basename, cat, catv, chroot, chvt, count, cp, df, dirname, dmesg, echo, false, hello, help, mkfifo, nc, netcat, oneit, patch, pwd, rmdir, sh, sha1sum, sleep, sync, touch, toysh, true, tty, which, yes
[Commands in square brackets are in source control, but not in the most recent release tarball.]
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.
March 29, 2008 - Time to release toybox 0.0.5, with new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.
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).
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.)
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.
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.
Expect the next release in about 6 months.
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.
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.
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.
I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making a little progress.
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.
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.)
October 30, 2006 - Toybox 0.0.1 release. Implements df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.
September 7, 2006 - Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.