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5 <li><b>20 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
6 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
7 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>
9 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
11 <p>Changes since previous release:
13 <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
14 the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
15 it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
16 ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
17 <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
18 (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
19 don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
20 anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
21 as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
23 <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
24 upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
25 already much better than what we had previously.
26 <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
27 <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
28 of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
29 <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
30 <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
31 <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
32 <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
33 <li>chown: user.grp works again.
34 <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
35 ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
40 <li><b>20 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
41 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
43 <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
47 <li><b>27 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
48 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
49 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
51 <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
55 <li><b>14 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
56 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
57 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
59 <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
60 needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
61 and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
62 bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
63 busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
64 adventurous desktop users.
65 <p>Changes since previous release:
67 <li>find: taking many more of standard options
68 <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
70 <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
71 <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
73 <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
74 on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
75 (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
76 Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
77 <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
78 directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
79 <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
80 other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
81 <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
82 (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
83 <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
84 fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
86 <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
87 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
91 <li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
92 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
94 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
95 produces buggy executables.
98 <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
99 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
100 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
101 BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
103 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
104 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
105 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
106 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
107 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
108 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
109 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
110 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
111 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
112 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
113 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
114 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
115 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
116 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
117 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
119 <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
120 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
121 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
125 <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
126 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
127 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
129 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
130 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
131 might as well point you all at
132 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
133 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
135 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
136 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
137 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
138 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
139 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
140 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
141 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
142 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
144 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
145 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
146 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
147 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
148 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
149 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
150 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
151 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
152 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
154 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
155 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
156 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
157 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
158 over the weekend.</p>
160 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
161 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
162 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
163 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
165 <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>
167 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
168 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
169 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
170 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
171 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
172 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
173 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
174 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
176 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
178 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
179 <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
180 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
181 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
182 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
185 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
186 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
187 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
188 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
190 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
191 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
192 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
193 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
194 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
195 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
196 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
197 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
198 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
199 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
201 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
202 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
203 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
204 free and open source software projects (such as
205 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
206 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
207 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
208 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
209 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
211 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
212 <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>
213 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
214 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
215 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
216 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
219 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
220 <p>The new stable release is
221 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
222 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
223 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
224 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
225 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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