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| 5 | <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
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| 6 | <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
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| 7 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
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| 8 | 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
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| 9 | over the weekend.</p>
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| 11 | <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
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| 12 | cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
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| 13 | try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
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| 14 | we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
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| 16 | <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
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| 17 | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
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| 18 | 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
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| 19 | memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
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| 20 | mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
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| 21 | background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
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| 22 | timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
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| 23 | segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
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| 27 | <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
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| 28 | <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
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| 29 | backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
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| 30 | for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
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| 31 | find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
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| 32 | for more info.</p>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
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| 35 | will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
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| 36 | to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
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| 37 | bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
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| 39 | <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
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| 40 | <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
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| 41 | maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
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| 42 | uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
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| 43 | by Erik's father's law firm, and the
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| 44 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
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| 45 | scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
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| 46 | together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
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| 47 | <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
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| 48 | referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
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| 51 | <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
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| 52 | has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
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| 53 | free and open source software projects (such as
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| 54 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
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| 55 | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
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| 56 | <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
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| 57 | in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
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| 58 | phrase you get to use every day.</p>
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| 60 | <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
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| 61 | <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>
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| 62 | <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
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| 63 | the various small fixes have been collected together into a
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| 64 | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
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| 65 | and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
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| 66 | June.</p>
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| 67 | </li>
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| 68 | <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
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| 69 | <p>The new stable release is
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| 70 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
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| 71 | 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
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| 72 | (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
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| 73 | but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
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| 74 | that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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