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-
-  <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 updated
-    by 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, as well as a 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-&lt;date&gt;.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>
-
-
-
-    <p>
-    <li><b>Old News</b><p> 
+  <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
+    <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
+    might as well point you all at
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
+    1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
+
+    <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
+    saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
+    one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.)  Fix three
+    embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command.  Two build tweaks
+    (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
+    libbb subdirectory).  One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
+    tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions).  And a partridge
+    in a pear...  Ahem.</p>
+
+    <p>But wait, there's more!  A passwd changing fix so an empty
+    gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
+    the gecos field.  Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
+    value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
+    a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
+    switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
+    than continue with root privileges).  A fix to adduser to make sure that
+    /etc/group gets updated.  And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
+    in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
+
+  <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
+    <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
+    1.2.0</a>.  Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
+    over the weekend.</p>
+
+    <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
+    cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
+    try a longer one.  Expect 1.3.0 in December.  (Expect 1.2.1 any time
+    we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
+
+    <p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p>
+
+  <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
+    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
+    1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release.  It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
+    memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
+    mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
+    background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
+    timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
+    segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
+
+    <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
+
+  <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
+    <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches
+    backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
+    for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
+    find -xdev, and a fix for comm.  Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
+    for more info.</p>
+
+    <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June.  A 1.1.3
+    will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up.  (The new plan is
+    to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
+    bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
+    
+  <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
+    <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
+    maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement.  BusyBox and
+    uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
+    by Erik's father's law firm, and the
+    <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
+    scaled to match the popularity of the projects.  So we put our heads
+    together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
+    <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions.  She
+    referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
+
+    <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
+    <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
+    has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc.  We join a number of other
+    free and open source software projects (such as
+    <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
+    <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
+    <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
+    in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
+    phrase you get to use every day.</p>
+
+  <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
+    <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>.  Expect a "what's new" document in a few days.  (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p>
+    <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
+    the various small fixes have been collected together into a
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
+    and new fixes will be appended to that as needed.  Expect 1.1.2 around
+    June.</p>
+  </li>
+  <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
+    <p>The new stable release is
+    <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
+    1.1.0</a>.  It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
+    (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
+    but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
+    that works.  Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
+
+    <li><b>Old News</b><p>
     <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
+    </p>
+    </li>
 
 
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