From 7866350a78a74bfd4c43554fac40cfbc8c0178db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Landley Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:44:48 -0600 Subject: Release announcement for 0.4.7. --- www/news.html | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index 0978881f..b100353e 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -6,6 +6,43 @@ reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into a development environment. See the links on the left for details.

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November 18, 2013 +

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." - +The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Toybox 0.4.7 is based on +commit 1122.

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New commands: Brad Conroy submitted blkid. Elie De Brauwer submitted +reboot, halt, and poweroff. Strake's nl got cleaned up and promoted from +pending to posix. In addition, the existing chvt and vconfig got some +cleanup.

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That said, I haven't nearly kept up with the flood of new commands going +into pending: Ashwini Sharma's team submitted +dd, dumpleases, traceroute, top, useradd, groupadd, mkpasswd, tftpd, and +an fsck wrapper (with no filesystem drivers yet). Isaac Dunham sent in cpio.

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Bugfixes: Jeroen van Rijn added a user count to uptime. Elie De Brauwer +added -e to watch, removed a memory leak, and fixed a terminal size problem. +William Haddon made xargs call its command line once even with blank input +(the standard is vague, but builds expect it), and fixed an off by one bug +where grep didn't malloc enough space with -E (leading to a segfault). +I fixed a glitch in bunzip2 (same one as went into busybox since they're using +the code I wrote), in od to fix -t co, -J, and -c options. Add uname -o as a +synonym for -s. Build fix to never use $CC without prefixing it with +$CROSS_COMPILE (since $HOSTCC could be different). Anca Emanuel spotted +a typo in the web page.

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The compile-time command line option parsing got rewritten (ported from +bash to C), which should speed up builds a bit and allow code controlled by +--longopts to drop out properly when disabled in the configuration. Terminal +querying got refactored. Patch's -x option is now more informative (a +debug thing if you're trying to figure out why a patch didn't apply). +The "toynet.h" file got folded into toys.h since musl supports it and +micromanging uClibc options isn't very interesting anymore. The test suite +now uses scripts/single.sh when testing a single command.

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September 17, 2013

"Think of a number," said the computer, "any number." Arthur told the computer the telephone number of King's Cross railway -- cgit v1.2.3