<ul>
<p>
- <li><b>
30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
+ <li><b>
11 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 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.
+ Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
+ series. The last prerelease has help 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>
-
- 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.
+ 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 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...
+ 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!) then next release may be very soon
+ indeed.
+
<p>
The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
+ the details. And as usual you can
+ <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
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+ <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>
+
+
+
<p>
<li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
$ ./busybox
-BusyBox v1.00-pre1 (2003.07.15-06:37+0000) multi-call binary
+BusyBox v1.00-pre3 (2003.09.12-05:48+0000) multi-call binary
Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
or: [function] [arguments]...
bunzip2, busybox, bzcat, cal, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot,
chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cut, date, dc, dd,
deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg,
- dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, dutmp, echo, egrep, env, expr,
+ dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, egrep, env, expr,
false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk,
fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, getopt, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip,
halt, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd, hush, hwclock, id,
ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, init, insmod, ip, ipcalc, iplink,
- iproute, iptunnel, kill, killall, klogd, lash, length, linuxrc,
+ iproute, iptunnel, kill, killall, klogd, lash, last, length, linuxrc,
ln, loadacm, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread,
losetup, ls, lsmod, makedevs, md5sum, mesg, minit, mkdir, mkfifo,
mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, msh,
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