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5 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
6 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
7 might as well point you all at
8 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
9 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
11 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
12 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
13 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
14 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
15 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
16 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
17 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
18 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
20 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
21 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
22 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
23 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
24 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
25 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
26 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
27 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
28 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
30 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
31 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
32 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
33 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
36 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
37 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
38 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
39 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
41 <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>
43 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
44 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
45 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
46 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
47 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
48 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
49 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
50 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
52 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
54 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
55 <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
56 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
57 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
58 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
61 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
62 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
63 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
64 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
66 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
67 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
68 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
69 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
70 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
71 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
72 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
73 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
74 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
75 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
77 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
78 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
79 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
80 free and open source software projects (such as
81 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
82 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
83 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
84 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
85 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
87 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
88 <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>
89 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
90 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
91 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
92 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
95 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
96 <p>The new stable release is
97 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
98 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
99 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
100 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
101 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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