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| author | Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> | 2008-08-22 08:45:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> | 2008-08-22 08:45:01 +0000 |
| commit | 9ff245f6a03d1046e9265ded4dd16a4daa9f177f (patch) | |
| tree | 7d11894545968fa0a4cf7ed6b63cba3955be4f18 | |
| parent | 7d0d3e265b9c9c96d33e23de8fb2ac3430fdd036 (diff) | |
- move some older news to the news archive (the main page was once again over 30kib big)
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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index 0d5da4ee4..8d4ab5301 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -169,286 +169,10 @@ </p> </li> - <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b> - <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>. - (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> - <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>. - (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> - <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> - text data bss dec hex filename - 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4 - 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0 -</pre> - - <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova), - fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer) - - <p>Changes since previous release: - <ul> - <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li> - <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li> - <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li> - <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li> - <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li> - <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li> - <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li> - <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li> - <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li> - <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li> - <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li> - <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li> - <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li> - <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li> - <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li> - <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li> - <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li> - <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li> - <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li> - <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li> - <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li> - <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li> - <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</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>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> - <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support - for the BusyBox project: - </p> - <ul> - <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> - </li> - <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> - <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. - (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> - <p> - Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, - ip, mdev and syslogd. - </p> - </li> - - <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> - <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. - (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> - <p> - Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof, - start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system. - <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please - report if you encounter any problems with it. - </p> - </li> - - <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> - <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. - (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> - <p> - Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for - fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. - </li> - - <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> - <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. - (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>, - <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> - - <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> - text data bss dec hex filename - 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 - 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 -</pre> - <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> -busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: -echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 -bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 -discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 -discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 -echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 -discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 -find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 -readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 -ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 -iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 -</pre> - - <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), - findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), - lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), - sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. - </p> - <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. - </p> - <p>Changes since previous release: - </p> - <ul> - <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li> - <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li> - <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li> - <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li> - <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li> - <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li> - <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li> - <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li> - <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li> - <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li> - <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li> - <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li> - <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li> - <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li> - <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li> - <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li> - <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li> - <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li> - <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li> - <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li> - <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li> - <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li> - <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li> - <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li> - <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li> - <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li> - <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li> - <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li> - <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li> - <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li> - <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li> - <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li> - <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li> - <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li> - <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li> - <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li> - <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li> - <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li> - <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li> - <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li> - <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> - <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li> - <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li> - <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li> - <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li> - <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li> - <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li> - <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> - <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> - <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li> - <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li> - <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li> - <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li> - <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li> - <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li> - <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li> - <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li> - <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li> - <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li> - <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li> - <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li> - <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li> - <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li> - <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li> - <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li> - <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li> - <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li> - <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li> - <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li> - <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li> - <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li> - <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li> - <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li> - <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li> - <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li> - <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li> - <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li> - <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li> - <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li> - <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li> - <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li> - <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li> - <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li> - <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li> - <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li> - <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li> - <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li> - <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li> - <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li> - <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li> - <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li> - <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li> - <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li> - <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li> - <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li> - <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li> - <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li> - <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li> - <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li> - <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li> - <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li> - <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li> - <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li> - <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li> - <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li> - <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li> - <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li> - <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li> - <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li> - <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li> - <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li> - <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li> - <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li> - <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li> - <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li> - <li>vi: many fixes</li> - <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li> - <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li> - </ul> - </li> - - <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> - <p> - Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations - for future hot patches are in parentheses. - <p> - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a> - (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>), - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a> - (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>), - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a> - (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>), - <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a> - (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>). - <p> - <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a> - </p> - <li><b>Old News</b><p> - <a href="oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> + <li><b>Old News</b><p> + Click here to read <a href="oldnews.html">older news</a> </p> </li> diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html index ee51143b0..2a7182c60 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html @@ -1,7 +1,288 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> +<h3>News archive</h3> <ul> + + <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> + text data bss dec hex filename + 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4 + 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0 +</pre> + + <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova), + fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer) + + <p>Changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li> + <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li> + <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li> + <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li> + <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li> + <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li> + <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li> + <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li> + <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li> + <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li> + <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li> + <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li> + <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li> + <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li> + <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li> + <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li> + <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li> + <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li> + <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li> + <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li> + <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li> + <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li> + <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</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>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> + <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support + for the BusyBox project: + </p> + <ul> + <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> + </li> + + <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p> + Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, + ip, mdev and syslogd. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p> + Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof, + start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system. + <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please + report if you encounter any problems with it. + </p> + </li> + + <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + <p> + Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for + fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. + </li> + + <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. + (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> + text data bss dec hex filename + 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 + 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 +</pre> + <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> +busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: +echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 +bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 +discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 +discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 +echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 +discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 +find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 +readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 +ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 +iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 +</pre> + + <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), + findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), + lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), + sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. + </p> + <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. + </p> + <p>Changes since previous release: + </p> + <ul> + <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li> + <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li> + <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li> + <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li> + <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li> + <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li> + <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li> + <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li> + <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li> + <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li> + <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li> + <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li> + <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li> + <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li> + <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li> + <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li> + <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li> + <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li> + <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li> + <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li> + <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li> + <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li> + <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li> + <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li> + <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li> + <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li> + <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li> + <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li> + <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li> + <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li> + <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li> + <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li> + <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li> + <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li> + <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li> + <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li> + <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li> + <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li> + <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li> + <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li> + <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> + <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li> + <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li> + <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li> + <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li> + <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li> + <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li> + <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> + <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> + <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li> + <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li> + <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li> + <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li> + <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li> + <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li> + <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li> + <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li> + <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li> + <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li> + <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li> + <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li> + <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li> + <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li> + <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li> + <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li> + <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li> + <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li> + <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li> + <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li> + <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li> + <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li> + <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li> + <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li> + <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li> + <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li> + <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li> + <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li> + <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li> + <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li> + <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li> + <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li> + <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li> + <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li> + <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li> + <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li> + <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li> + <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li> + <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li> + <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li> + <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li> + <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li> + <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li> + <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li> + <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li> + <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li> + <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li> + <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li> + <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li> + <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li> + <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li> + <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li> + <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li> + <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li> + <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li> + <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li> + <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li> + <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li> + <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li> + <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li> + <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li> + <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li> + <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li> + <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li> + <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li> + <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li> + <li>vi: many fixes</li> + <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li> + <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> + <p> + Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations + for future hot patches are in parentheses. + <p> + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>), + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>), + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>), + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a> + (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>). + <p> + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a> + </p> + + <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>. (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>, @@ -81,7 +362,7 @@ parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152 <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) </ul> - </p> + </li> <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>. @@ -212,8 +493,6 @@ Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds: <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms) <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM </ul> - </p> - </li> <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b> @@ -388,7 +667,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc: <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday </ul> - </p> </li> <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b> @@ -511,7 +789,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc: <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) </ul> - </p> </li> <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> @@ -560,7 +837,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc: <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix, syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd </ul> - </p> </li> <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> @@ -611,7 +887,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc: <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar, ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,... </ul> - </p> </li> <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> @@ -1461,7 +1736,7 @@ Click here to help buy busybox.net! <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> -<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> +<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> </form> </center> <!-- End PayPal Logo --> |