From b1cc1d1ead16d163cc09ad9b672c95584eee9db2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Landley Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:42:24 -0500 Subject: Update news page for the past two releases. --- www/news.html | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'www') diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index 58a834a0..c5a0148e 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -1,9 +1,87 @@ -

See roadmap for current and planned -command list.

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News

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June 25, 2012 +

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Toybox 0.3.1 is based on commit +commit 607. It's +mostly a bugfix release for ls -l (which was unhappy on targets other than +x86-64), plus a new "date" from Andre Renaud and rewritten chgrp/chown which +now support the full set of posix flags, plus a little work on the test +suite and some more header tweaks towards eventual compatability with the +musl libc.

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The todo list runneth over, but "release early, release often", so here +it is. The roadmap and documentation are a bit behind, and I've got ~40 +pending submissions to review. I need to catch up...

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June 12, 2012 +

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that +he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the +wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was +muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had +always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely +the same reasons." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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It's well past time for toybox 0.3.0, +so here it is, based +on commit 595, and the +statically linked prebuilt binaries should +actually be statically linked this time (thanks Ashwini Sharma for spotting +that).

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It's hard to figure out where to cut a release, because development +doesn't stop. "Long before now" is the obviuos answer, of course. +The project's maintainer also moved house during this development cycle, which +threw things off for a bit (so many boxes). Releases should hopefully be a bit +more frequent from here on.

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The big things Rob worked on this time were the new dirtree (directory +tree traversal) infrastructure, and a complete rewrite of ls using that +which should now implement all 26 posix options.

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Georgi Chorbadzhiyski added printenv, whoami, mkdir, mkfifo, chmod, chown, +chgrp, and uniq. He also added fraction and extension support to sleep (so if +you need a quarter-second sleep, it can do that now), and fixed a build bug +on slackware.

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Daniel Walter contributed a string to mode_t parser (in use by chmod and +mkdir -m). Ilya Kuzmich contributed comm. Elie De Brauwer added mountpoint, +vmstat, logname, login, and mktemp. Kevin Chase did some portability cleanups. +Pere Orga fixed some documentation.

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The "tac" and "clear" commands are now normal commands instead of shell +wrappers, and the header #includes have been cleaned up a bit to remove +deprecated functions and attempt to increase compatability with the bionic and +musl C libraries, "tail" should now use lseek() for large files, and "id" got +some cleanups and bugfixes.

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The new TOYBOX_FLOAT configuration option selects whether or not +to include floating point support (for embedded targets where that's +problematic).

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Several random bugfixes: unshare() might actually build portably now, +yes 'n' | cp -i should no longer bypass stdin and prompt via the tty, the +SUID support no longer drops permissions going through the toybox +multiplexer command, and a bugfix to xargs -0 means it should no longer +segfault. (I have a pending bug report about xargs not doing the full +posix whitespace handling that -0 obsoleted, but I'll deal with that next +release.)

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The build infrastructure is now automatically generating FLAG_ macros +for the options, but currently with the wrong names. Some more macro glue +is necessary, which I haven't quite figured out how to do yet.

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A defconfig toybox at the start of the $PATH has successfully built +Linux From Scratch (in my Aboriginal Linux project). The commands that +'default n' in the config are often still broken, cleanup is ongoing. +(The new dirtree stuff broke several of them that haven't been converted +yet, but if I wait until everything works we won't have a release before +1.0, so here's a checkpoint.)

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March 3, 2012

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