();
392 return(0);
393 };
394
395 int main(void)
396 {
397 if (fork()==0)
398 do_log("A", 2);
399 do_log("B", 3);
400 }
401</pre>
402 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
403 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
404 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
405 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]406 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]407 Thanks Karl!
408
409
410 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
411 <br>
412 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
413 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
414 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
415 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
416 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
417 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
418 More details are available in the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]419 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]420 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
421 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
422
423 <p>
424 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
425 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
426 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
427 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
428 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
429 <p>
430
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]431 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]432
433 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
434 <br>
435 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
436 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
437 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
438 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
439 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
440 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
441 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
442 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
443 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
444 changes I still want to make.
445 <p>
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]446 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]447 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
448
449 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
450 <br>
451 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
452 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
453 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
454 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
455 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
456 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
457 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
458 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
459 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
460 contrary).
461 <p>
462 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
463 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
464 <p>
465 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
466 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
467 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
468 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
469 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
470 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
471 problems.
472
473
474 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
475 <br>
476
477 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
478 bugs have been fixed. See the
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]479 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]480
481 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
482 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
483 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
484 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
485 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
486 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
487 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
488
489 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
490 <br>
491
492 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
493 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
494 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
495 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]496 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]497
498 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
499 <br>
500
501 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
502 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
503 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
504 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
505 in some cases produced serious security problems.
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]506 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]507
508 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
509 <br>
510 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
511 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
512 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
513 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
514 what arguments its apps support, etc.
515
516 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
517 <br>
518 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
519 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
Eric Andersen1b17b012002-03-05 15:55:59 +0000[diff] [blame]520 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
Eric Andersen766c0122000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000[diff] [blame]521 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
522 <br>
523 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
524 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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