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- - 31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1
-
The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
- you can now download (temporarly location:
- tarball
- docs)
- the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of new
- functionality: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
- several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
- standards
- compliant than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
- still working out the bugs.
-
- - 16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out
-
-
A new stable release (BusyBox
- 1.01) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
- small
- fixes that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.
-
- - 13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking
-
- Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
- developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
- in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
- name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
- from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the
- shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System
- to post all the gory details.
-
-
-
- The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
- is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
- to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
- properly considered.
-
-
-
-
- 13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released
-
- When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or
- software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox.
- With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and
- who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices
- is looking very bright.
-
-
-
- It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every
- device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date.
- The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!
-
+
-
+
We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project:
+
+
+
+
+ - 21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.11.2 (stable)
+
BusyBox 1.12.0.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch)
+ BusyBox 1.11.2.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch)
+
+ Sizes of busybox-1.11.2 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.2/busybox
+ 822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox
+
+
+ New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir)
+
+
Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
+
+ - ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"
+ - ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd!
+ - ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2
+ - ash: fix segfault in "command -v"
+ - ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator
+ - ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading
+ - ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before
+ - hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all
+ - hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not
+ - hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case
+ - hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites
+ - hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)
+ - hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements
+ - hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case
+ - hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')
+ - hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names
+ - libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets
+
+
+ Other changes:
+
+ - libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)
+ - libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)
+ - libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"
+ - libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()
+ - libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)
+ - libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector
+ - libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)
+ - lineedit: fix use-after-free
+ - libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too
+ - bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])
+ - open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor
+ - open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit
+ - arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)
+ - ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code
+ - awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading.
+ - build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op
+ - bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)
+ - b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)
+ - comm: almost total rewrite
+ - cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)
+ - cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files
+ - cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG
+ - cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k
+ - cpio: support some long options
+ - crond: use execlp instead of execl
+ - cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)
+ - envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases
+ - findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary
+ - fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)
+ - fuser: a bit of safety in scanf
+ - grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes
+ - halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT
+ - httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de
+ - ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks
+ - ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
+ - ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
+ - inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found
+ - insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing
+ - install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)
+ - install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)
+ - lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies
+ - ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable
+ - man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com
+ - man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given
+ - man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable
+ - man: fix missed NULL termination of an array
+ - man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode
+ - man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)
+ - man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config
+ - mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection
+ - mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist
+ - mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it
+ - mdev: support for serializing hotplug
+ - mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization
+ - mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)
+ - modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)
+ - modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()
+ - modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one
+ - mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"
+ - mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)
+ - mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"
+ - mount: testsuite for "-o mand"
+ - msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)
+ - mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints
+ - netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)
+ - nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)
+ - od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)
+ - pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)
+ - printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)
+ - printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite
+ - printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)
+ - sendmail: updates from Vladimir:
+ - sendmail: do not discard all headers
+ - sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes
+ - sendmail: fixed mail recipient address
+ - sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed
+ - sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified
+ - sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)
+ - ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too
+ - ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore
+ - ssd: fix -a without -x case
+ - ssd: use $PATH
+ - tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0
+ - tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection
+ - taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy
+ - tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")
+ - tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way
+ - telnetd: fix issue file printing
+ - test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does
+ - testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e
+ - time: don't segfault with no arguments
+ - touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)
+ - tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354
+ - tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)
+ - tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)
+ - unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)
+ - vi: fix reversed checks for underflow
+ - vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid
+ - xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)
+ - other fixes and code size reductions in many applets
+
-
- Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous
- improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux
- KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel),
- Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development
- work and testing of thousands of people from around the world.
-
+ The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
+ the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
+
+
+ - 12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)
+
BusyBox 1.11.1.
+ (svn,
+ patches,
+ how to add a patch)
+ Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk,
+ bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi.
+
+
- If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
- BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device
- or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is
- right for your application. If you need help getting started using
- BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug
- and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the BusyBox FAQ.
-
+ - 11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated
+
+ "How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc" is updated
+ and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't
+ work for you.
+
+
- As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
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