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<li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
<p>It's a bit overdue, but
<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
<p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
<p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
</p>
</li>
<li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
<p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
<li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
<p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
might as well point you all at
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
<p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
(dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
in a pear... Ahem.</p>
<p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
/etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
<li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
<p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
over the weekend.</p>
<p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
<p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p>
<li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
<p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
<li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
<p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches
backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
for more info.</p>
<p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
<li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
<p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
by Erik's father's law firm, and the
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
<a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
<p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
free and open source software projects (such as
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
<a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
phrase you get to use every day.</p>
<li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
<p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p>
<p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
the various small fixes have been collected together into a
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
June.</p>
</li>
<li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
<p>The new stable release is
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
(It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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