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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. Expect 1.1.2 around
34 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
35 <p>The new stable release is
36 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
37 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
38 (It also has <a href=http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html>a few rough spots</a>,
39 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
40 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
42 <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b>
43 <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
45 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>,
46 the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of
47 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new
48 functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
49 several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
50 <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards
51 compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
52 still working out the <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p>
54 <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b>
56 <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox
57 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
58 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small
59 fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p>
61 <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p>
63 Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
64 developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
65 in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
66 name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
67 from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the
68 <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a>
69 to post all the gory details.
73 The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
74 is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
75 to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
80 <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p>
82 When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or
83 software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox.
84 With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and
85 who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices
86 is looking very bright.
90 It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every
91 device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date.
92 The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!
96 Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous
97 improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux
98 KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel),
99 Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development
100 work and testing of thousands of people from around the world.
104 If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
105 BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device
106 or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is
107 right for your application. If you need help getting started using
108 BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug
109 and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a
110 href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>.
114 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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