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6 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
8 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
9 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
10 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
11 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
12 the testing, bug reports, and patches!
16 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
17 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
18 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
19 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
20 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
25 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
26 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
27 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
28 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
29 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
30 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
31 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
32 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
33 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
34 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
39 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
40 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
41 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
42 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
43 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
44 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
45 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
46 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
47 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
52 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
53 the details. And as usual you can
54 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
60 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
62 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
63 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
64 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
65 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
69 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
70 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
71 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
72 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
73 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
74 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
75 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
76 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
79 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
80 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
81 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
82 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
86 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
87 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
88 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
89 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
90 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
91 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
92 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
93 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
97 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
98 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
104 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
106 The busybox development series has been under construction for
107 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
108 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
109 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
110 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
111 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
115 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
116 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
117 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
118 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
119 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
120 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
121 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
125 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
126 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
127 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
128 happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
129 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
130 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
131 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
132 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
135 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
136 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
137 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
138 have made this release possible.
141 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
142 You don't really need to bother with the
143 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
144 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
145 But you can take a look if you really want too.
153 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
155 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
156 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
157 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
158 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
159 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
160 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
161 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
162 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
163 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
164 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
165 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
166 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
167 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
170 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
171 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
176 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
178 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
179 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
180 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
181 the problems that have turned up since the last
182 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
183 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
184 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
185 should soon be getting its first real release.
188 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
189 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
195 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
197 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
198 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
199 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
200 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
201 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
202 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
203 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
206 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
207 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
213 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
215 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
216 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
217 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
218 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
219 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
221 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
222 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
223 accessible for everyone!
227 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
229 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
230 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
231 (which is where you are probably reading this).
232 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
233 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
234 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
235 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
236 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
237 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
238 stopped some time ago).</p>
240 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
241 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
242 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
243 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
244 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
245 co-location effort, <a href=
246 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
247 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
249 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
250 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
251 system is co-located, the current speed problems
252 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
253 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
254 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
258 Click here to help support busybox.net!
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269 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
270 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
271 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
272 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
273 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
274 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
275 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
276 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
277 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
278 far, donations received have been sufficient to
279 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
280 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
281 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
282 everyone that has contributed!<br>
287 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
289 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
290 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
291 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
292 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
293 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
294 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
295 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
296 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
297 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
298 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
299 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
301 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
302 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
303 should work with just about any Linux system you
304 throw it at. See the <a href=
305 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
306 of</small> the details. The last release was
307 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
310 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
312 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
318 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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334 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
335 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
336 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
337 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
338 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
339 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
340 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
341 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
342 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
343 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
344 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
345 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
346 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
347 will start costing some money.
350 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
351 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
352 where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
353 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
354 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
355 mailing list and web page. So...
358 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
359 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
360 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
361 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
362 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
367 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
370 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
371 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
372 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
373 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
374 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
375 here it is. Come and get it.
378 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
379 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
380 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
385 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
387 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
388 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
389 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
390 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
391 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
392 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
393 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
394 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
395 cleans up a number of things.
399 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
400 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
401 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
402 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
403 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
404 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
406 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
407 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
408 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
409 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
410 to view the tutorial.
413 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
414 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
415 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
416 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
417 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
418 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
419 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
420 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
421 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
422 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
423 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
424 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
425 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
426 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
427 I will release that as a new stable release series.
431 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
432 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
433 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
438 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
441 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
442 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
443 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
444 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
445 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
450 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
451 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
452 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
453 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
454 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
459 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
461 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
462 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
463 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
465 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
466 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
467 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
471 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
474 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
475 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
476 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
477 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
478 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
479 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
480 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
481 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
484 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
485 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
486 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
487 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
488 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
489 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
490 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
491 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
492 for letting me use their system!).
495 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
496 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
497 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
501 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
503 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
504 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
505 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
509 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
510 Download the image</a>
512 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
513 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
515 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
519 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
522 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
523 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
525 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
526 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
530 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
533 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
534 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
535 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
536 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
537 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
538 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
540 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
541 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
542 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
543 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
544 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
545 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
546 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
547 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
548 currently in progress at
549 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
553 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
556 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
557 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
558 For a list of the most interesting changes
559 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
561 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
562 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
565 <em>Special Note</em><br>
567 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
568 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
569 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
570 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
571 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
572 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
573 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
574 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
578 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
581 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
582 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
583 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
584 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
585 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
586 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
587 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
588 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
590 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
591 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
593 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
594 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
596 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
599 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
600 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
601 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
602 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
603 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
604 more correct option parsing.
605 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
606 for complete details.
609 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
612 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
613 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
614 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
615 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
616 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
617 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
618 for complete details.
621 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
624 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
625 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
626 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
627 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
628 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
629 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
632 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
633 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
635 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
637 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
638 for those that are actively contributing there is even
639 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
640 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
642 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
643 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
644 we are just skipping 0.44.
646 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
647 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
650 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
652 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
653 For example, with the following test app:
655 #include <syslog.h>
657 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
659 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
661 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
675 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
676 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
677 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
679 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
683 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
685 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
686 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
687 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
688 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
689 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
690 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
691 More details are available in the
692 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
693 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
694 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
697 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
698 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
699 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
700 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
701 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
704 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
706 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
708 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
709 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
710 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
711 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
712 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
713 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
714 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
715 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
716 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
717 changes I still want to make.
719 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
720 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
722 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
724 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
725 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
726 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
727 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
728 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
729 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
730 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
731 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
732 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
735 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
736 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
738 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
739 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
740 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
741 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
742 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
743 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
747 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
750 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
751 bugs have been fixed. See the
752 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
754 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
755 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
756 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
757 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
758 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
759 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
760 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
762 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
765 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
766 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
767 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
768 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
769 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
771 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
774 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
775 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
776 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
777 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
778 in some cases produced serious security problems.
779 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
781 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
783 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
784 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
785 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
786 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
787 what arguments its apps support, etc.
789 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
791 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
792 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
793 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
794 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
796 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
797 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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