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4 | <ul>
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5 | <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b>
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6 | <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so
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7 | you can now
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8 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>,
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9 | the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of
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10 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new
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11 | functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of
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12 | several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more
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13 | <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards
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14 | compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're
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15 | still working out the <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p>
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16 |
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17 | <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b>
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18 |
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19 | <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox
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20 | 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred
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21 | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small
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22 | fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p>
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23 |
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24 | <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p>
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25 |
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26 | Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
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27 | developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
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28 | in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
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29 | name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
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30 | from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the
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31 | <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a>
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32 | to post all the gory details.
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33 |
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34 | <p>
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35 |
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36 | The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
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37 | is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
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38 | to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
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39 | properly considered.
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40 |
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41 |
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42 | <p>
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43 | <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p>
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44 |
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45 | When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or
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46 | software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox.
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47 | With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and
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48 | who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices
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49 | is looking very bright.
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50 |
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51 | <p>
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52 |
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53 | It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every
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54 | device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date.
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55 | The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!
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56 |
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57 | <p>
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58 |
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59 | Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous
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60 | improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux
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61 | KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel),
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62 | Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development
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63 | work and testing of thousands of people from around the world.
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64 |
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65 | <p>
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66 |
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67 | If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
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68 | BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device
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69 | or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is
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70 | right for your application. If you need help getting started using
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71 | BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug
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72 | and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a
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73 | href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>.
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74 |
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75 | <p>
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76 |
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77 | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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78 |
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79 | <p>Have Fun!
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80 |
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81 | <p>
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82 | <li><b>Old News</b><p>
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83 | <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
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84 |
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85 |
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86 | <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p>
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87 |
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88 | Here goes release candidate 3...
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89 | <p>
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90 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
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91 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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92 |
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93 | <p>Have Fun!
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94 |
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95 | <p>
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96 | <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p>
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97 |
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98 | Here goes release candidate 2...
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99 | <p>
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100 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
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101 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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102 |
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103 | <p>Have Fun!
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104 |
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105 | <p>
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106 | <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p>
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107 |
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108 | Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems
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109 | that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of
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110 | kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better.
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111 | <p>
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112 |
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113 | I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real
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114 | reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as
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115 | is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for
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116 | everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting,
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117 | it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well.
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118 | There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with
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119 | it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while
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120 | there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work
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121 | is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door....
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122 | <p>
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123 |
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124 | Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this
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125 | time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a
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126 | bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you
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127 | explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch
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128 | has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your
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129 | bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]"
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130 | at the beginning of the email subject line!
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131 |
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132 | <p>
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133 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
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134 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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135 |
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136 | <p>Have Fun!
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137 |
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138 | <p>
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139 | On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away
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140 | yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about
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141 | 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I
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142 | could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a
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143 | href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation
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144 | as scheduled.
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145 | <p>
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146 | As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come
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147 | to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS
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148 | this year.
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149 | <p>
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150 |
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151 |
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152 | <p>
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153 | <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p>
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154 |
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155 | Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox
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156 | pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b>
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157 | want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not
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158 | bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only
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159 | bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if
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160 | people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit
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161 | improvements.
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162 |
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163 | <p>
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164 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
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165 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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166 |
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167 | <p>Have Fun!
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168 | <p>
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169 |
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170 |
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171 | <p>
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172 | <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p>
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173 |
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174 | Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for
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175 | bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this
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176 | week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at
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177 | this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be
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178 | <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation
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179 | and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the
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180 | documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some
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181 | assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets
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182 | match the features listed in the documentation.
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183 |
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184 | <p>
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185 | I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but
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186 | <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796">
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187 | another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy...
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188 |
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189 | <p>
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190 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
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191 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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192 |
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193 | <p>Have Fun!
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194 | <p>
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195 |
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196 |
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197 | <p>
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198 | <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p>
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199 |
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200 | Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send
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201 | in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will
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202 | be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see
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203 | supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit,
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204 | please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release
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205 | out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre
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206 | series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you
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207 | spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the
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208 | busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could
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209 | help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be
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210 | especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the
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211 | various applets match the features listed in the documentation.
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212 |
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213 | <p>
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214 |
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215 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details.
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216 | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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217 |
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218 | <p>Have Fun!
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219 | <p>
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220 |
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221 |
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222 | <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p>
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223 |
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224 | There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a
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225 | number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out
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226 | properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one
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227 | problem. In addition, this release fixes several other
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228 | problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing
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229 | the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates
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230 | from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still
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231 | aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to
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232 | the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have
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233 | suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the
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234 | busybox mailing list.
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235 |
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236 | <p>
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237 |
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238 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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239 | the details. And as usual you can
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240 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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241 |
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242 | <p>Have Fun!
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243 | <p>
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244 |
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245 |
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246 | <p>
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247 | <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p>
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248 |
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249 | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
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250 | series. This release adds a number of size optimizations,
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251 | updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash
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252 | and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of
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253 | bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be
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254 | settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing
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255 | perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and
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256 | move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any
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257 | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please
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258 | feel free to email the busybox mailing list.
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259 |
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260 | <p>
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261 |
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262 | People who rely on the <a href= "downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a>
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263 | should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x
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264 | series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now
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265 | only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use
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266 | the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please
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267 | adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.
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268 |
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269 | <p>
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270 |
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271 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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272 | the details. And as usual you can
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273 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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274 |
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275 | <p>Have Fun!
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276 | <p>
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277 |
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278 |
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279 | <p>
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280 | <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p>
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281 |
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282 | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
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283 | series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
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284 | a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
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285 | properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This
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286 | release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
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287 | fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
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288 | the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
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289 | modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
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290 | 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
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291 | a few other odd fixes.
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292 |
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293 | <p>
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294 |
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295 | If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
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296 | always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
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297 | mailing list.
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298 |
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299 | <p>
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300 |
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301 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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302 | the details. And as usual you can
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303 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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304 |
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305 | <p>Have Fun!
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306 | <p>
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307 |
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308 |
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309 |
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310 | <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
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311 |
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312 | Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
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313 | series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
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314 | rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
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315 | devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
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316 | the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
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317 | common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
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318 | of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
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319 | testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
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320 | thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
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321 | helping get patches merged!
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322 |
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323 | <p>
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324 |
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325 | And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
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326 | the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
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327 | things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
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328 | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
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329 | free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
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330 |
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331 | <p>
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332 |
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333 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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334 | the details. And as usual you can
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335 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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336 |
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337 | <p>Have Fun!
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338 |
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339 |
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340 |
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341 | <p>
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342 | <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
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343 |
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344 | Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
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345 | series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
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346 | testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
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347 | of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
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348 | the testing, bug reports, and patches!
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349 |
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350 | <p>
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351 |
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352 | If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
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353 | mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
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354 | patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
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355 | somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
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356 | Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
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357 | mailing list!
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358 |
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359 | <p>
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360 |
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361 | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
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362 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
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363 | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
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364 | (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
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365 | list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
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366 | modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
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367 | patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
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368 | integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
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369 | a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
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370 | more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
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371 | module loading alone.
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372 |
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373 | <p>
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374 |
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375 | I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
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376 | course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
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377 | <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
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378 | out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
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379 | stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
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380 | not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
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381 | -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
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382 | But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
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383 | exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
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384 | indeed.
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385 |
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386 | <p>
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387 |
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388 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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389 | the details. And as usual you can
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390 | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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391 |
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392 | <p>Have Fun!
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393 |
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394 |
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395 | <p>
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396 | <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
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397 |
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398 | Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
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399 | series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
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400 | testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
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401 | bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
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402 |
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403 | <p>
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404 |
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405 | Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
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406 | with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
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407 | init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
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408 | 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
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409 | an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
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410 | read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
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411 | 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
|
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412 | tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
|
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413 | <p>
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414 |
|
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415 | If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
|
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416 | release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
|
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417 | was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
|
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418 | That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
|
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419 | BusyBox mailing list.
|
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420 | <p>
|
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421 |
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422 | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
|
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423 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
|
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424 | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
|
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425 | is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
|
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426 | release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
|
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427 | necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
|
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428 | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
|
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429 | turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
|
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430 | then...
|
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431 | <p>
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432 |
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433 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
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434 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
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435 |
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436 | <p>Have Fun!
|
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437 | <p>
|
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438 |
|
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439 | <p>
|
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440 | <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
|
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441 |
|
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442 | The busybox development series has been under construction for
|
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443 | nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
|
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444 | it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
|
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445 | of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
|
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446 | since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
|
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447 | number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
|
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448 | 1.0.x...
|
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449 | <p>
|
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450 |
|
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451 | The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
|
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452 | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
|
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453 | fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
|
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454 | later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
|
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455 | Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
|
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456 | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
|
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457 | up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
|
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458 | of July.
|
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459 | <p>
|
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460 |
|
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461 | If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
|
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462 | and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
|
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463 | rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
|
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464 | happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
|
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465 | support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
|
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466 | emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
|
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467 | sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
|
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468 | right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
|
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469 | <p>
|
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470 |
|
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471 | I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
|
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472 | McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
|
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473 | (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
|
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474 | have made this release possible.
|
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475 | <p>
|
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476 |
|
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477 | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
---|
478 | You don't really need to bother with the
|
---|
479 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
|
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480 | vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
|
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481 | But you can take a look if you really want too.
|
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482 |
|
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483 | <p>Have Fun!
|
---|
484 | <p>
|
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485 |
|
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486 |
|
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487 |
|
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488 | <p>
|
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489 | <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p>
|
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490 |
|
---|
491 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
|
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492 | is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
|
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493 | the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
|
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494 | up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
|
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495 | had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
|
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496 | to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
|
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497 | was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
|
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498 | I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
|
---|
499 | 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
|
---|
500 | mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
|
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501 | release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
|
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502 | will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
|
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503 | version to have its first real release very very soon now...
|
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504 |
|
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505 | <p>
|
---|
506 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
|
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507 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
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508 | <p>Have Fun!
|
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509 | <p>
|
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510 |
|
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511 | <p>
|
---|
512 | <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p>
|
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513 |
|
---|
514 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
|
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515 | (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
|
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516 | a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
|
---|
517 | the problems that have turned up since the last
|
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518 | release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
|
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519 | I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
|
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520 | on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
|
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521 | should soon be getting its first real release.
|
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522 |
|
---|
523 | <p>
|
---|
524 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all
|
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525 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
---|
526 | <p>Have Fun!
|
---|
527 | <p>
|
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528 |
|
---|
529 |
|
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530 | <p>
|
---|
531 | <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p>
|
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532 |
|
---|
533 | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
|
---|
534 | now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
|
---|
535 | for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
|
---|
536 | the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
|
---|
537 | This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
|
---|
538 | development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
|
---|
539 | hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
|
---|
540 |
|
---|
541 | <p>
|
---|
542 | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
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543 | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
|
---|
544 | <p>Have Fun!
|
---|
545 | <p>
|
---|
546 |
|
---|
547 |
|
---|
548 | <p>
|
---|
549 | <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p>
|
---|
550 |
|
---|
551 | Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
|
---|
552 | the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
|
---|
553 | who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
|
---|
554 | uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
|
---|
555 | <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
|
---|
556 | in Canada and
|
---|
557 | <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
|
---|
558 | in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
|
---|
559 | accessible for everyone!
|
---|
560 |
|
---|
561 |
|
---|
562 | <li>
|
---|
563 | <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
|
---|
564 |
|
---|
565 | <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
|
---|
566 | users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
|
---|
567 | (which is where you are probably reading this).
|
---|
568 | Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
|
---|
569 | living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
|
---|
570 | line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
|
---|
571 | busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
|
---|
572 | the access needed to keep that system updated (for
|
---|
573 | example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
|
---|
574 | stopped some time ago).</p>
|
---|
575 |
|
---|
576 | <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
|
---|
577 | server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
|
---|
578 | the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
|
---|
579 | I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
|
---|
580 | co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
|
---|
581 | co-location effort, <a href=
|
---|
582 | "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
|
---|
583 | (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
|
---|
584 | his <a href=
|
---|
585 | "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
|
---|
586 | for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
|
---|
587 | system is co-located, the current speed problems
|
---|
588 | should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
|
---|
589 | some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
|
---|
590 | sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
|
---|
591 |
|
---|
592 | <p><!--
|
---|
593 | <center>
|
---|
594 | Click here to help support busybox.net!
|
---|
595 | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
|
---|
596 | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
|
---|
597 | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
|
---|
598 | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
|
---|
599 | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
|
---|
600 | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
|
---|
601 | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
|
---|
602 | </form>
|
---|
603 | </center>
|
---|
604 | -->
|
---|
605 | Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
|
---|
606 | donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
|
---|
607 | rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
|
---|
608 | spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
|
---|
609 | upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
|
---|
610 | has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
|
---|
611 | google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
|
---|
612 | not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
|
---|
613 | ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
|
---|
614 | far, donations received have been sufficient to
|
---|
615 | cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
|
---|
616 | have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
|
---|
617 | we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
|
---|
618 | everyone that has contributed!<br>
|
---|
619 | -Erik</p>
|
---|
620 | </li>
|
---|
621 |
|
---|
622 | <li>
|
---|
623 | <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
|
---|
624 |
|
---|
625 | <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
|
---|
626 | 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
|
---|
627 | one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
|
---|
628 | series, and it should take care of most everyone's
|
---|
629 | needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
|
---|
630 | been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
|
---|
631 | wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
|
---|
632 | this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
|
---|
633 | (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
|
---|
634 | Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
|
---|
635 | told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
|
---|
636 |
|
---|
637 | <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
|
---|
638 | powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
|
---|
639 | should work with just about any Linux system you
|
---|
640 | throw it at. See the <a href=
|
---|
641 | "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
|
---|
642 | of</small> the details. The last release was
|
---|
643 | <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
|
---|
644 | be even better.</p>
|
---|
645 |
|
---|
646 | <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
|
---|
647 | <a href=
|
---|
648 | "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
|
---|
649 |
|
---|
650 | <p>Have Fun.<br>
|
---|
651 | -Erik</p>
|
---|
652 | </li>
|
---|
653 |
|
---|
654 | <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
|
---|
655 |
|
---|
656 | <!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
|
---|
657 | <center>
|
---|
658 | Click here to help buy busybox.net!
|
---|
659 | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
|
---|
660 | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
|
---|
661 | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
|
---|
662 | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
|
---|
663 | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
|
---|
664 | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
|
---|
665 | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
|
---|
666 | </form>
|
---|
667 | </center>
|
---|
668 | <!-- End PayPal Logo -->
|
---|
669 |
|
---|
670 | I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
|
---|
671 | to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
|
---|
672 | will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
|
---|
673 | for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
|
---|
674 | initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
|
---|
675 | home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
|
---|
676 | but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
|
---|
677 | I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
|
---|
678 | have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
|
---|
679 | even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
|
---|
680 | time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
|
---|
681 | bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
|
---|
682 | start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
|
---|
683 | will start costing some money.
|
---|
684 | <p>
|
---|
685 |
|
---|
686 | I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
|
---|
687 | idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
|
---|
688 | where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
|
---|
689 | about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
|
---|
690 | busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
|
---|
691 | mailing list and web page. So...
|
---|
692 | <p>
|
---|
693 |
|
---|
694 | I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
|
---|
695 | up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
|
---|
696 | know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
|
---|
697 | individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
|
---|
698 | contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
|
---|
699 | would be wonderful!
|
---|
700 | <p>
|
---|
701 |
|
---|
702 |
|
---|
703 | <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
|
---|
704 | <br>
|
---|
705 |
|
---|
706 | This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
|
---|
707 | up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
|
---|
708 | the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
|
---|
709 | serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
|
---|
710 | new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
|
---|
711 | here it is. Come and get it.
|
---|
712 | <p>
|
---|
713 | The
|
---|
714 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
---|
715 | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
|
---|
716 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
---|
717 | <p>Have Fun!
|
---|
718 | <p>
|
---|
719 |
|
---|
720 |
|
---|
721 | <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
|
---|
722 | <br>
|
---|
723 | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
|
---|
724 | BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
|
---|
725 | and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
|
---|
726 | x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
|
---|
727 | of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
|
---|
728 | Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
|
---|
729 | stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
|
---|
730 | a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
|
---|
731 | cleans up a number of things.
|
---|
732 |
|
---|
733 | <p>
|
---|
734 |
|
---|
735 | Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
|
---|
736 | use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
|
---|
737 | to give it a try by downloading and compiling
|
---|
738 | <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
|
---|
739 | You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
|
---|
740 | Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
|
---|
741 | <p>
|
---|
742 | Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
|
---|
743 | BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
|
---|
744 | a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
|
---|
745 | the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
|
---|
746 | to view the tutorial.
|
---|
747 | <p>
|
---|
748 |
|
---|
749 | Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
|
---|
750 | version number of this release, let me point out that this release
|
---|
751 | is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
|
---|
752 | bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
|
---|
753 | a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
|
---|
754 | stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
|
---|
755 | 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
|
---|
756 | 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
|
---|
757 | the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
|
---|
758 | next release and I don't want that to break products that people
|
---|
759 | are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
|
---|
760 | released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
|
---|
761 | have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
|
---|
762 | stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
|
---|
763 | I will release that as a new stable release series.
|
---|
764 |
|
---|
765 | <p>
|
---|
766 | The
|
---|
767 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
|
---|
768 | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
|
---|
769 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
---|
770 | <p>Have Fun!
|
---|
771 | <p>
|
---|
772 |
|
---|
773 |
|
---|
774 | <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
|
---|
775 | <br>
|
---|
776 |
|
---|
777 | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
|
---|
778 | BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
|
---|
779 | release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
|
---|
780 | of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
|
---|
781 | several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
|
---|
782 | and ash).
|
---|
783 |
|
---|
784 | <p>
|
---|
785 | The
|
---|
786 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
|
---|
787 | some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
|
---|
788 | are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
|
---|
789 | BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
|
---|
790 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
---|
791 | <p>Have Fun!
|
---|
792 | <p>
|
---|
793 |
|
---|
794 |
|
---|
795 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
|
---|
796 | <br>
|
---|
797 | The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
|
---|
798 | of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
|
---|
799 | viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
|
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800 |
|
---|
801 | <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
|
---|
802 | can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
|
---|
803 | turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
|
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804 | <p>
|
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805 |
|
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806 |
|
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807 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
|
---|
808 | <br>
|
---|
809 |
|
---|
810 | BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
|
---|
811 | release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
|
---|
812 | contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
|
---|
813 | 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
|
---|
814 | There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
|
---|
815 | the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
|
---|
816 | 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
|
---|
817 | deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
|
---|
818 | <p>
|
---|
819 |
|
---|
820 | There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
|
---|
821 | one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
|
---|
822 | added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
|
---|
823 | compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
|
---|
824 | functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
|
---|
825 | all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
|
---|
826 | maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
|
---|
827 | compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
|
---|
828 | for letting me use their system!).
|
---|
829 | <p>
|
---|
830 | You can read the
|
---|
831 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
|
---|
832 | complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
|
---|
833 | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
|
---|
834 | <p>Have Fun!
|
---|
835 | <p>
|
---|
836 |
|
---|
837 | <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
|
---|
838 |
|
---|
839 | <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
|
---|
840 | "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
|
---|
841 | image</a>. Here's how you use it:
|
---|
842 |
|
---|
843 | <ol>
|
---|
844 |
|
---|
845 | <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
|
---|
846 | Download the image</a>
|
---|
847 |
|
---|
848 | <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
|
---|
849 | of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
|
---|
850 |
|
---|
851 | <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
|
---|
852 |
|
---|
853 | </ol>
|
---|
854 |
|
---|
855 | <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
|
---|
856 |
|
---|
857 | <pre>
|
---|
858 | mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
|
---|
859 | cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
|
---|
860 | umount /mnt
|
---|
861 | gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
|
---|
862 | mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
|
---|
863 | </pre>
|
---|
864 |
|
---|
865 |
|
---|
866 | <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
|
---|
867 | <br>
|
---|
868 |
|
---|
869 | This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
|
---|
870 | and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
|
---|
871 | shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
|
---|
872 | expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
|
---|
873 | smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
|
---|
874 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
---|
875 | <p>
|
---|
876 | lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
|
---|
877 | now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
|
---|
878 | long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
|
---|
879 | Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
|
---|
880 | environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
|
---|
881 | this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
|
---|
882 | framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
|
---|
883 | business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
|
---|
884 | currently in progress at
|
---|
885 | <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
|
---|
886 | <p>
|
---|
887 |
|
---|
888 |
|
---|
889 | <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
|
---|
890 | <br>
|
---|
891 |
|
---|
892 | Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
|
---|
893 | things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
|
---|
894 | For a list of the most interesting changes
|
---|
895 | you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
---|
896 | <p>
|
---|
897 | Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
|
---|
898 | work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
|
---|
899 | out of town.
|
---|
900 | <p>
|
---|
901 | <em>Special Note</em><br>
|
---|
902 |
|
---|
903 | BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
|
---|
904 | shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
|
---|
905 | Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
|
---|
906 | shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
|
---|
907 | construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
|
---|
908 | Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
|
---|
909 | progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
|
---|
910 | and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
|
---|
911 | release of BusyBox.
|
---|
912 | <p>
|
---|
913 |
|
---|
914 | <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
|
---|
915 | <br>
|
---|
916 |
|
---|
917 | This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
|
---|
918 | rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
|
---|
919 | update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
|
---|
920 | optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
|
---|
921 | that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
|
---|
922 | now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
|
---|
923 | shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
|
---|
924 | woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
|
---|
925 | <p>
|
---|
926 | The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
|
---|
927 | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
---|
928 | <p>
|
---|
929 | Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
|
---|
930 | this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
|
---|
931 | <p>
|
---|
932 | <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
|
---|
933 | <br>
|
---|
934 |
|
---|
935 | This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
|
---|
936 | syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
|
---|
937 | apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
|
---|
938 | renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
|
---|
939 | There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
|
---|
940 | more correct option parsing.
|
---|
941 | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
|
---|
942 | for complete details.
|
---|
943 |
|
---|
944 |
|
---|
945 | <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
|
---|
946 | <br>
|
---|
947 |
|
---|
948 | This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
|
---|
949 | and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
|
---|
950 | people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
|
---|
951 | completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
|
---|
952 | BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
|
---|
953 | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
|
---|
954 | for complete details.
|
---|
955 |
|
---|
956 |
|
---|
957 | <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
|
---|
958 | <br>
|
---|
959 |
|
---|
960 | This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
|
---|
961 | point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
|
---|
962 | release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
|
---|
963 | mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
|
---|
964 | telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
|
---|
965 | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
|
---|
966 | details).
|
---|
967 | <p>
|
---|
968 | Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
|
---|
969 | <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
|
---|
970 | publically browsable
|
---|
971 | <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
|
---|
972 | anonymous
|
---|
973 | <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
|
---|
974 | for those that are actively contributing there is even
|
---|
975 | <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
|
---|
976 | I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
|
---|
977 | <p>
|
---|
978 | Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
|
---|
979 | a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
|
---|
980 | we are just skipping 0.44.
|
---|
981 | <p>
|
---|
982 | Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
|
---|
983 | of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
|
---|
984 |
|
---|
985 |
|
---|
986 | <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
|
---|
987 | <br>
|
---|
988 | Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
|
---|
989 | For example, with the following test app:
|
---|
990 | <pre>
|
---|
991 | #include <syslog.h>
|
---|
992 |
|
---|
993 | int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
|
---|
994 | {
|
---|
995 | openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
|
---|
996 | while(1) {
|
---|
997 | syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
|
---|
998 | sleep(delay);
|
---|
999 | }
|
---|
1000 | closelog();
|
---|
1001 | return(0);
|
---|
1002 | };
|
---|
1003 |
|
---|
1004 | int main(void)
|
---|
1005 | {
|
---|
1006 | if (fork()==0)
|
---|
1007 | do_log("A", 2);
|
---|
1008 | do_log("B", 3);
|
---|
1009 | }
|
---|
1010 | </pre>
|
---|
1011 | it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
|
---|
1012 | from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
|
---|
1013 | while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
|
---|
1014 | <p>
|
---|
1015 | Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
|
---|
1016 | Thanks Karl!
|
---|
1017 |
|
---|
1018 |
|
---|
1019 | <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
|
---|
1020 | <br>
|
---|
1021 | I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
|
---|
1022 | good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
|
---|
1023 | so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
|
---|
1024 | have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
|
---|
1025 | freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
|
---|
1026 | rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
|
---|
1027 | More details are available in the
|
---|
1028 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
|
---|
1029 | Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
|
---|
1030 | <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
|
---|
1031 |
|
---|
1032 | <p>
|
---|
1033 | Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
|
---|
1034 | and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
|
---|
1035 | Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
|
---|
1036 | Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
|
---|
1037 | There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
|
---|
1038 | <p>
|
---|
1039 |
|
---|
1040 | You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
|
---|
1041 |
|
---|
1042 | <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
|
---|
1043 | <br>
|
---|
1044 | Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
|
---|
1045 | do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
|
---|
1046 | to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
|
---|
1047 | 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
|
---|
1048 | tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
|
---|
1049 | at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
|
---|
1050 | the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
|
---|
1051 | of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
|
---|
1052 | enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
|
---|
1053 | changes I still want to make.
|
---|
1054 | <p>
|
---|
1055 | The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
|
---|
1056 | Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
|
---|
1057 |
|
---|
1058 | <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
|
---|
1059 | <br>
|
---|
1060 | I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
|
---|
1061 | lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
|
---|
1062 | He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
|
---|
1063 | it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
|
---|
1064 | fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
|
---|
1065 | and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
|
---|
1066 | (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
|
---|
1067 | down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
|
---|
1068 | (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
|
---|
1069 | contrary).
|
---|
1070 | <p>
|
---|
1071 | Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
|
---|
1072 | labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
|
---|
1073 | <p>
|
---|
1074 | So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
|
---|
1075 | Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
|
---|
1076 | to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
|
---|
1077 | include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
|
---|
1078 | re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
|
---|
1079 | accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
|
---|
1080 | problems.
|
---|
1081 |
|
---|
1082 |
|
---|
1083 | <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
|
---|
1084 | <br>
|
---|
1085 |
|
---|
1086 | This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
|
---|
1087 | bugs have been fixed. See the
|
---|
1088 | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
|
---|
1089 |
|
---|
1090 | Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
|
---|
1091 | filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
|
---|
1092 | behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
|
---|
1093 | loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
|
---|
1094 | Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
|
---|
1095 | their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
|
---|
1096 | on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
|
---|
1097 |
|
---|
1098 | <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
|
---|
1099 | <br>
|
---|
1100 |
|
---|
1101 | This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
|
---|
1102 | mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
|
---|
1103 | logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
|
---|
1104 | support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
|
---|
1105 | The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
|
---|
1106 |
|
---|
1107 | <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
|
---|
1108 | <br>
|
---|
1109 |
|
---|
1110 | This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
|
---|
1111 | syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
|
---|
1112 | New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
|
---|
1113 | In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
|
---|
1114 | in some cases produced serious security problems.
|
---|
1115 | As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
|
---|
1116 |
|
---|
1117 | <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
|
---|
1118 | <br>
|
---|
1119 | I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
|
---|
1120 | to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
|
---|
1121 | will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
|
---|
1122 | contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
|
---|
1123 | what arguments its apps support, etc.
|
---|
1124 |
|
---|
1125 | <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
|
---|
1126 | <br>
|
---|
1127 | This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
|
---|
1128 | the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
|
---|
1129 | changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
|
---|
1130 | <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
|
---|
1131 | <br>
|
---|
1132 | This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
|
---|
1133 | and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
|
---|
1134 |
|
---|
1135 |
|
---|
1136 | </ul>
|
---|
1137 |
|
---|
1138 |
|
---|
1139 | <!--#include file="footer.html" -->
|
---|
1140 |
|
---|