+0.50
+ * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, not yet released
+
+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,
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 -- Shaves off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
+ * 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
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
+ 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
* 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.