X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changelog;h=76c7eacb1fadd63e9b8a257bf00be2a32615a48d;hb=44608e9693b03661fbab5e27650bb040c6871d11;hp=ee8bef926cde0e610543e6ab3e5526b24757a8ed;hpb=9e6089ee0fcb07a582c553479ebab740a5021358;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog index ee8bef926..76c7eacb1 100644 --- a/Changelog +++ b/Changelog @@ -1,3 +1,124 @@ +0.61.pre + + Development Version + + + + New Applets: + * Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin, + namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty. + * Robert Griebl + -- reimplemented tinylogin applets: su, login + -- added hwclock + -- added uncompress + + Other Changes: + + * Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann + -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations + -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish') + * Rodney Brown + -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it by ~1.5k + * Matt Kraai + -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208). + -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209). + -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin). + -- Fix tar segfault when include list is empty and exclude list is + not. + -- Fix sed s/$/@/ handling (noted by Joshua Hudson). + -- Fix opt type in dpkg (closes: #118975). + * Magick + -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up + in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO). + * Vladimir Oleynik + -- reverse resolve network name and cache in route and ifconfig + applets, fix print nslookup server name if compile without + uClibc, fix route crashe 'route add', fix warnings compile + networking and pwd_grp applets + * Tim Riker + -- fix and shrink uuencode + -- allow tty* in inittab if exist, serial console is not the issue + * Robert Griebl + -- added suid/sgid handling with 3 modes to busybox: + 1) completly disabled + 2) tinylogin like + 3) runtime configureable via /etc/busybox.conf + + -- modprobe: complete rewrite, supports modules.dep, parses + modules.conf for alias and options and can be called + from the kernel. + -- tar: support for -z when creating archives + -- wget: support for -Y|--proxy=on/off and --passive-ftp + -- vi: support for ":x" + -- date: support for -I (ISO format) + -- find: support for -xdev + -- mount: support for -t in list mode, parsing of /etc/filesystems + -- ash: support for --login (bash like) + -- route: support for -e + -- netstat: support for -e and -r + -- head/tail: support for old style -[0-9] options + -- sed: support for ! and \CregexpC + -- pidof: support for -s + -- nslookup: support for user specified name server + + -- logger: fixed logging of '<' characters + -- ash: fixed crash when run in a rxvt window + + -Erik Andersen, --not yet released-- + + + +0.60.1 + + Stable Release + + + New Applets & New Features: + none. :) + + Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2) + * msh can segfault on constructs such as + for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done + due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause + problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size. + + + Bugfixes: + * Matt Kraai + -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names. + -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was + noted by Martin Bene). + -- Removed CONFIG_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell + or shells they want as CONFIG_ in Config.h + -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno. + * Shu-Hao Chang + -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands + * Magick + -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null + * Jaspreet Singh + -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route + * Erik Andersen + -- Made the insmod options CONFIG_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and + CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive + -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined + -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP + -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems. + * Glenn McGrath + -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use + non-standard ports, and is smaller). + -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling + * Manuel Novoa III + -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some + problems with mount and other applets). + -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default + * Matthias ? + -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not + just the first. + + + -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001 + + 0.60.0 Note: @@ -51,7 +172,7 @@ * Matt Kraai -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar) -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands. - -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names. + -- Added CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names. -- Better devfs support -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only. -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller). @@ -232,7 +353,7 @@ * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod. * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when - BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled + CONFIG_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto- generate the documentation from the source code, making life much simpler for all. @@ -339,7 +460,7 @@ * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance, de-macro-ifying some variables and functions - * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find + * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find the width and height of the console. * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option. * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile @@ -355,7 +476,7 @@ 0.48 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files, - define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option. + define CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option. * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system. Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1. @@ -387,7 +508,7 @@ GNU-date compatible * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take - precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN + precedence over applets unless CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN * Gaute B Strokkenes -- applets found using a binary search instead of linear search. Much faster! * new applets: cmp readlink @@ -520,7 +641,7 @@ 0.45 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for embedded systems). - * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the + * Added CONFIG_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile. * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change, we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k. @@ -541,7 +662,7 @@ * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by Tomi Ollila It works great and costs 3k. * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When - BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may + CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly (i.e. DOSTATIC=true) * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes @@ -593,7 +714,7 @@ * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken. * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected. - * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE) + * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling CONFIG_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE) * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing - Pavel Roskin * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help @@ -631,7 +752,7 @@ saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually - provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and + provides. To enable this, turn on CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/ directory. * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime. @@ -676,7 +797,7 @@ * An initial telnet implementation was added by Randolph Chung . * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e") - * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width + * ps now supports CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off). * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which as would be expected displays help). @@ -699,7 +820,7 @@ * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is - optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT + optionally compiled in with CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOUNT * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with @@ -770,7 +891,7 @@ * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling - BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h + CONFIG_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols turns up missing. * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device @@ -822,14 +943,14 @@ devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni compile in - * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also - if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile()) + * fullWrite() not only if CONFIG_TAR is defined, but also + if CONFIG_CP or CONFIG_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile()) * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with -O2 -m386 ...) * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines - BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be + CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD but not CONFIG_INIT. (init_main used to be referenced, but not compiled) * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles. @@ -889,7 +1010,7 @@ to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller sometime. * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors - when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does + when CONFIG_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does the right thing. * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.) @@ -924,7 +1045,7 @@ * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it, will complain if you enable them when you disable - BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS. + CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS. -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999 @@ -962,7 +1083,7 @@ * from Eric Delaunay). * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If - * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever + * CONFIG_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever command you define it as will be run if the init script exits. * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo) * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when @@ -1018,7 +1139,7 @@ to Eric Delaunay. * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay). - * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on. + * more will now use the terminal size if CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on. * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things should now work correctly. @@ -1036,7 +1157,7 @@ * Removed some debugging noise from init.c * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken). * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab, - * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab + * If CONFIG_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to state the real root device name) * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c @@ -1044,9 +1165,8 @@ -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999 0.32 - * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on - busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at - andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org + * More changes -- If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at + andersee@debian.org * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks realize that they are not in Kansas anymore. * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any @@ -1057,11 +1177,11 @@ * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant ) - * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the + * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added CONFIG_MTAB, allowing (at the * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc) folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df - will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined. + will now use /etc/mtab if CONFIG_MTAB is defined. * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now @@ -1088,10 +1208,9 @@ -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999 0.30 - Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for - paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox, - or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These - changes include: + Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. If you have any problems + with busybox, or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix + it. These changes include: Core Changes: * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the