<ul>
+ <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p>
+
+ 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>.
+
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
<li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p>
There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
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 updated
- by vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
+ 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
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, as well as a pile of
+ 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
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
+ 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>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
+ 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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