From 89d6d71cdaa31672a52032ba77b376093a4c8e9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Landley Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:06:17 -0500 Subject: News and version update for 0.7.7 release. --- www/news.html | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+) (limited to 'www/news.html') 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.

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June 23, 2018

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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.

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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Toybox 0.7.7 +(git commit) +is out.

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New commands: Rob Landley added getconf, Elliott Hughes added +uuidgen, and ping and fmt were promoted out of pending.

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New options: The cp command added the --parents option, +readlink now has -m to show where a missing path would be, +netstat 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 blockdev, +Elliott Hughes added xxd -o and made top -d understand fractional +sections (because the Linux Test Project uses that), and +Minghui Liu added watch -b.

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Bugfixes: Several fixes to vmstat: 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 cp -p didn't preserve +timestamps, and pointed out the b, c, and d suffixes on numbers weren't +working. Ryan Pritchard pointed out that du -d0 should act like du -s. +Filip Perich made an RFC2347 OACK compliance fix to tftp in pending. +Zach van Rijn fixed a bug in xxd causing incorrect translation of +uppercase characters. +Elliott fixed several things in top (removed spurious '\r' characters from -b +output, removed interactive flicker, made running processes bold), and +pushed Rob to make file work better recognizing things on stdin +("cat /bin/ls | file -" still won't work but "file - < /bin/ls" should). +Rob fixed a bug in netstat on 64 bit big endian systems, +and fixed cut -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).

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Documentation: 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.

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Library: +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 pidof +and killall 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.

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Tests: +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).

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Building: 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.

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February 24, 2018

"Arthur," said Ford.
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