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4 <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
5 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
6 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
7 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/>patches</a>,
8 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
9 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
10 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
11 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/>patches</a>,
12 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
14 <p>These are bugfix-only releases.
15 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
16 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
19 <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
20 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
21 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
22 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/>patches</a>,
23 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
25 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
28 <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
29 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
30 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
31 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/>patches</a>,
32 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
34 <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
36 <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
39 <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
40 <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
41 <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
42 <li>optional support for partial downloads
43 <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
44 <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
45 <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
50 <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
51 <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
52 <li>fix for command line wrapping
55 <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
57 <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
58 Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
59 text data bss dec hex filename
60 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
61 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>
65 <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>
66 <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
67 <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
68 <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
69 <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
72 <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
74 <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
75 <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
76 <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
77 <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
78 <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
79 <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
80 <li>wget: allow dots in header field names
81 <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
82 <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
83 <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
84 <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
86 <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
87 <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
88 <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
89 <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
90 <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
91 <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
92 <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
93 <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
94 <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
95 <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
96 <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
97 <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
98 <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
99 <li>less: make 'f' key page forward
100 <li>libiproute: add missing break statements
101 <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
102 <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
103 <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
104 <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>)
105 <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
106 <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
107 <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
108 <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
109 <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
110 <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>)
111 <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
112 <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
113 <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
114 <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
115 <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
116 <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
117 <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
118 <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
119 <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
120 <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
121 <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
122 <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
123 <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>)
124 <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
125 <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
126 <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
127 <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
128 <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
129 <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
130 <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
131 <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
135 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p>
138 <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
139 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
140 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
141 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/>patches</a>,
142 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
144 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
147 <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
148 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
149 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
150 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/>patches</a>,
151 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
153 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
156 <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
157 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
158 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
159 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/>patches</a>,
160 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
162 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
165 <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
166 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
167 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
168 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/>patches</a>,
169 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
171 <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
174 <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
175 <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
176 <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
177 <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
178 <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
179 <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
180 <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
181 <li>add support for Status: CGI header
182 <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
183 <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
188 <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
189 <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
190 <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB))
191 <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
192 <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
193 <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
194 <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
197 <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
199 <li>simpler loadavg processing
200 <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
201 <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
202 <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
203 <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
204 <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
205 <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
206 <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
207 <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
210 <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
211 generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
212 scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
214 <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
215 Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
216 text data bss dec hex filename
217 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
218 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
219 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
221 Same .config built against static uclibc:
222 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
224 <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
225 test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
230 <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
231 <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
232 <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>)
233 <li>slattach, ttysize
236 <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
237 by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
238 qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
239 for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
241 <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
243 <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
244 <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
245 <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
246 <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
247 <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
248 <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
249 <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
250 <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
251 <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
252 <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
253 <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
254 <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
255 <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
256 <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
257 <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
258 <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
259 <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
260 <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>)
261 <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
262 <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
263 <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
264 <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
265 <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
266 <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
267 <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
268 <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255
269 <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
270 <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
271 <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
272 <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>)
273 <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
274 <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
275 <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
276 <li>login: optional support for PAM
277 <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
278 <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
279 <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
280 <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
281 <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
282 <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>)
283 <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
284 <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
285 <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
286 <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
287 <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
288 <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
289 <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>)
290 <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
291 <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>)
292 <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
293 <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
294 <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
295 <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
296 <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>
297 <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
298 <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
299 <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
300 <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
301 <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
302 <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
303 <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
304 <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com>
305 <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
306 <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
307 <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
308 <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
313 <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
314 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
315 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
316 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>,
317 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
319 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
322 <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
323 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
324 (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
325 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>,
326 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
328 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
329 label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
330 <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
331 but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
332 report any such cases.</p>
333 <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
334 and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
335 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p>
336 <p>Other changes since previous release:
338 <li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
339 <li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
340 <li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
341 <li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
342 <li>SELinux: load_policy applet
343 <li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>)
344 <li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
345 <li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
346 <li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
347 <li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
348 <li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
349 <li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
350 <li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
351 <li>awk: guard against empty environment
352 <li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
353 <li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
354 <li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
355 <li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>)
356 <li>cttyhack: new applet
357 <li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>)
358 <li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
359 <li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
360 <li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>)
361 <li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
362 <li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
363 <li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
364 <li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
365 <li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
366 <li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
367 <li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
368 <li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
369 <li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
370 <li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
371 <li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
372 <li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
373 <li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>)
374 <li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>)
375 <li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
376 <li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
377 <li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>
378 <li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>)
379 <li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
380 <li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
381 <li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
382 <li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
383 <li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
384 <li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
385 <li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
386 <li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
387 <li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
388 <li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
389 <li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
390 <li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
391 <li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements.
392 <li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
393 <li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
394 <li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
395 <li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
396 <li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
397 <li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
398 <li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
399 <li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
400 <li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
401 <li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
402 <li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
403 <li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
404 <li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
405 <li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
406 <li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
407 <li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
408 <li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1
409 <li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
410 <li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
411 <li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
412 <li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
413 <li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
414 <li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
415 <li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
416 <li>run_parts: rewrite
417 <li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu>
418 <li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
419 <li>split: new applet
420 <li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
421 <li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>)
422 <li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
423 <li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
424 <li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
425 <li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
426 <li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
427 <li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
428 <li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
429 <li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
430 <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
431 <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
436 <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
437 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
438 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>,
439 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
441 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
445 <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
446 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
447 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>,
448 <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
450 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
451 label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
452 <p>Notable changes since previous release:
454 <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
455 <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
456 <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
457 <li>less: regex search improved
458 <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
459 <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
460 <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
461 <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
462 <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
463 <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
464 <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
465 <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
466 <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
467 not only in /cgi-bin/
469 <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
470 new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
471 <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
472 improper usage of string constants.
473 <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
475 <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
476 sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
477 <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
478 udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
479 <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
480 syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
485 <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
486 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
489 <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
493 <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
494 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
495 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p>
497 <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
501 <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
502 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
503 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>
505 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
507 <p>Changes since previous release:
509 <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
510 the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
511 it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
512 ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
513 <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
514 (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
515 don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
516 anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
517 as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
519 <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
520 upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
521 already much better than what we had previously.
522 <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
523 <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
524 of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
525 <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
526 <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
527 <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
528 <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
529 <li>chown: user.grp works again.
530 <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
531 ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
536 <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
537 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
539 <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
543 <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
544 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
545 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
547 <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
551 <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
552 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
553 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
555 <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
556 needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
557 and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
558 bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
559 busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
560 adventurous desktop users.
561 <p>Changes since previous release:
563 <li>find: taking many more of standard options
564 <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
566 <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
567 <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
569 <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
570 on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
571 (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
572 Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
573 <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
574 directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
575 <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
576 other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
577 <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
578 (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
579 <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
580 fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
582 <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
583 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
587 <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
588 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
590 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
591 produces buggy executables.
594 <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
595 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
596 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
597 BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
599 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
600 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
601 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
602 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
603 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
604 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
605 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
606 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
607 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
608 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
609 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
610 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
611 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
612 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
613 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
615 <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
616 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
617 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
621 <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
622 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
623 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
625 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
626 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
627 might as well point you all at
628 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
629 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
631 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
632 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
633 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
634 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
635 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
636 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
637 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
638 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
640 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
641 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
642 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
643 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
644 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
645 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
646 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
647 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
648 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
650 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
651 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
652 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
653 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
654 over the weekend.</p>
656 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
657 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
658 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
659 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
661 <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>
663 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
664 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
665 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
666 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
667 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
668 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
669 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
670 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
672 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
674 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
675 <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
676 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
677 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
678 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
681 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
682 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
683 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
684 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
686 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
687 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
688 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
689 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
690 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
691 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
692 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
693 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
694 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
695 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
697 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
698 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
699 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
700 free and open source software projects (such as
701 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
702 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
703 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
704 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
705 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
707 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
708 <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>
709 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
710 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
711 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
712 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
715 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
716 <p>The new stable release is
717 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
718 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
719 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
720 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
721 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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