+0.44
+ * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
+ help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
+ * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
+ * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
+ * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
+ we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
+ * Added the -v option (inverted search) to grep,
+ updated docs/busybox.pod accordingly. -beppu
+ * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
+ * Fixed update segfault
+ * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
+ * Fixed tar option parsing. In an attempt to accomodate the whiners
+ that wanted "tar cf foo.tar foo" (i.e. no "-" before options)
+ I broke creation of tarballs. I reverted the change (so tar needs
+ the "-" for all options).
+ * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
+ * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
+ compatibility with the standard tail command
+ * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
+ * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
+ * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
+ * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
+ * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
+ * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
+ * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
+ to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
+ * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
+ * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
+ * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc".
+ * Makefile intelligence updates
+ * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave wrt pipes and redirects.
+ * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
+ BB_FEATURE_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
+ be invoked as shell internals.
+ * More doc updates
+
+
+ -Erik
+
+
+
+0.43
+ * Major update to the provided documentation.
+ * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
+ additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
+ job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
+ except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
+ * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
+ saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
+ is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
+ support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
+ provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
+ patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
+ directory.
+ * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
+ * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
+ extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
+ tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
+ * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
+ with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
+ and then adjusted a bit by me.
+ * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
+ * Added echo and test (from me).
+ * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
+ * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
+ - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
+ fork() for running klogd.
+ * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
+ changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
+ * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
+ to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
+ Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
+ * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
+ exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
+ space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
+ * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
+ free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
+ /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
+ * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
+ * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
+ - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
+ - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
+ it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
+ - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
+ the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
+ - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
+ a copy only if the rename fails.
+ - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
+ - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
+ * An initial telnet implementation was added by
+ Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
+ * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
+ to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
+ * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
+ as would be expected displays help).
+ * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
+ specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
+ * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
+ the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
+ Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
+ * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
+ * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
+ * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
+ * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
+ no longer segfaults.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+
+0.42
+
+ * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
+ busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
+ optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
+ * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
+ {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
+ not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
+ the way umount was originally written.
+ * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
+ to be more consistent with sysvinit
+ * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
+ the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
+
+ - Randolph Chung
+
+
+ * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
+ extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
+ * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
+ same directory it will print an error and continue.
+ * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
+ this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
+ hard links.
+ * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
+ * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
+ * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
+ - Always check exit status.
+ - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
+ * utility.c
+ - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
+ ignoring it.
+ - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
+ - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
+ * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
+ one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
+
+ -Karl M. Hegbloom
+
+
+ * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
+ -beppu -piptigger
+ * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
+ * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
+ * change permissions and ownership on
+ certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
+ * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
+ the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
+ * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
+ symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
+ built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
+ * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
+ Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
+ * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
+ behave itself a bit better.
+ * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
+ for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
+ allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
+ * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
+ always dereference before. -beppu
+ * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
+ Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
+ * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
+ * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
+ * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
+ contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
+ * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
+ end of line if there are no more application names).
+ * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
+ would segfault).
+ * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
+ to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
+ * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
+ tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
+ 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
+ BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
+ * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
+ turns up missing.
+ * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
+ allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
+ by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
+ * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
+ Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
+ files pointed to by the symlinks.
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
+ - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
+ - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
+ - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
+ - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
+ directories on the command line
+ * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
+ * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
+ * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
+ Now both work.
+ * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
+ not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
+ * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
+ in utility.c
+ * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
+ * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
+ target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
+ * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
+ also from Gilbert Coville.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+0.41
+ * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
+ by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
+ * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
+ type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
+ working.
+ * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
+ (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
+ Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
+ * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
+ Now fixed.
+ * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
+ with no interveining subdirectories.
+ * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
+ * and support in umount for loop
+ devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
+ <bcollins@debian.org>
+ * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
+ * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
+ if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
+ * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
+ (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
+ by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
+ -O2 -m386 ...)
+ * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
+ BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
+ referenced, but not compiled)
+ * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
+ defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
+ * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
+ * consoles.
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
+
+0.40
+ * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
+ * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
+ * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
+ for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
+ * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
+ but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
+ init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
+ being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
+ now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
+ * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
+ * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
+ * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
+ * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
+ with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
+ * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
+ <konst@voshod.com>.
+ * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
+ regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
+ * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
+ * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
+ special files.
+ * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
+ * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
+ of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
+ Ouch!!!
+ * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
+ them so they should now work as expected.
+ * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
+ has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
+ * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
+ * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
+ like GNU ls.
+ * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
+ * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
+ - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
+ - fixed several typos
+ - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
+ * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
+