<ul>
- <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
+ <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>.
+
+ <p>Have Fun!
+
+ <p>
+ <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p>
+
+ 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>.
+
+ <p>Have Fun!
+
+ <p>
+ <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p>
+
+ 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>
+
+ 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!
+
+ <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>
+ 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>
+
+
+ <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>.
+
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <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...
+
+ <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 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
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
+ thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
helping get patches merged!
<p>
<p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. And as usual you can
<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
- <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><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
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
<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>
+ 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.
+ indeed.
<p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. And as usual you can
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. And as usual you can
<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
- <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><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
then...
<p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ 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>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><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
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
<p>
As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
- You don't really need to bother with the
+ 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.
<p>
- <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
+ <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
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
+ will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
version to have its first real release very very soon now...
<p>
<p>
<p>
- <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
+ <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
- (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
+ (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
+ 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.
<p>
- <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><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
+ 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
+ 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>
- <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><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
+ 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>
+<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
some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
-<p><!--
+<p><!--
<center>
Click here to help support busybox.net!
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
</li>
<li>
-<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
+<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
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
+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
+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
+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...
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
+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>
new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
here it is. Come and get it.
<p>
- The
+ The
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
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.
+ I will release that as a new stable release series.
<p>
- The
+ The
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
and ash).
<p>
- The
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
+ 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
+ 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>
+<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>.
compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
for letting me use their system!).
<p>
- You can read the
+ You can read the
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
- complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
+ complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<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
+ 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>
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
+ 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
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>.
+ 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
+ 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>.
+ 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
+ work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
out of town.
<p>
<em>Special Note</em><br>
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
+ 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>
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.
+ 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>.
+ 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
+ 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>
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,
+ 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>
+ See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
for complete details.
<br>
This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
- and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
+ 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>
+ See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
for complete details.
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>,
+ 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>,
+ <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
+ 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>
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.
+Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
Thanks Karl!
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,
+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
+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
+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.
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
+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
+accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
problems.
<br>
This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
- bugs have been fixed. See the
+ 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
+ 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,
+ 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>.
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 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>.
<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
+ 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
+ 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.
+ 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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