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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>.</p>
8 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
10 <p>Changes since previous release:
12 <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
13 the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
14 it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
15 ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
16 <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
17 (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
18 don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
19 anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
20 as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
22 <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
23 upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
24 already much better than what we had previously.
25 <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
26 <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
27 of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
28 <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
29 <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
30 <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
31 <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
32 <li>chown: user.grp works again.
33 <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
34 ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
39 <li><b>20 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
40 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.</p>
42 <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
46 <li><b>27 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
47 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
48 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
50 <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
54 <li><b>14 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
55 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
56 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
58 <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
59 needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
60 and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
61 bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
62 busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
63 adventurous desktop users.
64 <p>Changes since previous release:
66 <li>find: taking many more of standard options
67 <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
69 <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
70 <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
72 <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
73 on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
74 (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
75 Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
76 <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
77 directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
78 <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
79 other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
80 <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
81 (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
82 <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
83 fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
85 <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
86 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
90 <li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
91 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
93 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
94 produces buggy executables.
97 <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
98 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
99 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
100 BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
102 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
103 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
104 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
105 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
106 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
107 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
108 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
109 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
110 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
111 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
112 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
113 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
114 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
115 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
116 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
118 <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
119 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
120 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
124 <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
125 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
126 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
128 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
129 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
130 might as well point you all at
131 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
132 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
134 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
135 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
136 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
137 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
138 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
139 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
140 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
141 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
143 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
144 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
145 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
146 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
147 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
148 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
149 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
150 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
151 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
153 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
154 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
155 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
156 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
157 over the weekend.</p>
159 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
160 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
161 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
162 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
164 <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>
166 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
167 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
168 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
169 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
170 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
171 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
172 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
173 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
175 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
177 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
178 <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
179 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
180 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
181 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
184 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
185 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
186 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
187 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
189 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
190 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
191 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
192 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
193 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
194 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
195 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
196 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
197 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
198 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
200 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
201 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
202 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
203 free and open source software projects (such as
204 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
205 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
206 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
207 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
208 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
210 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
211 <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>
212 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
213 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
214 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
215 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
218 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
219 <p>The new stable release is
220 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
221 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
222 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
223 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
224 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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