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- <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
- <p>httpd:
- <ul>
- <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
- <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
- <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
- <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
- <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
- <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>)
- <li>add support for Status: CGI header
- <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
- <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
- </ul>
-
- <p>udhcp[cd]:
- <ul>
- <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
- <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
- <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB))
- <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
- <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
- <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
- <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
- </ul>
- <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
+ <li>
+ <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project:
<ul>
- <li>simpler loadavg processing
- <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
- <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
- <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
- <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
- <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
- <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
- <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
- <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
+ <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html">
+ TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided
+ a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start">
+ Blackfin development board</a> free of charge.
+ <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a>
+ is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable.
+ If you are an embedded device developer,
+ please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available
+ for download for this board. Visit
+ <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a>
+ for more information.
+ </li>
</ul>
+ </p>
+ </li>
- <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
- generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
- scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).
-
- <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
-Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
+ <li><b>15 April 2009 -- BusyBox 1.14.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.13.4 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.14.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.14.0</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_14_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.14.0/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.4</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.4/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Sizes of busybox-1.13.4 and busybox-1.14.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
text data bss dec hex filename
- 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
- 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
- 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld
-
-Same .config built against static uclibc:
- 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>
-
- <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
- test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
- runit/*, in libbb.
+ 785501 483 7036 793020 c19bc busybox.1.13.4/busybox
+ 788380 467 6960 795807 c249f busybox.1.14.0/busybox
+ 15361 0 0 15361 3c01 busybox.1.13.4/shell/hush.o
+ 20724 0 0 20724 50f4 busybox.1.14.0/shell/hush.o
+</pre>
+ <p>Most of growth is in hush. The rest shrank a bit.
<p>New applets:
<ul>
- <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
- <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>)
- <li>slattach, ttysize
+ <li>flash_eraseall: by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (bigeasy AT linutronix.de)</li>
+ <li>acpid,mkdosfs (aka mkfs.vfat),tunctl: by Vladimir</li>
+ <li>ftpd: by Adam Tkac</li>
+ <li>timeout: by Roberto Foglietta</li>
+ <li>ionice: adapted from Linux kernel' example by Walter Harms</li>
+ <li>mkpasswd: synonym to cryptpw. mkpasswd is in Debian, OTOH cryptpw was added to busybox earlier. Trying to make both camps happy by making those two applets just aliases. They are command-line compatible</li>
</ul>
- <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
- by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
- qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
- for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
- <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
+ <p>lash and msh are deprecated, please migrate to hush.
+
+ <p>hush had many, many fixes and features added: here documents, arithmetic evaluation, function support, and all this works on NOMMU too, safely: 100kb-sized `command` and heredocs. Here document support, arithmetic evaluation, improved ${var} ops, other fixes are by Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org).
+
+ <p>Other changes:
<ul>
- <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
- <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
- <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
- <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
- <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
- <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
- <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
- <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
- <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
- <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
- <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
- <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
- <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
- <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
- <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
- <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
- <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>)
- <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
- <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
- <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
- <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
- <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
- <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox))
- <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
- <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255
- <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
- <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
- <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
- <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>)
- <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
- <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
- <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
- <li>login: optional support for PAM
- <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
- <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
- <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
- <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
- <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
- <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN)
- <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
- <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
- <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
- <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
- <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
- <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>)
- <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
- <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>)
- <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>)
- <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
- <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
- <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>)
- <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>
- <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
- <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
- <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
- <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
- <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
- <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
- <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
- <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com>
- <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
- <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
- <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
- <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
+ <li>libbb: unify concurrent-safe update of /etc/{passwd,group,[g]shadow}. By Tito (farmatito AT tiscali.it)</li>
+ <li>libbb/sha1/256/512: major code shrink</li>
+ <li>libbb/lineedit: make history saving/loading concurrent-safe</li>
+ <li>libbb: shrink linked list ops. By xmaks AT email.cz</li>
+ <li>libbb: str2sockaddr shuld accept [IPv6] addr without port - wget 'ftp://[::1]/file' needs that to work</li>
+ <li>libbb: make bb_info_msg do atomic, unbuffered writes</li>
+ <li>adduser: allow adding to group 0; don't _create_ /etc/shadow, only append data if it exists</li>
+ <li>ash: fix mishandled ^C</li>
+ <li>ash: fix "ash -c 'exec 1>&0'" complaining that fd 0 is busy</li>
+ <li>ash: fix $IFS handling in read. Closes bug 235</li>
+ <li>ash: fix a case where we close wrong descriptor</li>
+ <li>ash: fix bad interaction between ash -c '....&' and bash compat</li>
+ <li>ash: fix miscalculation of memory needed for eval tree. Found by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)</li>
+ <li>ash: in dotrap(), do not clear gotsig[] for SIGINT if there is no handler for it, otherwise raise interrupt gets confused later</li>
+ <li>ash: make dot command search current directory first, as bash does</li>
+ <li>ash: make evaltree save/restore int suppression depth. Hopefully this fixes bug 189</li>
+ <li>ash: printf builtin with no arguments should not exit</li>
+ <li>awk: fix long field separators case. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)</li>
+ <li>awk: in BEGIN section $0 should be "", not "0"</li>
+ <li>awk: make "struct global" hack more robust wrt alignment. Closes bug 131</li>
+ <li>brctl: fix compilation on 2.4.x kernels</li>
+ <li>chat: treat timeout more correctly</li>
+ <li>chat: recognize RECORD directive</li>
+ <li>cksum, printenv: report errors via exitcode</li>
+ <li>cpio: add -p, -0 and -L options</li>
+ <li>crond,crontab: make cron directory location configurable</li>
+ <li>crond: correct more of logfile to 0666 (as usual, umask allows user to remove unwanted bits)</li>
+ <li>crond: put tasks in separate process groups</li>
+ <li>dc: fix the "base 2" patch omission of base not being set</li>
+ <li>depmod: accept and ignore -r. Linux kernel build needs this</li>
+ <li>depmod: fix -b option. By timo.teras AT iki.fi</li>
+ <li>udhcpd,dumpleases: write and use 64-bit current time in lease file. without it, determination of remaining lease time is unreliable</li>
+ <li>udhcpd: remember and record hostnames</li>
+ <li>dhcprelay: fix usage text. Simplify and make code more readable</li>
+ <li>dumpleases: fix -a option; show hostnames</li>
+ <li>udhcpc: fix a problem where we don't open listening socket fast enough</li>
+ <li>udhcpc: stop filtering environment passed to the script</li>
+ <li>udhcpd: add code which rejects lease files with suspicious or old timestamp</li>
+ <li>udhcpd: disable opton to have absolute lease times in lease file (that does not work with dumpleases)</li>
+ <li>dnsd: fix a number of bugs. Ideas by Ming-Ching Tiew (mctiew AT yahoo.com)</li>
+ <li>dpkg: better and shorter code to compare versions. Taken from "official" dpkg by Eugene T. Bordenkircher (eugebo AT gmail.com)</li>
+ <li>du: fix "du /dir /dir" case</li>
+ <li>env: support -uVAR=VAL</li>
+ <li>expand: fix incorrect expansion exactly on tab boundary; shrink the code</li>
+ <li>expr: a bit more robust handling of regexps with groups. Closes bug 87</li>
+ <li>find: support --mindepth</li>
+ <li>getty: fix handling of speed 0; stop using non-portable way of setting speeds</li>
+ <li>grep: support -z</li>
+ <li>gzip: fix gzip -dc bug caused by using stale getopt state</li>
+ <li>head: report file open errors with exitcode 1 (was happily returning 0)</li>
+ <li>httpd: set $HOST to Host: header value. By Tobias Poschwatta (tp AT fonz.de)</li>
+ <li>ifupdown: allow options to udhcpc to be configurable from .config</li>
+ <li>init: do not eat last char in messages; do not print duplicate "init:" prefix to syslog</li>
+ <li>init: fix a bug where on reload order of entries might be wrong</li>
+ <li>init: major improvement in documentation and signal handling. Lots of nasty, but hard to trip, races are fixed</li>
+ <li>init: reinstate proper handling of !ENABLE_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB</li>
+ <li>init: remove wait loop on restart, it may be dangerous</li>
+ <li>init: test for vt terminal with VT_OPENQRY, assume that anything else is TERM=vt102, not TERM=linux. Closes bug 195</li>
+ <li>inotifyd: add x, o, and u events</li>
+ <li>inotifyd: fix buffer overflow and "unreaped zombies" problem</li>
+ <li>inotifyd: exit if x event happened for all files</li>
+ <li>inotifyd: conserve resourses by closing unused inotify descriptors</li>
+ <li>insmod/modprobe: do not pass NULL to kernel as module parameter</li>
+ <li>ip: in "ip rule add from all table 1", "all" is taken as 0.0.0.0/32, whereas "any" and "default" would be 0.0.0.0/0. They must be all 0.0.0.0/0. Closes bug 57</li>
+ <li>iproute: fix ipXXX utilities trying to parse their applet name as their 1st parameter</li>
+ <li>klogctl: fix a problem where we don't terminate read data with '\0' and then misinterpret it</li>
+ <li>ls: do not follow links with -s. Closes bug 33</li>
+ <li>ls: implement -Q and -g (-g was accepted but ignored)</li>
+ <li>ls: make readlink error to not disrupt output (try ls -l /proc/self/fd)</li>
+ <li>man: better check for duplicated MANPATH</li>
+ <li>mdev: add support for - ("dont stop here") char</li>
+ <li>mdev: if /sys/class/block exists, don't scan /sys/block</li>
+ <li>mdev: ignore events with "$SUBSYSTEM" == "firmware" && "$ACTION" == "remove"</li>
+ <li>mdev: provide $SUBSYSTEM. By Vladimir</li>
+ <li>modprobe/insmod for 2.4: support compressed modules. By Guenter (lists AT gknw.net)</li>
+ <li>modprobe: emit "can't open 'modules.dep': (errno)" instead of "module not found"</li>
+ <li>modprobe: rework/speedup by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)</li>
+ <li>modutils-24: fix bad interaction of xzalloc with xrealloc_vector</li>
+ <li>mount: support "-O option"</li>
+ <li>mount: stop trying to mount swap partitions</li>
+ <li>mount: fix CIFS support</li>
+ <li>mountpoint: add -n option. By Vladimir</li>
+ <li>nslookup: allow usage of IPv6 addresses or hostnames for DNS server name; allow for port specification. Tested to work: "nslookup google.com [::1]:5353". glibc + IPv6 address of DNS server still does not work</li>
+ <li>popmaildir: fix several grave bugs with using memory past end of malloc block</li>
+ <li>printf: fix 1.12.0 breakage (from %*d fix), it was misinterpreting "*"</li>
+ <li>printf: make integer format strings print long long-sized values</li>
+ <li>rmmod: fix bug 263 "modutils/rmmod can't remove modules with dash in name on 2.4 kernels"</li>
+ <li>sendmail: document and fix usage of fd #4, fix check for helper failure</li>
+ <li>sendmail: update by Vladimir</li>
+ <li>seq: add -w support. By Natanael Copa</li>
+ <li>seq: add support for "-s separator"</li>
+ <li>stat: make stat -f show filesystem "ID:" as coreutils does</li>
+ <li>sysctl: fix another corner case with "dots and slashes"</li>
+ <li>sysctl: fix broken -p [file]. Closes bug 231</li>
+ <li>sysctl: support recursing if name is a directory: "sysctl net.ipv4.conf". Patch by xmaks AT email.cz</li>
+ <li>syslogd: comment out file locking; make signal handling syncronous</li>
+ <li>syslogd: create logfile with 0666 (affected by umask as usual), not 0600</li>
+ <li>tail: fix tail +N syntax not working. Closes bug 221</li>
+ <li>tar: do not change new tarfile's mode, GNU tar doesn't do it</li>
+ <li>tar: support GNU tar's "base256" encoding</li>
+ <li>telnetd: correctly output 0xff char</li>
+ <li>telnetd: do not advertise TELNET_LFLOW, we do not support it properly</li>
+ <li>tftp: when we infer local name from remote (-r [/]path/path/file), strip path. This mimics wget and is generally more intuitive</li>
+ <li>timeout: fix parsing of -t NUM on MMU</li>
+ <li>top: make it work again on 2.4 kernels. Closes bug 125</li>
+ <li>tr: fix overflow in expand and complement, fix stop after [:class:]</li>
+ <li>tr: support -C as synonym to -c</li>
+ <li>tr: support [:xdigit:], fix handling of ranges and [x]'s</li>
+ <li>traceroute: rewrite. Do not emit raw IP packets, instead send UDP or ICMP packets and rely on the kernel to form IP headers, select source IP and interface</li>
+ <li>uname: add support for -i and -o, fix printing of unknown -p value with -a option</li>
+ <li>uname: support long options</li>
+ <li>unexpand: fix incorrect expansion</li>
+ <li>unzip: fix thinko with le/be conv and size. Closes bug 129</li>
+ <li>vi: fix several instances of major goof: when text grows, text[] might get reallocated! We were keeping around pointers to old place</li>
+ <li>vi: speedup and code shrink. By Walter Harms</li>
+ <li>volume_id: abort early on read failures. Should help with probing missing fdd's</li>
+ <li>volumeid: fix bug 249 "findfs finds the wrong partition"</li>
+ <li>wget: --post-data support. By Harald Kuthe (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li>
+ <li>wget: fix --header handling</li>
+ <li>wget: more robust EINTR detection</li>
</ul>
</p>
- </li>
- <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
- </li>
+ <li><b>8 March 2009 -- BusyBox 1.13.3 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.3</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.3/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
- <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
- label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
- <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
- but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
- report any such cases.</p>
- <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
- and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p>
- <p>Other changes since previous release:
- <ul>
-<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
-<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
-<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
-<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
-<li>SELinux: load_policy applet
-<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>)
-<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
-<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
-<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
-<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
-<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
-<li>awk: guard against empty environment
-<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
-<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
-<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
-<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>)
-<li>cttyhack: new applet
-<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>)
-<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>)
-<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
-<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>)
-<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
-<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
-<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
-<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
-<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
-<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
-<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
-<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
-<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
-<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>)
-<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
-<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>)
-<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>)
-<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
-<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
-<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>
-<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>)
-<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
-<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
-<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
-<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
-<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
-<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
-<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
-<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
-<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
-<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
-<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
-<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
-<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements.
-<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
-<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>)
-<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
-<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
-<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
-<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
-<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
-<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
-<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
-<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
-<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
-<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
-<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
-<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
-<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
-<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
-<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1
-<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
-<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
-<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
-<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
-<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
-<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
-<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
-<li>run_parts: rewrite
-<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu>
-<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
-<li>split: new applet
-<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
-<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>)
-<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
-<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
-<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
-<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
-<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
-<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
-<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
-<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
-<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
-<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
- </ul>
+ <p>1.13.3 is a bug fix release. It has fixes for awk, depmod, init, killall, mdev,
+ modprobe, printf, syslogd, tar, top, unzip, wget.
</p>
</li>
- <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
- and sed.</p>
+ <li><b>31 December 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.12.4 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.2</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.2/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.4</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.4/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Bug fix releases. 1.13.2 has fixes for crond, dc, init, ip, printf.
+ 1.12.4 has fixes for ip and printf.
+ </p>
</li>
- <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>,
- <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
-
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
- label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
- <p>Notable changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
- <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
- <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
- <li>less: regex search improved
- <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
- <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
- <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
- <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
- <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
- <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
- <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
- <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
- <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
- not only in /cgi-bin/
- <li>chrt: new applet
- <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
- new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
- <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
- improper usage of string constants.
- <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
- targets.
- <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
- sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
- <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
- udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
- <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
- syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
- </ul>
+ <li><b>29 November 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.1 (stable), BusyBox 1.12.3 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.1</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.1/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.3</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.3/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Bug fix releases. 1.13.1 has fixes for ash, option parsing, id, init,
+ inotifyd, klogd, line editing and modprobe. 1.12.3 has fixes
+ for option parsing and line editing.
</p>
</li>
- <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
- </p>
+ <li><b>10 November 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.12.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.0</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.0/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.2</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.2/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Sizes of busybox-1.12.2 and busybox-1.13.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 778291 551 7856 786698 c010a busybox-1.12.2/busybox
+ 778981 551 7852 787384 c03b8 busybox-1.13.0/busybox
+</pre>
+
+ <p>New applets: blkid, devmem
- <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+ <ul>
+ <li>mail applets: total overhaul. Vladimir as usual</li>
+ <li>ash: fix "while kill -0 $child; do true; done" looping forever</li>
+ <li>ash: fix NOEXEC mode - we were forgetting to pass environment</li>
+ <li>ash: fix a bug in standalone mode (corrupted getopt state)</li>
+ <li>ash: optionally support ">&file" and "&>file" redirections</li>
+ <li>awk: bitwise ops cast oprands and results to unsigned long, not signed. closes bug 4774</li>
+ <li>awk: fix typo in atan2 code. closes bug 5594</li>
+ <li>awk: improve handling of negative numbers in bitwise ops; fix handling of octal costants</li>
+ <li>awk: support hex constants</li>
+ <li>basename: fix error code (again)</li>
+ <li>cpio: emit TRAILER even when hard links were found. By Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)</li>
+ <li>crontab: do not destroy STDIN_FILENO, editor may need it (crontab -e)</li>
+ <li>dc: support for bases 2 and 8, by Nate Case (ncase AT xes-inc.com)</li>
+ <li>dhcpc: treat "discover...select...discover..." loop the same way as "discover...discover...discover..."</li>
+ <li>dpkg: add dpkg -l PACKAGE_PATTERN. By Peter Korsgaard</li>
+ <li>fbset: fix mode matching code: original code may trigger false positive.</li>
+ <li>findfs: fix LUKS and FAT detection routines; do not exit if corrupted FAT fs makes us try to seek past the end</li>
+ <li>grep: fix 'echo aaa | grep -o a' + ENABLE_EXTRA_COMPAT case. By Natanael Copa</li>
+ <li>grep: fix EXTRA_COMPAT grep to honor -E and -i</li>
+ <li>gunzip: restore mtime</li>
+ <li>halt: reinstate -w even if !FEATURE_WTMP</li>
+ <li>hexdump: fix SEGV in hexdump -e ""</li>
+ <li>httpd: pass "Accept:" and "Accept-Language:" header to CGI scripts (Alina Friedrichsen)</li>
+ <li>hush: fix environment and memory leaks</li>
+ <li>hush: fix trashing of environment by local env vars: a=a; a=b cmd; - a was unset</li>
+ <li>id: improve compatibility with coreutils. By Tito Ragusa</li>
+ <li>inetd: fix a case when we have zero services</li>
+ <li>inetd: use config parser. by Vladimir</li>
+ <li>init: set stderr to NONBLOCK</li>
+ <li>insmod: fix detection of open failure</li>
+ <li>install: support -D</li>
+ <li>ip: fix ip route rejecting dotted quads as prefix</li>
+ <li>ip: route metric support (Natanael Copa)</li>
+ <li>iplink: accept shorthands for "address" keyword: "ip link set address 00:11:22:33:44:55"</li>
+ <li>kbd_mode: support -C TTY</li>
+ <li>kill[all[5]]: accept -s SIG too. By Steve Bennett (steveb AT workware.net.au)</li>
+ <li>klogd: handle many lines at once. By Steve Bennett (steveb AT workware.net.au)</li>
+ <li>less: support -I to be able to search case-insensitively</li>
+ <li>less: add optional line number toggle and resizing on window resize</li>
+ <li>libbb: do not reject floating point strings like ".15"</li>
+ <li>lineedit: fix bug 5824 "since rev 23530 fdisk and ed don't work any more"</li>
+ <li>lineedit: fix problems with empty commands in history</li>
+ <li>login: fix /etc/nologin handling</li>
+ <li>man: fix inconsistencies in handling $MANPATH</li>
+ <li>mdev: support match by major,minor. See bug 4714</li>
+ <li>modprobe-small: make insmod command line compatible</li>
+ <li>modprobe-small: support "blacklist" keyword in /etc/modules/MODULE_NAME</li>
+ <li>modprobe: fix a segfault when modprobe is called with no arguments at all</li>
+ <li>modutils/*: rewrite by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)</li>
+ <li>mount: fix "-o parm1 -o parm2" not accumulating</li>
+ <li>nmeter: 4k buffers are too small for /proc files, make them dynamically sized with 16k upper limit</li>
+ <li>ping: SO_RCVBUF must be bigger than packet size, otherwise large ping packets might fail to be received</li>
+ <li>route: fix for 64-bit BE machines by Seonghun Lim (wariua AT gmail.com)</li>
+ <li>rpm: fix incompatibilities which prevented rpm -i foo.src.rpm</li>
+ <li>runsvdir: support runsvdir-as-init</li>
+ <li>setarch: do not try to use non-existent data in argv[]</li>
+ <li>setfont: support -m and -C, support -m TEXTUAL_MAP (by Vladimir)</li>
+ <li>setup_environment: cd $HOME regardless of clear_env value</li>
+ <li>slattach: preserve speed in non-raw mode. By Matthieu Castet (matthieu.castet AT parrot.com)</li>
+ <li>start_stop_daemon: accept (and ignore) -R PARAM</li>
+ <li>sv: make default service dir configurable (Vladimir wants it)</li>
+ <li>sysctl: fix bug 3894 (by Kryzhanovskyy Maksym)</li>
+ <li>tar: fix bug 3844: non-root tar does not preserve perms</li>
+ <li>telnetd: handle emacs M-DEL and IAC-NOP. by Jim Cathey (jcathey AT ciena.com)</li>
+ <li>top: fix "top -d 1" (bug 5144)</li>
+ <li>top: optional SMP support by Vineet Gupta (vineetg76 AT gmail.com)</li>
+ <li>trylink: make messages less confusing</li>
+ <li>unzip: handle "central directory". needed for OpenOffice, gmail attachment .zips etc</li>
+ <li>vi: Rob's algorithm of reading and matching ESC sequences (nice work btw!)</li>
+ <li>vi: deal with EOF/error on stdin and with input NULs</li>
+ <li>vi: fix uninitialized last_search_pattern (bug 5794)</li>
+ <li>vi: handle chars 0x80, 0x81 etc correctly</li>
+ <li>volume identification: abolish /proc/partitions and /proc/cdroms scanning. It does not catch volume managers and such. Simply scan /dev/* for any block devices</li>
+ <li>watchdog: WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT accepts seconds, not milliseconds</li>
+ <li>watchdog: add -T option</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
+ the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
</p>
</li>
- <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
+ <li><b>28 September 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.1 (stable), BusyBox 1.11.3 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.1</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.1/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.3</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.3/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p>
+ Bugfix-only releases for 1.11.x and 1.12.x branches.
</p>
</li>
- <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>
+ <li><b>21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.11.2 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.0</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.0/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.2</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.2/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Sizes of busybox-1.11.2 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+ 829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.2/busybox
+ 822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox
+</pre>
- <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
- than usual.</p>
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
- the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
- it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
- ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
- <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
- (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
- don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
- anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
- as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
- for general use now.
- <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
- upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
- already much better than what we had previously.
- <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
- <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
- of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
- <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
- <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
- <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
- <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
- <li>chown: user.grp works again.
- <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
- ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
- </ul>
- </p>
- </li>
+ <p>New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir)
- <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>
+ <p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
+ <ul>
+ <li>ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"</li>
+ <li>ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! </li>
+ <li>ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2</li>
+ <li>ash: fix segfault in "command -v"</li>
+ <li>ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator</li>
+ <li>ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading</li>
+ <li>ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before</li>
+ <li>hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all</li>
+ <li>hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not</li>
+ <li>hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case</li>
+ <li>hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites</li>
+ <li>hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)</li>
+ <li>hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements</li>
+ <li>hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case</li>
+ <li>hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')</li>
+ <li>hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names</li>
+ <li>libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets</li>
+ </ul>
- <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
+ <p>Other changes:
+ <ul>
+ <li>libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)</li>
+ <li>libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)</li>
+ <li>libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"</li>
+ <li>libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()</li>
+ <li>libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)</li>
+ <li>libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector</li>
+ <li>libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)</li>
+ <li>lineedit: fix use-after-free</li>
+ <li>libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too</li>
+ <li>bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])</li>
+ <li>open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor</li>
+ <li>open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit</li>
+ <li>arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)</li>
+ <li>ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code</li>
+ <li>awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. </li>
+ <li>build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op</li>
+ <li>bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)</li>
+ <li>b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)</li>
+ <li>comm: almost total rewrite</li>
+ <li>cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)</li>
+ <li>cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files</li>
+ <li>cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG</li>
+ <li>cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k</li>
+ <li>cpio: support some long options</li>
+ <li>crond: use execlp instead of execl</li>
+ <li>cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)</li>
+ <li>envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases</li>
+ <li>findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary</li>
+ <li>fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)</li>
+ <li>fuser: a bit of safety in scanf</li>
+ <li>grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes</li>
+ <li>halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT</li>
+ <li>httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de</li>
+ <li>ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks</li>
+ <li>ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li>
+ <li>ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li>
+ <li>inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found</li>
+ <li>insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing</li>
+ <li>install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)</li>
+ <li>install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)</li>
+ <li>lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies</li>
+ <li>ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable</li>
+ <li>man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com</li>
+ <li>man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given</li>
+ <li>man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable</li>
+ <li>man: fix missed NULL termination of an array</li>
+ <li>man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode</li>
+ <li>man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)</li>
+ <li>man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config</li>
+ <li>mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection</li>
+ <li>mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist</li>
+ <li>mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it</li>
+ <li>mdev: support for serializing hotplug</li>
+ <li>mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization</li>
+ <li>mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)</li>
+ <li>modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)</li>
+ <li>modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()</li>
+ <li>modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one</li>
+ <li>mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"</li>
+ <li>mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)</li>
+ <li>mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"</li>
+ <li>mount: testsuite for "-o mand"</li>
+ <li>msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)</li>
+ <li>mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints</li>
+ <li>netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)</li>
+ <li>nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)</li>
+ <li>od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)</li>
+ <li>pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)</li>
+ <li>printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)</li>
+ <li>printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite</li>
+ <li>printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)</li>
+ <li>sendmail: updates from Vladimir:</li>
+ <li>sendmail: do not discard all headers</li>
+ <li>sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes</li>
+ <li>sendmail: fixed mail recipient address</li>
+ <li>sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed</li>
+ <li>sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified</li>
+ <li>sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)</li>
+ <li>ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too</li>
+ <li>ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore</li>
+ <li>ssd: fix -a without -x case</li>
+ <li>ssd: use $PATH</li>
+ <li>tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0</li>
+ <li>tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection</li>
+ <li>taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy</li>
+ <li>tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")</li>
+ <li>tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way</li>
+ <li>telnetd: fix issue file printing</li>
+ <li>test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does</li>
+ <li>testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e</li>
+ <li>time: don't segfault with no arguments</li>
+ <li>touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)</li>
+ <li>tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354</li>
+ <li>tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)</li>
+ <li>tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)</li>
+ <li>unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)</li>
+ <li>vi: fix reversed checks for underflow</li>
+ <li>vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid</li>
+ <li>xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)</li>
+ <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li>
+ </ul>
</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>
- <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
+ <li><b>12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)</b>
+ <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.1</a>.
+ (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.1/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+ <p>
+ Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk,
+ bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi.
</p>
</li>
- <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
- (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
-
- <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
- needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
- and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
- bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
- busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
- adventurous desktop users.
- <p>Changes since previous release:
- <ul>
- <li>find: taking many more of standard options
- <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
- <li>cp: added -s, -l
- <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
- <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
- incompatible)
- <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
- on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
- (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
- Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
- <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
- directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
- <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
- other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
- <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
- (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
- <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
- fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
- </ul>
- <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
- 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
+ <li><b>11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated</b>
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt">
+ "How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc"</a> is updated
+ and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't
+ work for you.
</p>
</li>
- <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
- <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
- <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
- produces buggy executables.
- </li>
- <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
- <p>It's a bit overdue, but
- <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
- BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
-
- <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
- branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
- generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
- umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
- name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
- delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
- in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
- fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
- fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
- modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
- foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
- terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
- ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
- gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
- fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
-
- <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
- this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
- Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
+ <li><b>Old News</b><p>
+ Click here to read <a href="oldnews.html">older news</a>
</p>
</li>
- <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
- <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
- the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
-
- <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
- <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
- might as well point you all at
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
- 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
-
- <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
- saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
- one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
- embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
- (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
- libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
- tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
- in a pear... Ahem.</p>
-
- <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
- gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
- the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
- value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
- a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
- switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
- than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
- /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
- in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
-
- <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
- <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
- 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
- over the weekend.</p>
-
- <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
- cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
- try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
- we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
-
- <p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p>
-
- <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
- <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
- 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
- memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
- mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
- background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
- timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
- segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
-
- <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
-
- <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
- <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches
- backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
- for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
- find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
- for more info.</p>
-
- <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
- will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
- to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
- bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
-
- <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
- <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
- maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
- uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
- by Erik's father's law firm, and the
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
- scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
- together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
- <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
- referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
-
- <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
- <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
- has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
- free and open source software projects (such as
- <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
- <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
- <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
- in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
- phrase you get to use every day.</p>
-
- <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
- <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p>
- <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
- the various small fixes have been collected together into a
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
- and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
- June.</p>
- </li>
- <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
- <p>The new stable release is
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
- 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
- (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
- but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
- that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
-
- <li><b>Old News</b><p>
- <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
- </p>
- </li>
-
-
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