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diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index dd526b16..14c81ca4 100755..100644 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -8,6 +8,139 @@ a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p> <h2>News</h2> +todo: document TAGGED_ARRAY in design.html, linestack, interestingtimes + +<a name="02-02-2016" /><a href="#02-02-2016"><hr><h2><b>February 2, 2016</b></h2></a> +<blockquote><p>"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that +quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with +you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." +- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> + +<p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.7.0.tar.gz>Toybox 0.7.0</a> +(<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.7.0>git commit</a>) +is out.</p> + +<p>The new commands in defconfig are <b>iotop</b>, <b>top</b>, <b>pgrep</b>, +and <b>pkill</b> +(most replacing corresponding versions from pending). Added find -ABC, +swapon -d (discard), mkswap -L (label) and UUID support, and find -delete. +Izabera added free -h and unshare -f. Josh Gao implemented tail -f. +Jose Bollo submitted cp --preserve=context,attr. Kylie McClain added +mktemp -u.</p> + +<p>In pending there's the start of a vi command, and Sameer Pradhan contributed +a new dhcp6. This cycle saw several rounds of route cleanup and a little dhcp +cleanup, but neither are complete yet. Lipi Lee did some cleanup to netstat.c +and Elliott Hughes removed warnings from traceroute.</p> + +<p>Lots of updates to ps: several new -o options, -k (--sort) -O and -M, +improved compatability with Android's historical behavior, and +extensive internal code cleanup (including the removal of all +the magic constants).</p> + +<h3><b>Website</b></h3> + +<p>Dreamhost restored the <a href="#12-21-2015">missing 11 months</a> +to the mailing list archive, in the process deleting the month after +that. Now they've asked if I have mbox files archiving the new +gap (between December 20, 2015 to January 21, 2016, and presumably they +could also fill in the gap from December 14, 2014 to january 3, 2015 that's +been there since the last time they did this), +but due some gmail filtering I've +<a href=http://landley.net/notes-2012.html#15-10-2012>never +been able to disable</a>, my copy of those files is spread among 3 different +mbox files I'd have to sort/filter/collate. (It's on the todo list.)</p> + +<p>Added a code of conduct to the README (we're +<a href=https://engineering.twitter.com/opensource/code-of-conduct>borrowing twitter's</a>) because somebody +made it necessary.</p> + +<h3><b>Bugfixes</b></h3> +<p>Fixed another sed bug where any ] right after [ was skipped (not just the +first one in the range). Fixed sort -f and added test cases. +Assume 80 columns in "ls -m | cat", ls -L is no longer backwards, +and ls of files with no paths no longer uses an uninitialized (zero) dirfd. +Several bugfixes +to find (Gilad Arnold fixed -perm, Daniel K. Levy fixed "find . -exec echo {}", +and while we're there Rob Landley fixed find --prune, made "find . -execdir +echo {} + -execdir ls {} +" work, and ripped out the environment size +measuring code that checked for a 128k limit removed back in linux 2.6.22). +Elliott Hughes fixed the date command's parsing of 4 digit +years and documented the %s escape, fixed hwclock -u, and pointed out +that runcon needs to exec to do its job (not recursively call another +command_main() in the same process). Tom Marshall reported that blkid was +handling ext2 wrong. Mike Moreton corrected cpio extraction's uid and gid +values, and added a --no-preserve-owner option. Fixed the SUID permission +dropping logic (which was a bit over-zealous, preventing some commands from +running at all).</p> + +,p>I'm told that debian-testing broke its libc so the nsenter build breaks, +but my attempts to install the debian-testing network cd image under +qemu keep breaking. Maybe next release they'll fix it enough I can actually +reproduce the problem. (Debootstrap under unbuntu builds an ubuntu-flavored +chroot in which toybox builds fine.)</p> + +<h3><b>Documentation</b></h3> +<p>Rewrite of the about.html page, tweaks to design.html, and a re-triage of +sbase in roadmap.html. Update to mkstatus.py to collate multiple span +tags with the same id, resulting in a larger status.html page (which +was previously ignoring some commands in the roadmap).</p> + +<p>Expanded the defconfig/allyesconfig/allnoconfighelp text in "make help" +to explain what they're for.</p> + +<h3><b>infrastructure</b></h3> +<ul> +<li><p>Expanded toys.optargs to 64 bits so a command can have more than 32 options.</p></li> +<li><p>Added NOEXIT() wrapper to turn xwrap() functions into warning versions +using the existing longjump(toys.rebound) infrastructure.</p></li> +<li><p>Renamed dirtree->data to dirfd and stopped storing symlink length +into it (this fixed a bug where following symlinks to directories +didn't give a valid directory filehandle, noticeable with ls -Z).</p></li> +<li><p>New TAGGED_ARRAY() infrastructure generates index and bitmask macros +for arrays of structures starting with a name string.</p></li> +<li><p>New lib/linestack.c for utf8 fontmetrics (draw_str() and utf8len() +and so on), and for tracking multiple lines of text +(vi, less, shell history) that need wordwrapping and scrolling up/down.</p></li> +<li><p>Upgrades to lib/interestingtimes.c: scan_key() now has a timeout +in miliseconds and to recognizes more sequences including ANSI +window size probes. New utf8 test files in tests/files/utf8 including +sequence reversing, stacked combining chars, and all three types of +unprintable sequences (low ascii <32 ala ^X, invalid utf8 sequences ala +<AB><CD>, and invalid unicode code points ala U+1234).</p></li> +<li><p>More comma handling code in lib.c: comma_args()</p></li> +<li><p>Added error_msg_raw() to shut up fortify's endless static checking false +positives.</p></li> +<li><p>readfileat() can now realloc() in a loop to read long files.</p></li> +</ul> + +<a name="12-21-2015" /><a href="#12-21-2015"><hr><h2><b>December 21, 2015</b></h2></a> + +<p>Yes, 11 months have gone missing from the mailing list web archive.</p> + +<p>Yesterday evening Dreamhost's mailman server went down (timing out trying +to connect). I poked them about it, they +<a href=https://twitter.com/landley/status/678781271670149121>blamed +DNS</a>, I explained that the hang was _after_ the DNS lookup and +entered the dig info into the trouble ticket showing the IPs the DNS +queries were returning, they reinstalled the server at that IP from what I +assume was their most recent backup, and that's how 11 months of messages +vanished out of the archive.</p> + +<p>I've <a href=https://twitter.com/landley/status/679114451975467008>continued to poke them about it</a> but I honestly believe that's the best they +can do. <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost.txt>Last time</a> +this sort of thing <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost2.txt>happened</a> +we went back and forth for months, so I added a link to a backup web +archive (in the nav bar on the left) that isn't controlled by dreamhost, +and thus doesn't gratuitously lose data on a regular basis. (I note +the earlier hole in Dreamhost's archive was never fixed either. That +was data never getting archived, this is a year's worth of data that +was in the archive until yesterday vanishing after the fact.)</p> + +<p>If you're wondering why the <a href=http://lists.landley.net>top level</a> +list page has been "temporarily disabled" for multiple years now... you'd have +to ask Dreamhost. I know I have. More than a dozen times.</p> + <a name="03-11-2015" /><a href="#03-11-2015"><hr><h2><b>November 3, 2015</b></h2></a> <blockquote><p>"Alright," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity |