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| - | <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b> |
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| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable |
| - | series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of |
| - | testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of |
| - | bugs, and these problems have now been fixed. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
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| - | Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up |
| - | with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added, |
| - | init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and |
| - | 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init. |
| - | an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows |
| - | read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the |
| - | 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were |
| - | tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this |
| - | release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch |
| - | was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch. |
| - | That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the |
| - | BusyBox mailing list. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of |
| - | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be |
| - | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that |
| - | is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 |
| - | release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If |
| - | necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th. |
| - | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem |
| - | turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by |
| - | then... |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | The busybox development series has been under construction for |
| - | nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So |
| - | it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release |
| - | of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes |
| - | since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version |
| - | number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison |
| - | 1.0.x... |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of |
| - | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be |
| - | fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen |
| - | later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next |
| - | Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. |
| - | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns |
| - | up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end |
| - | of July. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release |
| - | and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was |
| - | rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That |
| - | happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches, |
| - | support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of |
| - | emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches |
| - | sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the |
| - | right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn |
| - | McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III |
| - | (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that |
| - | have made this release possible. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | You don't really need to bother with the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes |
| - | vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. |
| - | But you can take a look if you really want too. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) |
| - | is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for |
| - | the stable series to address all the problems that have turned |
| - | up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release |
| - | had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried |
| - | to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init |
| - | was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). |
| - | I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the |
| - | 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I |
| - | mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last |
| - | release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work |
| - | will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development |
| - | version to have its first real release very very soon now... |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 |
| - | (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily |
| - | a bugfix release for the stable series to address all |
| - | the problems that have turned up since the last |
| - | release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. |
| - | I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done |
| - | on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and |
| - | should soon be getting its first real release. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is |
| - | now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release |
| - | for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since |
| - | the last release, and this should address most of those problems. |
| - | This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The |
| - | development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will |
| - | hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to |
| - | the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> |
| - | who are providing hosting for busybox.net and |
| - | uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: |
| - | <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> |
| - | in Canada and |
| - | <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> |
| - | in Germany. I hope this makes things much more |
| - | accessible for everyone! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> |
| - | <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox |
| - | users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net |
| - | (which is where you are probably reading this). |
| - | Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both |
| - | living on my home system (at the end of my DSL |
| - | line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of |
| - | busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have |
| - | the access needed to keep that system updated (for |
| - | example, you might notice the daily snapshots there |
| - | stopped some time ago).</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home |
| - | server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, |
| - | the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, |
| - | I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net |
| - | co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the |
| - | co-location effort, <a href= |
| - | "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> |
| - | (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated |
| - | his <a href= |
| - | "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer |
| - | for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this |
| - | system is co-located, the current speed problems |
| - | should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, |
| - | some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror |
| - | sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> |
| - | |
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| - | Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox |
| - | donations, let me assure you that no one is getting |
| - | rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be |
| - | spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware |
| - | upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently |
| - | has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when |
| - | google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in |
| - | not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of |
| - | ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So |
| - | far, donations received have been sufficient to |
| - | cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may |
| - | have co-location fees to worry about, but for now |
| - | we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to |
| - | everyone that has contributed!<br> |
| - | -Erik</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li> |
| - | <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> |
| - | |
| - | <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox |
| - | 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This |
| - | one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable |
| - | series, and it should take care of most everyone's |
| - | needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have |
| - | been working on in CVS ready to release (with the |
| - | wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in |
| - | this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh |
| - | (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. |
| - | Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when |
| - | told to do complex things with backticks.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and |
| - | powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it |
| - | should work with just about any Linux system you |
| - | throw it at. See the <a href= |
| - | "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most |
| - | of</small> the details. The last release was |
| - | <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should |
| - | be even better.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href= |
| - | "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun.<br> |
| - | -Erik</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> |
| - | |
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| - | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> |
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| - | |
| - | I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing |
| - | to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but |
| - | will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee |
| - | for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will |
| - | initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my |
| - | home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, |
| - | but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth |
| - | I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there |
| - | have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't |
| - | even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the |
| - | time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this |
| - | bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I |
| - | start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth |
| - | will start costing some money. |
| + | <p> |
| + | <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> |
| + | |
| + | The busybox development series has been under construction for |
| + | nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So |
| + | it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release |
| + | of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes |
| + | since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version |
| + | number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison |
| + | 1.0.x... |
| <p> |
| |
| - | I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that |
| - | idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument |
| - | where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas |
| - | about what we should spend our money on that don't involve |
| - | busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the |
| - | mailing list and web page. So... |
| + | The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of |
| + | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be |
| + | fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen |
| + | later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next |
| + | Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. |
| + | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns |
| + | up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end |
| + | of July. |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release |
| + | and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was |
| + | rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That |
| + | happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches, |
| + | support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of |
| + | emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches |
| + | sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the |
| + | right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. |
| <p> |
| |
| - | I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick |
| - | up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I |
| - | know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as |
| - | individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to |
| - | contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that |
| - | would be wonderful! |
| + | I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn |
| + | McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III |
| + | (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that |
| + | have made this release possible. |
| <p> |
| |
| + | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| + | You don't really need to bother with the |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes |
| + | vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. |
| + | But you can take a look if you really want too. |
| |
| - | <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes |
| - | up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in |
| - | the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> |
| - | serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no |
| - | new features, no new applets. So without further ado, |
| - | here it is. Come and get it. |
| - | <p> |
| - | The |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of |
| - | BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, |
| - | and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on |
| - | x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number |
| - | of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. |
| - | Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice |
| - | stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes |
| - | a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and |
| - | cleans up a number of things. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can |
| - | use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> |
| - | to give it a try by downloading and compiling |
| - | <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. |
| - | You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. |
| - | Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> |
| - | BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires |
| - | a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the |
| - | the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> |
| - | to view the tutorial. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the |
| - | version number of this release, let me point out that this release |
| - | is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a |
| - | bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form |
| - | a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a |
| - | stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable |
| - | 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then |
| - | 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that |
| - | the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the |
| - | next release and I don't want that to break products that people |
| - | are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be |
| - | released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will |
| - | have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things |
| - | stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then |
| - | I will release that as a new stable release series. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of |
| - | BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This |
| - | release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons |
| - | of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds |
| - | several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, |
| - | and ash). |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers |
| - | some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that |
| - | are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, |
| - | BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth |
| - | of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / |
| - | viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you |
| - | can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively |
| - | turning off whichever applets you don't need.) |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This |
| - | release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, |
| - | contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only |
| - | 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. |
| - | There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in |
| - | the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in |
| - | 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially |
| - | deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For |
| - | one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov |
| - | added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC |
| - | compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility |
| - | functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now |
| - | all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes |
| - | maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now |
| - | compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters |
| - | for letting me use their system!). |
| - | <p> |
| - | You can read the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| - | complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= |
| - | "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy |
| - | image</a>. Here's how you use it: |
| - | |
| - | <ol> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> |
| - | Download the image</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img |
| - | of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> |
| - | |
| - | <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. |
| - | |
| - | </ol> |
| - | |
| - | <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: |
| - | |
| - | <pre> |
| - | mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos |
| - | cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp |
| - | umount /mnt |
| - | gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz |
| - | mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, |
| - | and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the |
| - | shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable |
| - | expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made |
| - | smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it |
| - | now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as |
| - | long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. |
| - | Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and |
| - | environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that |
| - | this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible |
| - | framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of |
| - | business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell |
| - | currently in progress at |
| - | <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller |
| - | things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. |
| - | For a list of the most interesting changes |
| - | you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their |
| - | work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been |
| - | out of town. |
| - | <p> |
| - | <em>Special Note</em><br> |
| - | |
| - | BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox |
| - | shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. |
| - | Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new |
| - | shell that will eventually replace lash is already under |
| - | construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry |
| - | Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in |
| - | progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> |
| - | and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next |
| - | release of BusyBox. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very |
| - | rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar |
| - | update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is |
| - | optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know |
| - | that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are |
| - | now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox |
| - | shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian |
| - | woody) a .udeb can now be generated. |
| - | <p> |
| - | The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading |
| - | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to |
| - | this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. |
| - | <p> |
| - | <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 |
| - | syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new |
| - | apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, |
| - | renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. |
| - | There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for |
| - | more correct option parsing. |
| - | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| - | for complete details. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, |
| - | and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow |
| - | people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a |
| - | completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. |
| - | BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. |
| - | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| - | for complete details. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this |
| - | point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This |
| - | release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, |
| - | mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and |
| - | telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see |
| - | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| - | details). |
| - | <p> |
| - | Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own |
| - | <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, |
| - | publically browsable |
| - | <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, |
| - | anonymous |
| - | <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and |
| - | for those that are actively contributing there is even |
| - | <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. |
| - | I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced |
| - | a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion |
| - | we are just skipping 0.44. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release |
| - | of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. |
| - | For example, with the following test app: |
| - | <pre> |
| - | #include <syslog.h> |
| - | |
| - | int do_log(char* msg, int delay) |
| - | { |
| - | openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); |
| - | while(1) { |
| - | syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); |
| - | sleep(delay); |
| - | } |
| - | closelog(); |
| - | return(0); |
| - | }; |
| - | |
| - | int main(void) |
| - | { |
| - | if (fork()==0) |
| - | do_log("A", 2); |
| - | do_log("B", 3); |
| - | } |
| - | </pre> |
| - | it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff |
| - | from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something |
| - | while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). |
| - | <p> |
| - | Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. |
| - | Thanks Karl! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty |
| - | good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release |
| - | so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps |
| - | have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, |
| - | freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely |
| - | rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. |
| - | More details are available in the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive |
| - | <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches |
| - | and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were |
| - | Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, |
| - | Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. |
| - | There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to |
| - | do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people |
| - | to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at |
| - | 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing |
| - | tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw |
| - | at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because |
| - | the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release |
| - | of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable |
| - | enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural |
| - | changes I still want to make. |
| - | <p> |
| - | The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. |
| - | Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 |
| - | lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. |
| - | He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and |
| - | it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the |
| - | fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody |
| - | and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife |
| - | (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying |
| - | down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" |
| - | (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the |
| - | contrary). |
| - | <p> |
| - | Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting |
| - | labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. |
| - | <p> |
| - | So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... |
| - | Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect |
| - | to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will |
| - | include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a |
| - | re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now |
| - | accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking |
| - | problems. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many |
| - | bugs have been fixed. See the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. |
| - | |
| - | Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount |
| - | filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and |
| - | behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak |
| - | loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, |
| - | Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for |
| - | their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound |
| - | on it and let me know if you find any bugs. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, |
| - | mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, |
| - | logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device |
| - | support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. |
| - | The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), |
| - | syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. |
| - | New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. |
| - | In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which |
| - | in some cases produced serious security problems. |
| - | As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) |
| - | to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website |
| - | will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also |
| - | contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, |
| - | what arguments its apps support, etc. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains |
| - | the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full |
| - | changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| - | <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, |
| - | and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. |
| - | </ul> |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| + | <p> |
| |
| |
| - | <!-- Begin Links section --> |
| |
| - | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| - | <A NAME="links"> |
| - | <BIG><B> |
| - | Important Links</A> |
| - | </B></BIG> |
| - | </A> |
| - | </TD></TR> |
| - | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| + | <p> |
| + | <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> |
| |
| - | <ul> |
| + | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) |
| + | is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for |
| + | the stable series to address all the problems that have turned |
| + | up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release |
| + | had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried |
| + | to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init |
| + | was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). |
| + | I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the |
| + | 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I |
| + | mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last |
| + | release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work |
| + | will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development |
| + | version to have its first real release very very soon now... |
| |
| - | <li> <a href="/">Take me back to http://busybox.net/</a>. |
| <p> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/"> |
| - | Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br> |
| - | The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written |
| - | by <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website. |
| + | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all |
| + | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| <p> |
| |
| - | <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html"> |
| - | Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> |
| - | <p> |
| + | <p> |
| + | <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> |
| |
| - | </ul> |
| + | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 |
| + | (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily |
| + | a bugfix release for the stable series to address all |
| + | the problems that have turned up since the last |
| + | release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. |
| + | I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done |
| + | on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and |
| + | should soon be getting its first real release. |
| |
| + | <p> |
| + | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all |
| + | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| + | <p> |
| |
| - | <!-- End of Table --> |
| |
| - | </TD></TR> |
| - | </TABLE> |
| - | </P> |
| + | <p> |
| + | <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> |
| |
| + | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is |
| + | now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release |
| + | for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since |
| + | the last release, and this should address most of those problems. |
| + | This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The |
| + | development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will |
| + | hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. |
| |
| + | <p> |
| + | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| + | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| + | <p> |
| |
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| - | <HR> |
| - | <TABLE WIDTH="100%"> |
| - | <TR> |
| - | <TD> |
| - | <font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> |
| - | Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to |
| - | <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Erik Andersen</a><BR> |
| - | The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik Andersen. |
| - | </font> |
| - | </TD> |
| |
| - | <TD> |
| - | <a href="http://www.vim.org"><img border=0 width=88 height=32 |
| - | src="images/anim.written.in.vi.gif" |
| - | alt="This site created with the vi editor"></a> |
| - | </TD> |
| + | <p> |
| + | <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> |
| + | |
| + | Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to |
| + | the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> |
| + | who are providing hosting for busybox.net and |
| + | uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: |
| + | <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> |
| + | in Canada and |
| + | <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> |
| + | in Germany. I hope this makes things much more |
| + | accessible for everyone! |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> |
| + | <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> |
| + | |
| + | <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox |
| + | users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net |
| + | (which is where you are probably reading this). |
| + | Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both |
| + | living on my home system (at the end of my DSL |
| + | line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of |
| + | busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have |
| + | the access needed to keep that system updated (for |
| + | example, you might notice the daily snapshots there |
| + | stopped some time ago).</p> |
| + | |
| + | <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home |
| + | server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, |
| + | the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, |
| + | I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net |
| + | co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the |
| + | co-location effort, <a href= |
| + | "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> |
| + | (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated |
| + | his <a href= |
| + | "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer |
| + | for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this |
| + | system is co-located, the current speed problems |
| + | should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, |
| + | some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror |
| + | sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> |
| + | |
| + | <p><!-- |
| + | <center> |
| + | Click here to help support busybox.net! |
| + | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> |
| + | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> |
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| + | Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox |
| + | donations, let me assure you that no one is getting |
| + | rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be |
| + | spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware |
| + | upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently |
| + | has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when |
| + | google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in |
| + | not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of |
| + | ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So |
| + | far, donations received have been sufficient to |
| + | cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may |
| + | have co-location fees to worry about, but for now |
| + | we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to |
| + | everyone that has contributed!<br> |
| + | -Erik</p> |
| + | </li> |
| + | |
| + | <li> |
| + | <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> |
| + | |
| + | <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox |
| + | 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This |
| + | one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable |
| + | series, and it should take care of most everyone's |
| + | needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have |
| + | been working on in CVS ready to release (with the |
| + | wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in |
| + | this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh |
| + | (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. |
| + | Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when |
| + | told to do complex things with backticks.</p> |
| + | |
| + | <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and |
| + | powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it |
| + | should work with just about any Linux system you |
| + | throw it at. See the <a href= |
| + | "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most |
| + | of</small> the details. The last release was |
| + | <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should |
| + | be even better.</p> |
| + | |
| + | <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from |
| + | <a href= |
| + | "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> |
| + | |
| + | <p>Have Fun.<br> |
| + | -Erik</p> |
| + | </li> |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> |
| + | |
| + | <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> |
| + | <center> |
| + | Click here to help buy busybox.net! |
| + | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> |
| + | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> |
| + | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]"> |
| + | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> |
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| + | </center> |
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| + | |
| + | I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing |
| + | to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but |
| + | will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee |
| + | for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will |
| + | initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my |
| + | home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, |
| + | but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth |
| + | I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there |
| + | have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't |
| + | even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the |
| + | time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this |
| + | bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I |
| + | start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth |
| + | will start costing some money. |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that |
| + | idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument |
| + | where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas |
| + | about what we should spend our money on that don't involve |
| + | busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the |
| + | mailing list and web page. So... |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick |
| + | up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I |
| + | know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as |
| + | individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to |
| + | contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that |
| + | would be wonderful! |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes |
| + | up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in |
| + | the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> |
| + | serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no |
| + | new features, no new applets. So without further ado, |
| + | here it is. Come and get it. |
| + | <p> |
| + | The |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| + | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from |
| + | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of |
| + | BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, |
| + | and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on |
| + | x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number |
| + | of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. |
| + | Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice |
| + | stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes |
| + | a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and |
| + | cleans up a number of things. |
| + | |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can |
| + | use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> |
| + | to give it a try by downloading and compiling |
| + | <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. |
| + | You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. |
| + | Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. |
| + | <p> |
| + | Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> |
| + | BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires |
| + | a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the |
| + | the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> |
| + | to view the tutorial. |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the |
| + | version number of this release, let me point out that this release |
| + | is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a |
| + | bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form |
| + | a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a |
| + | stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable |
| + | 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then |
| + | 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that |
| + | the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the |
| + | next release and I don't want that to break products that people |
| + | are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be |
| + | released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will |
| + | have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things |
| + | stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then |
| + | I will release that as a new stable release series. |
| + | |
| + | <p> |
| + | The |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| + | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from |
| + | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of |
| + | BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This |
| + | release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons |
| + | of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds |
| + | several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, |
| + | and ash). |
| + | |
| + | <p> |
| + | The |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers |
| + | some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that |
| + | are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, |
| + | BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from |
| + | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth |
| + | of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / |
| + | viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. |
| + | |
| + | <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you |
| + | can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively |
| + | turning off whichever applets you don't need.) |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This |
| + | release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, |
| + | contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only |
| + | 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. |
| + | There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in |
| + | the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in |
| + | 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially |
| + | deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For |
| + | one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov |
| + | added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC |
| + | compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility |
| + | functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now |
| + | all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes |
| + | maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now |
| + | compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters |
| + | for letting me use their system!). |
| + | <p> |
| + | You can read the |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| + | complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from |
| + | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| + | <p>Have Fun! |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> |
| + | |
| + | <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= |
| + | "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy |
| + | image</a>. Here's how you use it: |
| + | |
| + | <ol> |
| + | |
| + | <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> |
| + | Download the image</a> |
| + | |
| + | <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img |
| + | of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> |
| + | |
| + | <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. |
| + | |
| + | </ol> |
| + | |
| + | <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: |
| |
| - | <TD> |
| - | <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border=0 width=88 height=38 |
| - | src="images/gfx_by_gimp.gif" alt="Graphics by GIMP"></a> |
| - | </TD> |
| + | <pre> |
| + | mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos |
| + | cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp |
| + | umount /mnt |
| + | gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz |
| + | mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix |
| + | </pre> |
| |
| - | <TD> |
| - | <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width=90 height=36 |
| - | src="images/ltbutton2.jpg" alt="Linux Today"></a> |
| - | </TD> |
| |
| - | <TD> |
| - | <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width=90 height=36 |
| - | src="images/sdsmall.gif" alt="Slashdot"></a> |
| - | </TD> |
| + | <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, |
| + | and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the |
| + | shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable |
| + | expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made |
| + | smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| + | <p> |
| + | lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it |
| + | now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as |
| + | long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. |
| + | Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and |
| + | environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that |
| + | this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible |
| + | framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of |
| + | business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell |
| + | currently in progress at |
| + | <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller |
| + | things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. |
| + | For a list of the most interesting changes |
| + | you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| + | <p> |
| + | Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their |
| + | work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been |
| + | out of town. |
| + | <p> |
| + | <em>Special Note</em><br> |
| + | |
| + | BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox |
| + | shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. |
| + | Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new |
| + | shell that will eventually replace lash is already under |
| + | construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry |
| + | Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in |
| + | progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> |
| + | and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next |
| + | release of BusyBox. |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very |
| + | rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar |
| + | update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is |
| + | optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know |
| + | that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are |
| + | now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox |
| + | shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian |
| + | woody) a .udeb can now be generated. |
| + | <p> |
| + | The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading |
| + | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| + | <p> |
| + | Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to |
| + | this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. |
| + | <p> |
| + | <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 |
| + | syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new |
| + | apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, |
| + | renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. |
| + | There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for |
| + | more correct option parsing. |
| + | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| + | for complete details. |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, |
| + | and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow |
| + | people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a |
| + | completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. |
| + | BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. |
| + | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| + | for complete details. |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this |
| + | point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This |
| + | release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, |
| + | mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and |
| + | telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see |
| + | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| + | details). |
| + | <p> |
| + | Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own |
| + | <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, |
| + | publically browsable |
| + | <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, |
| + | anonymous |
| + | <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and |
| + | for those that are actively contributing there is even |
| + | <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. |
| + | I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. |
| + | <p> |
| + | Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced |
| + | a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion |
| + | we are just skipping 0.44. |
| + | <p> |
| + | Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release |
| + | of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. |
| + | For example, with the following test app: |
| + | <pre> |
| + | #include <syslog.h> |
| + | |
| + | int do_log(char* msg, int delay) |
| + | { |
| + | openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); |
| + | while(1) { |
| + | syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); |
| + | sleep(delay); |
| + | } |
| + | closelog(); |
| + | return(0); |
| + | }; |
| + | |
| + | int main(void) |
| + | { |
| + | if (fork()==0) |
| + | do_log("A", 2); |
| + | do_log("B", 3); |
| + | } |
| + | </pre> |
| + | it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff |
| + | from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something |
| + | while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). |
| + | <p> |
| + | Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. |
| + | Thanks Karl! |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty |
| + | good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release |
| + | so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps |
| + | have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, |
| + | freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely |
| + | rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. |
| + | More details are available in the |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| + | Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive |
| + | <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. |
| + | |
| + | <p> |
| + | Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches |
| + | and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were |
| + | Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, |
| + | Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. |
| + | There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. |
| + | <p> |
| + | |
| + | You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to |
| + | do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people |
| + | to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at |
| + | 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing |
| + | tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw |
| + | at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because |
| + | the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release |
| + | of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable |
| + | enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural |
| + | changes I still want to make. |
| + | <p> |
| + | The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. |
| + | Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 |
| + | lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. |
| + | He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and |
| + | it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the |
| + | fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody |
| + | and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife |
| + | (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying |
| + | down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" |
| + | (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the |
| + | contrary). |
| + | <p> |
| + | Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting |
| + | labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. |
| + | <p> |
| + | So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... |
| + | Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect |
| + | to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will |
| + | include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a |
| + | re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now |
| + | accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking |
| + | problems. |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many |
| + | bugs have been fixed. See the |
| + | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. |
| + | |
| + | Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount |
| + | filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and |
| + | behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak |
| + | loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, |
| + | Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for |
| + | their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound |
| + | on it and let me know if you find any bugs. |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, |
| + | mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, |
| + | logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device |
| + | support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. |
| + | The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | |
| + | This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), |
| + | syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. |
| + | New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. |
| + | In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which |
| + | in some cases produced serious security problems. |
| + | As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) |
| + | to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website |
| + | will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also |
| + | contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, |
| + | what arguments its apps support, etc. |
| + | |
| + | <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains |
| + | the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full |
| + | changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| + | <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> |
| + | <br> |
| + | This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, |
| + | and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. |
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