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From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:45:01 +0000
Subject: - move some older news to the news archive (the main page was once
again over 30kib big)
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- 25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)
- BusyBox 1.11.0.
- (svn,
- patches,
- how to add a patch)
- BusyBox 1.10.4.
- (svn,
- patches,
- how to add a patch)
- Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
- 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0
-
-
- New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova),
- fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer)
-
-
Changes since previous release:
-
- - build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX
- - ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes
- - hush: lots and lots of fixes
- - msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)
- - msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed
- - udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels
- - mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp
- - diff: make it work on non-seekable streams
- - openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one
- - mdev: fix block/char device detection
- - ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)
- - crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines
- - start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)
- - date: make it accept ISO date format
- - echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)
- - httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR
- - printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo
- - syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate
- - ls: support Unicode in names
- - ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)
- - mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)
- - libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again
- - other fixes and code size reductions in many applets
-
-
- The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
- the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
-
-
-
- 12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!
- We want to thank the following companies which are providing support
- for the BusyBox project:
-
-
-
- 5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)
- BusyBox 1.10.3.
- (svn,
- patches,
- how to add a patch)
-
- Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush,
- ip, mdev and syslogd.
-
-
-
- 8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)
- BusyBox 1.10.2.
- (svn,
- patches,
- how to add a patch)
-
- Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof,
- start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system.
-
Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please
- report if you encounter any problems with it.
-
-
-
- 19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)
- BusyBox 1.10.1.
- (svn,
- patches,
- how to add a patch)
-
- Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
- fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.
-
-
- 21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)
- BusyBox 1.10.0.
- (svn,
- patches,
- how to add a patch)
-
- Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):
- text data bss dec hex filename
- 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
- 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0
-
- Top 10 stack users:
-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
-
-
- 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.
-
- Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.
-
- Changes since previous release:
-
-
- - globally: add -Wunused-parameter
- - globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations
- - adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)
- - adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134
- - ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947
- - ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142
- - build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case
- - build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host
- - build system: make it do without "od -t"
- - build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376
- - build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU
- - cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
- - crontab: almost complete rewrite
- - dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets
- - dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed
- - eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)
- - fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels
- - fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)
- - fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/
- - fuser: substantial rewrite
- - getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com>
- - getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)
- - halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled
- - httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530
- - httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked
- - httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"
- - httpd: fix for POST upload
- - httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)
- - hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure
- - hush: more correct handling of piping
- - hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU
- - hush: report [v]fork failures
- - hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed
- - hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness
- - inetd: make "udp nowait" work
- - inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable
- - init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)
- - init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"
- - init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing
- - init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words
- - init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
- - ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)
- - last: do not go into endless loop on read error
- - less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)
- - less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now
- - less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars
- - less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption
- - 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
- - 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!
- - libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too
- - libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets
- - libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error
- - libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>
- - libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!
- - login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended
- - microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible
- - microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t
- - mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)
- - mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected
- - mount: add another mount helper call method
- - mount: allow and ignore _netdev option
- - mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
- - mount: optional support for -vv verbosity
- - mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command
- - mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)
- - mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root
- - mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143
- - mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make
- - msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)
- - msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin
- - msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing
- - msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)
- - msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed
- - msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway
- - msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters
- - netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc
- - nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]
- - nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com>
- - od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly
- - patch: don't trash permissions of patched file
- - ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time
- - ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns
- - reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414
- - rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com>
- - run-parts: add --reverse
- - script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output
- - sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214
- - sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591
- - stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)
- - switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425
- - syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls
- - syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead
- - syslogd: fix shmat error check
- - syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436
- - syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574
- - syslogd: tighten up hostname handling
- - tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)
- - tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end
- - tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992
- - tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
- - tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket
- - telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"
- - test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"
- - trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected
- - udhcp: make file paths configurable
- - udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports
- - udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE
- - udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)
- - udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)
- - umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint
- - umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro
- - umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604
- - unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>
- - unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)
- - unzip: handle short reads correctly
- - vi: many fixes
- - zcip: don't chdir to root
- - zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)
-
-
-
- 21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases
-
- Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
- for future hot patches are in parentheses.
-
- 1.9.2
- (patches),
- 1.8.3
- (patches),
- 1.7.5
- (patches),
- 1.5.2
- (patches).
-
- How to add a patch.
-
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