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6 <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p>
8 There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
9 number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out
10 properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one
11 problem. In addition, this release fixes several other
12 problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing
13 the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates
14 from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
15 aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to
16 the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have
17 suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the
22 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
23 the details. And as usual you can
24 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
31 <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p>
33 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
34 series. This release adds a number of size optimizations,
35 updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash
36 and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of
37 bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be
38 settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing
39 perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and
40 move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any
41 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please
42 feel free to email the busybox mailing list.
46 People who rely on the <a href= "downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a>
47 should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x
48 series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now
49 only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use
50 the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please
51 adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.
55 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
56 the details. And as usual you can
57 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
64 <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p>
66 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
67 series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
68 a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
69 properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This
70 release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
71 fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
72 the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
73 modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
74 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
75 a few other odd fixes.
79 If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
80 always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
85 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
86 the details. And as usual you can
87 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
94 <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
96 Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
97 series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
98 rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
99 devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
100 the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
101 common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
102 of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
103 testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
104 thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
105 helping get patches merged!
109 And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
110 the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
111 things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
112 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
113 free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
117 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
118 the details. And as usual you can
119 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
126 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
128 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
129 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
130 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
131 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
132 the testing, bug reports, and patches!
136 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
137 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
138 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
139 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
140 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
145 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
146 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
147 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
148 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
149 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
150 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
151 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
152 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
153 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
154 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
155 module loading alone.
159 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
160 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
161 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
162 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
163 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
164 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
165 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
166 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
167 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
172 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
173 the details. And as usual you can
174 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
180 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
182 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
183 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
184 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
185 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
189 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
190 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
191 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
192 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
193 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
194 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
195 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
196 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
199 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
200 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
201 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
202 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
203 BusyBox mailing list.
206 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
207 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
208 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
209 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
210 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
211 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
212 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
213 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
217 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
218 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
224 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
226 The busybox development series has been under construction for
227 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
228 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
229 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
230 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
231 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
235 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
236 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
237 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
238 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
239 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
240 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
241 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
245 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
246 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
247 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
248 happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
249 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
250 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
251 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
252 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
255 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
256 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
257 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
258 have made this release possible.
261 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
262 You don't really need to bother with the
263 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
264 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
265 But you can take a look if you really want too.
273 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
275 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
276 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
277 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
278 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
279 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
280 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
281 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
282 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
283 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
284 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
285 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
286 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
287 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
290 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
291 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
296 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
298 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
299 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
300 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
301 the problems that have turned up since the last
302 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
303 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
304 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
305 should soon be getting its first real release.
308 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
309 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
315 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
317 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
318 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
319 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
320 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
321 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
322 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
323 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
326 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
327 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
333 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
335 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
336 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
337 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
338 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
339 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
341 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
342 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
343 accessible for everyone!
347 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
349 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
350 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
351 (which is where you are probably reading this).
352 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
353 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
354 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
355 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
356 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
357 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
358 stopped some time ago).</p>
360 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
361 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
362 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
363 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
364 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
365 co-location effort, <a href=
366 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
367 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
369 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
370 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
371 system is co-located, the current speed problems
372 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
373 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
374 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
378 Click here to help support busybox.net!
379 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
380 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
381 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
382 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
383 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
384 <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
385 <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
389 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
390 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
391 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
392 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
393 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
394 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
395 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
396 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
397 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
398 far, donations received have been sufficient to
399 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
400 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
401 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
402 everyone that has contributed!<br>
407 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
409 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
410 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
411 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
412 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
413 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
414 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
415 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
416 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
417 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
418 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
419 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
421 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
422 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
423 should work with just about any Linux system you
424 throw it at. See the <a href=
425 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
426 of</small> the details. The last release was
427 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
430 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
432 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
438 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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442 Click here to help buy busybox.net!
443 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
444 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
445 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
446 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
447 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
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454 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
455 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
456 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
457 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
458 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
459 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
460 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
461 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
462 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
463 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
464 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
465 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
466 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
467 will start costing some money.
470 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
471 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
472 where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
473 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
474 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
475 mailing list and web page. So...
478 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
479 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
480 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
481 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
482 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
487 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
490 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
491 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
492 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
493 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
494 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
495 here it is. Come and get it.
498 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
499 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
500 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
505 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
507 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
508 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
509 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
510 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
511 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
512 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
513 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
514 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
515 cleans up a number of things.
519 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
520 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
521 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
522 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
523 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
524 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
526 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
527 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
528 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
529 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
530 to view the tutorial.
533 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
534 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
535 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
536 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
537 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
538 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
539 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
540 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
541 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
542 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
543 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
544 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
545 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
546 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
547 I will release that as a new stable release series.
551 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
552 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
553 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
558 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
561 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
562 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
563 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
564 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
565 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
570 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
571 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
572 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
573 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
574 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
579 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
581 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
582 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
583 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
585 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
586 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
587 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
591 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
594 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
595 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
596 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
597 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
598 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
599 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
600 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
601 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
604 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
605 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
606 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
607 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
608 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
609 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
610 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
611 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
612 for letting me use their system!).
615 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
616 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
617 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
621 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
623 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
624 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
625 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
629 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
630 Download the image</a>
632 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
633 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
635 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
639 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
642 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
643 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
645 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
646 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
650 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
653 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
654 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
655 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
656 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
657 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
658 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
660 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
661 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
662 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
663 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
664 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
665 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
666 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
667 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
668 currently in progress at
669 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
673 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
676 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
677 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
678 For a list of the most interesting changes
679 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
681 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
682 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
685 <em>Special Note</em><br>
687 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
688 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
689 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
690 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
691 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
692 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
693 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
694 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
698 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
701 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
702 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
703 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
704 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
705 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
706 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
707 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
708 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
710 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
711 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
713 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
714 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
716 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
719 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
720 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
721 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
722 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
723 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
724 more correct option parsing.
725 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
726 for complete details.
729 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
732 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
733 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
734 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
735 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
736 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
737 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
738 for complete details.
741 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
744 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
745 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
746 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
747 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
748 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
749 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
752 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
753 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
755 <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
757 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
758 for those that are actively contributing there is even
759 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
760 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
762 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
763 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
764 we are just skipping 0.44.
766 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
767 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
770 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
772 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
773 For example, with the following test app:
775 #include <syslog.h>
777 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
779 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
781 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
795 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
796 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
797 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
799 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
803 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
805 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
806 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
807 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
808 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
809 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
810 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
811 More details are available in the
812 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
813 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
814 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
817 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
818 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
819 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
820 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
821 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
824 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
826 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
828 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
829 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
830 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
831 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
832 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
833 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
834 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
835 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
836 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
837 changes I still want to make.
839 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
840 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
842 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
844 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
845 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
846 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
847 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
848 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
849 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
850 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
851 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
852 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
855 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
856 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
858 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
859 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
860 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
861 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
862 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
863 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
867 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
870 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
871 bugs have been fixed. See the
872 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
874 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
875 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
876 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
877 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
878 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
879 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
880 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
882 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
885 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
886 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
887 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
888 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
889 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
891 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
894 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
895 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
896 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
897 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
898 in some cases produced serious security problems.
899 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
901 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
903 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
904 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
905 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
906 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
907 what arguments its apps support, etc.
909 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
911 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
912 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
913 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
914 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
916 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
917 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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