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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index bba96b481..c9f682960 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -1,6 +1,161 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> <ul> + <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. + (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>, + <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/>patches</a>, + <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> + text data bss dec hex filename + 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 + 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 +</pre> + <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> +busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: +echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 +bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 +discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 +discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 +echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 +discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 +find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 +readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 +ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 +iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 +</pre> + + <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), + findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), + lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), + sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. + + <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. + + <p>Changes since previous release: + <ul> + <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter + <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations + <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>) + <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134 + <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947 + <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142 + <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case + <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host + <li>build system: make it do without "od -t" + <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376 + <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU + <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470 + <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite + <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets + <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed + <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth) + <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels + <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>) + <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/ + <li>fuser: substantial rewrite + <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> + <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>) + <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled + <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530 + <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked + <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/" + <li>httpd: fix for POST upload + <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>) + <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure + <li>hush: more correct handling of piping + <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU + <li>hush: report [v]fork failures + <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed + <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness + <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work + <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable + <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>) + <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n" + <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing + <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words + <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de) + <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var) + <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error + <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1) + <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now + <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars + <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption + <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages + <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern! + <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too + <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets + <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error + <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it> + <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now! + <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended + <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible + <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t + <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>) + <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected + <li>mount: add another mount helper call method + <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option + <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) + <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity + <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command + <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835) + <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root + <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143 + <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make + <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one) + <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin + <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing + <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time) + <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed + <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway + <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters + <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc + <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt] + <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com> + <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly + <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file + <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time + <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns + <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414 + <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com> + <li>run-parts: add --reverse + <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output + <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214 + <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591 + <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>) + <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425 + <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls + <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead + <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check + <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436 + <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574 + <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling + <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages) + <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end + <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992 + <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> + <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket + <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell" + <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args" + <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected + <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable + <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports + <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE + <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>) + <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>) + <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint + <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro + <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604 + <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com> + <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge) + <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly + <li>vi: many fixes + <li>zcip: don't chdir to root + <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can thrash syslog socket) + </ul> + </p> + <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox stable releases</b> <p> Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations |