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<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
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+ <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
+ and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
+ shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
+ expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
+ smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
+ <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ <p>
+ lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
+ now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
+ long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
+ Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
+ environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
+ this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
+ framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
+ business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
+ currently in progress at
+ <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
+ things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
+ For a list of the most interesting changes
+ you might want to look at the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ <p>
+ Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
+ work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
+ out of town.
+ <p>
+ <em>Special Note</em><br>
+
+ BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
+ shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
+ Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
+ shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
+ construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
+ Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
+ progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
+ and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
+ release of BusyBox.
+ <p>
+
+ <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
+ rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
+ update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
+ optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
+ that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
+ now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
+ shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
+ woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
+ <p>
+ The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
+ the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ <p>
+ Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
+ this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
+ <p>
<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
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