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+ <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p>
+ Here goes release candidate 3...
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
+ And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+ <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p>
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+ Here goes release candidate 2...
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
+ And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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+ <p>
+ <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p>
-<ul>
+ Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems
+ that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of
+ kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better.
+ <p>
- <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
- <hr>
-
-
- <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
-
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- <center>
- Click here to help buy busybox.net!
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- <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
- <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
- <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net">
- <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
- <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
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-
- I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
- to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
- will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
- for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
- initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
- home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
- but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
- I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
- have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
- even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
- time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
- bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
- start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
- will start costing some money.
- <p>
-
- I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
- idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
- where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
- about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
- busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
- mailing list and web page. So...
- <p>
-
- I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
- up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
- know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
- individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
- contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
- would be wonderful!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
- up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
- the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
- serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
- new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
- here it is. Come and get it.
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
- <br>
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
- and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
- x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
- of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
- Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
- stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
- a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
- cleans up a number of things.
-
- <p>
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
- use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
- to give it a try by downloading and compiling
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
- You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
- Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
- <p>
- Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
- BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
- a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
- the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
- to view the tutorial.
- <p>
-
- Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
- version number of this release, let me point out that this release
- is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
- bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
- a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
- stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
- 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
- 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
- the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
- next release and I don't want that to break products that people
- are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
- released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
- have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
- stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
- I will release that as a new stable release series.
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
- <br>
-
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
- release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
- of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
- several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
- and ash).
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
- some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
- are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
- BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
- <br>
- The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
- of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
- viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
-
- <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
- can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
- turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
- <br>
-
- BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
- release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
- contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
- 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
- There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
- the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
- 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
- deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
- <p>
-
- There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
- one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
- added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
- compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
- functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
- all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
- maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
- compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
- for letting me use their system!).
- <p>
- You can read the
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
- complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
- <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
-
- <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
- "http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
- image</a>. Here's how you use it:
-
- <ol>
-
- <li> <a href= "http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
- Download the image</a>
-
- <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
- of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
-
- <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
-
- </ol>
-
- <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
-
- <pre>
- mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
- cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
- umount /mnt
- gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
- mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
- </pre>
-
-
- <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
- and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
- shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
- expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
- smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
- now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
- long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
- Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
- environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
- this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
- framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
- business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
- currently in progress at
- <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
- <br>
-
- Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
- things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
- For a list of the most interesting changes
- you might want to look at the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
- work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
- out of town.
- <p>
- <em>Special Note</em><br>
-
- BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
- shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
- Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
- shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
- construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
- Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
- progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
- and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
- release of BusyBox.
- <p>
-
- <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
- rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
- update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
- optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
- that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
- now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
- shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
- woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
- <p>
- The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
- the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
- this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
- <p>
- <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
- syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
- apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
- renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
- There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
- more correct option parsing.
- See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
- for complete details.
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
- and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
- people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
- completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
- BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
- See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
- for complete details.
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
- point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
- release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
- mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
- telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
- the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
- details).
- <p>
- Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
- <a href="http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
- publically browsable
- <a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
- anonymous
- <a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
- for those that are actively contributing there is even
- <a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
- I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
- <p>
- Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
- a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
- we are just skipping 0.44.
- <p>
- Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
- of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
- <br>
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
- For example, with the following test app:
-<pre>
- #include <syslog.h>
-
- int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
- {
- openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
- while(1) {
- syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
- sleep(delay);
- }
- closelog();
- return(0);
- };
-
- int main(void)
- {
- if (fork()==0)
- do_log("A", 2);
- do_log("B", 3);
- }
-</pre>
- it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
- from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
- while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
- <p>
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
- Thanks Karl!
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
- <br>
- I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
- good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
- so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
- have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
- freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
- rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
- More details are available in the
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
- <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
-
- <p>
- Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
- and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
- Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
- Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
- There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
- <p>
-
- You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
-
- <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
- <br>
- Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
- do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
- to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
- 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
- tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
- at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
- the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
- of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
- enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
- changes I still want to make.
- <p>
- The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
- Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
-
- <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
- <br>
- I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
- lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
- He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
- it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
- fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
- and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
- (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
- down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
- (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
- contrary).
- <p>
- Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
- labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
- <p>
- So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
- Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
- to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
- include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
- re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
- accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
- problems.
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
- bugs have been fixed. See the
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
-
- Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
- filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
- behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
- loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
- Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
- their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
- on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
-
- <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
- mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
- logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
- support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
- The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
-
- <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
- syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
- New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
- In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
- in some cases produced serious security problems.
- As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
-
- <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
- <br>
- I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
- to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
- will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
- contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
- what arguments its apps support, etc.
-
- <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
- <br>
- This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
- the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
- changelog can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
- <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
- <br>
- This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
- and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
-</ul>
+ I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real
+ reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as
+ is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for
+ everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting,
+ it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well.
+ There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with
+ it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while
+ there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work
+ is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door....
+ <p>
+ Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this
+ time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a
+ bug-fixing patch 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 been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your
+ bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]"
+ at the beginning of the email subject line!
-<!-- Begin Links section -->
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
+ And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="links">
- <BIG><B>
- Important Links</A>
- </B></BIG>
- </A>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
+ <p>Have Fun!
+
+ <p>
+ On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away
+ yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about
+ 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I
+ could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a
+ href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation
+ as scheduled.
+ <p>
+ As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come
+ to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS
+ this year.
+ <p>
-<ul>
- <li> <a href="http://busybox.net/">Take me back to http://busybox.net/</a>.
+ <p>
+ <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p>
+
+ Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox
+ pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b>
+ want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not
+ bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only
+ bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if
+ people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit
+ improvements.
+
<p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
+ And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
- <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
- Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
- The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
- by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
+ <p>Have Fun!
<p>
- <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
- Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
+
+ <p>
+ <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p>
+
+ Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for
+ bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this
+ week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at
+ this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be
+ <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation
+ and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the
+ documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some
+ assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets
+ match the features listed in the documentation.
+
<p>
+ I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but
+ <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796">
+ another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy...
- <li> <a href="http://busybox.net/software.html">Cool embedded software</a>.
<p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
+ And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-</ul>
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <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>
+
+
+ <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
+ 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>
+
+ 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>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p>
+
+ 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>
+
+ 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>
+
+ 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>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><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.
+
+ <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.
+
+ <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>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>
+
+ 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.
+ <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>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 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!
+
+ <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!
+
+ <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>
+
+ 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.
+
+ <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>
+
+ 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>
+
+ 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>.
+
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
-<!-- End of Table -->
+ <p>
+ <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
+
+ The busybox development series has been under construction for
+ nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
+ it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
+ of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
+ since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
+ number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
+ 1.0.x...
+ <p>
+
+ The point of "-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 magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
+ later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
+ Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
+ Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
+ up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
+ of July.
+ <p>
+
+ If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
+ and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
+ rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
+ happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
+ support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
+ emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
+ sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
+ right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
+ <p>
+
+ I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
+ McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
+ (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
+ have made this release possible.
+ <p>
+
+ As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
+ You don't really need to bother with the
+ <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
+ vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
+ But you can take a look if you really want too.
-</TD></TR>
-</TABLE>
-</P>
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
-<!-- Footer -->
-<HR>
-<TABLE WIDTH="100%">
- <TR>
- <TD>
- <font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
- Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to
- <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a><BR>
- The Busybox logo is copyright 1999,2000,2001 Erik Andersen.
- </font>
- </TD>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
- <TD>
- <a href="http://www.vim.org"><img border=0 width=88 height=32
- src="images/anim.written.in.vi.gif"
- alt="This site created with the vi editor"></a>
- </TD>
+ I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
+ is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
+ the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
+ up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
+ had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
+ to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
+ was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
+ I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
+ 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
+ mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
+ release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
+ will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
+ version to have its first real release very very soon now...
- <TD>
- <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border=0 width=88 height=38
- src="images/gfx_by_gimp.gif" alt="Graphics by GIMP"></a>
- </TD>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
- <TD>
- <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width=90 height=36
- src="images/ltbutton2.jpg" alt="Linux Today"></a>
- </TD>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
- <TD>
- <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width=90 height=36
- src="images/sdsmall.gif" alt="Slashdot"></a>
- </TD>
+ I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
+ (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
+ a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
+ the problems that have turned up since the last
+ release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
+ I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
+ on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
+ should soon be getting its first real release.
- <TD>
- <a href="http://freshmeat.net"><img width=90 height=36
- src="images/fm.mini.jpg" alt="Freshmeat"></a>
- </TD>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
- </TR>
-</TABLE>
+
+ <p>
+ <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
+
+ I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
+ now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
+ for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
+ the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
+ This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
+ development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
+ hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
+
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
+
+ Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
+ the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
+ who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
+ uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
+ <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
+ in Canada and
+ <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
+ in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
+ accessible for everyone!
+
+
+<li>
+<b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
+
+<p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
+users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
+(which is where you are probably reading this).
+Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
+living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
+line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
+busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
+the access needed to keep that system updated (for
+example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
+stopped some time ago).</p>
+
+<p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
+server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
+the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
+I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
+co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
+co-location effort, <a href=
+"http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
+(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
+his <a href=
+"http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
+for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
+system is co-located, the current speed problems
+should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
+some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
+sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
+
+<p><!--
+ <center>
+ Click here to help support busybox.net!
+ <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
+ <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
+ <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
+ <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
+ <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
+ <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
+ <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
+ </form>
+ </center>
+ -->
+ Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
+donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
+rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
+spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
+upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
+has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
+google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
+not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
+ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
+far, donations received have been sufficient to
+cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
+have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
+we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
+everyone that has contributed!<br>
+ -Erik</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
+
+<p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
+0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
+one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
+series, and it should take care of most everyone's
+needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
+been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
+wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
+this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
+(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
+Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
+told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
+
+<p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
+powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
+should work with just about any Linux system you
+throw it at. See the <a href=
+"downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
+of</small> the details. The last release was
+<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
+be even better.</p>
+
+<p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
+<a href=
+"downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Have Fun.<br>
+ -Erik</p>
+</li>
+
+<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
+
+<!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
+<center>
+Click here to help buy busybox.net!
+<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
+<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
+<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
+<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
+<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
+<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
+<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
+</form>
+</center>
+<!-- End PayPal Logo -->
+
+I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
+to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
+will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
+for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
+initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
+home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
+but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
+I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
+have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
+even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
+time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
+bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
+start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
+will start costing some money.
+<p>
+
+I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
+idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
+where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
+about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
+busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
+mailing list and web page. So...
+<p>
+
+I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
+up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
+know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
+individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
+contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
+would be wonderful!
+<p>
+
+
+<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
+ up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
+ the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
+ serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
+ new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
+ here it is. Come and get it.
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
+<br>
+ I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
+ and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
+ x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
+ of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
+ Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
+ stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
+ a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
+ cleans up a number of things.
+
+ <p>
+
+ Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
+ use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
+ to give it a try by downloading and compiling
+ <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
+ You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
+ Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
+ <p>
+ Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
+ BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
+ a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
+ the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
+ to view the tutorial.
+ <p>
+
+ Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
+ version number of this release, let me point out that this release
+ is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
+ bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
+ a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
+ stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
+ 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
+ 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
+ the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
+ next release and I don't want that to break products that people
+ are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
+ released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
+ have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
+ stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
+ I will release that as a new stable release series.
+
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
+ release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
+ of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
+ several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
+ and ash).
+
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
+ some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
+ are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
+ BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
+<br>
+The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
+of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
+viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
+
+<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
+can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
+turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
+<p>
+
+
+<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
+ release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
+ contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
+ 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
+ There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
+ the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
+ 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
+ deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
+ <p>
+
+ There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
+ one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
+ added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
+ compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
+ functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
+ all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
+ maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
+ compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
+ for letting me use their system!).
+ <p>
+ You can read the
+ <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
+ complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
+
+<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
+"downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
+image</a>. Here's how you use it:
+
+<ol>
+
+ <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
+ Download the image</a>
+
+ <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
+ of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
+
+ <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
+
+</ol>
+
+<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
+
+<pre>
+ mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
+ cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
+ umount /mnt
+ gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
+ mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
+</pre>
+
+
+<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
+ and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
+ shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
+ expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
+ smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
+ <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ <p>
+ lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
+ now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
+ long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
+ Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
+ environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
+ this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
+ framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
+ business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
+ currently in progress at
+ <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
+ <p>
+
+
+<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
+ things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
+ For a list of the most interesting changes
+ you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ <p>
+ Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
+ work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
+ out of town.
+ <p>
+ <em>Special Note</em><br>
+
+ BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
+ shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
+ Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
+ shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
+ construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
+ Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
+ progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
+ and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
+ release of BusyBox.
+ <p>
+
+<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
+ rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
+ update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
+ optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
+ that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
+ now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
+ shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
+ woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
+ <p>
+ The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
+ the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ <p>
+ Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
+ this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
+ <p>
+<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
+ syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
+ apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
+ renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
+ There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
+ more correct option parsing.
+ See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
+ for complete details.
+
+
+<p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
+ and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
+ people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
+ completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
+ BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
+ See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
+ for complete details.
+
+
+<p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
+ point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
+ release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
+ mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
+ telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
+ the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
+ details).
+ <p>
+ Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
+ <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
+ publically browsable
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
+ anonymous
+ <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
+ for those that are actively contributing there is even
+ <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
+ I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
+ <p>
+ Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
+ a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
+ we are just skipping 0.44.
+ <p>
+ Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
+ of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
+
+
+<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
+<br>
+Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
+For example, with the following test app:
+<pre>
+#include <syslog.h>
+
+int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
+{
+ openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
+ while(1) {
+ syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
+ sleep(delay);
+ }
+ closelog();
+ return(0);
+};
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ if (fork()==0)
+ do_log("A", 2);
+ do_log("B", 3);
+}
+</pre>
+it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
+from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
+while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
+<p>
+Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
+Thanks Karl!
+
+
+<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
+<br>
+I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
+good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
+so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
+have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
+freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
+rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
+More details are available in the
+<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
+<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
+
+<p>
+Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
+and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
+Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
+Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
+There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
+<p>
+
+You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
+
+<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
+<br>
+Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
+do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
+to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
+5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
+tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
+at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
+the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
+of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
+enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
+changes I still want to make.
+<p>
+The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
+Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
+
+<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
+<br>
+I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
+lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
+He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
+it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
+fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
+and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
+(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
+down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
+(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
+contrary).
+<p>
+Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
+labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
+<p>
+So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
+Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
+to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
+include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
+re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
+accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
+problems.
+
+
+<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
+ bugs have been fixed. See the
+ <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
+
+ Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
+ filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
+ behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
+ loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
+ Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
+ their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
+ on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
+
+<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
+ mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
+ logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
+ support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
+ The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
+
+<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
+<br>
+
+ This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
+ syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
+ New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
+ In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
+ in some cases produced serious security problems.
+ As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
+
+<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
+<br>
+ I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
+ to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
+ will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
+ contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
+ what arguments its apps support, etc.
+
+<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
+<br>
+ This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
+ the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
+ changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
+<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
+<br>
+ This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
+ and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
+
+
+</ul>
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