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5 <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
6 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
7 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
10 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
11 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
12 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
13 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
14 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
15 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
16 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
17 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
18 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
19 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
20 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
21 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
22 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
23 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
24 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
26 <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
27 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
28 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
32 <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
33 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
34 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
36 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
37 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
38 might as well point you all at
39 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
40 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
42 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
43 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
44 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
45 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
46 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
47 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
48 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
49 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
51 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
52 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
53 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
54 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
55 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
56 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
57 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
58 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
59 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
61 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
62 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
63 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
64 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
67 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
68 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
69 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
70 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
72 <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>
74 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
75 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
76 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
77 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
78 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
79 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
80 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
81 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
83 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
85 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
86 <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
87 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
88 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
89 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
92 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
93 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
94 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
95 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
97 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
98 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
99 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
100 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
101 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
102 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
103 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
104 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
105 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
106 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
108 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
109 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
110 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
111 free and open source software projects (such as
112 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
113 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
114 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
115 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
116 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
118 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
119 <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>
120 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
121 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
122 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
123 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
126 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
127 <p>The new stable release is
128 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
129 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
130 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
131 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
132 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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