+ <li><b>27 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>14 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
+ needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
+ and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
+ bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
+ busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
+ adventurous desktop users.
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>find: taking many more of standard options
+ <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
+ <li>cp: added -s, -l
+ <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
+ <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
+ incompatible)
+ <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
+ on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
+ (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
+ Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
+ <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
+ directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
+ <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
+ other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
+ <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
+ (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
+ <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
+ fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
+ </ul>
+ <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
+ 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
+ produces buggy executables.
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p>It's a bit overdue, but
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
+ BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
+ branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
+ generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
+ umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
+ name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
+ delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
+ in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
+ fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
+ fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
+ modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
+ foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
+ terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
+ ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
+ gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
+ fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
+
+ <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
+ this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
+ Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
+ <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
+ the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
+
+ <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
+ might as well point you all at
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
+ 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
+
+ <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
+ saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
+ one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
+ embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
+ (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
+ libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
+ tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
+ in a pear... Ahem.</p>
+
+ <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
+ gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
+ the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
+ value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
+ a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
+ switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
+ than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
+ /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
+ in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
+
+ <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
+ <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
+ 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
+ over the weekend.</p>
+
+ <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
+ cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
+ try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
+ we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
+
+ <p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p>
+
+ <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
+ 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
+ memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
+ mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
+ background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
+ timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
+ segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
+
+ <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
+