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5 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
6 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
7 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
8 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
9 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
10 <a href=http://www.busybox.net/shame.html>Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
11 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
12 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
13 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
14 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
16 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
17 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
18 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
19 free and open source software projects (such as
20 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/>X.org</a>,
21 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
22 <a href=http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/>Plone</a>
23 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
24 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
26 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
27 <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>
28 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
29 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
30 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
31 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed.</p>
33 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
34 <p>The new stable release is
35 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
36 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
37 (It also has <a href=http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html>a few rough spots</a>,
38 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
39 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
41 <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b>
42 <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
44 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>,
45 the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of
46 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new
47 functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
48 several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
49 <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards
50 compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
51 still working out the <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p>
53 <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b>
55 <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox
56 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
57 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small
58 fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p>
60 <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p>
62 Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
63 developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
64 in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
65 name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
66 from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the
67 <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a>
68 to post all the gory details.
72 The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
73 is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
74 to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
79 <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p>
81 When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or
82 software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox.
83 With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and
84 who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices
85 is looking very bright.
89 It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every
90 device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date.
91 The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!
95 Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous
96 improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux
97 KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel),
98 Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development
99 work and testing of thousands of people from around the world.
103 If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
104 BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device
105 or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is
106 right for your application. If you need help getting started using
107 BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug
108 and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a
109 href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>.
113 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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