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