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diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index 5e46cf31..38d6b6e3 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -8,6 +8,94 @@ a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p> <h2>News</h2> +<a name="23-06-2018" /><a href="#23-06-2018"><hr><h2><b>June 23, 2018</b></h2></a> +<blockquote><p> +<p>There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what +the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be +replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another +theory which states that this has already happened.</p> +<p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p> +</blockquote> + +<p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.7.7.tar.gz>Toybox 0.7.7</a> +(<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.7.7>git commit</a>) +is out.</p> + +<p><u>New commands</u>: Rob Landley added <b>getconf</b>, Elliott Hughes added +<b>uuidgen</b>, and <b>ping</b> and <b>fmt</b> were promoted out of pending.</p> + +<p><u>New options</u>: The <b>cp</b> command added the --parents option, +<b>readlink</b> now has -m to show where a missing path would be, +<b>netstat</b> got some updates (better nommu support, it can use /etc/services +names, more command line options are bounds checked), +Ng Zhi An added --getra and --setra (get/set readahead) to <b>blockdev</b>, +Elliott Hughes added <b>xxd</b> -o and made <b>top</b> -d understand fractional +sections (because the Linux Test Project uses that), and +Minghui Liu added <b>watch</b> -b.</p> + +<p><u>Bugfixes</u>: Several fixes to <b>vmstat</b>: Elliott Hughes made it work on a +48-core machine +and fixed a glitch with -n, Haroon Maqsood pointed out "vmstat 1 1" didn't +stop and "vmstat -n" didn't print the first theader line. +Minghui Liu fixed a bug where <b>cp</b> -p didn't preserve +timestamps, and pointed out the b, c, and d suffixes on numbers weren't +working. Ryan Pritchard pointed out that <b>du</b> -d0 should act like du -s. +Filip Perich made an RFC2347 OACK compliance fix to <b>tftp</b> in pending. +Zach van Rijn fixed a bug in <b>xxd</b> causing incorrect translation of +uppercase characters. +Elliott fixed several things in <b>top</b> (removed spurious '\r' characters from -b +output, removed interactive flicker, made running processes bold), and +pushed Rob to make <b>file</b> work better recognizing things on stdin +("cat /bin/ls | file -" still won't work but "file - < /bin/ls" should). +Rob fixed a bug in <b>netstat</b> on 64 bit big endian systems, +and fixed <b>cut</b> -DF +(a posix compliance fix broke its ability to act as a decent awk replacment +because outputting all delimiterless lines isn't what you want there, -D +now disables that too).</p> +</u></p> + +<p><u>Documentation</u>: Rob added a buildroot section to the roadmap with the +prequisites that needs to run, and reformatted more of the ps --help text +to two columns.</p> + +<p><u>Library</u>: +FLAGS_NODASH is now set in toys.optargs when an optstring starting +with & has no dash in its first argument. (This lets "ps -ax" and "ps ax" +behave differently.) Factored out xtestfile() into lib/. +The comma-separated-list parsing infrastructure moved to lib/commas.c. +Added mkpath() for the common case of mkpathat() and #defined MKPATHAT_* +constants for the uncommon cases. Elliott added better error checking +to xparsetime() and fixed a bug in names_to_pid() (used in <b>pidof</b> +and <b>killall</b> and such). +Rob inlined the old toys/e2fs.h into pending's mke2fs, +and removed a rogue semicolon from the WOULD_EXIT() macro that screwed +up if() statement levels. The do_lines() semantics changed adding a +callback(0,0) at the end of each file.</p> + +<p><u>Tests</u>: +The test_* commands under toys/example were all renamed demo_* so +they don't share a namespace with running a standalone command +through the test suite (ala "make test_sed"), then +demo_human_readable became demo_number so it can also test atolx() +suffixes. The readlink.test was getting confused by a +behavior difference between toybox and ubuntu (Ubuntu's ln -sf wouldn't +replace a symlink that pointed to itself, toybox's would), now there's +an explicit rm so it works on ubuntu too. The test suite plumbing's +error message for a test with the wrong number of arguments now +correctly identifies which test it's complaining about, and it can now +run a test on a command name beginning with "-" (none yet but it +comes up in toysh).</p> + +<p><u>Building</u>: You can now override strip with $STRIP. The set of +"make install_airlock" commands got tweaked for the 4.17 kernel (which +needs bison and flex because the new kconfig plumbing doesn't have _shipped +versions of those generated files like the old kconfig did), and for +the new release (remove ping, toybox provides it now). +$LDFLAGS now applies to library probing (the android NDK provides +dynamic libraries without corresponding --static versions). +Elliott took a CFG_TOYBOX_DEBUG check out of an error_exit() to make +clang stop complaining about an error that should never happen.</p> + <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 /> |