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+ <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@yahoo.com>)
+ <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
+ <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi@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
+ <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_pidpile_creation" bug
+ <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats@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
+ stripts (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@tiscali.it>)
+ <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam@hitachisoft.jp>)
+ <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@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@tiscali.it>)
+ <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@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@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@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@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@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@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@freebox.fr> (Freebox))
+ <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon@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@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@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)
+ <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme@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@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@styx.cabel.net>>)
+ <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
+ <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi@yahoo.co.in>)
+ <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam@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@gmail.com>)
+ <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex@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@google.com>
+ <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@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>,
projects / oweals / busybox.git / commitdiff