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diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index a66ed6a8..5e46cf31 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -8,7 +8,75 @@ a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p> <h2>News</h2> -<a name="12-10-2017" /><a href="#03-10-2017"><hr><h2><b>October 12, 2017</b></h2></a> +<a name="24-02-2018" /><a href="#24-02-2018"><hr><h2><b>February 24, 2018</b></h2></a> +<blockquote><p> +"Arthur," said Ford.<br /> +"Hello? Yes?" said Arthur.<br /> +"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."<br /> +"Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."<br /> +</p> +<p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p> +</blockquote> + +<p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.7.6.tar.gz>Toybox 0.7.6</a> +(<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.7.6>git commit</a>) +is out, a month and change late.</p> + +<p>This release adds a <b>crc32</b> command and +cleans up and promotes <b>iconv</b>, <b>logger</b>, and <b>setfattr</b>. +Pending added <b>stty</b> and <b>fmt</b>, the other half of <b>ping</b>, +and got a lot of cleanup on <b>gzip</b>/<b>gunzip</b>/<b>zcat</b>.</p> + +<p>The <b>cut</b> command got a complete rewrite adding support for multiple +ranges, utf8/unicode characters, and new -CDFO options. Use -C to measure +columns rather than characters (for double width chars), and "cut -DF 3-5" +selects words (like "awk '{print $3 $4 $5}'").</p> + +<p>This release adds <b>top -m</b> and <b>iotop -H</b> (and fixed top width truncating for narrow terminal windows), +added <b>iconv -c</b>, fixed <b>ps -T 1234</b> to show threads belonging to +that PID, improved <b>file</b>'s executable identification (properly recognizing +both endiannesses and adding sh/frv fdpic, bpf, and new microblaze +identifiers), and <b>blkid</b> now only shows LABEL= when it isn't blank.</p> + +<p>Running ./configure now does "make defconfig", help_exit() now shows the +"See %s --help" message on the same line, and several web pages +(about, code, roadmap, cleanup) got updates.</p> + +<p>Elliott and the Android devs added <b>df -i</b>, <b>uptime -p</b>, +<b>time -v</b>, and <b>xxd -i -ri</b>, +fixed <b>id -G</b> to only output the group IDs, fixed the <b>xargs -0 -n</b> +combination, made <b>find -exec +</b> obey ARG_MAX (just like xargs), made +<b>killall</b> kill scripts too, fixed an off by one error in <b>pidof</b> +that could cause false positive matches in 15 character names, added +gzip/gunzip/zcat tests, and taught <b>file</b> to identify more stuff +(ogg, TrueType font, LLVM bitcode, PEM certs, and PE executables), and +for some reason needed TOYBOX_VENDOR in the version stuff. +Android <b>getprop</b>/<b>setprop</b> now allows ro. properties to have +arbitrary lengths, <b>losetup</b> can now find loop devices under /dev/block (where android puts +them for historical reasons), and Andreas Gampe pointed out a thinko in +<b>top</b> that triggered llvm's address sanitizer checks.</p> + +<p>Gael PORTAY asked for mdev to work when Linux has the +block layer configured out, Patrick Oppenlander pointed out a problem +with make bloatcheck's build dependencies, and +xuphung on github fixed config2help building on MacOS X.</p> + +<p>Commands with locale support now setlocale(LC_TYPE, "C.UTF-8") for more +targeted locale support (enable character parsing with +utf8 support, use "C" semantics otherwise). The toys/example/test_*.c +commands got renamed demo_*.c.</p> + +<p>In lib.c the millitime() function returns current unix time in milliseconds +(which as a 64 bit number is good for + or - 292 million years from +midnight Jan 1 1970), and the old xgetty() function became tty_fd() returning +-1 instead of erroring out.</p> + +<p>The "make help" text moved from the Makefile to scripts/help.txt, +ls.c now lists some of its deviations from posix, and work is underway +to make ps.c more intelligible (and figure out how to break it up into +multiple files).</p> + +<a name="12-10-2017" /><a href="#12-10-2017"><hr><h2><b>October 12, 2017</b></h2></a> <blockquote><p>Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?</p> <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p> |