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5 <li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
6 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
8 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
9 produces buggy executables.
12 <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
13 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
14 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
15 BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
17 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
18 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
19 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
20 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
21 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
22 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
23 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
24 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
25 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
26 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
27 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
28 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
29 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
30 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
31 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
33 <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
34 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
35 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
39 <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
40 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
41 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
43 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
44 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
45 might as well point you all at
46 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
47 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
49 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
50 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
51 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
52 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
53 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
54 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
55 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
56 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
58 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
59 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
60 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
61 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
62 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
63 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
64 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
65 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
66 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
68 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
69 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
70 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
71 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
74 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
75 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
76 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
77 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
79 <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>
81 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
82 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
83 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
84 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
85 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
86 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
87 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
88 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
90 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
92 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
93 <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
94 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
95 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
96 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
99 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
100 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
101 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
102 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
104 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
105 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
106 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
107 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
108 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
109 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
110 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
111 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
112 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
113 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
115 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
116 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
117 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
118 free and open source software projects (such as
119 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
120 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
121 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
122 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
123 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
125 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
126 <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>
127 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
128 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
129 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
130 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
133 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
134 <p>The new stable release is
135 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
136 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
137 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
138 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
139 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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