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+ <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
+ 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0
+</pre>
+ <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
+busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0:
+echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112
+bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096
+discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096
+discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
+echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
+discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152
+find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952
+readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492
+ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464
+iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308
+</pre>
+
+ <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>),
+ findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>),
+ lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>),
+ sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd.
+
+ <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.
+
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter
+ <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations
+ <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)
+ <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134
+ <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947
+ <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142
+ <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case
+ <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host
+ <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"
+ <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376
+ <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU
+ <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
+ <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite
+ <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets
+ <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed
+ <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)
+ <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels
+ <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)
+ <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/
+ <li>fuser: substantial rewrite
+ <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com>
+ <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)
+ <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled
+ <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530
+ <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked
+ <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"
+ <li>httpd: fix for POST upload
+ <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)
+ <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure
+ <li>hush: more correct handling of piping
+ <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU
+ <li>hush: report [v]fork failures
+ <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed
+ <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness
+ <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work
+ <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable
+ <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)
+ <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"
+ <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing
+ <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words
+ <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
+ <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)
+ <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error
+ <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)
+ <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now
+ <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars
+ <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption
+ <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages
+ <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!
+ <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too
+ <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets
+ <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error
+ <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>
+ <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!
+ <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended
+ <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible
+ <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t
+ <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)
+ <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected
+ <li>mount: add another mount helper call method
+ <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option
+ <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
+ <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity
+ <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command
+ <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)
+ <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root
+ <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143
+ <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make
+ <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)
+ <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin
+ <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing
+ <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)
+ <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed
+ <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway
+ <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters
+ <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc
+ <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]
+ <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com>
+ <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly
+ <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file
+ <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time
+ <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns
+ <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414
+ <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com>
+ <li>run-parts: add --reverse
+ <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output
+ <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214
+ <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591
+ <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)
+ <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425
+ <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls
+ <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead
+ <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check
+ <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436
+ <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574
+ <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling
+ <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)
+ <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end
+ <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992
+ <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
+ <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket
+ <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"
+ <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"
+ <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected
+ <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable
+ <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports
+ <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE
+ <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)
+ <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)
+ <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint
+ <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro
+ <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604
+ <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>
+ <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)
+ <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly
+ <li>vi: many fixes
+ <li>zcip: don't chdir to root
+ <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can thrash syslog socket)
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+
<li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox stable releases</b>
<p>
Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
projects / oweals / busybox.git / commitdiff