<ul>
- <p>
- <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>
+ <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><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.
+ Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send
+ in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will
+ be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see
+ supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit,
+ please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release
+ out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre
+ series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you
+ spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the
+ busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could
+ help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be
+ especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the
+ various applets match the features listed in the documentation.
<p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
- <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
+ 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>
+ <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 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!
+ There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
+ number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out
+ properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one
+ problem. In addition, this release fixes several other
+ problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing
+ the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates
+ from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
+ aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to
+ the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have
+ suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the
+ busybox mailing list.
<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!
+ 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>
- 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>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><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.
+ Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
+ series. This release adds a number of size optimizations,
+ updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash
+ and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of
+ bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be
+ settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing
+ perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and
+ move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any
+ problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please
+ feel free to email 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>.
+ People who rely on the <a href= "downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a>
+ should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x
+ series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now
+ only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use
+ the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please
+ adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.
- <p>Have Fun!
<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>
- <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>
+ <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p>
- <p>
+ Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
+ series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
+ a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
+ properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This
+ release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
+ fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
+ the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
+ modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
+ 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
+ a few other odd fixes.
- 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>
+ If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
+ always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
+ mailing list.
- 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>.
+ 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>
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