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6 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
8 The busybox development series has been under construction for
9 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
10 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
11 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
12 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
13 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
17 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
18 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
19 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
20 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
21 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
22 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
23 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
27 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
28 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
29 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
30 happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
31 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
32 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
33 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
34 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
37 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
38 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
39 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
40 have made this release possible.
43 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
44 You don't really need to bother with the
45 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
46 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
47 But you can take a look if you really want too.
55 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
57 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
58 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
59 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
60 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
61 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
62 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
63 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
64 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
65 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
66 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
67 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
68 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
69 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
72 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
73 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
78 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
80 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
81 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
82 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
83 the problems that have turned up since the last
84 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
85 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
86 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
87 should soon be getting its first real release.
90 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
91 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
97 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
99 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
100 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
101 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
102 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
103 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
104 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
105 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
108 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
109 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
115 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
117 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
118 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
119 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
120 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
121 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
123 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
124 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
125 accessible for everyone!
129 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
131 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
132 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
133 (which is where you are probably reading this).
134 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
135 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
136 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
137 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
138 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
139 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
140 stopped some time ago).</p>
142 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
143 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
144 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
145 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
146 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
147 co-location effort, <a href=
148 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
149 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
151 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
152 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
153 system is co-located, the current speed problems
154 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
155 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
156 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
160 Click here to help support busybox.net!
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171 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
172 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
173 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
174 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
175 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
176 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
177 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
178 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
179 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
180 far, donations received have been sufficient to
181 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
182 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
183 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
184 everyone that has contributed!<br>
189 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
191 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
192 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
193 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
194 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
195 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
196 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
197 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
198 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
199 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
200 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
201 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
203 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
204 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
205 should work with just about any Linux system you
206 throw it at. See the <a href=
207 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
208 of</small> the details. The last release was
209 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
212 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
214 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
220 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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236 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
237 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
238 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
239 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
240 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
241 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
242 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
243 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
244 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
245 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
246 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
247 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
248 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
249 will start costing some money.
252 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
253 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
254 where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
255 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
256 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
257 mailing list and web page. So...
260 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
261 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
262 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
263 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
264 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
269 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
272 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
273 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
274 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
275 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
276 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
277 here it is. Come and get it.
280 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
281 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
282 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
287 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
289 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
290 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
291 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
292 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
293 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
294 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
295 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
296 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
297 cleans up a number of things.
301 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
302 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
303 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
304 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
305 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
306 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
308 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
309 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
310 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
311 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
312 to view the tutorial.
315 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
316 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
317 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
318 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
319 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
320 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
321 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
322 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
323 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
324 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
325 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
326 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
327 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
328 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
329 I will release that as a new stable release series.
333 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
334 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
335 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
340 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
343 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
344 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
345 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
346 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
347 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
352 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
353 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
354 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
355 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
356 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
361 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
363 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
364 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
365 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
367 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
368 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
369 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
373 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
376 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
377 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
378 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
379 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
380 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
381 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
382 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
383 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
386 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
387 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
388 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
389 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
390 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
391 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
392 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
393 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
394 for letting me use their system!).
397 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
398 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
399 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
403 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
405 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
406 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
407 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
411 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
412 Download the image</a>
414 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
415 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
417 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
421 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
424 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
425 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
427 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
428 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
432 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
435 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
436 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
437 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
438 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
439 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
440 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
442 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
443 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
444 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
445 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
446 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
447 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
448 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
449 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
450 currently in progress at
451 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
455 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
458 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
459 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
460 For a list of the most interesting changes
461 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
463 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
464 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
467 <em>Special Note</em><br>
469 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
470 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
471 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
472 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
473 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
474 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
475 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
476 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
480 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
483 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
484 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
485 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
486 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
487 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
488 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
489 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
490 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
492 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
493 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
495 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
496 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
498 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
501 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
502 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
503 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
504 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
505 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
506 more correct option parsing.
507 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
508 for complete details.
511 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
514 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
515 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
516 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
517 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
518 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
519 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
520 for complete details.
523 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
526 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
527 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
528 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
529 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
530 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
531 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
534 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
535 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
537 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
539 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
540 for those that are actively contributing there is even
541 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
542 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
544 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
545 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
546 we are just skipping 0.44.
548 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
549 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
552 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
554 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
555 For example, with the following test app:
557 #include <syslog.h>
559 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
561 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
563 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
577 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
578 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
579 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
581 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
585 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
587 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
588 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
589 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
590 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
591 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
592 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
593 More details are available in the
594 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
595 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
596 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
599 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
600 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
601 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
602 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
603 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
606 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
608 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
610 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
611 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
612 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
613 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
614 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
615 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
616 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
617 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
618 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
619 changes I still want to make.
621 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
622 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
624 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
626 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
627 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
628 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
629 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
630 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
631 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
632 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
633 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
634 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
637 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
638 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
640 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
641 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
642 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
643 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
644 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
645 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
649 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
652 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
653 bugs have been fixed. See the
654 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
656 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
657 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
658 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
659 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
660 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
661 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
662 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
664 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
667 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
668 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
669 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
670 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
671 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
673 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
676 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
677 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
678 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
679 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
680 in some cases produced serious security problems.
681 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
683 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
685 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
686 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
687 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
688 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
689 what arguments its apps support, etc.
691 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
693 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
694 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
695 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
696 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
698 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
699 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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