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5 <li><b>14 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
6 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
7 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
9 <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
10 needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
11 and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
12 bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
13 busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
14 adventurous desktop users.
15 <p>Changes since previous release:
17 <li>find: taking many more of standard options
18 <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
20 <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
21 <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
23 <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
24 on a big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
25 (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
26 Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
27 <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
28 directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
29 <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
30 other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
31 <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
32 (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
33 <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
34 fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
36 <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
37 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
41 <li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
42 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
44 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
45 produces buggy executables.
48 <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
49 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
50 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
51 BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
53 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
54 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
55 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
56 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
57 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
58 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
59 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
60 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
61 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
62 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
63 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
64 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
65 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
66 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
67 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
69 <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
70 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
71 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
75 <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
76 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
77 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
79 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
80 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
81 might as well point you all at
82 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
83 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
85 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
86 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
87 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
88 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
89 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
90 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
91 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
92 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
94 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
95 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
96 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
97 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
98 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
99 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
100 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
101 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
102 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
104 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
105 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
106 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
107 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
108 over the weekend.</p>
110 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
111 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
112 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
113 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
115 <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>
117 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
118 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
119 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
120 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
121 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
122 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
123 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
124 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
126 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
128 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
129 <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
130 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
131 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
132 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
135 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
136 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
137 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
138 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
140 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
141 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
142 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
143 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
144 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
145 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
146 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
147 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
148 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
149 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
151 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
152 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
153 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
154 free and open source software projects (such as
155 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
156 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
157 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
158 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
159 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
161 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
162 <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>
163 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
164 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
165 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
166 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
169 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
170 <p>The new stable release is
171 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
172 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
173 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
174 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
175 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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