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From 539eef6f2841377b6daa5d805ebb614d5df956fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Andersen Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:08:20 +0000 Subject: update website --- docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html | 1507 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 672 insertions(+), 835 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html') diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html index dcfc9de76..86e9f5d28 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html @@ -1,870 +1,707 @@ - + - - -BusyBox - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released
- - 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. - -
- - 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. -
- - 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. -
- - 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... -
- - The changelog has all - the details. As usual you can download busybox here. - -
Have Fun! -
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15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released
- - The busybox development series has been under construction for - nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So - it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release - of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes - since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version - number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison - 1.0.x... -
- - The point of "-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 magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen - later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next - Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. - Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns - up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end - of July. -
- - If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release - and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was - rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That - happens sometimes. Please do NOT send all your patches, - support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of - emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches - sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the - right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. -
- - I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn - McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III - (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that - have made this release possible. -
- - As usual you can download busybox here. - You don't really need to bother with the - changelog, as the changes - vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. - But you can take a look if you really want too. - -
Have Fun! -
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26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released
- - I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) - is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for - the stable series to address all the problems that have turned - up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release - had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried - to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init - was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). - I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the - 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I - mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last - release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work - will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development - version to have its first real release very very soon now... - -
- The changelog has all - the details. As usual you can download busybox here. -
Have Fun! -
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18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released
- - I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 - (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily - a bugfix release for the stable series to address all - the problems that have turned up since the last - release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. - I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done - on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and - should soon be getting its first real release. - -
- The changelog has all - the details. As usual you can download busybox here. -
Have Fun! -
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27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released
- - I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is - now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release - for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since - the last release, and this should address most of those problems. - This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The - development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will - hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. - -
- The changelog has all - the details. As usual you can download busybox here. -
Have Fun! -
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6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!
- - Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to - the fine folks at http://i-netinnovations.com/ - who are providing hosting for busybox.net and - uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: - http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/ - in Canada and - http://busybox.csservers.de/ - in Germany. I hope this makes things much more - accessible for everyone! - - -
- 3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net! - -
Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox - users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net - (which is where you are probably reading this). - Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both - living on my home system (at the end of my DSL - line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of - busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have - the access needed to keep that system updated (for - example, you might notice the daily snapshots there - stopped some time ago).
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Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home - server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, - the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, - I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net - co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the - co-location effort, Mark Whitley - (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated - his NetWinder computer - for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this - system is co-located, the current speed problems - should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, - some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror - sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.
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- Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox - donations, let me assure you that no one is getting - rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be - spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware - upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently - has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when - google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in - not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of - ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So - far, donations received have been sufficient to - cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may - have co-location fees to worry about, but for now - we are ok. A HUGE thank-you goes out to - everyone that has contributed!
- -Erik
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- 20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released - -
We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox - 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This - one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable - series, and it should take care of most everyone's - needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have - been working on in CVS ready to release (with the - wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in - this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh - (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. - Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when - told to do complex things with backticks.
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This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and - powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it - should work with just about any Linux system you - throw it at. See the changelog for most - of the details. The last release was - very solid for people, and this one should - be even better.
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As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from - http://www.busybox.net/downloads.
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Have Fun.
- -Erik
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18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net! - - - - Click here to help buy busybox.net! -
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- - - - I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing - to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but - will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee - for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will - initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my - home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, - but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth - I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there - have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't - even know how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the - time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this - bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I - start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth - will start costing some money. +
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15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released
+ + The busybox development series has been under construction for + nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So + it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release + of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes + since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version + number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison + 1.0.x...
- I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that - idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument - where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas - about what we should spend our money on that don't involve - busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the - mailing list and web page. So... + The point of "-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 magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen + later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next + Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. + Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns + up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end + of July. +
+ + If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release + and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was + rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That + happens sometimes. Please do NOT send all your patches, + support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of + emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches + sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the + right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
- I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick - up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I - know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as - individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to - contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that - would be wonderful! + I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn + McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III + (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that + have made this release possible.
+ As usual you can download busybox here. + You don't really need to bother with the + changelog, as the changes + vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. + But you can take a look if you really want too. -
23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released -
- - This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes - up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in - the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing too - serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no - new features, no new applets. So without further ado, - here it is. Come and get it. -
- The - changelog has all - the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from - http://busybox.net/downloads. -
Have Fun! -
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2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released -
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of - BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, - and uClibc on - x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number - of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. - Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice - stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes - a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and - cleans up a number of things. - -
- - Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can - use User-Mode Linux - to give it a try by downloading and compiling - buildroot.tar.gz. - You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. - Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. -
- Another cool thing is the nifty - BusyBox Tutorial contributed by K Computing. This requires - a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the - the GPLed shockwave viewer from here - to view the tutorial. -
- - Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the - version number of this release, let me point out that this release - is not 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a - bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form - a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a - stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable - 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then - 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that - the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the - next release and I don't want that to break products that people - are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be - released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will - have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things - stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then - I will release that as a new stable release series. - -
- The - changelog has all - the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from - http://busybox.net/downloads. -
Have Fun! -
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7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released -
- - I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of - BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This - release is the result of many hours of work and has tons - of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds - several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, - and ash). - -
- The - changelog covers - some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that - are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, - BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from - http://busybox.net/downloads. -
Have Fun! -
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10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth -
- The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth - of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / - viewing right here. - -
(Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you - can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively - turning off whichever applets you don't need.) -
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10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released -
- - BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This - release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, - contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only - 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. - There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in - the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in - 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially - deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. -
- - There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For - one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov - added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC - compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility - functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now - all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes - maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now - compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters - for letting me use their system!). -
- You can read the - changelog for - complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from - http://busybox.net/downloads. -
Have Fun! -
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Busybox Boot-Floppy Image - -
Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy - image. Here's how you use it: - -
1. - Download the image - -
2. dd it onto a floppy like so: dd if=busybox.floppy.img - of=/dev/fd0 ; sync - -
3. Pop it in a machine and boot up. - -
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If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: - -
```
-	    mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos        
-	    cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp                          
-	    umount /mnt           
-	    gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
-	    mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
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```
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15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released -
- - 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 - changelog. -
- 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 - Larry Doolittle's website. -
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27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released -
- - 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 changelog. -
- 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. -
- Special Note
- - 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 Larry's website - and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next - release of BusyBox. -
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13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released -
- - 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. -
- The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading - the changelog. -
- Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to - this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. -
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26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released -
- - This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 - syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new - apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, - renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. - There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for - more correct option parsing. - See the changelog - for complete details. - - -
11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released -
- - This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, - and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow - people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a - completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. - BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. - See the changelog - for complete details. - - -
21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released -
- - This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this - point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This - release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, - mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and - telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see - the changelog for - details). -
- Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own - mailing list, - publically browsable - CVS tree, - anonymous - CVS access, and - for those that are actively contributing there is even - CVS write access. - I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. -
- Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced - a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion - we are just skipping 0.44. -
- Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release - of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! - - -
19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix -
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. - For example, with the following test app: -
```
-	#include <syslog.h>
-
-	int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
-	{
-	    openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
-	    while(1) {
-	        syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
-	        sleep(delay);
-	    }
-	    closelog();
-	    return(0);
-	};
-
-	int main(void)
-	{
-	    if (fork()==0)
-	        do_log("A", 2);
-	    do_log("B", 3);
-	}
-
```
- it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff - from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something - while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). -
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. - Thanks Karl! - - -
18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!) -
- I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty - good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release - so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps - have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, - freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely - rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. - More details are available in the - changelog. - Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive - documentation, complete with examples and full usage information. - -
- Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches - and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were - Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, - Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. - There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. -
- - You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here. - -
9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release -
- Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to - do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people - to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at - 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing - tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw - at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because - the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release - of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable - enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural - changes I still want to make. -
- The pre-release can be found here. - Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs. - -
28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release -
- I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 - lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. - He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and - it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the - fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody - and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife - (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying - down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" - (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the - contrary). -
- Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting - labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. -
- So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... - Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect - to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will - include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a - re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now - accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking - problems. - - -
11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released -
- - This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many - bugs have been fixed. See the - changelog for details. - - Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount - filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and - behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak - loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, - Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for - their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound - on it and let me know if you find any bugs. - -
19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released -
- - This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, - mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, - logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device - support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. - The changelog can be found here. - -
7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released -
- - This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), - syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. - New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. - In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which - in some cases produced serious security problems. - As always, the changelog can be found here. - -
11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website -
- I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) - to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website - will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also - contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, - what arguments its apps support, etc. - -
10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released -
- This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains - the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full - changelog can be found here. -
5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released -
- This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, - and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. -

Have Fun! +

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26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released

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- Free Software from Bruce Perens
- The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written - by Bruce Perens. This is his BusyBox website. + The changelog has all + the details. As usual you can download busybox here. +
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18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released
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+ I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 + (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily + a bugfix release for the stable series to address all + the problems that have turned up since the last + release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. + I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done + on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and + should soon be getting its first real release. +

+ The changelog has all + the details. As usual you can download busybox here. +

Have Fun! +

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27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released

+ I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is + now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release + for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since + the last release, and this should address most of those problems. + This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The + development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will + hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. +

+ The changelog has all + the details. As usual you can download busybox here. +

Have Fun! +

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6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!

+ + Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to + the fine folks at http://i-netinnovations.com/ + who are providing hosting for busybox.net and + uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: + http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/ + in Canada and + http://busybox.csservers.de/ + in Germany. I hope this makes things much more + accessible for everyone! + + +

+3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net! + +

Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox +users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net +(which is where you are probably reading this). +Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both +living on my home system (at the end of my DSL +line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of +busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have +the access needed to keep that system updated (for +example, you might notice the daily snapshots there +stopped some time ago).

+ +

Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home +server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, +the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, +I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net +co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the +co-location effort, Mark Whitley +(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated +his NetWinder computer +for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this +system is co-located, the current speed problems +should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, +some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror +sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.

+ +

+ Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox +donations, let me assure you that no one is getting +rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be +spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware +upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently +has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when +google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in +not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of +ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So +far, donations received have been sufficient to +cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may +have co-location fees to worry about, but for now +we are ok. A HUGE thank-you goes out to +everyone that has contributed!
+ -Erik

+ +

+20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released + +

We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox +0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This +one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable +series, and it should take care of most everyone's +needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have +been working on in CVS ready to release (with the +wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in +this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh +(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. +Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when +told to do complex things with backticks.

+ +

This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and +powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it +should work with just about any Linux system you +throw it at. See the changelog for most +of the details. The last release was +very solid for people, and this one should +be even better.

+ +

As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from +http://www.busybox.net/downloads.

+ +

Have Fun.
+ -Erik

+ +

18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net! + + + +Click here to help buy busybox.net! + + + + + + + + + + + +I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing +to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but +will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee +for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will +initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my +home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, +but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth +I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there +have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't +even know how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the +time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this +bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I +start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth +will start costing some money. +

+ +I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that +idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument +where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas +about what we should spend our money on that don't involve +busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the +mailing list and web page. So... +

+ +I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick +up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I +know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as +individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to +contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that +would be wonderful! +

+ + +

23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released +
+ + This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes + up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in + the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing too + serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no + new features, no new applets. So without further ado, + here it is. Come and get it. +

+ The + changelog has all + the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from + http://busybox.net/downloads. +

Have Fun! +

+ + +

2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released +
+ I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of + BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, + and uClibc on + x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number + of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. + Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice + stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes + a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and + cleans up a number of things. + +

+ + Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can + use User-Mode Linux + to give it a try by downloading and compiling + buildroot.tar.gz. + You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. + Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. +

+ Another cool thing is the nifty + BusyBox Tutorial contributed by K Computing. This requires + a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the + the GPLed shockwave viewer from here + to view the tutorial. +

+ + Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the + version number of this release, let me point out that this release + is not 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a + bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form + a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a + stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable + 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then + 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that + the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the + next release and I don't want that to break products that people + are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be + released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will + have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things + stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then + I will release that as a new stable release series. + +

+ The + changelog has all + the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from + http://busybox.net/downloads. +

Have Fun! +

+ + +

7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released +
+ + I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of + BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This + release is the result of many hours of work and has tons + of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds + several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, + and ash). + +

+ The + changelog covers + some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that + are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, + BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from + http://busybox.net/downloads. +

Have Fun! +

+ + +

10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth +
+The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth +of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / +viewing right here. + +

(Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you +can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively +turning off whichever applets you don't need.) +

+ + +

10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released +
+ + BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This + release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, + contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only + 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. + There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in + the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in + 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially + deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. +

+ + There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For + one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov + added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC + compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility + functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now + all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes + maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now + compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters + for letting me use their system!). +

+ You can read the + changelog for + complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from + http://busybox.net/downloads. +

Have Fun! +

+ +

Busybox Boot-Floppy Image + +

Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy +image. Here's how you use it: + +

+ Download the image + +
dd it onto a floppy like so: dd if=busybox.floppy.img + of=/dev/fd0 ; sync + +
Pop it in a machine and boot up. + +

+ +

If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: -

+    mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos        
+    cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp                          
+    umount /mnt           
+    gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
+    mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
+

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15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released +
+ + 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 + changelog. +

+ 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 + Larry Doolittle's website. +

+ + +

27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released +
+ + 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 changelog. +

+ 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. +

+ Special Note
+ + 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 Larry's website + and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next + release of BusyBox. +

+ +

13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released +
+ + 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. +

+ The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading + the changelog. +

+ Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to + this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. +

26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released +
+ + This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 + syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new + apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, + renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. + There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for + more correct option parsing. + See the changelog + for complete details. + + +

11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released +
+ + This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, + and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow + people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a + completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. + BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. + See the changelog + for complete details. + + +

21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released +
+ + This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this + point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This + release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, + mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and + telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see + the changelog for + details). +

+ Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own + mailing list, + publically browsable + CVS tree, + anonymous + CVS access, and + for those that are actively contributing there is even + CVS write access. + I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. +

+ Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced + a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion + we are just skipping 0.44. +

+ Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release + of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! + + +

19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix +
+Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. +For example, with the following test app: +

+#include <syslog.h>
+
+int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
+{
+    openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
+    while(1) {
+	syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
+	sleep(delay);
+    }
+    closelog();
+    return(0);
+};
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    if (fork()==0)
+	do_log("A", 2);
+    do_log("B", 3);
+}
+

+it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff +from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something +while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). +

+Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. +Thanks Karl! + + +

18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!) +
+I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty +good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release +so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps +have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, +freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely +rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. +More details are available in the +changelog. +Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive +documentation, complete with examples and full usage information. + +

+Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches +and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were +Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, +Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. +There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. +

+ +You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here. + +

9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release +
+Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to +do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people +to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at +5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing +tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw +at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because +the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release +of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable +enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural +changes I still want to make. +

+The pre-release can be found here. +Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs. + +

28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release +
+I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 +lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. +He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and +it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the +fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody +and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife +(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying +down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" +(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the +contrary). +

+Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting +labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. +

+So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... +Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect +to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will +include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a +re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now +accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking +problems. + + +

11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released +
+ + This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many + bugs have been fixed. See the + changelog for details. + + Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount + filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and + behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak + loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, + Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for + their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound + on it and let me know if you find any bugs. + +

19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released +
+ + This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, + mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, + logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device + support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. + The changelog can be found here. + +

7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released +
+ + This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), + syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. + New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. + In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which + in some cases produced serious security problems. + As always, the changelog can be found here. + +

11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website +
+ I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) + to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website + will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also + contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, + what arguments its apps support, etc. + +

10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released +
+ This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains + the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full + changelog can be found here. +

5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released +
+ This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, + and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. -

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