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0.52
Critical Bugfixes:
- * Glenn McGrath -- Fix gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
+ * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
+ * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
+ problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
- New Applet:
- * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, obsoletes rpmunpack.
+ New Applets:
+ * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
+ which has now been removed from BusyBox
* Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- ash, most function busybox shell.
- * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell desinged specifically
- for busybox.
- * Erik Anderson -- msh, minix shell, only uses vfork, so can be
- used on uClinux systems.
+ * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
+ busybox shell.
+ * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
+ for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
+ * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
+ that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
Other Changes:
* Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
* Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
- tar applet hasnt been assimilated yet.
+ tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
* Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, not yet released
+ * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
+ bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
+ * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
+ * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
+ work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
+ * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
+ added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
+ * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
+ should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
+ * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
+ * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
+ bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
+ * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
+ * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
+ * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
+ * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
+ * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
+
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
0.51