<ul>
+ <li><b>23 March, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
+ label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
+ <p>Notable changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
+ <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
+ <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
+ <li>less: regex search improved
+ <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
+ <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
+ <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
+ <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
+ <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
+ <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
+ <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
+ <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
+ <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
+ not only in /cgi-bin/
+ <li>chrt: new applet
+ <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
+ new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
+ <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
+ improper usage of string constants.
+ <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
+ targets.
+ <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
+ sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
+ <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
+ udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
+ <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
+ syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>18 March, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>25 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>20 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
+ than usual.</p>
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
+ the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
+ it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
+ ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
+ <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
+ (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
+ don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
+ anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
+ as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
+ for general use now.
+ <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
+ upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
+ already much better than what we had previously.
+ <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
+ <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
+ of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
+ <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
+ <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
+ <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
+ <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
+ <li>chown: user.grp works again.
+ <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
+ ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>20 January, 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
<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 1.3.0</a>.
+ <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>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 a big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
+ <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
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