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October 12, 2017

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February 24, 2018

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+"Arthur," said Ford.
+"Hello? Yes?" said Arthur.
+"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."
+"Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."
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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Toybox 0.7.6 +(git commit) +is out, a month and change late.

+ +

This release adds a crc32 command and +cleans up and promotes iconv, logger, and setfattr. +Pending added stty and fmt, the other half of ping, +and got a lot of cleanup on gzip/gunzip/zcat.

+ +

The cut command got a complete rewrite adding support for multiple +ranges, utf8/unicode characters, and new -CDFO options. Use -C to measure +columns rather than characters (for double width chars), and "cut -DF 3-5" +selects words (like "awk '{print $3 $4 $5}'").

+ +

This release adds top -m and iotop -H (and fixed top width truncating for narrow terminal windows), +added iconv -c, fixed ps -T 1234 to show threads belonging to +that PID, improved file's executable identification (properly recognizing +both endiannesses and adding sh/frv fdpic, bpf, and new microblaze +identifiers), and blkid now only shows LABEL= when it isn't blank.

+ +

Running ./configure now does "make defconfig", help_exit() now shows the +"See %s --help" message on the same line, and several web pages +(about, code, roadmap, cleanup) got updates.

+ +

Elliott and the Android devs added df -i, uptime -p, +time -v, and xxd -i -ri, +fixed id -G to only output the group IDs, fixed the xargs -0 -n +combination, made find -exec + obey ARG_MAX (just like xargs), made +killall kill scripts too, fixed an off by one error in pidof +that could cause false positive matches in 15 character names, added +gzip/gunzip/zcat tests, and taught file to identify more stuff +(ogg, TrueType font, LLVM bitcode, PEM certs, and PE executables), and +for some reason needed TOYBOX_VENDOR in the version stuff. +Android getprop/setprop now allows ro. properties to have +arbitrary lengths, losetup can now find loop devices under /dev/block (where android puts +them for historical reasons), and Andreas Gampe pointed out a thinko in +top that triggered llvm's address sanitizer checks.

+ +

Gael PORTAY asked for mdev to work when Linux has the +block layer configured out, Patrick Oppenlander pointed out a problem +with make bloatcheck's build dependencies, and +xuphung on github fixed config2help building on MacOS X.

+ +

Commands with locale support now setlocale(LC_TYPE, "C.UTF-8") for more +targeted locale support (enable character parsing with +utf8 support, use "C" semantics otherwise). The toys/example/test_*.c +commands got renamed demo_*.c.

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In lib.c the millitime() function returns current unix time in milliseconds +(which as a 64 bit number is good for + or - 292 million years from +midnight Jan 1 1970), and the old xgetty() function became tty_fd() returning +-1 instead of erroring out.

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The "make help" text moved from the Makefile to scripts/help.txt, +ls.c now lists some of its deviations from posix, and work is underway +to make ps.c more intelligible (and figure out how to break it up into +multiple files).

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October 12, 2017

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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