<ul>
- <li><b>Sep 29, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
+ <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 1.3.1</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>
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