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5 <li><b>27 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
6 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
7 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
9 <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
13 <li><b>14 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
14 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
15 (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
17 <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
18 needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
19 and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
20 bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
21 busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
22 adventurous desktop users.
23 <p>Changes since previous release:
25 <li>find: taking many more of standard options
26 <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
28 <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
29 <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
31 <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
32 on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
33 (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
34 Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
35 <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
36 directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
37 <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
38 other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
39 <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
40 (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
41 <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
42 fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
44 <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
45 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
49 <li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
50 <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
52 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
53 produces buggy executables.
56 <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
57 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
58 <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
59 BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
61 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
62 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
63 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
64 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
65 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
66 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
67 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
68 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
69 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
70 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
71 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
72 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
73 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
74 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
75 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
77 <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
78 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
79 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
83 <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
84 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
85 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
87 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
88 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
89 might as well point you all at
90 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
91 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
93 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
94 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
95 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
96 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
97 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
98 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
99 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
100 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
102 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
103 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
104 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
105 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
106 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
107 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
108 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
109 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
110 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
112 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
113 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
114 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
115 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
116 over the weekend.</p>
118 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
119 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
120 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
121 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
123 <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>
125 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
126 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
127 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
128 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
129 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
130 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
131 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
132 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
134 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
136 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
137 <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
138 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
139 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
140 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
143 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
144 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
145 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
146 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
148 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
149 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
150 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
151 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
152 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
153 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
154 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
155 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
156 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
157 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
159 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
160 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
161 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
162 free and open source software projects (such as
163 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
164 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
165 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
166 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
167 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
169 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
170 <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>
171 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
172 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
173 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
174 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
177 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
178 <p>The new stable release is
179 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
180 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
181 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
182 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
183 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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