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- <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>.
- </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.
+ <li>
+ <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project:
+ <ul>
+ <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>
</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.
+ <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>Sizes of busybox-1.11.2 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.2/busybox
+ 822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox
+</pre>
+
+ <p>New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir)
+
+ <p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
+ <ul>
+ <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>Other changes:
+ <ul>
+ <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>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>
+ <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>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
+ <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>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.
+ <li><b>Old News</b><p>
+ Click here to read <a href="oldnews.html">older news</a>
</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
- <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>
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- <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>
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