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diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index 2b2e0b7c..aa79566a 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -12,6 +12,22 @@ release tarball.]</p> <h2>News</h2> +<p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8</a>toybox 0.0.8</a> +adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p> + +<p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit +binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p> + +<p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to +produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For +example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, +pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. +(Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p> + +<p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several +netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a +reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p> + <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a> adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the |