From f0da28c91b3b50efaf4f0a32c4dac6cb00453e94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:12:09 +0000
Subject: Prepare for release

---
 docs/busybox.net/news.html | 131 +++++++++++----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

(limited to 'docs/busybox.net/news.html')

diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html
index a58ed1a33..6c82a23c9 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html
+++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html
@@ -3,26 +3,24 @@
 
 <ul>
 
-  <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p> 
+  <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p> 
 
-    Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
-    series.  This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
-    rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
-    devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
-    the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
-    common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
-    of random bugs have been fixed.  Thanks everyone for all the
-    testing, bug reports, and patches!  Once again, a big
-    thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and 
-    helping get patches merged!
+    Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
+    series.  The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for
+    a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working
+    properly unless you specified the filesystem type.  This
+    release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp,
+    fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like
+    the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x
+    modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete
+    'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and
+    a few other odd fixes.
 
     <p>
 
-    And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
-    the busybox website has been completely reworked.  Hopefully
-    things are now somewhat easier to navigate...  If you see any
-    problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
-    free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
+    If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as
+    always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox
+    mailing list.
 
     <p>
 
@@ -36,49 +34,26 @@
 
 
   <p>
-  <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p> 
-
-    Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
-    series.  The last prerelease has held up quite well under
-    testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
-    of people using it has increased.  Thanks everyone for all
-    the testing, bug reports, and patches!
-
-    <p>
-    
-    If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
-    mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
-    patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
-    somehow gotten lost or forgotten.  That happens sometimes.
-    Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
-    mailing list!
-
-    <p>
+  <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p> 
 
-    The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
-    people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
-    fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release.  The main feature
-    (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
-    list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
-    modutils issues.  For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
-    patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
-    integrated.  For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
-    a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
-    more work before we cut 1.0.0.  Or we may just leave 2.4.x
-    module loading alone.
+    Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
+    series.  This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
+    rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
+    devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
+    the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
+    common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
+    of random bugs have been fixed.  Thanks everyone for all the
+    testing, bug reports, and patches!  Once again, a big
+    thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and 
+    helping get patches merged!
 
     <p>
 
-    I had hoped this release would be out a month ago.  And of
-    course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of 
-    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> 
-    out the door.  Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
-    stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged!  I am
-    not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
-    -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0).  We're aiming for late September...
-    But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
-    exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
-    indeed.  
+    And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
+    the busybox website has been completely reworked.  Hopefully
+    things are now somewhat easier to navigate...  If you see any
+    problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
+    free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
 
     <p>
 
@@ -91,52 +66,6 @@
 
 
 
-    <p>
-
-    <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> 
-
-    Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
-    series.  The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
-    testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
-    bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
-
-    <p>
-
-    Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
-    with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
-    init again supports pivot_root,  The 'reboot' 'halt' and
-    'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
-    an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
-    read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
-    'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
-    tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
-    <p>
-
-    If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
-    release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
-    was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
-    That happens sometimes.   Please re-submit your patch to the
-    BusyBox mailing list.
-    <p>
-
-    The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
-    people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
-    fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release.  The main feature that
-    is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
-    release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels.  If
-    necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
-    Hopefully (i.e.  unless some horrible catastrophic problem
-	    turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
-    then...
-    <p>
-
-    The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 
-    the details.  As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
-
-    <p>Have Fun!
-    <p>
-
-    <p>
 
     <p>
     <li><b>Old News</b><p> 
-- 
cgit v1.2.3