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5 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
6 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
7 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
8 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
11 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
12 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
13 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
14 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
16 <p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p>
18 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
19 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
20 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
21 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
22 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
23 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
24 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
25 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
27 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
29 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
30 <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches
31 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
32 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
33 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
36 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
37 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
38 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
39 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
41 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
42 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
43 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
44 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
45 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
46 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
47 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
48 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
49 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
50 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
52 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
53 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
54 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
55 free and open source software projects (such as
56 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
57 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
58 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
59 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
60 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
62 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
63 <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p>
64 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
65 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
66 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
67 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
70 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
71 <p>The new stable release is
72 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
73 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
74 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
75 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
76 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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