+0.52
+
+ * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, not yet released
+
+
+
+0.51
+ Critical Bugfixes:
+ * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
+ when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
+ * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
+ when performing an 'export' in the shell.
+ * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
+ the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
+
+ New Applets:
+ * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
+ functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
+ * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
+
+ Other changes:
+ * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
+ much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
+ * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
+ syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
+ busybox work on ia64 systems.
+ * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
+ * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
+ * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
+ output from ls, du, and df.
+ * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
+ support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
+ * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
+ generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
+ Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
+ * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
+ support a bit for Mips RS3.
+ * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
+ * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
+ variables
+ * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
+ * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
+ * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
+ bugs, and similar problems.
+ * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
+ you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
+ pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
+ * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
+ kernel command line environment variables into child environment
+ for init.c
+ * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
+ * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
+ locale support in several other places
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
+ after permission errors.
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
+ * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
+ find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
+ * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
+ D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
+ * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
+ sed address range handling
+ * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
+ to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
+ of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
+ but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
+ write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
+ download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
+ restarting an aborted download.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
+
+
+0.50
+ * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
+ * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
+ * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
+ with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
+ * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
+ * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
+ * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
+ * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
+ * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
+ * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
+ * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
+ overrides the system pwd/grp
+ * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
+ * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
+ * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
+ behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
+ given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
+ * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
+ * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
+ * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
+ BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
+ * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
+ generate the documentation from the source code, making life
+ much simpler for all.
+ * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
+ masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
+ the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
+ * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
+ * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
+ * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
+ * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
+ * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
+ * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
+ * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
+ * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
+ * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
+ kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
+ * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
+ * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
+ * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
+ depending on what kernel is being used.
+ * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
+ * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
+ * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
+ * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
+ * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
+ are stored to save several k of space.
+ * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
+ * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
+ * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
+ * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
+ -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
+ * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
+ * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
+ * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
+ * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
+ * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
+ * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
+ * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
+ process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
+ * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
+ * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
+ mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
+ is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
+ improve complex prompt handling.
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
+ for several my_* functions into utility.c
+ * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
+ work done by Axis Communications).
+ * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
+ and updated the style guide.
+ * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
+ * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
+
+0.49
+
+ * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
+ * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
+ * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
+ * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
+ * spoon -- new watchdog applet
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
+ scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
+ byte saving optimizations.
+ * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
+ * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
+ * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
+ * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
+ * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
+ * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
+ * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
+ to BusyBox"
+ * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
+ * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
+ * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
+ util-linux compatible
+ * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
+ avoid namespace pollution
+ * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
+ * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
+ * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
+ handles regexp file exclusion
+ * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
+ checking
+ * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
+ * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
+ better if-then-else-fi handling
+ * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
+ * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
+ in read, exec, and piped builtins
+ * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
+ use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
+ * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
+ * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
+ * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
+ de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
+ * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
+ the width and height of the console.
+ * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
+ * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
+ whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
+ Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
+ install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
+ libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
+ causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
+
+0.48
+
+ * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
+ define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
+ * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
+ return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
+ Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
+ * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
+ mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
+ and other things).
+ * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
+ Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
+ and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
+ * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
+ an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
+ also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
+ * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
+ * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
+ from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
+ * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
+ (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
+ updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
+ conv=sync feature.
+ * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
+ pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
+ not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
+ * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
+ to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
+ * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
+ fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
+ * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
+ * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
+ GNU-date compatible
+ * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
+ * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
+ precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
+ * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
+ binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
+ * new applets: cmp readlink
+ * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
+ according to decision by the Regents of the University of
+ California; included reference
+ * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
+ people should use -n instead
+ * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
+ * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
+ * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
+ * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
+ hard links.
+ * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
+ * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
+ for remote logging...
+ * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
+ * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
+
+0.47
+
+ * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
+ your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
+ * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
+ * Improved portability between different libcs.
+ * Many apps ported to use getopt()
+ * Common handling of '--help'
+ * All usage messages centralized.
+ * Added a bunch of new commands:
+ * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
+ * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
+ <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
+ * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
+ * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
+ debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
+ * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
+ * 'xargs' (written by me)
+ * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
+ on GNY expr
+ * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
+ * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
+ to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
+ * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
+ * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
+ 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
+ * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
+ It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
+ cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
+ * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
+ Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
+ * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
+ now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
+ * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
+ * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
+ * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
+ * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
+ kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
+ * Tons of other bugfixes.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
+
+