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7 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
9 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
10 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
11 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
12 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
13 the testing, bug reports, and patches!
17 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
18 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
19 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
20 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
21 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
26 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
27 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
28 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
29 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
30 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
31 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
32 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
33 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
34 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
35 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
40 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
41 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
42 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
43 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
44 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
45 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
46 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
47 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
48 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
53 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
54 the details. And as usual you can
55 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
64 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
66 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
67 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
68 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
69 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
73 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
74 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
75 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
76 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
77 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
78 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
79 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
80 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
83 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
84 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
85 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
86 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
90 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
91 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
92 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
93 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
94 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
95 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
96 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
97 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
101 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
102 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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