<ul>
-
- <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
- rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
- devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
- the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
- common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
- of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
- testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
- thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
- helping get patches merged!
-
- <p>
-
- And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
- the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
- things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
- problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
- free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
- testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
- of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
- the testing, bug reports, and patches!
-
- <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>
+
+ <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches
+ backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
+ for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
+ find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
+ for more info.</p>
+
+ <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
+ will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
+ to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
+ bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
- If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
- mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
- patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
- somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
- Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
- mailing list!
-
- <p>
-
- The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
- people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
- fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
- (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
- list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
- modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
- patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
- integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
- a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
- more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
- module loading alone.
-
- <p>
-
- I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
- course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
- out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
- stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
- not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
- -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
- But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
- exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
- indeed.
-
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-
- <p>
-
- <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
-
- Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
- series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
- testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
- bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
-
- <p>
-
- Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
- with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
- init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
- 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
- an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
- read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
- 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
- tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
- <p>
-
- If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
- release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
- was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
- That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
- BusyBox mailing list.
- <p>
-
- The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
- people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
- fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
- is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
- release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
- necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
- Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
- turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
- then...
- <p>
-
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
- <p>
-
- <p>
- <li><b>Old News</b><p>
+ <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
+ <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
+ maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
+ uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
+ by Erik's father's law firm, and the
+ <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
+ scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
+ together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
+ <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
+ referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
+
+ <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
+ <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
+ has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
+ free and open source software projects (such as
+ <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
+ <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
+ <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
+ in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
+ phrase you get to use every day.</p>
+
+ <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
+ <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p>
+ <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
+ the various small fixes have been collected together into a
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
+ and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
+ June.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
+ <p>The new stable release is
+ <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
+ 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
+ (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
+ but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
+ that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
+
+ <li><b>Old News</b><p>
<a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
</ul>
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