0.50
* Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
* Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
- * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion updated
+ * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
+ with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
* Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
* Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals.
- * Erik Andersen -- if umount2 or pivot_root are not available,
- stub them out.
+ * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available.
+ * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
+ * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
+ * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
* Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
overrides the system pwd/grp
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
+ * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
+ * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
* Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
* Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
* David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
- for several my_* functions into utility.c
* John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
generate the documentation from the source code, making life
much simpler for all.
* Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
* Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
* Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
+ * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
+ * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
+ * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
+ * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
+ * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
* Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
+ * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
* Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
* Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
depending on what kernel is being used.
* Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
* Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
* Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
+ * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
* Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
* Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
* Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
+ * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
+ * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
- is now working and general editing is much improved.
+ is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
+ improve complex prompt handling.
* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
+ for several my_* functions into utility.c
* Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
work done by Axis Communications).
* Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
and updated the style guide.
* Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
+ * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
-Erik Andersen, not yet released