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7 <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
9 Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
10 series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
11 rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
12 devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
13 the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
14 common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
15 of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
16 testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
17 thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
18 helping get patches merged!
22 And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
23 the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
24 things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
25 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
26 free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
30 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
31 the details. And as usual you can
32 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
40 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
42 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
43 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
44 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
45 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
46 the testing, bug reports, and patches!
50 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
51 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
52 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
53 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
54 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
59 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
60 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
61 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
62 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
63 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
64 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
65 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
66 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
67 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
68 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
73 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
74 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
75 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
76 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
77 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
78 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
79 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
80 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
81 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
86 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
87 the details. And as usual you can
88 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
97 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
99 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
100 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
101 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
102 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
106 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
107 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
108 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
109 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
110 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
111 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
112 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
113 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
116 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
117 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
118 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
119 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
120 BusyBox mailing list.
123 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
124 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
125 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
126 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
127 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
128 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
129 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
130 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
134 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
135 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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