+0.60.0
+
+ Note:
+
+ For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This
+ reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
+ BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of
+ BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs
+ show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also
+ intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
+ getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
+ break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build
+ system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
+ that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
+ stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
+ will release that as a new stable release series.
+
+ Critical Bugfixes:
+ * Matt Kraai
+ -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
+ -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
+ * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
+ -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
+ any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
+ had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
+ and variable assignment problems as well.
+
+ New Applets:
+ * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
+ * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
+ * Erik Andersen -- pidof
+
+ New Scripts:
+ * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
+ This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
+ package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
+ your host system (not on the target).
+
+ Other Changes:
+ * Erik Andersen
+ -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
+ -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
+ -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
+ should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
+ code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
+ now automagicaly disabled).
+ -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
+ * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
+ -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
+ line was previously altered when running a subst command.
+ * Matt Kraai
+ -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
+ -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
+ -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
+ -- Better devfs support
+ -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
+ -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
+ -- Size reduction in ping
+ -- Always write dd counts to stderr
+ -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
+ * Aaron Lehmann
+ -- slimmed down md5sum
+ -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
+ support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
+ * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
+ work with dietlibc.
+ * David McCullough
+ -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
+ * Glenn McGrath
+ -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
+ -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
+ but needs more testing.
+ -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
+ -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
+ * Vladimir Oleynik
+ -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
+ -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
+ -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
+ -- cmdedit updates and API change
+ -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
+ -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
+ * Adam Slattery
+ -- Fixed ping compile problem
+ * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
+ -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
+
+
+
0.52
Critical Bugfixes:
- * Glenn McGrath -- Fix gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
+ * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
+ * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
+ problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
- New Applet:
- * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, obsoletes rpmunpack.
+ New Applets:
+ * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
+ which has now been removed from BusyBox
* Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- ash, most function busybox shell.
- * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell desinged specifically
- for busybox.
- * Erik Anderson -- msh, minix shell, only uses vfork, so can be
- used on uClinux systems.
+ * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
+ busybox shell.
+ * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
+ for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
+ * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
+ that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
Other Changes:
* Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
* Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
- tar applet hasnt been assimilated yet.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, not yet released
+ tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
+ * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
+ * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
+ bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
+ * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
+ * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
+ work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
+ * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
+ added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
+ * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
+ should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
+ * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
+ * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
+ bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
+ * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
+ * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
+ * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
+ * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
+ * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
+
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
0.51
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