<ul>
+ <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>
+
<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
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>
-
+
<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
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