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- <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p>These are bugfix-only releases.
- 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
- 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
-
- <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
- <p>httpd:
- <ul>
- <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
- <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
- <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
- <li>optional support for partial downloads
- <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
- <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
- <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- </ul>
-
- <p>top:
- <ul>
- <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
- <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
- <li>fix for command line wrapping
- </ul>
-
- <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
-
- <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
-Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
- 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>
-
- <p>New applets:
- <ul>
- <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>
- <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
- <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
- <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
- <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- </ul>
-
- <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
+ <li>
+ <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project:
<ul>
- <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
- <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
- <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
- <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
- <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
- <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
- <li>wget: allow dots in header field names
- <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
- <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
- <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
- <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
- <li>hush: fix glob()
- <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
- <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
- <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
- <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
- <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
- <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
- <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
- <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
- <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
- <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
- <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
- <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
- <li>less: make 'f' key page forward
- <li>libiproute: add missing break statements
- <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
- <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
- <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>)
- <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
- <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
- <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
- <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
- <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
- <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>)
- <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
- <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
- <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
- <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
- <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
- <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
- <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
- <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
- <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
- <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
- <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
- <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
- <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>)
- <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
- <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
- <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
- <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
- <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
- <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
- <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
+ <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html">
+ TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided
+ a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start">
+ Blackfin development board</a> free of charge.
+ <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a>
+ is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable.
+ If you are an embedded device developer,
+ please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available
+ for download for this board. Visit
+ <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a>
+ for more information.
+ </li>
</ul>
</p>
-
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
</li>
- <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
- <p>httpd:
- <ul>
- <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
- <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
- <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
- <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
- <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
- <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
- <li>add support for Status: CGI header
- <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
- <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
- </ul>
-
- <p>udhcp[cd]:
- <ul>
- <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
- <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
- <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB))
- <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
- <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
- <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
- <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
- </ul>
-
- <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
- <ul>
- <li>simpler loadavg processing
- <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
- <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
- <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
- <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
- <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
- <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
- <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
- <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
- </ul>
-
- <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
- generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
- scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
+ <li><b>21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.11.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.0</a>.
+ (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.0/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.2</a>.
+ (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.2/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
-Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
+ <p>Sizes of busybox-1.11.2 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
text data bss dec hex filename
- 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
- 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
- 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
+ 829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.2/busybox
+ 822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox
+</pre>
-Same .config built against static uclibc:
- 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
+ <p>New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir)
- <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
- test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
- runit/*, in libbb.
-
- <p>New applets:
+ <p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
<ul>
- <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
- <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>)
- <li>slattach, ttysize
+ <li>ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"</li>
+ <li>ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! </li>
+ <li>ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2</li>
+ <li>ash: fix segfault in "command -v"</li>
+ <li>ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator</li>
+ <li>ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading</li>
+ <li>ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before</li>
+ <li>hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all</li>
+ <li>hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not</li>
+ <li>hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case</li>
+ <li>hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites</li>
+ <li>hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)</li>
+ <li>hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements</li>
+ <li>hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case</li>
+ <li>hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')</li>
+ <li>hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names</li>
+ <li>libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets</li>
</ul>
- <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
- by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
- qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
- for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
-
- <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
+ <p>Other changes:
<ul>
- <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
- <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
- <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
- <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
- <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
- <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
- <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
- <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
- <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
- <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
- <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
- <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
- <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
- <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
- <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
- <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>)
- <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
- <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
- <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
- <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
- <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
- <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
- <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
- <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255
- <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
- <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
- <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
- <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>)
- <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
- <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
- <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
- <li>login: optional support for PAM
- <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
- <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
- <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
- <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
- <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
- <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>)
- <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
- <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
- <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
- <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
- <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
- <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>)
- <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
- <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>)
- <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
- <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
- <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>
- <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
- <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
- <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
- <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
- <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
- <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
- <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
- <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com>
- <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
- <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
- <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
- <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
+ <li>libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)</li>
+ <li>libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)</li>
+ <li>libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"</li>
+ <li>libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()</li>
+ <li>libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)</li>
+ <li>libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector</li>
+ <li>libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)</li>
+ <li>lineedit: fix use-after-free</li>
+ <li>libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too</li>
+ <li>bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])</li>
+ <li>open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor</li>
+ <li>open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit</li>
+ <li>arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)</li>
+ <li>ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code</li>
+ <li>awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. </li>
+ <li>build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op</li>
+ <li>bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)</li>
+ <li>b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)</li>
+ <li>comm: almost total rewrite</li>
+ <li>cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)</li>
+ <li>cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files</li>
+ <li>cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG</li>
+ <li>cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k</li>
+ <li>cpio: support some long options</li>
+ <li>crond: use execlp instead of execl</li>
+ <li>cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)</li>
+ <li>envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases</li>
+ <li>findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary</li>
+ <li>fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)</li>
+ <li>fuser: a bit of safety in scanf</li>
+ <li>grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes</li>
+ <li>halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT</li>
+ <li>httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de</li>
+ <li>ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks</li>
+ <li>ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li>
+ <li>ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li>
+ <li>inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found</li>
+ <li>insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing</li>
+ <li>install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)</li>
+ <li>install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)</li>
+ <li>lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies</li>
+ <li>ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable</li>
+ <li>man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com</li>
+ <li>man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given</li>
+ <li>man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable</li>
+ <li>man: fix missed NULL termination of an array</li>
+ <li>man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode</li>
+ <li>man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)</li>
+ <li>man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config</li>
+ <li>mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection</li>
+ <li>mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist</li>
+ <li>mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it</li>
+ <li>mdev: support for serializing hotplug</li>
+ <li>mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization</li>
+ <li>mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)</li>
+ <li>modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)</li>
+ <li>modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()</li>
+ <li>modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one</li>
+ <li>mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"</li>
+ <li>mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)</li>
+ <li>mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"</li>
+ <li>mount: testsuite for "-o mand"</li>
+ <li>msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)</li>
+ <li>mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints</li>
+ <li>netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)</li>
+ <li>nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)</li>
+ <li>od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)</li>
+ <li>pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)</li>
+ <li>printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)</li>
+ <li>printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite</li>
+ <li>printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)</li>
+ <li>sendmail: updates from Vladimir:</li>
+ <li>sendmail: do not discard all headers</li>
+ <li>sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes</li>
+ <li>sendmail: fixed mail recipient address</li>
+ <li>sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed</li>
+ <li>sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified</li>
+ <li>sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)</li>
+ <li>ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too</li>
+ <li>ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore</li>
+ <li>ssd: fix -a without -x case</li>
+ <li>ssd: use $PATH</li>
+ <li>tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0</li>
+ <li>tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection</li>
+ <li>taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy</li>
+ <li>tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")</li>
+ <li>tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way</li>
+ <li>telnetd: fix issue file printing</li>
+ <li>test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does</li>
+ <li>testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e</li>
+ <li>time: don't segfault with no arguments</li>
+ <li>touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)</li>
+ <li>tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354</li>
+ <li>tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)</li>
+ <li>tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)</li>
+ <li>unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)</li>
+ <li>vi: fix reversed checks for underflow</li>
+ <li>vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid</li>
+ <li>xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)</li>
+ <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li>
</ul>
+ <p>
+ The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
+ the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
- label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
- <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
- but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
- report any such cases.</p>
- <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
- and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p>
- <p>Other changes since previous release:
- <ul>
-<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
-<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
-<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
-<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
-<li>SELinux: load_policy applet
-<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>)
-<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
-<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
-<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
-<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
-<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
-<li>awk: guard against empty environment
-<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
-<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
-<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
-<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>)
-<li>cttyhack: new applet
-<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>)
-<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
-<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
-<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>)
-<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
-<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
-<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
-<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
-<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
-<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
-<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
-<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
-<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
-<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
-<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
-<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>)
-<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>)
-<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
-<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
-<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>
-<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>)
-<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
-<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
-<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
-<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
-<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
-<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
-<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
-<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
-<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
-<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
-<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
-<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
-<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements.
-<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
-<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
-<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
-<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
-<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
-<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
-<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
-<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
-<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
-<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
-<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
-<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
-<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
-<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
-<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
-<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1
-<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
-<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
-<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
-<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
-<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
-<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
-<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
-<li>run_parts: rewrite
-<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu>
-<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
-<li>split: new applet
-<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
-<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>)
-<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
-<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
-<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
-<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
-<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
-<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
-<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
-<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
-<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
-<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
- </ul>
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
- and sed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <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>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</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
+ <li><b>12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.1</a>.
+ (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.1/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p>
+ Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk,
+ bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi.
</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.
+ <li><b>11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated</b>
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt">
+ "How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc"</a> is updated
+ and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't
+ work for you.
</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>.
+ <li><b>Old News</b><p>
+ Click here to read <a href="oldnews.html">older news</a>
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</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
- <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>
-
- <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>
-
-
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