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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:45:01 +0000
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+<h3>News archive</h3>
 
 <ul>
+
+  <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b>
+    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>.
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>.
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+    <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
+   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
+ 800675     636    7080  808391   c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
+ 798392     611    6900  805903   c4c0f busybox-1.11.0
+</pre>
+
+    <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova),
+    fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Fischer)
+
+    <p>Changes since previous release:
+      <ul>
+	<li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li>
+	<li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li>
+	<li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li>
+	<li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li>
+	<li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li>
+	<li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li>
+	<li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li>
+	<li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li>
+	<li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li>
+	<li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li>
+	<li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li>
+	<li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li>
+	<li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li>
+	<li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li>
+	<li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li>
+	<li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li>
+	<li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li>
+	<li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li>
+	<li>ls: support Unicode in names</li>
+	<li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li>
+	<li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li>
+	<li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li>
+	<li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li>
+      </ul>
+    <p>
+    The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
+    the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
+    </p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b>
+    <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support
+    for the BusyBox project:
+    </p>
+      <ul>
+        <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html">
+	TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li>
+	<li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided
+        a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start">
+	Blackfin development board</a> free of charge.
+	<a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a>
+	is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable.
+	If you are an embedded device developer,
+	please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available
+	for download for this board. Visit
+	<a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a>
+	for more information.
+	</li>
+      </ul>
+  </li>
+
+  <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b>
+    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>.
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+    <p>
+    Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush,
+    ip, mdev and syslogd.
+    </p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b>
+    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>.
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+    <p>
+    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.
+    <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please
+    report if you encounter any problems with it.
+    </p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b>
+    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>.
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+    <p>
+    Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
+    fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.
+  </li>
+
+  <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 &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
+	findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
+	lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;),
+	sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;), tac, tftpd.
+    </p>
+    <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.
+    </p>
+    <p>Changes since previous release:
+    </p>
+      <ul>
+	<li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li>
+	<li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li>
+	<li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;)</li>
+	<li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li>
+	<li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li>
+	<li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2&gt;/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li>
+	<li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li>
+	<li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li>
+	<li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li>
+	<li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li>
+	<li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li>
+	<li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li>
+	<li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li>
+	<li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li>
+	<li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li>
+	<li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li>
+	<li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li>
+	<li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples &lt;roy at marples.name&gt;)</li>
+	<li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr &gt;= 256 * 256)/(blknr &lt; 256 * 256)/</li>
+	<li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li>
+	<li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.com&gt;</li>
+	<li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund &lt;Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se&gt;)</li>
+	<li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li>
+	<li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li>
+	<li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li>
+	<li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li>
+	<li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li>
+	<li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard &lt;jacmet AT uclibc.org&gt;)</li>
+	<li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li>
+	<li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li>
+	<li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li>
+	<li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li>
+	<li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li>
+	<li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li>
+	<li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li>
+	<li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li>
+	<li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher &lt;eugebo AT gmail.com&gt;)</li>
+	<li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li>
+	<li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li>
+	<li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li>
+	<li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li>
+	<li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li>
+	<li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li>
+	<li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li>
+	<li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li>
+	<li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li>
+	<li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li>
+	<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>
+	<li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], &lt;enter search pattern&gt;, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!</li>
+	<li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li>
+	<li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li>
+	<li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li>
+	<li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;</li>
+	<li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li>
+	<li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li>
+	<li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li>
+	<li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li>
+	<li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras &lt;timo.teras at iki.fi&gt;)</li>
+	<li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li>
+	<li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li>
+	<li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li>
+	<li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)</li>
+	<li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li>
+	<li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li>
+	<li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li>
+	<li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li>
+	<li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li>
+	<li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li>
+	<li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li>
+	<li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li>
+	<li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li>
+	<li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li>
+	<li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li>
+	<li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li>
+	<li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li>
+	<li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li>
+	<li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li>
+	<li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin &lt;mailinglist.cache at gmail.com&gt;</li>
+	<li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li>
+	<li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li>
+	<li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li>
+	<li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li>
+	<li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li>
+	<li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez &lt;roberto.gordo AT gmail.com&gt;</li>
+	<li>run-parts: add --reverse</li>
+	<li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li>
+	<li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li>
+	<li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li>
+	<li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl &lt;Ralf.Friedl AT online.de&gt;)</li>
+	<li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li>
+	<li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li>
+	<li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li>
+	<li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li>
+	<li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li>
+	<li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li>
+	<li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li>
+	<li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li>
+	<li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li>
+	<li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li>
+	<li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;</li>
+	<li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li>
+	<li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li>
+	<li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li>
+	<li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li>
+	<li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li>
+	<li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li>
+	<li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li>
+	<li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com&gt;)</li>
+	<li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson &lt;jonas.danielsson AT axis.com&gt;)</li>
+	<li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li>
+	<li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li>
+	<li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li>
+	<li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;</li>
+	<li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li>
+	<li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li>
+	<li>vi: many fixes</li>
+	<li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li>
+	<li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li>
+      </ul>
+  </li>
+
+  <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b>
+    <p>
+    Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
+    for future hot patches are in parentheses.
+    <p>
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a>
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>),
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a>
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>),
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a>
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>),
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a>
+    (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>).
+    <p>
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a>
+    </p>
+
+
   <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b>
     <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>.
     (<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>,
@@ -81,7 +362,7 @@ parse_prompt           4132  insmod_main            3152
 	<li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com&gt;)
 	<li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com&gt;)
       </ul>
-    </p>
+  </li>
 
   <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
     <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
@@ -212,8 +493,6 @@ Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
 	<li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
 	<li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
       </ul>
-    </p>
-
   </li>
 
   <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
@@ -388,7 +667,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc:
 	<li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
 	<li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
       </ul>
-    </p>
   </li>
 
   <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
@@ -511,7 +789,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc:
 <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
 <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
     </ul>
-    </p>
   </li>
 
   <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
@@ -560,7 +837,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc:
     <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
         syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
     </ul>
-    </p>
   </li>
 
   <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
@@ -611,7 +887,6 @@ Same .config built against static uclibc:
     <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
     ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
     </ul>
-    </p>
   </li>
 
   <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
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