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author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2019-02-08 19:54:47 -0600 |
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committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2019-02-08 19:54:47 -0600 |
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diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index f14f4f11..600b298d 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -8,6 +8,129 @@ a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p> <h2>News</h2> +<a name="08-02-2019" /><a href="#08-02-2019"><hr><h2><b>February 8, 2019</b></h2></a> +<blockquote> +<p>"Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified +Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and +in fact in later editions of the book all pages beyond this point have +been left blank to save on printing costs."</p> +<p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p> +</blockquote> + +<p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.8.0.tar.gz>Toybox 0.8.0</a> +(<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.8.0>git commit</a>) +is out.</p> + +<p>Toybox now builds on MacOS and FreeBSD, thanks to the efforts of Elliott +Hughes and Ed Maste respectively. Use the "make macos_defconfig" and "make +freebsd_defconfig" targets to enable the set of commands that compile on +each so far.</p> + +<p><u>New commands</u>: Added an <b>sntp</b> client/server (RFC 4330 Simple Network Time +Protocol, a compatible subset of ntp). The <b>test</b> command was rewritten +and promoted out of pending.</p> + +<p><u>New options</u>: <b>grep</b> now has --color, supports embedded NUL bytes in its input, +recognizes binary files, and passes all of grep.test (in case you +needed the middle numerical field of -bB, etc). +Josh Gao added ipv6 and UDP support to <b>netcat</b>. +Volodymyr Medvid reported that install -d doesn't honor -o or -g. +Elliott Hughes did a lot of work to support hermetic Android/AOSP builds: +<b>mkdir</b> accepts both --parent and --parents as synonyms for -p, <b>touch</b> ignores -f, +<b>basename</b> added -s to remove a trailing suffix, <b>dirname</b> now supports multiple +arguments, <b>cmp</b> accepts --quiet and --silent as synonyms for -s, <b>hostname</b> +added -sfd, <b>head</b> added --bytes as a synonym for -c and --lines as a synonym +for -n, <b>mktemp</b> added -t and fixed -u, <b>sed</b> added -z and -iEXT to keep backup files, +<b>md5sum</b> and sha1sum added --status and --check as synonyms -s and -c, +<b>readlink</b> added --cannonicalize as a synonym for -f, <b>sort</b> grew -V, +<b>patch</b> added -s its synonym --quiet, <b>stat</b> added --format as +a synonym for -c, <b>xargs</b> added -p -t -r, +Eduardas Meile asked +that <b>umount</b> ignore -c. Reverend Homer added a small optimization to file.c, +and Elliott taught <b>file</b> to recognize riscv ELF binaries. Peter Collingbourne +taught <b>ls</b> -t to use the nanoseconds field. +<b>patch</b> has better support for patching a file with a tab in the name.</p> + +<p><u>Bugfixes</u>: +<b>cp</b> --preserve was segfaulting when you didn't specify _what_ to +preserve (it now correctly defaults to "mot") and didn't get the permissions +right when copying a symlink's contents as a regular file, +<b>sort</b> -x didn't work when +attached to a key, <b>host</b> didn't allocate a big enough buffer for worst +case ipv6 address size, <b>sed</b> needed a ; between b and } when other +implementations don't (we're already well past what posix says but a script +out in the field broke...), +and several fixes to <b>hostname</b> in a container, <b>ps</b>/<b>top</b> were +misreading the VIRT and SHM fields.</p> + +<p><u>Pending</u>: Gavin Howard updated <b>bc</b> and added more tests, +Marius Adaskevicius pointed out <b>mdev</b> -s should follow symlinks, +Yangchun Fu reported a <b>dhcp</b> checksum bug, <b>modprobe</b> needed errno reset +to avoid reporting spurious errors in verbose mode and no longer +exits with status 1 if it can't find /etc/modprobe.conf, the <b>more</b> command +wasn't always flushing stdout when it exited.</p> + +<p><u>Build</u>: +<b>chrt</b> no longer #warns about the musl sched_get_priority_min() bug, but +instead works around it. +We were mixing setjmp/siglongjmp (harmless in some contexts but it kind +of annoyed FreeBSD), and +make install_airlock now adds sha256sum (because the Linux 4.20 build now +needs that for the s390x target).</p> + +<p><u>Coding style</u>: +Rob converted the rest of the option GLOBALS() to the new single letter +coding style, and the new FLAG(x) macro is a slightly tidier way to say +"toys.optflags&FLAG_x". +Removed CFG_SORT_BIG (the sort command always +has the full functionality now. The general future direction or toybox +is to either have a command or not have it; multiple versions of the +same command aren't worth the complexity in testing, documentation, +or system adminstration).</p> + +<p><u>Library code</u>: +The mkflags plumbing can now support arbitrary punctuation as option +names via an escape syntax (because mkfs.vfat specifies an offset with -@), +and lib/args.c now only sets FLAGS_NODASH when the first argument +didn't have a dash (allowing "ps ax" and "ps -ax" to behave differently).</p> + +<p>Added an xrename() function, +xchdir() has better error reporting, xconnect()/xbind() had their +implementations merged, xsendto() moved from ping to lib, xpoll() now +measures elapsed time and only waits for the remaining period when restarted, +and Eduardas Meile converted several error_exit() to error_exit_raw() (because +yocto 2.6 buils with -Werror=format-security by default).</p> + +<p>There's a scripts/portability.sh now which lets the build use gsed and gmake +(when available) in more places to avoid broken host versions on MacOS and FreeBSD. +The syntax of the "noreturn" attribute +changed slightly, some calls to strnstr() were replaced with strcasestr(), +we work around MacOS' lack of features.h, portability.h can now do Apple's +endianness macros, and so on.</p> + +<p>Following the <a href=faq.html#support_horizon>seven year rule</a> +Elliott removed support or glibc 2.10, and also +reformatted a lot of --help text for consistency (removing trailing +periods and such).</p> + +<p><u>Test suite</u>: +The test suite now has its own version of "pending", specifically "make tests" +skips test files without the executable bit set (unless you export $TEST_ALL). +This eliminates "expected failures" (I.E. files with unresolved todo items) +from the global regression test. Additional tests can be added to the global +regression test with chmod +x as the todo items they document get resolved.</p> + +<p>Several places the test suite got fluffed out, including guards to skip +root-only tests when run as a normal user. The testcmd function prints the +short name instead of the full path to the command. +The tests for the test command +("test.test") no longer test the shell builtin but correctly test the +toybox command. (Now say that ten times fast.)</p> + +<p>Bash version skew required replacing "continue" with "return" to stop +tests early in bash 4.4 (for VERBOSE=fail).</p> + + <a name="31-10-2018" /><a href="#31-10-2018"><hr><h2><b>October 31, 2018</b></h2></a> <blockquote><p> "In the beginning the Universe was created. |