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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ #include "toys.h" #ifndef TOYBOX_VERSION -#define TOYBOX_VERSION "0.7.3" +#define TOYBOX_VERSION "0.7.4" #endif // Populate toy_list[]. diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index 73516b0b..f2733a72 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -8,6 +8,93 @@ a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p> <h2>News</h2> +<a name="19-06-2017" /><a href="#19-06-2017"><hr><h2><b>June 19, 2017</b></h2></a> +<blockquote><p>It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. +To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.</p> +<p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p> +</blockquote> + +<p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.7.4.tar.gz>Toybox 0.7.4</a> +(<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.7.4>git commit</a>) +is out. No new commands this time, but +<b>chrt</b> and <b>dmesg</b> got promoted out of pending.</p> + +<p><u>New features</u>: +Rob rewrote paste, which should work much better now, and added grep +-M and -S to match and skip wildcards respectively (useful with -r). +Elliott's updated dmesg has -T and --color. The file +command can recognize gzip now, uptime grew -s, date grew %N, env knows - as a first argument +means -i (posix!) and grew -0, ls defaults to -b +instead of -q now when there's a tty, and ls has a new -ll option (with +--full-time as a compatibility synonym) showing nanoseconds and (for some +reason) timezone. (Why do individual files have timezones?) Elliott added +"uudecode -o -" support. Illya Kuzmich taught head -v and -q. The cpio +code no longer adds the "TRAILER!!!" entry by default (initramfs extractor +doesn't care) without which you can concatenate cpio archives with "cat". +(Use the new --trailer option if you want the legacy behavior.) +In pending, fdisk compiles now and tar understands bzip2.</p> + +<p><u>Build</u>: +The "make install_airlock" target now symlinks bc from the host because +the kernel <a href=https://landley.net/notes-2013.html#28-03-2013>inexplicably</a> +needs that to build. This was motivated by +<a href=https://github.com/landley/mkroot>mkroot</a>, which builds under +a toybox airlock directory.</p> + +<p>Lots of work on the test suite, mostly from the Android guys who are now +running it under Android. This fixed several existing tests that didn't +pass, made more tests run on a toybox-only system, and so on. The test suite +infrastructure now has a second testing function, +"testcmd", which supplies the command name being tested (bypassing +shell builtins).</p> + +<p>Various android build and config fixes, getting closer to being able +to let android someday use scripts/make.sh instead of generated/* snapshots. +Also more work into building under android's NDK; not quite there yet +but much closer. +Use nproc in scripts/make.sh detect available processors (so you can control the SMP level with taskset). +Removed the old uClibc compatibility glue, it's been 5 years since their +<a href=http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-December/180102.html>last release</a>.</p> + +<p>The new config option TOYBOX_PEDANTIC_ARGS checks arguments when there +are no arguments, so things like "uptime" no longer silently ignore arguments +you pass but instead refuse to run.</p> + +<p><u>Docs</u>: +The FAQ now has more than one entry. Commands no longer output the full +help text for argument errors but instead just say "See %s --help" with the +command name (in addition to the actual error message). +Elliott did a big period-ectomy on all the --help text, and +we cleaned up some tab/space inconsistency. The +non-html help -a output now has separators with the command name. +The top/iotop and pkill/pgrep help text now describe a lot more of what +the commands can do. Twitter's code of conduct page went down so we +mirrored the text locally.</p> + +<p><u>Bugfixes</u>: +Fixed a race condition in ps/top where a process that exited right as we +read its data returned a different error value than we were expecting (which +was causing long-running top instances to occasionally exit), +mount now gives an error if it can't autodetect the filesystem +type, ps no longer queries the terminal size when output isn't to a tty +(so "ps -A | cat" doesn't vary), date's chkmktime() was replaced with +simple range checks for fields (to avoid false positives from things like +timezones and daylight savings time), removed %s from date's help (we +didn't implement it, we have @seconds[.nanoseconds] instead), fixed +zcat's buffer flush logic (which was always failing on files larger +than 32k), and factor now detects requests for numbers >64 bits and fails +loudly instead of producing incorrect answers. +Elliott fixed touch -a/-m (they were backwards), and allowed ':' in +setprop's property names. Grep now exits with 2 for errors (so -q can +distinguish "didn't find" from "didn't work"), doesn't stop on symlinks +that point nowhere (there was an error_exit() that should just be a warning), +and provides error messages for files we could open but not read.</p> + +<p><u>Library</u>: +New library functions: strend() complements strstart(), minof()/maxof() +are min/max macros that evalute arguments once and autodetect type (why +isn't this in libc?), xmmap() checks MAP_FAILED (which is not NULL).</p> + <a name="21-02-2017" /><a href="#21-02-2017"><hr><h2><b>February 21, 2017</b></h2></a> <blockquote><p>Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention |