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Old News

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This project started in 2006, got mothballed in 2009 +for +various +reasons +(during which time I +contributed +some toybox code and design ideas to busybox but retained the copyrights to +my work), then relaunched +under a 2-clause BSD license in 2011. +The following news entries predate that relaunch:

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December 1, 2009 - toybox-0.1.0 is out.

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This release is a couple build fixes and another bugfix to patch.

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April 17, 2009 - Another bugfix release, +toybox-0.0.9.2, off by one allocation error in patch.

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(Darn fiddly command, innit?)

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March 29, 2009 - Released +toybox 0.0.9.1 which is a bugfix +release for issues with the patch command.

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The project is currently on hold while the developers learn Lua and +decide whether or not to port the whole thing to that language. +(Also note: the mailing list moved. See the links on the left. You'll +have to resubscribe.)

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January 29, 2009 - Released +toybox 0.0.9.tar.bz2 which is a minor packaging +fix for 0.0.8. (The previous release tarball contained a prebuilt x86-64 +kconfig/conf file, because the release script ran defconfig to +pregenerate help.h, and didn't run make clean afterwards.) The actual source +code is identical to the previous release.

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January 20, 2009 - toybox 0.0.8 +adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.

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This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit +binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.

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This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to +produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For +example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, +pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. +(Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)

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It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several +netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a +reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.

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November 12, 2008 - +toybox 0.0.7 +adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the +test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).

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May 26, 2008 - toybox 0.0.6 +adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to +work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated +1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create +already exists. Command line option parsing can now handle things like "echo +-nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh), +and some build fixes.

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March 29, 2008 - +Time to release toybox 0.0.5, with +new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.

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More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test +scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls +make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending +on the context).

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Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of +the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to +the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. +There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate +the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt +and code.html for details.)

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January 2, 2008 - And toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2 is out. +The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, +help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.

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Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate +a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.

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Expect the next release in about 6 months.

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December 12, 2007 - Updated the list of implemented applications, +put up a todo list and infrastructure +documentation. Expect another release towards the end of the month.

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June 18, 2007 - Put out +toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2 since it's +been too long since I did something like that. This one implements +catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, +and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other +commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.

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Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking +and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely +checked in yet, but I'm working on that.

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I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making +a little progress.

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January 31, 2007 - +Toybox 0.0.2 release. +Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished +skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. +Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" +using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.

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Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side +which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing +mke2fs and gene2fs.)

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October 30, 2006 - +Toybox 0.0.1 release. Implements +df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.

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September 7, 2006 - +Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.

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