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| <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> |
| <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support |
| for BusyBox project: |
| <ul> |
| <li>AOE media, a <a href=http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html> |
| TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially. |
| <p> |
| <li><a href=http://www.analog.com/en/>Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided |
| a <a href=http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start> |
| Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. |
| <a href=http://www.analog.com/blackfin>Blackfin<a> |
| is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. |
| If you are an embedded device developer, |
| please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available |
| for download for this board. Visit |
| <a href=http://blackfin.uclinux.org/>http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> |
| for more information. |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| |
| <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, |
| ip, mdev and syslogd. |
| <p> |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt> |
| How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc</a> |
| <p> |
| The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact |
| the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. |
| </p> |
| |
| <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof, |
| start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system. |
| <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please |
| report if you encounter any problems with it. |
| </p> |
| |
| <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| <p> |
| Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for |
| fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. |
| |
| <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/>patches</a>, |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| text data bss dec hex filename |
| 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 |
| 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 |
| </pre> |
| <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> |
| busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: |
| echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 |
| bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 |
| discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 |
| discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 |
| echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 |
| discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 |
| find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 |
| readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 |
| ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 |
| iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 |
| </pre> |
| |
| <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), |
| findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), |
| lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), |
| sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. |
| |
| <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. |
| |
| <p>Changes since previous release: |
| <ul> |
| <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter |
| <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations |
| <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>) |
| <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134 |
| <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947 |
| <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142 |
| <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case |
| <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host |
| <li>build system: make it do without "od -t" |
| <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376 |
| <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU |
| <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470 |
| <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite |
| <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets |
| <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed |
| <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth) |
| <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels |
| <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>) |
| <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/ |
| <li>fuser: substantial rewrite |
| <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> |
| <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>) |
| <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled |
| <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530 |
| <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked |
| <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/" |
| <li>httpd: fix for POST upload |
| <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>) |
| <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure |
| <li>hush: more correct handling of piping |
| <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU |
| <li>hush: report [v]fork failures |
| <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed |
| <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness |
| <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work |
| <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable |
| <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>) |
| <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n" |
| <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing |
| <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words |
| <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de) |
| <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var) |
| <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error |
| <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1) |
| <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now |
| <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars |
| <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption |
| <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages |
| <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern! |
| <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too |
| <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets |
| <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error |
| <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it> |
| <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now! |
| <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended |
| <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible |
| <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t |
| <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>) |
| <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected |
| <li>mount: add another mount helper call method |
| <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option |
| <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) |
| <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity |
| <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command |
| <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835) |
| <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root |
| <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143 |
| <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make |
| <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one) |
| <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin |
| <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing |
| <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time) |
| <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed |
| <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway |
| <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters |
| <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc |
| <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt] |
| <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com> |
| <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly |
| <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file |
| <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time |
| <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns |
| <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414 |
| <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com> |
| <li>run-parts: add --reverse |
| <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output |
| <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214 |
| <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591 |
| <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>) |
| <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425 |
| <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls |
| <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead |
| <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check |
| <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436 |
| <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574 |
| <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling |
| <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages) |
| <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end |
| <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992 |
| <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> |
| <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket |
| <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell" |
| <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args" |
| <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected |
| <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable |
| <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports |
| <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE |
| <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>) |
| <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>) |
| <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint |
| <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro |
| <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604 |
| <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com> |
| <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge) |
| <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly |
| <li>vi: many fixes |
| <li>zcip: don't chdir to root |
| <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket) |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| |
| <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. |
| <p> |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2>1.9.2</a> |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/>patches</a>), |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2>1.8.3</a> |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/>patches</a>), |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2>1.7.5</a> |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/>patches</a>), |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2>1.5.2</a> |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/>patches</a>). |
| <p> |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>How to add a patch.</a> |
| <p> |
| <a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a> |
| <p> |
| The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact |
| the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. |
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