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7 <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b>
8 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>.
9 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
10 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>,
11 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
12 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>.
13 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
14 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>,
15 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
16 <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
17 text data bss dec hex filename
18 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
19 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0
22 <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova),
23 fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer)
25 <p>Changes since previous release:
27 <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li>
28 <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li>
29 <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li>
30 <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li>
31 <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li>
32 <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li>
33 <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li>
34 <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li>
35 <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li>
36 <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li>
37 <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li>
38 <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li>
39 <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li>
40 <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li>
41 <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li>
42 <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li>
43 <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li>
44 <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li>
45 <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li>
46 <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li>
47 <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li>
48 <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li>
49 <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li>
52 The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
53 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
57 <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b>
58 <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support
59 for the BusyBox project:
62 <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html">
63 TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li>
64 <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided
65 a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start">
66 Blackfin development board</a> free of charge.
67 <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a>
68 is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable.
69 If you are an embedded device developer,
70 please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available
71 for download for this board. Visit
72 <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a>
78 <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b>
79 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>.
80 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
81 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>,
82 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
84 Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush,
89 <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b>
90 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>.
91 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
92 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>,
93 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
95 Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof,
96 start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system.
97 <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please
98 report if you encounter any problems with it.
102 <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b>
103 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>.
104 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
105 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>,
106 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
108 Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
109 fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.
112 <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b>
113 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>.
114 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
115 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>,
116 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
118 <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
119 text data bss dec hex filename
120 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
121 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0
123 <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
124 busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0:
125 echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112
126 bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096
127 discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096
128 discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
129 echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
130 discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152
131 find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952
132 readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492
133 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464
134 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308
137 <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>),
138 findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>),
139 lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>),
140 sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd.
142 <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.
144 <p>Changes since previous release:
147 <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li>
148 <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li>
149 <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li>
150 <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li>
151 <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li>
152 <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li>
153 <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li>
154 <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li>
155 <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li>
156 <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li>
157 <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li>
158 <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li>
159 <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li>
160 <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li>
161 <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li>
162 <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li>
163 <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li>
164 <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li>
165 <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li>
166 <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li>
167 <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li>
168 <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li>
169 <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li>
170 <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li>
171 <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li>
172 <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li>
173 <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li>
174 <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li>
175 <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li>
176 <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li>
177 <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li>
178 <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li>
179 <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li>
180 <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li>
181 <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li>
182 <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li>
183 <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li>
184 <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li>
185 <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li>
186 <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li>
187 <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li>
188 <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li>
189 <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li>
190 <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li>
191 <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li>
192 <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li>
193 <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li>
194 <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>
195 <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>
196 <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li>
197 <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li>
198 <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li>
199 <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li>
200 <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li>
201 <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li>
202 <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li>
203 <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li>
204 <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li>
205 <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li>
206 <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li>
207 <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li>
208 <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li>
209 <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li>
210 <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li>
211 <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li>
212 <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li>
213 <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li>
214 <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li>
215 <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li>
216 <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li>
217 <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li>
218 <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li>
219 <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li>
220 <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li>
221 <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li>
222 <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li>
223 <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li>
224 <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li>
225 <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li>
226 <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li>
227 <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li>
228 <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li>
229 <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li>
230 <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li>
231 <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li>
232 <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li>
233 <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li>
234 <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li>
235 <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li>
236 <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li>
237 <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li>
238 <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li>
239 <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li>
240 <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li>
241 <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li>
242 <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li>
243 <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li>
244 <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li>
245 <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li>
246 <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li>
247 <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li>
248 <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li>
249 <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li>
250 <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li>
251 <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li>
252 <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li>
253 <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li>
254 <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li>
255 <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li>
256 <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li>
257 <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li>
258 <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li>
259 <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li>
260 <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li>
261 <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li>
262 <li>vi: many fixes</li>
263 <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li>
264 <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li>
268 <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b>
270 Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
271 for future hot patches are in parentheses.
273 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a>
274 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>),
275 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a>
276 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>),
277 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a>
278 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>),
279 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a>
280 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>).
282 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a>
286 <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b>
287 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>.
288 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>,
289 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/">patches</a>,
290 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
292 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck,
293 iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p>
294 <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is
295 inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork).
296 The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p>
299 <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b>
300 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.0</a>.
301 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>,
302 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/">patches</a>,
303 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
305 <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
306 text data bss dec hex filename
307 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2
308 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0
310 <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
311 busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0:
312 input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116
313 umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112
314 rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096
315 xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096
316 sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096
317 mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096
318 mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096
319 grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
320 unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
321 parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152
324 <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost
325 the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works
326 on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU,
327 though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush.
329 <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes
332 <p>Changes since previous release:
334 <li>Build system improvements
335 <li>Testsuite additions
336 <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions
337 <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both
338 <li>New applets: hd, sestatus
339 <li>Removed applets: lash
340 <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins
341 <li>init: simplify forking of children
342 <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed
343 <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root
344 <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets
345 (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
346 <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for
347 (Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>)
348 <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping)
349 (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>)
350 <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length
351 <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths
352 <li>vi: Del key works
353 <li>sed: support GNUism '\t'
354 <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying
355 <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy
356 <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd
357 <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too
358 <li>netstat: wide output mode
359 <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth <masta at perlgolf.de>)
360 <li>test: become NOFORK applet
361 <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>)
362 <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
363 <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>)
367 <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
368 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
369 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
370 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/">patches</a>,
371 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
372 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
373 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
374 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/">patches</a>,
375 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
377 <p>These are bugfix-only releases.
378 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
379 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
382 <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
383 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
384 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
385 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/">patches</a>,
386 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
388 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
391 <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
392 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
393 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>,
394 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/">patches</a>,
395 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
397 <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.
399 <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
402 <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
403 <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
404 <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
405 <li>optional support for partial downloads
406 <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
407 <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
408 <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
413 <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
414 <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
415 <li>fix for command line wrapping
418 <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).
420 <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
421 Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
422 text data bss dec hex filename
423 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
424 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>
428 <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>
429 <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
430 <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
431 <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>
432 <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
435 <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
437 <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
438 <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
439 <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
440 <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
441 <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
442 <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
443 <li>wget: allow dots in header field names
444 <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
445 <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
446 <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
447 <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
449 <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
450 <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
451 <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
452 <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
453 <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
454 <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
455 <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
456 <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
457 <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
458 <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
459 <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
460 <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
461 <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
462 <li>less: make 'f' key page forward
463 <li>libiproute: add missing break statements
464 <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
465 <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
466 <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
467 <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>)
468 <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
469 <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
470 <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
471 <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
472 <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
473 <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>)
474 <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
475 <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com>
476 <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
477 <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
478 <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
479 <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
480 <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
481 <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
482 <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
483 <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
484 <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
485 <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
486 <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>)
487 <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
488 <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
489 <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
490 <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
491 <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
492 <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
493 <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
494 <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
498 <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
499 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
500 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
501 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/">patches</a>,
502 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
504 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
507 <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
508 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
509 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
510 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/">patches</a>,
511 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
513 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
516 <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
517 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
518 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
519 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/">patches</a>,
520 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
522 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
525 <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
526 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
527 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>,
528 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/">patches</a>,
529 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
531 <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
534 <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
535 <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
536 <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
537 <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
538 <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
539 <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
540 <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
541 <li>add support for Status: CGI header
542 <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
543 <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
548 <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
549 <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
550 <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB))
551 <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
552 <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
553 <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
554 <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
557 <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
559 <li>simpler loadavg processing
560 <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
561 <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
562 <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
563 <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)
564 <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
565 <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
566 <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
567 <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
570 <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
571 generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
572 scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
574 <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
575 Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
576 text data bss dec hex filename
577 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
578 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
579 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
581 Same .config built against static uclibc:
582 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
584 <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
585 test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
590 <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
591 <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
592 <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>)
593 <li>slattach, ttysize
596 <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
597 by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
598 qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
599 for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
601 <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
603 <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
604 <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
605 <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
606 <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
607 <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
608 <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
609 <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
610 <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
611 <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
612 <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
613 <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
614 <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
615 <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
616 <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
617 <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
618 <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
619 <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
620 <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>)
621 <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
622 <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
623 <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
624 <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
625 <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
626 <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
627 <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
628 <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255
629 <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
630 <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
631 <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
632 <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>)
633 <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
634 <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
635 <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
636 <li>login: optional support for PAM
637 <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
638 <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
639 <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
640 <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
641 <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
642 <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>)
643 <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
644 <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
645 <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
646 <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
647 <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
648 <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
649 <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>)
650 <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
651 <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>)
652 <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
653 <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
654 <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
655 <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
656 <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>
657 <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
658 <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
659 <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
660 <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
661 <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
662 <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
663 <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
664 <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com>
665 <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
666 <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
667 <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
668 <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
672 <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
673 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
674 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>,
675 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/">patches</a>,
676 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
678 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
681 <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
682 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
683 (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>,
684 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/">patches</a>,
685 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
687 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
688 label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
689 <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
690 but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
691 report any such cases.</p>
692 <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
693 and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
694 <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>
695 <p>Other changes since previous release:
697 <li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
698 <li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
699 <li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
700 <li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
701 <li>SELinux: load_policy applet
702 <li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>)
703 <li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
704 <li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
705 <li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
706 <li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
707 <li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
708 <li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
709 <li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
710 <li>awk: guard against empty environment
711 <li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
712 <li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
713 <li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
714 <li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>)
715 <li>cttyhack: new applet
716 <li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>)
717 <li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
718 <li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
719 <li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>)
720 <li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
721 <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>)
722 <li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
723 <li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
724 <li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
725 <li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
726 <li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
727 <li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
728 <li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
729 <li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
730 <li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
731 <li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
732 <li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>)
733 <li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>)
734 <li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
735 <li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
736 <li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>
737 <li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>)
738 <li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
739 <li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
740 <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>
741 <li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
742 <li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
743 <li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
744 <li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
745 <li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
746 <li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
747 <li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
748 <li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
749 <li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
750 <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.
751 <li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
752 <li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
753 <li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
754 <li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
755 <li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
756 <li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
757 <li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
758 <li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
759 <li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
760 <li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
761 <li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
762 <li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
763 <li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
764 <li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
765 <li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
766 <li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
767 <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
768 <li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
769 <li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
770 <li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
771 <li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
772 <li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
773 <li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
774 <li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
775 <li>run_parts: rewrite
776 <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>
777 <li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
778 <li>split: new applet
779 <li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
780 <li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>)
781 <li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
782 <li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
783 <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/
784 <li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
785 <li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
786 <li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
787 <li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
788 <li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
789 <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
790 <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
794 <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
795 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
796 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/">patches</a>,
797 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
799 <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
803 <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
804 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
805 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/">patches</a>,
806 <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
808 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
809 label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
810 <p>Notable changes since previous release:
812 <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
813 <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
814 <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
815 <li>less: regex search improved
816 <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
817 <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
818 <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
819 <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
820 <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
821 <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
822 <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
823 <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
824 <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
825 not only in /cgi-bin/
827 <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
828 new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
829 <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
830 improper usage of string constants.
831 <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
833 <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
834 sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
835 <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
836 udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
837 <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
838 syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
842 <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
843 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
846 <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
850 <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
851 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
852 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/">patches</a>)</p>
854 <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
858 <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
859 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
860 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/">patches</a>)</p>
862 <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
864 <p>Changes since previous release:
866 <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
867 the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
868 it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
869 ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
870 <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
871 (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
872 don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
873 anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
874 as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
876 <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
877 upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
878 already much better than what we had previously.
879 <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
880 <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
881 of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
882 <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
883 <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
884 <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
885 <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
886 <li>chown: user.grp works again.
887 <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
888 ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
892 <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
893 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
895 <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
899 <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
900 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
901 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/">patches</a>)</p>
903 <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
907 <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
908 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
909 (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/">patches</a>)</p>
911 <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
912 needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
913 and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
914 bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
915 busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
916 adventurous desktop users.
917 <p>Changes since previous release:
919 <li>find: taking many more of standard options
920 <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
922 <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
923 <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
925 <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
926 on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
927 (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
928 Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
929 <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
930 directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
931 <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
932 other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
933 <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
934 (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
935 <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
936 fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
938 <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
939 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
943 <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
944 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
946 <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
947 produces buggy executables.
950 <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
951 <p>It's a bit overdue, but
952 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2">here is
953 BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
955 <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
956 branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
957 generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
958 umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
959 name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
960 delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
961 in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
962 fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
963 fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
964 modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
965 foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
966 terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
967 ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
968 gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
969 fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
971 <p>As <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/">Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
972 this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
973 Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href="http://landley.net/code">other things</a>.
977 <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
978 <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
979 the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
981 <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
982 <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
983 might as well point you all at
984 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
985 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
987 <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
988 saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
989 one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
990 embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
991 (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
992 libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
993 tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
994 in a pear... Ahem.</p>
996 <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
997 gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
998 the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
999 value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
1000 a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
1001 switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
1002 than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
1003 /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
1004 in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
1006 <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
1007 <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
1008 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
1009 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
1010 over the weekend.</p>
1012 <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
1013 cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
1014 try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
1015 we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
1017 <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>
1019 <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
1020 <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
1021 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
1022 memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
1023 mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
1024 background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
1025 timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
1026 segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
1028 <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
1030 <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
1031 <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
1032 backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
1033 for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
1034 find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
1037 <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
1038 will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
1039 to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
1040 bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
1042 <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
1043 <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
1044 maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
1045 uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
1046 by Erik's father's law firm, and the
1047 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
1048 scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
1049 together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
1050 <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
1051 referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
1053 <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
1054 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
1055 has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
1056 free and open source software projects (such as
1057 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
1058 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
1059 <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
1060 in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
1061 phrase you get to use every day.</p>
1063 <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
1064 <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>
1065 <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
1066 the various small fixes have been collected together into a
1067 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
1068 and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
1071 <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
1072 <p>The new stable release is
1073 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
1074 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
1075 (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
1076 but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
1077 that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
1079 <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b>
1080 <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
1082 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>,
1083 the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of
1084 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new
1085 functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
1086 several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
1087 <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards
1088 compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
1089 still working out the <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p>
1091 <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b>
1093 <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox
1094 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
1095 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small
1096 fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p>
1098 <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p>
1100 Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
1101 developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
1102 in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
1103 name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
1104 from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the
1105 <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a>
1106 to post all the gory details.
1110 The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
1111 is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
1112 to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
1113 properly considered.
1117 <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p>
1119 When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or
1120 software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox.
1121 With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and
1122 who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices
1123 is looking very bright.
1127 It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every
1128 device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date.
1129 The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!
1133 Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous
1134 improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux
1135 KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel),
1136 Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development
1137 work and testing of thousands of people from around the world.
1141 If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
1142 BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device
1143 or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is
1144 right for your application. If you need help getting started using
1145 BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug
1146 and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a
1147 href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>.
1151 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1156 <li><b>Old News</b><p>
1157 <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
1160 <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p>
1162 Here goes release candidate 3...
1164 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
1165 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1170 <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p>
1172 Here goes release candidate 2...
1174 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
1175 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1180 <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p>
1182 Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems
1183 that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of
1184 kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better.
1187 I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real
1188 reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as
1189 is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for
1190 everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting,
1191 it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well.
1192 There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with
1193 it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while
1194 there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work
1195 is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door....
1198 Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this
1199 time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a
1200 bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you
1201 explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch
1202 has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your
1203 bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]"
1204 at the beginning of the email subject line!
1207 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
1208 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1213 On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away
1214 yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about
1215 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I
1216 could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a
1217 href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation
1220 As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come
1221 to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS
1227 <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p>
1229 Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox
1230 pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b>
1231 want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not
1232 bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only
1233 bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if
1234 people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit
1238 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
1239 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1246 <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p>
1248 Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for
1249 bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this
1250 week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at
1251 this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be
1252 <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation
1253 and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the
1254 documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some
1255 assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets
1256 match the features listed in the documentation.
1259 I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but
1260 <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796">
1261 another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy...
1264 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
1265 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1272 <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p>
1274 Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send
1275 in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will
1276 be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see
1277 supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit,
1278 please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release
1279 out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre
1280 series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you
1281 spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the
1282 busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could
1283 help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be
1284 especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the
1285 various applets match the features listed in the documentation.
1289 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
1290 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1296 <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p>
1298 There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
1299 number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out
1300 properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one
1301 problem. In addition, this release fixes several other
1302 problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing
1303 the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates
1304 from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
1305 aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to
1306 the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have
1307 suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the
1308 busybox mailing list.
1312 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1313 the details. And as usual you can
1314 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1321 <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p>
1323 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
1324 series. This release adds a number of size optimizations,
1325 updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash
1326 and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of
1327 bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be
1328 settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing
1329 perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and
1330 move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any
1331 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please
1332 feel free to email the busybox mailing list.
1336 People who rely on the <a href="downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a>
1337 should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x
1338 series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now
1339 only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use
1340 the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please
1341 adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.
1345 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1346 the details. And as usual you can
1347 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1354 <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p>
1356 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
1357 series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
1358 a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
1359 properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This
1360 release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
1361 fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
1362 the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
1363 modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
1364 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
1365 a few other odd fixes.
1369 If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
1370 always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
1375 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1376 the details. And as usual you can
1377 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1384 <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
1386 Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
1387 series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
1388 rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
1389 devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
1390 the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
1391 common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
1392 of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
1393 testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
1394 thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
1395 helping get patches merged!
1399 And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
1400 the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
1401 things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
1402 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
1403 free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
1407 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1408 the details. And as usual you can
1409 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1416 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
1418 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
1419 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
1420 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
1421 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
1422 the testing, bug reports, and patches!
1426 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
1427 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
1428 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
1429 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
1430 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
1435 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
1436 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
1437 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
1438 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
1439 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
1440 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
1441 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
1442 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
1443 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
1444 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
1445 module loading alone.
1449 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
1450 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
1451 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
1452 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
1453 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
1454 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
1455 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
1456 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
1457 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
1462 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1463 the details. And as usual you can
1464 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1470 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
1472 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
1473 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
1474 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
1475 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
1479 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
1480 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
1481 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
1482 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
1483 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
1484 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
1485 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
1486 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
1489 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
1490 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
1491 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
1492 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
1493 BusyBox mailing list.
1496 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
1497 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
1498 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
1499 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
1500 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
1501 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
1502 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
1503 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
1507 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1508 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1514 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
1516 The busybox development series has been under construction for
1517 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
1518 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
1519 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
1520 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
1521 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
1525 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
1526 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
1527 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
1528 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
1529 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
1530 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
1531 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
1535 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
1536 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
1537 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
1538 happens sometimes. Please do <b>NOT</b> send all your patches,
1539 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
1540 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
1541 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
1542 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
1545 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
1546 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
1547 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
1548 have made this release possible.
1551 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1552 You don't really need to bother with the
1553 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
1554 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
1555 But you can take a look if you really want too.
1563 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
1565 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
1566 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
1567 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
1568 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
1569 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
1570 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
1571 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
1572 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
1573 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
1574 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
1575 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
1576 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
1577 version to have its first real release very very soon now...
1580 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
1581 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1586 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
1588 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
1589 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
1590 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
1591 the problems that have turned up since the last
1592 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
1593 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
1594 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
1595 should soon be getting its first real release.
1598 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
1599 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1605 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
1607 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
1608 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
1609 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
1610 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
1611 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
1612 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
1613 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
1616 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1617 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
1623 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
1625 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
1626 the fine folks at <a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
1627 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
1628 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
1629 <a href="http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
1631 <a href="http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
1632 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
1633 accessible for everyone!
1637 <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
1639 <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
1640 users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
1641 (which is where you are probably reading this).
1642 Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
1643 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
1644 line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
1645 busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
1646 the access needed to keep that system updated (for
1647 example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
1648 stopped some time ago).</p>
1650 <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
1651 server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
1652 the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
1653 I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
1654 co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
1655 co-location effort, <a href=
1656 "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
1657 (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
1659 "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
1660 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
1661 system is co-located, the current speed problems
1662 should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
1663 some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
1664 sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
1668 Click here to help support busybox.net!
1669 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
1670 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
1671 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
1672 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
1673 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
1674 <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
1675 <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
1679 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
1680 donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
1681 rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
1682 spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
1683 upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
1684 has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
1685 google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
1686 not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
1687 ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
1688 far, donations received have been sufficient to
1689 cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
1690 have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
1691 we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
1692 everyone that has contributed!<br>
1697 <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
1699 <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
1700 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
1701 one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
1702 series, and it should take care of most everyone's
1703 needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
1704 been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
1705 wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
1706 this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
1707 (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
1708 Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
1709 told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
1711 <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
1712 powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
1713 should work with just about any Linux system you
1714 throw it at. See the <a href=
1715 "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
1716 of</small> the details. The last release was
1717 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
1720 <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
1722 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
1728 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
1730 <!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
1732 Click here to help buy busybox.net!
1733 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
1734 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
1735 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
1736 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
1737 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
1738 <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
1739 <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
1742 <!-- End PayPal Logo -->
1744 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
1745 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
1746 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
1747 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
1748 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
1749 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
1750 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
1751 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
1752 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
1753 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
1754 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
1755 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
1756 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
1757 will start costing some money.
1760 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
1761 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
1762 where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
1763 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
1764 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
1765 mailing list and web page. So...
1768 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
1769 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
1770 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
1771 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
1772 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
1777 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
1780 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
1781 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
1782 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
1783 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
1784 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
1785 here it is. Come and get it.
1788 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1789 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
1790 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
1795 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
1797 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
1798 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
1799 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
1800 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
1801 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
1802 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
1803 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
1804 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
1805 cleans up a number of things.
1809 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
1810 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
1811 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
1812 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
1813 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
1814 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
1816 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
1817 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
1818 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
1819 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
1820 to view the tutorial.
1823 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
1824 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
1825 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
1826 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
1827 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
1828 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
1829 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
1830 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
1831 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
1832 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
1833 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
1834 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
1835 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
1836 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
1837 I will release that as a new stable release series.
1841 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
1842 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
1843 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
1848 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
1851 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
1852 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
1853 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
1854 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
1855 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
1860 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
1861 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
1862 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
1863 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
1864 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
1869 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
1871 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
1872 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
1873 viewing <a href="busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
1875 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
1876 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
1877 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
1881 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
1884 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
1885 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
1886 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
1887 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
1888 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
1889 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
1890 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
1891 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
1894 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
1895 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
1896 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
1897 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
1898 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
1899 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
1900 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
1901 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
1902 for letting me use their system!).
1905 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
1906 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
1907 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
1911 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
1913 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
1914 "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
1915 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
1919 <li> <a href="downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
1920 Download the image</a>
1922 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
1923 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
1925 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
1929 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
1932 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
1933 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
1935 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
1936 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
1940 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
1943 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
1944 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
1945 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
1946 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
1947 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
1948 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
1950 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
1951 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
1952 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
1953 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
1954 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
1955 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
1956 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
1957 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
1958 currently in progress at
1959 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
1963 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
1966 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
1967 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
1968 For a list of the most interesting changes
1969 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
1971 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
1972 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
1975 <em>Special Note</em><br>
1977 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
1978 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
1979 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
1980 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
1981 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
1982 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
1983 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
1984 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
1988 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
1991 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
1992 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
1993 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
1994 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
1995 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
1996 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
1997 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
1998 woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
2000 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
2001 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
2003 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
2004 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
2006 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
2009 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
2010 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
2011 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
2012 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
2013 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
2014 more correct option parsing.
2015 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
2016 for complete details.
2019 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
2022 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
2023 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
2024 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
2025 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
2026 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
2027 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
2028 for complete details.
2031 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
2034 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
2035 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
2036 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
2037 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
2038 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
2039 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
2042 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
2043 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
2044 publically browsable
2045 <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
2047 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
2048 for those that are actively contributing there is even
2049 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
2050 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
2052 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
2053 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
2054 we are just skipping 0.44.
2056 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
2057 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
2060 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
2062 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
2063 For example, with the following test app:
2065 #include <syslog.h>
2067 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
2069 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
2071 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
2085 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
2086 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
2087 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
2089 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
2093 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
2095 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
2096 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
2097 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
2098 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
2099 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
2100 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
2101 More details are available in the
2102 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
2103 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
2104 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
2107 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
2108 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
2109 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
2110 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
2111 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
2114 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
2116 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
2118 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
2119 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
2120 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
2121 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
2122 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
2123 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
2124 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
2125 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
2126 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
2127 changes I still want to make.
2129 The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
2130 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
2132 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
2134 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
2135 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
2136 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
2137 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
2138 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
2139 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
2140 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
2141 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
2142 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
2145 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
2146 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
2148 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
2149 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
2150 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
2151 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
2152 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
2153 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
2157 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
2160 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
2161 bugs have been fixed. See the
2162 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
2164 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
2165 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
2166 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
2167 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
2168 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
2169 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
2170 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
2172 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
2175 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
2176 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
2177 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
2178 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
2179 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
2181 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
2184 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
2185 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
2186 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
2187 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
2188 in some cases produced serious security problems.
2189 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
2191 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
2193 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
2194 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
2195 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
2196 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
2197 what arguments its apps support, etc.
2199 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
2201 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
2202 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
2203 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
2204 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
2206 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
2207 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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