</ul>
</p>
- <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox stable releases</b>
+ <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b>
<p>
Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
for future hot patches are in parentheses.
the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
</p>
- <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.9.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck,
- iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p>
- <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is
- inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork).
- The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.9.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2
- 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0
-</pre>
- <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
-busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0:
-input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116
-umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112
-rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096
-xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096
-sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096
-mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096
-mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096
-grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
-unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
-parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152
-</pre>
-
- <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost
- the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works
- on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU,
- though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush.
-
- <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes
- problems for you.
-
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>Build system improvements
- <li>Testsuite additions
- <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions
- <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both
- <li>New applets: hd, sestatus
- <li>Removed applets: lash
- <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins
- <li>init: simplify forking of children
- <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed
- <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root
- <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets
- (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
- <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for
- (Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>)
- <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping)
- (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>)
- <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length
- <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths
- <li>vi: Del key works
- <li>sed: support GNUism '\t'
- <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying
- <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy
- <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd
- <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too
- <li>netstat: wide output mode
- <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth <masta at perlgolf.de>)
- <li>test: become NOFORK applet
- <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>)
- <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
- <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
- </ul>
- </p>
-
- <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>These are bugfix-only releases.
- 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
- 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
-
- <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
- <p>httpd:
- <ul>
- <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
- <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
- <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
- <li>optional support for partial downloads
- <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
- <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
- <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- </ul>
-
- <p>top:
- <ul>
- <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
- <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
- <li>fix for command line wrapping
- </ul>
-
- <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
-
- <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
-Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
- 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>
-
- <p>New applets:
- <ul>
- <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>
- <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
- <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
- <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
- <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- </ul>
-
- <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
- <ul>
- <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
- <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
- <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
- <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
- <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
- <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
- <li>wget: allow dots in header field names
- <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
- <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
- <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
- <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
- <li>hush: fix glob()
- <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
- <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
- <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
- <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
- <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
- <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
- <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
- <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
- <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
- <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
- <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
- <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
- <li>less: make 'f' key page forward
- <li>libiproute: add missing break statements
- <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
- <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
- <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>)
- <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
- <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
- <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
- <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
- <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
- <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>)
- <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
- <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
- <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
- <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
- <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
- <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
- <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
- <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
- <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
- <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
- <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
- <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
- <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>)
- <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
- <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
- <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
- <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
- <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
- <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
- <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
- </ul>
- </p>
-
- </li>
-
- <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
- <p>httpd:
- <ul>
- <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
- <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
- <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
- <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
- <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
- <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
- <li>add support for Status: CGI header
- <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
- <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
- </ul>
-
- <p>udhcp[cd]:
- <ul>
- <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
- <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
- <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB))
- <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
- <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
- <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
- <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
- </ul>
-
- <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
- <ul>
- <li>simpler loadavg processing
- <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
- <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
- <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
- <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
- <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
- <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
- <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
- <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
- </ul>
-
- <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
- generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
- scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
-
- <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
-Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
- 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
- 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
-
-Same .config built against static uclibc:
- 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
-
- <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
- test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
- runit/*, in libbb.
-
- <p>New applets:
- <ul>
- <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
- <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>)
- <li>slattach, ttysize
- </ul>
-
- <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
- by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
- qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
- for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
-
- <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
- <ul>
- <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
- <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
- <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
- <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
- <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
- <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
- <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
- <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
- <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
- <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
- <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
- <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
- <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
- <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
- <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
- <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>)
- <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
- <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
- <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
- <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
- <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
- <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
- <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
- <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255
- <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
- <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
- <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
- <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>)
- <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
- <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
- <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
- <li>login: optional support for PAM
- <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
- <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
- <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
- <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
- <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
- <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>)
- <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
- <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
- <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
- <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
- <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
- <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>)
- <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
- <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>)
- <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
- <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
- <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>
- <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
- <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
- <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
- <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
- <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
- <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
- <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
- <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com>
- <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
- <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
- <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
- <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
- </ul>
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
- label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
- <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
- but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
- report any such cases.</p>
- <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
- and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p>
- <p>Other changes since previous release:
- <ul>
-<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
-<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
-<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
-<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
-<li>SELinux: load_policy applet
-<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>)
-<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
-<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
-<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
-<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
-<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
-<li>awk: guard against empty environment
-<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
-<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
-<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
-<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>)
-<li>cttyhack: new applet
-<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>)
-<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
-<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
-<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>)
-<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
-<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
-<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
-<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
-<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
-<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
-<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
-<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
-<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
-<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
-<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
-<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>)
-<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>)
-<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
-<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
-<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>
-<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>)
-<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
-<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
-<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
-<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
-<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
-<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
-<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
-<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
-<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
-<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
-<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
-<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
-<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements.
-<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
-<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
-<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
-<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
-<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
-<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
-<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
-<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
-<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
-<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
-<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
-<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
-<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
-<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
-<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
-<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1
-<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
-<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
-<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
-<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
-<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
-<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
-<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
-<li>run_parts: rewrite
-<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu>
-<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
-<li>split: new applet
-<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
-<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>)
-<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
-<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
-<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
-<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
-<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
-<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
-<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
-<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
-<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
-<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
- </ul>
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
- and sed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
- label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
- <p>Notable changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
- <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
- <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
- <li>less: regex search improved
- <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
- <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
- <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
- <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
- <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
- <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
- <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
- <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
- <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
- not only in /cgi-bin/
- <li>chrt: new applet
- <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
- new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
- <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
- improper usage of string constants.
- <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
- targets.
- <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
- sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
- <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
- udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
- <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
- syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
- </ul>
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
- than usual.</p>
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
- the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
- it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
- ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
- <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
- (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
- don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
- anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
- as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
- for general use now.
- <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
- upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
- already much better than what we had previously.
- <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
- <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
- of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
- <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
- <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
- <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
- <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
- <li>chown: user.grp works again.
- <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
- ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
- </ul>
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
-
- <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
- needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
- and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
- bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
- busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
- adventurous desktop users.
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>find: taking many more of standard options
- <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
- <li>cp: added -s, -l
- <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
- <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
- incompatible)
- <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
- on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
- (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
- Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
- <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
- directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
- <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
- other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
- <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
- (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
- <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
- fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
- </ul>
- <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
- 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
- produces buggy executables.
- </li>
-
- <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
- <p>It's a bit overdue, but
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
- BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
-
- <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
- branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
- generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
- umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
- name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
- delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
- in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
- fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
- fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
- modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
- foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
- terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
- ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
- gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
- fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
-
- <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
- this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
- Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
- <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
- the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</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>
<ul>
+ <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.9.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck,
+ iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p>
+ <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is
+ inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork).
+ The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.9.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2
+ 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0
+</pre>
+ <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
+busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0:
+input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116
+umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112
+rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096
+xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096
+sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096
+mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096
+mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096
+grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
+unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
+parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152
+</pre>
+
+ <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost
+ the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works
+ on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU,
+ though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush.
+
+ <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes
+ problems for you.
+
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Build system improvements
+ <li>Testsuite additions
+ <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions
+ <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both
+ <li>New applets: hd, sestatus
+ <li>Removed applets: lash
+ <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins
+ <li>init: simplify forking of children
+ <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed
+ <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root
+ <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets
+ (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
+ <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for
+ (Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>)
+ <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping)
+ (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>)
+ <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length
+ <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths
+ <li>vi: Del key works
+ <li>sed: support GNUism '\t'
+ <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying
+ <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy
+ <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd
+ <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too
+ <li>netstat: wide output mode
+ <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth <masta at perlgolf.de>)
+ <li>test: become NOFORK applet
+ <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>)
+ <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
+ <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+
+ <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>These are bugfix-only releases.
+ 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
+ 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
+
+ <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
+ <p>httpd:
+ <ul>
+ <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
+ <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
+ <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
+ <li>optional support for partial downloads
+ <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
+ <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
+ <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>top:
+ <ul>
+ <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
+ <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
+ <li>fix for command line wrapping
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
+
+ <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
+Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
+ 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>
+
+ <p>New applets:
+ <ul>
+ <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>
+ <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
+ <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
+ <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
+ <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
+ <ul>
+ <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
+ <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
+ <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
+ <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
+ <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
+ <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
+ <li>wget: allow dots in header field names
+ <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
+ <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
+ <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
+ <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
+ <li>hush: fix glob()
+ <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
+ <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
+ <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
+ <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
+ <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
+ <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
+ <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
+ <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
+ <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
+ <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
+ <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
+ <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
+ <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
+ <li>less: make 'f' key page forward
+ <li>libiproute: add missing break statements
+ <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
+ <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
+ <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
+ <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>)
+ <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
+ <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
+ <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
+ <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
+ <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
+ <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>)
+ <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
+ <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
+ <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
+ <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
+ <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
+ <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
+ <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
+ <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
+ <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
+ <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
+ <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
+ <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
+ <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>)
+ <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
+ <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
+ <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
+ <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
+ <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
+ <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
+ <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
+ <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
+ <p>httpd:
+ <ul>
+ <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
+ <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
+ <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
+ <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
+ <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
+ <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
+ <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
+ <li>add support for Status: CGI header
+ <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
+ <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>udhcp[cd]:
+ <ul>
+ <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
+ <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
+ <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB))
+ <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
+ <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
+ <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
+ <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
+ <ul>
+ <li>simpler loadavg processing
+ <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
+ <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
+ <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
+ <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
+ <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
+ <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
+ <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
+ <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
+ generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
+ scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
+
+ <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
+Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
+ 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
+ 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
+
+Same .config built against static uclibc:
+ 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
+
+ <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
+ test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
+ runit/*, in libbb.
+
+ <p>New applets:
+ <ul>
+ <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
+ <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
+ <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>)
+ <li>slattach, ttysize
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
+ by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
+ qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
+ for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
+
+ <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
+ <ul>
+ <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
+ <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
+ <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
+ <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
+ <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
+ <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
+ <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
+ <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
+ <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
+ <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
+ <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
+ <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
+ <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
+ <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
+ <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
+ <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
+ <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
+ <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>)
+ <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
+ <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
+ <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
+ <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
+ <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
+ <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
+ <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
+ <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255
+ <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
+ <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
+ <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
+ <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>)
+ <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
+ <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
+ <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
+ <li>login: optional support for PAM
+ <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
+ <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
+ <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
+ <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
+ <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
+ <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>)
+ <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
+ <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
+ <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
+ <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
+ <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
+ <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
+ <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>)
+ <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
+ <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>)
+ <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
+ <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
+ <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
+ <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
+ <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>
+ <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
+ <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
+ <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
+ <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
+ <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
+ <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
+ <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
+ <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com>
+ <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
+ <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
+ <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
+ <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
+ label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
+ <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
+ but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
+ report any such cases.</p>
+ <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
+ and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p>
+ <p>Other changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
+<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
+<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
+<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
+<li>SELinux: load_policy applet
+<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>)
+<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
+<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
+<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
+<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
+<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
+<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
+<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
+<li>awk: guard against empty environment
+<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
+<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
+<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
+<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>)
+<li>cttyhack: new applet
+<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>)
+<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
+<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
+<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>)
+<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
+<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
+<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
+<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
+<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
+<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
+<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
+<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
+<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
+<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
+<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
+<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
+<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>)
+<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>)
+<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
+<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
+<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>
+<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>)
+<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
+<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
+<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
+<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
+<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
+<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
+<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
+<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
+<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
+<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
+<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
+<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
+<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements.
+<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
+<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
+<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
+<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
+<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
+<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
+<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
+<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
+<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
+<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
+<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
+<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
+<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
+<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
+<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
+<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
+<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1
+<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
+<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
+<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
+<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
+<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
+<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
+<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
+<li>run_parts: rewrite
+<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu>
+<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
+<li>split: new applet
+<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
+<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>)
+<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
+<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
+<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
+<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
+<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
+<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
+<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
+<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
+<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
+<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
+ and sed.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>,
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
+ label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
+ <p>Notable changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
+ <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
+ <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
+ <li>less: regex search improved
+ <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
+ <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
+ <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
+ <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
+ <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
+ <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
+ <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
+ <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
+ <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
+ not only in /cgi-bin/
+ <li>chrt: new applet
+ <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
+ new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
+ <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
+ improper usage of string constants.
+ <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
+ targets.
+ <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
+ sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
+ <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
+ udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
+ <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
+ syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
+ than usual.</p>
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
+ the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
+ it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
+ ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
+ <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
+ (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
+ don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
+ anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
+ as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
+ for general use now.
+ <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
+ upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
+ already much better than what we had previously.
+ <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
+ <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
+ of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
+ <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
+ <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
+ <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
+ <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
+ <li>chown: user.grp works again.
+ <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
+ ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
+ (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
+ needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
+ and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
+ bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
+ busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
+ adventurous desktop users.
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>find: taking many more of standard options
+ <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
+ <li>cp: added -s, -l
+ <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
+ <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
+ incompatible)
+ <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
+ on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
+ (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
+ Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
+ <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
+ directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
+ <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
+ other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
+ <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
+ (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
+ <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
+ fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
+ </ul>
+ <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
+ 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
+ <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
+ produces buggy executables.
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p>It's a bit overdue, but
+ <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
+ BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
+ branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
+ generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
+ umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
+ name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
+ delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
+ in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
+ fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
+ fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
+ modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
+ foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
+ terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
+ ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
+ gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
+ fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
+
+ <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
+ this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
+ Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
+ <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
+ the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</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>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b>
<p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
you can now
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