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| + | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b> |
| + | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.0</a>. |
| + | (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>, |
| + | <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/>patches</a>, |
| + | <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| + | |
| + | <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush. |
| + | |
| + | <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x: |
| + | <p>httpd: |
| + | <ul> |
| + | <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd |
| + | <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length |
| + | <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau) |
| + | <li>optional support for partial downloads |
| + | <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me) |
| + | <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) |
| + | <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| + | </ul> |
| + | |
| + | <p>top: |
| + | <ul> |
| + | <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command |
| + | <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1) |
| + | <li>fix for command line wrapping |
| + | </ul> |
| + | |
| + | <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles). |
| + | |
| + | <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre> |
| + | Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds: |
| + | text data bss dec hex filename |
| + | 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox |
| + | 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre> |
| + | |
| + | <p>New applets: |
| + | <ul> |
| + | <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru> |
| + | <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> |
| + | <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code |
| + | <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> |
| + | <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| + | </ul> |
| + | |
| + | <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): |
| + | <ul> |
| + | <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat) |
| + | <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion |
| + | <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link |
| + | <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T |
| + | <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement |
| + | <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat) |
| + | <li>wget: allow dots in header field names. |
| + | <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits. |
| + | <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us |
| + | <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing |
| + | <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly |
| + | <li>hush: fix glob() |
| + | <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us |
| + | <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection |
| + | <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) |
| + | <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good |
| + | <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points |
| + | <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only) |
| + | <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match |
| + | <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files |
| + | <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov) |
| + | <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b |
| + | <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too) |
| + | <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> |
| + | <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec |
| + | <li>less: make 'f' key page forward |
| + | <li>libiproute: add missing break statements |
| + | <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| + | <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first |
| + | <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth |
| + | <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>) |
| + | <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64 |
| + | <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time |
| + | <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> |
| + | <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i |
| + | <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines |
| + | <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>) |
| + | <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C |
| + | <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> |
| + | <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked) |
| + | <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes) |
| + | <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled |
| + | <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API) |
| + | <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK |
| + | <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug |
| + | <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there |
| + | <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestanp stderr too |
| + | <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket |
| + | <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read() |
| + | <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>) |
| + | <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| + | <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name |
| + | <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug |
| + | <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes |
| + | <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs |
| + | <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences |
| + | <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms) |
| + | <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM |
| + | </ul> |
| + | </p> |
| + | |
| + | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p> |
| + | </li> |
| + | |
| <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b> |
| <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>. |
| (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>, |
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| <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| |
| <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p> |
| - | <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a></p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b> |