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I want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project:
- AOE media, a TYPO3 development agency contributes financially.
- Analog Devices, Inc. provided a Blackfin development board free of charge. Blackfin is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. If you are an embedded device developer, please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available for download for this board. Visit http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ for more information.
- 25 July 2010 -- BusyBox 1.17.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.17.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.17.1 has fixes for build system (out-of-tree build was broken), acpid (fix for older kernel headers), depmod (now generates new-style modules.dep with relative paths), diff (fix for "diff DIR1 DIR2/" - note the trailing slash), dos2unix (fix for invocation without parameters), ip r (was not working since "r" abbreviates both "route" and "rule"; aliased to "route" now), mktemp (fix regression which prevented kernel builds) modprobe (fix modprobe -l), vi (fix "ask terminal" code), wget (fix for progress indicator)
- 06 July 2010 -- BusyBox 1.17.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.17.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.17.0 and busybox-1.16.2 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 819343 441 7068 826852 c9de4 busybox-1.16.2 819623 441 7076 827140 c9f04 busybox-1.17.0
Changes since previous release:
New applets:
- conspy by Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com),
- rev by Marek Polacek (mmpolacek AT gmail.com),
- ubiattach,ubidetach by Baruch Siach (baruch AT tkos.co.il),
- modinfo by Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com),
- fgconsole by Grigory Batalov (bga AT altlinux.org),
- fkill by Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr),
- flock by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi),
- smemcap, bootchartd, unxz (complete with xzcat and xz -d aliases)
Other changes:
- build system: make it possible to have include/applets.h-esque entries in .c files, to keep Config/Kbuild snippets in *.c files, to keep usage texts in .c files
- build system: gold may not support --sort-common (yet)
- unicode: support for it is significantly improved, by Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
- libbb: teach tar et. al. to understand .xz
- libbb: fix bb_ask() to operate on correct fd
- libbb: locate PAGE_SIZE on Hurd
- libbb: make index_in_substrings return -1 on ambiguous matches
- libbb/copyfd.c: don't mmap a largish buffer if we only want to copy a few kb
- libbb/read_key: fix buffer length calculation
- *: hurd compat fixes by Jérémie Koenig (jk AT jk.fr.eu.org)
- *: s/"/bin/sh"/DEFAULT_SHELL by Ladislav Michl (Ladislav.Michl AT seznam.cz)
- ash,hush: make it possible to alias one of shells to "bash"
- ash,hush: make "source" a synonym for . if bash compat is on
- ash,hush: make bare "." set exitcode to 2
- ash: <>FILE does not truncate FILE anymore. By Andreas Bühmann (buehmann AT users.berlios.de)
- ash: fix ". EMPTY_FILE" exitcode
- ash: fix bug which causes signal6.tests to fail
- ash: fix SEGV on empty command with redirection (bug 1087). Fix by Leonid (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
- ash: fix cubic matching slowdown is ${v/*foo*/repl} (really bad one)
- ash: fix obscure case of replacing + globbing + backslashes
- ash: fix redirection of fd 0 in scripts are sourced from interactive ash
- ash: fix signal5.tests
- ash: fix unset in standalone mode
- ash: fix var_leak testcase
- ash: fix var_leak.tests so that it actually catches the NOFORK bug
- ash: refresh stack pointers after makestrspace in rmescapes. By Colin Watson (cjwatson AT ubuntu.com)
- ash: make trap with bad signal name not abort
- ash: use CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_MAX_LEN
- hush: fix "hush -c 'echo $#'" showing -1
- hush: fix a=abc; c=c; echo ${a%${c}}
- hush: fix hush -c 'echo $0' - was showing empty string
- hush: fix hush-bugs/parse_err.tests
- hush: fix more obscure ${var%...} cases
- hush: fix segfault in ${?:N:M}
- hush: fix var=`exit 2` not setting $? to 2
- hush: handle expansions in ${var?expanded_word} constructs
- hush: optional support for ${var:N:M} bashism
- hush: support "cd -- DIR" and other such double-dash constructs in builtins
- hush: support ${var:EXPR:EXPR}
- hush: use ash's ulimit builtin; make it more more bash-like while at it
- adduser: copy /etc/skel to mew homes. +100 bytes
- ar: add archive creation support. By Alexander Shishkin (virtuoso AT slind.org)
- ar: fix a regression: "ar t arch.a" stopped showing files. By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (pclouds AT gmail.com)
- awk: be more paranoid when freeing loop variable; make code less obfuscated
- awk: don't append bogus data after NUL in sub()
- awk: fix the case where nested "for" loops with the same variable misbehave
- awk: skip whitespace between array name and subscript. By Alexander Shishkin (virtuoso AT slind.org)
- beep: the -d option takes milliseconds, not microseconds. By Natanael Copa (natanael.copa AT gmail.com)
- brctl: fix parsing of timespec to allow 0 (setfd, sethello..), fix stp parameters incompatibility. By Maciek Borzecki (maciek.borzecki AT gmail.com)
- busybox --list option. +140 bytes. Rob wanted it
- cmp: ifdefectomy by Rob Landley (rob AT landley.net)
- cpio: "NNN blocks" message should go to stderr. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
- cttyhack: don't do anything if ctty is already available
- data_extract_all(): do not chmod symlink. Closes bug 2053
- date,touch: accept "Jan 7 00:00:00 2010" format. By Alexander Shishkin (virtuoso AT slind.org)
- date: optional support for %N. Closes bug 1861
- date: support -d @SECONDS_SINCE_1970
- devmem: map two pages only if it is necessary
- dnsd: add -s option. This allows (clumsy) operation with real DNS servers
- dnsd: enforce alignment on packet buffer
- dnsd: fix one big-endian goof; add a TODO about RA bit
- dnsd: fix unaligned access problem
- dpkg: add support for lzma compression, by Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
- dpkg: better check for validity of options
- dpkg: support config file overwrite options. By Kim B. Heino (Kim.Heino AT bluegiga.com)
- dpkg: enable tar compability even if tar applet is not enabled
- [un]expand: account for different character widths
- fbsplash: reinstate drawing of over/undersized images
- fdisk: do not treat names ending in '0' as partitions
- fdisk: make 'b' command optionally adjust C/H/S; "fdisk IMAGE_FILE" sets cylinders
- find: fix -name matching for dotfiles. -1 byte
- ftpd: work around LIST -aXYZ too, not only LIST -lXYZ
- fuser: fix default signal, exitcode and PID display. By Maksym Kryzhanovskyy (xmaks AT email.cz)
- getty: do not emit bogus error message on EOF
- grep: fix -Fi. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)
- grep: make -w support unconditional
- gunzip: inflate_codes(): add fix from upstream gzip to prevent false CRC error
- head,tail: make suffixes unconditional for head too
- hexdump: fix "hexdump NONEXISTENT_FILE" handling
- hexdump: make -s 0xNNNNN work
- httpd: fix proxy mode bug (annoying but harmless)
- ifconfig: do not truncate interface names. Closes bug 1795
- ifdown: use /var/run/udhcpc.%iface%.pid only if it exists
- ifplugd: more robust interface name match check
- ifplugd: replace potentially-leaking setenv with malloc/putenv/free
- init: clear utmp entries for dead processes, if they (entries) exist
- ip a: fix SEGV if "dev IFACE" is not specified
- ip addr/rule/tunnel: unify parsing args. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- ip link: add qlen. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- ipaddress: print OPERSTATEs and NO-CARRIER. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- ipcalc: more correct checking for proper number of arguments
- iplink: support add/delete. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- loadfont/setfont: optional PSF2 font support
- loop: correct minor device number limit
- losetup: support /dev/loop10 and higher. Closes bug 1627
- lsusb: 2.6.32 compat. By Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr)
- mdev: add "!" syntax support
- mdev: fix a SEGV when subsystem is not known
- mdev: fix subsystem passing (new kernels broke it again). Closes bugs 639, 721
- mkswap: support [KBYTES] parameter
- mkXXXX: unify [KBYTES] parameter handling
- mkfs_ext2: fix handling of -I argument. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- mktemp: be more compatible: bare "mktemp" creates tempfile in /tmp, not cwd
- modinfo: needs DEFAULT_MODULES_DIR and DEFAULT_DEPMOD_FILE
- modinfo: support relative paths in modules.dep
- modprobe: add support for -l and -s. By Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
- modprobe: pick up module options from /proc/cmdline too
- modprobe: remove 2k limit on /proc/cmdline
- modutils-24: [mips] modutlis-24 segfault fix for 2.4 kernel modules, by Ralf Rösch (ralf.roesch AT rw-gmbh.de)
- mount: add an optional capability to create new /dev/loopN as needed. By Lauri Kasanen (curaga AT operamail.com)
- mount: fix a case when sometimes error message is not printed
- mount: handle EDQUOT > 255 properly. Closes bug 1579
- nc: introduce CONFIG_NC_110_COMPAT option
- tftp/tftp: make tftp/tftpd-related options less confusing in config. Closes bug 2017
- ntpd: step correction to variables had wrong sign, fixing
- passwd: make 'echo -e "foo\nfoo" | passwd USER' work
- ping: do not leak data from stack
- provide safe_gethostname() for non-linux systems
- ps: fix non-DESKTOP option handling code
- ps: make "ps -o BAD" emit list of good -o params
- rpm: use open_zipped's logic (factored out into setup_unzip_on_fd())
- rpm: make rpm -i SRPM.rpm install it to surrent dir
- rpm2cpio: teach it to understand xz format
- sed: fix a case when one-line range matches past lines. Closes bug 1867
- sed: fix a command with multiple trailing backslashes
- sed: fix c cmd
- sed: fix nested {} case
- setkeycodes: fix handling of 0exx scancodes
- setsid: check for setsid error directly
- shaNNNsum: accept and ignore -b and -t
- stat: make output more similar to GNU stat. By Seb (sbb AT tuxfamily.org)
- swapon: skip noauto entries. By Lauri Kasanen (curaga AT operamail.com)
- syslogd: allow multiple -R options. By Thomas Geulig (geulig AT nentec.de)
- syslogd: remove stray umask(0) - was giving log files bad mode
- syslogd: make maximum message length configurable. By Janne Kiviluoto (janne.kiviluoto AT bluegiga.com)
- tail: document FANCY flags in helptext
- tar: fix "hardlinks to symlinks chown" bug 1519
- tar: fix mishandling of repeated hardlink in tarball
- tar: make typical extraction less memory-hungry
- tar: optional support for --to-command. By Ladislav Michl (Ladislav.Michl AT seznam.cz)
- tar: optional support for restoring selinux context. By J. Tang (tang AT jtang.org)
- tar: support GNU 256-bit encoding in all numeric fields
- telnet: prevent SEGV if we are requested TELOPT_NEW_ENVIRON
- telnetd: fill hostname field in utmp/wtmp records
- telnetd: write LOGIN/DEAD_PROCESS utmp records. Closes bug 1363
- test: "" is not a valid number. Closes bug 1915
- tftp: do not show progress bar if we get error right away. +13 bytes
- tftp: increase initial retry timeout from 50 to 100 ms
- tftp: make message about 512 byte block less confusing
- tftpd: fix file creation with bogus mode. Closes bug 1021
- top: make 's' display easier to understand
- touch: do not ignore argument of -d/-t option. By Mikhail Gusarov (dottedmag AT dottedmag.net)
- udhcp: abort if we see unknown option, and show valid options if so
- udhcp: disable time and log server options
- udhcp: fix DNS domain codec bug: bad compression flag checks
- udhcp: handle errors in read_staticlease
- udhcp: implement "raw" binary options. Closes bug 735
- udhcp: remove support for some really old and odd options
- udhcp: s/sipservers/sipsrv/ to match other similar option names
- udhcp: we call DNS name encoder with NULL, this can SEGV. added a check
- udhcp: truncate packets instead of padding them to 574 bytes. Closes bug 1849
- udhcpc: add -x OPT:VAL option
- udhcpc: make it possible to disable vendor id
- udhcpd: apparently, sometimes IP is in ciaddr, not requested_ip
- udhcpd: fix -v/-P mixup
- udhcpd: fix daemonize crash on nommu systems. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
- udhcpd: fix hostname truncation bug 1663
- udhcpd: support decoding of option 120 "SIP servers". Closes bug 737
- udhcpd: untangle incredibly messy handling of DHCPREQUEST
- unexpand: fix "a b"\n" input case. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
- unlzma: add "lzma -d" alias, add -t support, rename lzmacat to lzcat
- unzip: restore unix file mode if possible. Closes bug 1045
- unzip: improve handling of stream ZIP files
- vi: save/restore errno in signal handlers
- vi: discover window size even on serial consoles (optional)
- vi: fix "set ic" command. Closes bug 1765
- vi: fix NUM + "$" handling
- volume_id/linux_swap: detect suspended image signatures too
- wc: compat: make "wc -c ONE_FILE" not print leading spaces. +2 bytes
- wget: fix bug 1057 "busybox wget segfaults with http_proxy environment set"
- wget: ignore --no-check-certificate
- who: fix attempts to open '/dev/dev/ttyX'; make columns a bit wider, add -H
- xargs: bump default -sNUM up to 32k. Use sysconf() to trim it down if necessary
- xargs: make -s NUM accept practically unlimited range
- 12 June 2010 -- BusyBox 1.16.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.16.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.16.2 has fixes for ash (complex cases of stdin redirection, memory reallocation bug fix), cpio ("NNN blocks" goes to stderr now), udhcp (last byte of hosthame was truncated), dnsd (misaligned access), hush (in some cases $# was wrong), hwclock (subsecond sync code removed), sed (a corner case with line continuation is fixed).
- 28 March 2010 -- BusyBox 1.16.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.16.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.16.1 has fixes for ash (SEGV with 'trap' and 'jobs'), beep (pause was 1000 times too small), udhcpd (SEGV with -v), fbsplash (re-enable drawing of images with size different than screen size), hush (exec was not picking up applets in standalone mode), blkid (a few newer swap formats supported), md5sum/shaNsum (accept -bt options), syslogd (logfile had mode 0666), tail (a case where we tried to write negative number of bytes), tftpd (open without third argument), touch (-d wasn't working as it should), wc (with one file, don't print any leading spaces), wget (SEGV if proxy is specified in environment), some toolchain compatibility fixes, help text fixes, build system fix (defconfig was not updated).
- 27 January 2010 -- BusyBox 1.16.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.16.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.16.0 and busybox-1.15.3 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 816619 453 7436 824508 c94bc busybox-1.15.3/busybox 812074 453 7300 819827 c8273 busybox-1.16.0/busybox
Changes since previous release:
New applets:
- lspci: new applet. +573 bytes. By Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr)
- lsusb: new applet. +400 bytes. By Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr)
- flashcp: new applet. +900 bytes. By Stefan Seyfried (stefan.seyfried AT googlemail.com)
- mkfs.reiser: new applet. Needs much polishing. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- mkfs_ext2: new applet. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- ntpd: new applet, +5k. By Adam Tkac (vonsch AT gmail.com)
- traceroute6: new applet. +1562 bytes. By Leonid Lisovskiy (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
- tune2fs: new applet by Vladimir. Only supports -L LABEL
- wall: new applet. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
Other changes:
- ash,hush: check that variable names are sane
- ash,hush: fix "'read' without parameters" bash compat thingy
- ash,hush: fix $RANDOM in children being repeated
- ash,hush: fix `trap`
- ash: do not let EXIT trap to fire in `trap`
- ash: error out on ${#1#}, ${#$11}, ${#11#}. By Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn (cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com)
- ash: factor out $RANDOM support and read builtin
- ash: fix bad interaction of "stty -echo" + ASK_TERMINAL
- ash: fix bug 585 (>"$VAR_WITH_UNICODE_CHARS" problem)
- ash: fix for read $IFS splitting. Closes bug 235
- ash: fix handling of Unicode chars in redirects. Closes bug 585
- ash: fix mishandling of bash-style redirects. By Chris Metcalf (cmetcalf AT tilera.com)
- ash: implement set -o pipefail (conditional on bash compat). By Michael Abbott (michael AT araneidae.co.uk)
- ash: make "jobs -l" more similar to bash. By Earl Chew. Closes bug 481
- ash: re-enable SIGHUP on entry. Closes bug 771
- hush: add printf builtin. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
- hush: add support for $RANDOM
- hush: code shrink by Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
- hush: do not reset to default "" traps in subshell
- hush: export $PWD
- hush: fix exec builtin in a better way (+ "glob in exec" bug fixed)
- hush: fix exit code propagation from `cmd`
- hush: fix exitcodes of killed processes
- hush: fix handling of empty arguments
- hush: fix handling of words with braces
- hush: fix potential buffer overflow on NOMMU
- hush: fix subshell.tests failure on NOMMU
- hush: handle empty execs. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
- hush: make memleak debugging more robust
- hush: plug a memory leak
- hush: support $PPID
- hush: two NOMMU fixes for bugs 877 and 883
- hush: unify handling of builtin applets. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
- hush: wait for `cmd` to complete, and immediately store its exitcode in $?
- build system: fix for coarse mtime problem
- build system: fix parallel make
- build system: more fixes to parallel build
- build system: update documentation generator so that it sucks less
- *: do not assign to stdout/stderr, it's not portable. Based on patch by Aaron Carroll (xaaronc AT gmail.com)
- *: platform compatibility work. By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
- *: use utimes() rather than obsolescent utime(). By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- libbb: add and use xopen_nonblocking (-18b). By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- libbb: add mallopt tweaks for reduced memory consumption
- libbb: better unicode width support. Hopefully fixes bug 839
- libbb: move generate_uuid from mkswap to libbb. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- libbb: optimize most of isXXXXX() macros
- libbb/lineedit: fix the case when we configured history to have 0 lines
- libbb/lineedit: restore ^D handling for unicode
- libbb/lineedit: try to make FEATURE_EDITING_ASK_TERMINAL less ugly
- libbb/lineedit: do not hardcode ctrl-C and ctrl-D, use termios fields
- libbb/lineedit: handle Ctrl-arrows
- libbb/read_key,lineedit: parse position answerback faster; sanitize its use
- libbb/read_key: ignore unknown keys (do not return them to caller byte-by-byte)
- libunarchive: fix a bug where mode and time is no longer restored. Introduced by vda in 1.15.x. Found by Rob Landley
- libunarchive: fix reversed test for older/newer
- libunarchive: move dpkg-specific things into dpkg.c. 0 byte size differences
- volume_id: add support for btrfs. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- tests: fix POSIX shell source style. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
- all_sourcecode.tests: check commented out applet order too. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
- INSTALL: update obsolete doc, as suggested by Doug Clapp (doug.clapp AT triad.rr.com)
- documentation and typo fixes. By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
- adduser: create a group for new user too
- adduser: fix a logical inversion which made -G GRP inoperative. By Tito Ragusa (farmatito AT tiscali.it)
- applets/usage_compressed: combine many seds in one; hide dd stats. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- applets: fix alphabetical order. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
- ar: fix long filenames handling. Closes bug 611
- awk: fix a case when number is treated as string. Closes bug 725
- awk: implement mktime. By Leonid Lisovskiy (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
- chown: support long options. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
- chpst: tiny shrinkage and add possible TODO. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- cp: add support for --parents and long option synonyms of short opts. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)
- cp: fix -H handling
- cpio: fix -o-less cpio -F FILE
- cpio: fix unpacking of names with leading slashes
- crond: do not log info messages at LOG_ERR. Closes bug 681
- date: handle long options. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- dc: make "dc -1.23 ..." work
- dd: fix conv=noerror w/o sync to not write out zeroed blocks
- dd: speed measurement. optional. By Gabor Heja (kakaopor AT kakaopor.hu)
- df: unicode-aware column formatting. By Tomas Heinrich (theinric AT redhat.com)
- diff: rewrite. much smaller and more correct. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
- dpkg: fix handling of names with leading dots. Closes bug 783
- dumpleases: unicode spport. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
- echo et al: support \e escape
- env: don't SEGV on bare "env -"
- ether-wake: can use ether_hostton on uclibc >= 0.9.30. By Leonid Lisovskiy (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
- examples: add ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_RENAME_REGEXP examples to mdev documentation. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- examples: add mdev.conf and mdev_fat.conf
- examples: adding runit-style service directory
- fbset: add possibility to set timing and sync polarity. By Michael Grzeschik (m.grzeschik AT pengutronix.de)
- fbsplash: allow compressed image files. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- fdisk: add a warning and truncate disks with >= 2^32 sectors
- find: -follow should not error out on dangling links
- find: add optional support for -links. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
- find: correct handling of -xdev
- find: do not recurse into directories with depth == maxdepth. This may avoid many, many unnecessary stat() calls
- fold: fix a corner case. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
- fold: unicode support. Based on a patch by Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
- ftpd: conditional support for broken clients. By Stefan Seyfried (stefan.seyfried AT googlemail.com)
- ftpget/put: make 3rd parameter optional. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- grep: fix a case when -o loops forever
- gzip: add optional support for --long-opts. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
- httpd: -m: output _salted_ MD5 hash. By (forrest AT hifulltech.com)
- httpd: fix bug 601 "I:index.php does not run interpreter on DIR/ url"
- httpd: shrink mime type matching code (suggested by Bernhard)
- httpd_indexcgi: fix off-by-one error
- httpd_post_upload.txt example: handle binary files too
- hwclock: fix sizeof bug (used it on pointer, not array)
- hwclock: make --systohc exact
- ifplugd: mention iff mode in help; restore auto-ifup unless -a; make iff method less iffy :D
- ifup: make /etc/network/interfaces parser tolerant to trailing spaces
- inetd: be more careful with syslog socket; other small fixes
- init: fix "while true; do reboot; done" bug. Closes bug 781
- init: fix logically inverted FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET check
- init: for paranoid reasons, restore SIGCONT too
- init: make FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET more consistent
- init: restore possibility to reload inittab even before we finish initialization
- init: use applet_name instead of "init" (we can be linuxrc)
- login: log PAM errors to syslog, not stderr. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)
- ls: add "total NNNN" header if DESKTOP. By Johannes Stezenbach (js AT sig21.net)
- ls: fix for !FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE (forgotten free); cleanups
- ls: fix sort of very large files
- ls: make it so that group never glues itself to file size
- lsmod: unicode-aware column formatting. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
- mdev: adjust error message. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- mdev: do not die on mknod errors
- mdev: handle string modes. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- mdev: tiny shrinkage by index_in_strings. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- mkfs_vfat: fixes for large image cases
- mkswap: add -L LABEL option. Closes bug 689
- modprobe-small: hopefully fix bug 591 (incorrect detection of alias with '-')
- modprobe: it's not an error if module is already loaded. Closes bug 833
- modprobe: protect against possible SEGV
- modutils: add FEATURE_INSMOD_TRY_MMAP option
- mount: "already mounted" msg appears only if -v
- mount: add support for -O list. By Michael Abbott (michael AT araneidae.co.uk)
- mount: do not execute "mount.(null)" :)
- mount: if we mount //host/xxx, add ip=IPADDR to options
- mount: prevent second mount -a from mounting everything again
- mount: support -o union. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- mountpoint: btrfs fix. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- nc: fix "nc -nl -p LPORT RHOST" case (was expecting remote port 0). Closes bug 837
- networking/httpd_ssi.c: new example CGI handler
- od: fix -tx without length spec
- passwd: do not complain if /etc/shadow is missing
- patch: add longopts, --dry-run, add one more test
- patch: ignore -g NUM. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
- pidof/killall: fix bug 625 (kernel threads get stale "binary name")
- ping6: do not play dirty tricks with argv
- ping: fix unaligned access. Closes bug 745
- ping: use ICMP_MINLEN. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- ps,top: add an option to show threads. +260 bytes
- ps: conditionally enable -T on non-DESKTOP build too
- ps: document -T option
- ps: show longer COMMAND
- rpm2cpio: handle bz2 too. By Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
- rpm2cpio: handle unseekable input correctly
- sed: fix bug 623 (SEGV on some sed commands)
- sed: minor usage tweak. By Rob Landley (rob AT landley.net)
- sed: on output file, set not only mode, but owner too
- sendmail: accept -i too, not only -oi. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- sendmail: fix for long headers. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- sendmail: update by Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- sort: make sort -o FILE FILE (same FILE) work. Closes bug 785
- split: handle - as "use stdin". Closes bug 741
- start-stop-daemon: we could need ssd -d (fancy). By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- stty: add B921600. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- stty: fix columns command. Closes bug 791
- swaponoff: add uuid/label support. By Natanael Copa (natanael.copa AT gmail.com)
- tar: accept spaces at the end of header fields (compat)
- tar: add support for --overwrite
- tar: add support for -o as synonym to --no-same-owner. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- tar: do chown, not lchown to restore mode (compat)
- tar: fix --numeric-owner, --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions bits
- tar: fix bug 673 (misdetection of repeated dir as hardlink)
- tar: fix handling of tarballs with chksums prepended by spaces
- tar: handle "tar fx TARFILE" etc
- tar: optional support for -m (--touch). By Mikhail Gusarov (dottedmag AT dottedmag.net)
- telnetd: optional support for -w ("inetd wait")
- tftp: add optional support for progress bar. By Magnus Damm (magnus.damm AT gmail.com)
- tftp: extend tsize support a little. By Magnus Damm (magnus.damm AT gmail.com)
- top: add -m ("memory") option
- tty: use defines rather than constants. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
- udhcpc: fix bug 629: use bcast receive when we perform rebinding
- udp_io: fix two potential cases of unaligned accesses
- uniq: plug memory leak. Patch from OpenWRT project
- wc: fix a hang gue to isprint(EOF). By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
- wget: check for close() success; fix chunked; do not bother to send QUIT to ftp
- wget: factor out progress bar code. By Magnus Damm (magnus.damm AT gmail.com)
- wget: fix for code 302. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
- [un]expand: unicode support. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
- 12 December 2009 -- BusyBox 1.15.3 (stable)
BusyBox 1.15.3. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.15.3 has fixes for ash (compilation with signed chars, SIGHUP handling fix), awk, flash_eraseall (fix for newer kernel headers), grep, mount (mount -a won't mount everyting again on 2nd run), ping (fix unaligned access), split (accepts "-" as stdin now), build system (parallel build).
- 8 October 2009 -- BusyBox 1.15.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.15.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.15.2 has fixes for ash and hush (`trap` handling), dd (fixed handling of I/O errors), find (fix for -follow and symlinks), pidof (corrected recognition of kernel thread names), sed (SEGV), uniq (memory leak), line editing (Ctrl-D works again), build system.
- 15 September 2009 -- BusyBox 1.15.1 (stable), BusyBox 1.14.4 (stable)
BusyBox 1.15.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
BusyBox 1.14.4. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix releases. 1.14.4 has fixes for ash, httpd, modprobe and the build system, 1.15.1 has fixes for ash (unicode fix), httpd (fix for "dir index via interpreter" case), hush ($PWD support), inetd (fd leak fix), modprobe-small (fix for aliases with dashes), unlzma (SEGV on 64-bit), and generic unpacking routines (was not restoring mode).
- 23 August 2009 -- BusyBox 1.15.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.15.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.15.0 and busybox-1.14.3 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 778114 454 7340 785908 bfdf4 busybox-1.14.3/busybox 780508 445 7328 788281 c0739 busybox-1.15.0/busybox
Changes since previous release:
New applets:
- beep: new applet by Bernhard
- dnsdomainname: new applet - the alias to "hostname -d"
- flash_lock, flash_unlock: new applets by Thierry Reding (thierry.reding AT avionic-design.de)
- fsync: new applet by Pekka Pessi (Pekka.Pessi AT nokia.com)
- ifplugd: new applet by Maksym Kryzhanovskyy (xmaks AT email.cz)
- lzop: new applet. Busyboxed by Alain Knaff. +7700 bytes
- scriptreplay: new applet
- volname: new applet
lash and msh are deprecated, please migrate to hush. They both are aliased to hush anyway. lash now prints "lash is deprecated, please use hush instead" message, msh does not (yet).
Other changes:
- libbb: make find_pid_by_name look at /proc/PID/exe too
- libbb: make get_sock_lsa use only one getsockaddr syscall, not two
- libbb: prevent resursion on malloc failure
- libbb: stop using bb_strtod for now
- libbb/lineedit: implement Unicode-aware line editing (optional)
- libbb/lineedit: use read_key to recognize ESC sequence
- libbb/lineedit: added simplified Unicode support for non-locale-enabled builds
- libbb/lineedit: add an option to emit ESC [ 6 n ("report cursor position") and use results
- libbb/read_key: drop optimization where we read 3 bytes at once
- libbb/des encrypt: fix goof with NUL byte added at the end as '.'
- libbb/device matching against UUIDs: do not try floppies
- acpid: prevent creation of zombies
- adduser/addgroup: make system id range configurable. By Tito (farmatito AT tiscali.it)
- adduser/addgroup: support specifying uid/gid, add system account creation mode. By Tito
- ash: fix . builtin
- ash: fix bug 571 (jobs %string misbehaving)
- ash: further fixes to debug machinery. Fixes bug 485
- ash: make "jobs" work even in subshells
- awk: put at least one NUL between $n. Hopefully fixes bug 337
- busybox --install [-s] [DIR]: allow a parameter - destination DIR
- cp: by popular demand, make it POSIX compliant (but less safe)
- cpio: --verbose, --quiet, --to-stdout
- date: change date -d TIME format a bit, make it more compatible
- dd: conv=noerror should skip read errors using lseek. Fixes bug 539
- depmod.pl: updates and fixes galore
- depmod: fix handling of .gz modules
- df: fix "df /"
- dmesg: try to detect buffer size
- dpkg: delete postrm script after it has been run, not before. Fixes bug 449
- fdisk: add handling of avr32. Fixes bug 555
- ftpd: allow multiple -S options to increase verbosity too, like -v
- ftpd: fix a case when with -w unknown commands are ignored with no error code
- grep: fix -E + {range}; fix -o not printing all matches. Fixes bug 489
- gzip: fix gzip with many files corrupting some files after first
- halt/reboot/poweroff: add a CONFIG_xxx to act SysV compatibly
- hdparm: correct (t & 1) ? '0' : '5' thinko; wrap 80+ col lines
- hostname: support --fqdn, --domain, --file
- httpd: allow empty lines in conf file
- httpd: speed up httpd.conf parsing at the cost of 49 bytes of code
- hush: add HUSH_BASH_COMPAT, make [[ special handling depend on it
- hush: add support for local builtin
- hush: allow umask to take symbolic modes
- hush: disallow "{echo hi; }" (require whitespace) and "{ echo hi }" (require semicolon or &)
- hush: do not process options after non-option args
- hush: "export -n" support
- hush: fix "export not_yet_defined_var", fix parsing of "cmd | }" corner case
- hush: fix "if { echo foo; } then { echo bar; } fi" parsing
- hush: fix "trap -- handler SIGs..."; escape handlers in "trap" output
- hush: fix SEGV in % expansion
- hush: fix SIGCHLD counting code, but keep it disabled for now
- hush: fix \*newline* handling
- hush: fix a case when backgrounded command makes shell hang
- hush: fix a segfault in export builtin
- hush: fix wrong handling of \x in assignments
- hush: fix a bug where in "var=val func" var's value is not visible in func
- hush: fix handling of unterminated subshell: (*eof*. Fixes bug 229
- hush: fix handling of } which is not a closing one in { cmd; }
- hush: fix multiple redirections of the same fd. Fixes bug 227
- hush: fix non-interactive response to pipe being stopped
- hush: fix problems with case in subshells and with "case esac"
- hush: implement 'type' builtin
- hush: implement proper SIGHUP handling
- hush: implement unset -f; beautify the handling of signal-killed pipe
- hush: make . command search $PATH
- hush: make builtins work in pipes (eval ... | ...) on NOMMU
- hush: make it possible to have interactive shell on non-ctty. init=/bin/hush: shows prompt, history works, etc
- hush: return builtin by Bayram Kurumahmut (kbayram AT ubicom.com)
- hush: set $n properly for "source" builtin
- hush: specially handle [[ - suppress globbing & multiword expansion
- hush: stop ignoring ^Z in child shells
- hush: unblock TERM, INT, HUP in child shells too
- ifupdown: if $PATH is not set, do not set it to "" in children
- install: compat fix for mode of created files. By Mat Hostetter (mhostetter AT tilera.com)
- login: consider platforms having no domainname field in the utsname struct
- ls: fix --color handling. Fixes bug 435
- ls: make --color more compatible with coreutils
- man: use man.config, not only man.conf (man version 1.6f compat)
- mdev: #if forest removal (thanks Rob)
- mdev: be more permissive on errors (don't die): mdev -s users want that
- mdev: change subsystem syntax from /subsystem to subsystem/devname
- mdev: do not exit if user:group parse failed. Fixes bug 309
- mdev: fix a case where we mangle device_path string and then use it
- mdev: fix the case when move rule deletes node with name == device_name
- mdev: set $MDEV correctly for renamed nodes
- mdev: set mode, needed when device node already exists
- mdev: support $ENVVAR=regex
- mkswap: optionally generate UUID. +110 bytes
- modprobe: correct exitcode handling and error messages with respect to -q
- modprobe: fix modprobe -r. Fixes bug 315
- modprobe: treat tabs in modules.dep as delimiters too. Fixes bug 567
- mount: document when kernel started accepting string as NFS options
- mount: support -i; pass through -f and -n to helpers as necessary
- nc: fix nc -ll
- passwd + /etc/shadow: change "change time" field too
- patch: support -N option. By Olivier Duclos (olivier.duclos AT gmail.com)
- pgrep/pkill: support -s and -P options
- pgrep: match argv[0] too, not only comm; fix a bug in argv sanitization
- ping6: make it setuid just like ping
- printf: accept negative numbers for %x
- printf: fix exit code on conversion error
- ps: conditionally support additional -o FIELDs
- readlink: support -n, -v, -s and -q too if support for -f is requested
- runsv: run ./finish with parameters (runit compat)
- rx: strip padding from last block. Fixes bug 501
- sed: deal with peculiar behavior of '2d;2,1p' in GNU sed
- sed: fix "echo /usr/lib | sed 's,\(^/\|\)[^/][^/]*,..,g' " bug
- sed: fix handling of 1d;1,3p and 1d;1,REGEXp
- seq: fix input handling in non-C locales
- sv: fix "sv o SRV; ...; sv d SRV". Fixes bug 461
- svlogd: do not overrun read buffer. Fixes bug 439
- svlogd: use line buffering if any filtering is done. Fixes bug 521
- switch_root: allow /init to be a symlink; add doc (thanks Rob!)
- syslogd: added comment, no code changes
- tail: fix "tail +N file_shorter_than_N"
- tail: implement -F
- tail: read only a portion of a file if it's HUGE. Fixes bug 551
- tar: handle 256-base encoding in mtime
- tar: support for tar --numeric-owner. By Natanael Copa
- tcpsvd,udpsvd: fix uid/gid printing when run with -u
- telnetd: properly close fds in child
- test: fix "test !" and "test abc -a !". Fixes bug 465
- test: make 64-bit math enable-able for hush too
- tftp: do not risk invoking Sorcerer's Apprentice syndrome
- tftp[d]: fix block# handling on upload with non-default blocksize
- touch: implement -d --date (our own testsuite needs that)
- touch: implement -t TIME (needed for testsuite)
- udhcp: change UDHCP_DEBUG into int, make verbosity selectable with -v
- udhcp: dname_dec may return NULL, account for that case
- udhcp: shorten mac len from 16 to 6 in lease file
- udhcpc: fix a read error loop (e.g.: device is down) blocking TERM
- udhcpc: fix truncation of last char in client hostnames
- udhcpc: if got IP successfully, disable -n for future renewals
- udhcpc: support option 0x79 (static routes) (part of bug 341)
- udhcpd: don't fail ARP check if returned MAC matches client's one
- udhcpd: fix a bug in add_lease where it was reading at [-1]
- unlzma: speedup, by Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
- unzip: try lseek before resorting to reading for seeking forward
- vi: do not accept uppercase commands (compat). Fixes bug 397
- watchdog: enable it before setting timeout
- wget: fix redirection from HTTP to FTP server
- wget: remove IPv6 scope id in Host: field (apache compat)
- 2 August 2009 -- BusyBox 1.14.3 (stable)
BusyBox 1.14.3. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. Contains fixes in df (fix for "df /"), ls (problems with colored output in some configurations), ping6 (was not suid, unlike ping), test (parameter to "not" operator is optional), udhcpd (fixed lease file restore routine).
- 22 June 2009 -- BusyBox 1.14.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.14.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. Contains fixes in ash ('.' builtin), ftpd, httpd, modprobe (better exit code compatibility), readlink (more options supported), telnetd (now closes file descriptors in children, it was forgetting to do so).
- 27 May 2009 -- BusyBox 1.14.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.14.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. Contains fixes in acpid, awk, depmod, dhcp, gzip, mdev, modprobe, sysctl; libbb fixes. hush is significantly updated.
- 5 May 2009, SVN -> GIT
We've migrated from SVN to GIT. SVN is frozen read-only before the conversion, so check out the Developing links and such for updated instructions.
- 15 April 2009 -- BusyBox 1.14.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.13.4 (stable)
BusyBox 1.14.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
BusyBox 1.13.4. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.13.4 and busybox-1.14.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 785501 483 7036 793020 c19bc busybox.1.13.4/busybox 788380 467 6960 795807 c249f busybox.1.14.0/busybox 15361 0 0 15361 3c01 busybox.1.13.4/shell/hush.o 20724 0 0 20724 50f4 busybox.1.14.0/shell/hush.o
Most of growth is in hush. The rest shrank a bit.
New applets:
- flash_eraseall: by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (bigeasy AT linutronix.de)
- acpid, mkdosfs, tunctl: by Vladimir
- ftpd: by Adam Tkac (vonsch AT gmail.com)
- timeout: by Roberto Foglietta
- ionice: adapted from Linux kernel example by Walter Harms
- mkpasswd: synonym to cryptpw. mkpasswd is in Debian, OTOH cryptpw was added to busybox earlier. Trying to make both camps happy by making those two applets just aliases. They are command-line compatible
Changes since previous release:
lash and msh are deprecated, please migrate to hush.
hush had many, many fixes and features added: here documents, arithmetic evaluation, function support, and all this works on NOMMU too, safely, including 100kb-sized `command` and here documents. Here document support, arithmetic evaluation, improved ${var} operations, other fixes are by Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org).
Other changes:
- libbb: unify concurrent-safe update of /etc/{passwd,group,[g]shadow}. By Tito (farmatito AT tiscali.it)
- libbb/sha{1,256,512}: major code shrink
- libbb/lineedit: make history saving/loading concurrent-safe
- libbb: shrink linked list ops. By xmaks AT email.cz
- libbb: str2sockaddr should accept [IPv6] addr without port - wget 'ftp://[::1]/file' needs that to work
- libbb: make bb_info_msg do atomic, unbuffered writes
- util-linux/volumeid: abort early on read failures. Should help with probing missing fdd's
- util-linux/volumeid: fix bug 249 "findfs finds the wrong partition"
- adduser: allow adding to group 0; don't _create_ /etc/shadow, only append data if it exists
- ash: fix mishandled ^C and SIGINT (several cases)
- ash: fix "ash -c 'exec 1>&0'" complaining that fd 0 is busy
- ash: fix $IFS handling in read. Closes bug 235
- ash: fix a case where we were closing wrong descriptor
- ash: fix bad interaction between ash -c '....&' and bash compat
- ash: fix miscalculation of memory needed for eval tree. Found by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)
- ash: make dot command search current directory first, as bash does
- ash: printf builtin with no arguments should not exit
- awk: fix long field separators case. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)
- awk: in BEGIN section $0 should be "", not "0"
- awk: make "struct global" hack more robust wrt alignment. Closes bug 131
- brctl: fix compilation on 2.4.x kernels
- chat: treat timeout more correctly
- chat: recognize RECORD directive
- cksum, head, printenv: report errors via exitcode
- cpio: add -p, -0 and -L options
- crond, crontab: make cron directory location configurable
- crond: correct more of logfile to 0666 (as usual, umask allows user to remove unwanted bits)
- crond: put tasks in separate process groups
- dc: fix the "base 2" patch omission of base not being set
- depmod: accept and ignore -r. Linux kernel build needs this
- depmod: fix -b option. By timo.teras AT iki.fi
- udhcpc: fix a problem where we don't open listening socket fast enough
- udhcpc: stop filtering environment passed to the script
- udhcpd: disable option to have absolute lease times in lease file (that does not work with dumpleases)
- udhcpd: write 64-bit current time in lease file. Without it, determination of remaining lease time is unreliable
- udhcpd: remember hostnames of clients
- dumpleases: fix -a option, use recorded current time in lease file, show hostnames
- dnsd: fix a number of bugs. Ideas by Ming-Ching Tiew (mctiew AT yahoo.com)
- dpkg: better and shorter code to compare versions. Taken from "official" dpkg by Eugene T. Bordenkircher (eugebo AT gmail.com)
- du: fix "du /dir /dir" case
- env: support -uVAR=VAL
- expand, unexpand: fix incorrect expansion in some cases
- expr: a bit more robust handling of regexps with groups. Closes bug 87
- find: support --mindepth
- getty: make speed 0 mean "don't change speed", stop using non-portable way of setting speeds
- grep: support -z
- gzip: fix gzip -dc bug caused by using stale getopt state
- httpd: set $HOST to Host: header value. By Tobias Poschwatta (tp AT fonz.de)
- ifupdown: allow options to udhcpc to be configurable from .config
- init: do not eat last char in messages; do not print duplicate "init:" prefix to syslog
- init: fix a bug where on reload order of entries might be wrong
- init: major improvement in documentation and signal handling. Lots of nasty, but hard to trip, races are fixed
- init: reinstate proper handling of !ENABLE_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB
- init: remove wait loop on restart, it may be dangerous
- init: test for vt terminal with VT_OPENQRY, assume that anything else is TERM=vt102, not TERM=linux. Closes bug 195
- inotifyd: add x, o, and u events
- inotifyd: fix buffer overflow and "unreaped zombies" problem
- inotifyd: conserve resourses by closing unused inotify descriptors
- insmod/modprobe: do not pass NULL to kernel as module parameter
- ip: in "ip rule add from all table 1", "all" is taken as 0.0.0.0/32, whereas "any" and "default" would be 0.0.0.0/0. They must be all 0.0.0.0/0. Closes bug 57
- iproute: fix ipXXX utilities trying to parse their applet name as their 1st parameter
- klogctl: fix a problem where we don't terminate read data with '\0' and then misinterpret it
- ls: do not follow links with -s. Closes bug 33
- ls: implement -Q and -g (-g was accepted but ignored)
- ls: make readlink error to not disrupt output (try ls -l /proc/self/fd)
- man: better check for duplicated MANPATH
- mdev: add support for - ("dont stop here") char
- mdev: if /sys/class/block exists, don't scan /sys/block
- mdev: ignore events with "$SUBSYSTEM" == "firmware" && "$ACTION" == "remove"
- mdev: provide $SUBSYSTEM. By Vladimir
- modprobe/insmod for 2.4: support compressed modules. By Guenter (lists AT gknw.net)
- modprobe: rework/speedup by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)
- modutils-24: fix bad interaction of xzalloc with xrealloc_vector
- mount: support "-O option", stop trying to mount swap partitions, fix CIFS support
- mountpoint: add -n option. By Vladimir
- nslookup: allow usage of IPv6 addresses or hostnames for DNS server name; allow for port specification. Tested to work on uclibc svn: "nslookup google.com [::1]:5353". glibc + IPv6 address of DNS server still does not work
- popmaildir: fix several grave bugs with using memory past end of malloc block
- printf: fix 1.12.0 breakage (from %*d fix), it was misinterpreting "*"
- printf: make integer format strings print long long-sized values
- rmmod: fix bug 263 "modutils/rmmod can't remove modules with dash in name on 2.4 kernels"
- sendmail: document and fix usage of fd #4, fix check for helper failure
- sendmail: update by Vladimir
- seq: add -w support. By Natanael Copa
- seq: add support for "-s separator"
- stat: make stat -f show filesystem "ID:" as coreutils does
- sysctl: fix another corner case with "dots and slashes"
- sysctl: fix broken -p [file]. Closes bug 231
- sysctl: support recursing if name is a directory: "sysctl net.ipv4.conf". Patch by xmaks AT email.cz
- syslogd: make signal handling syncronous
- syslogd: create logfile with 0666 (affected by umask as usual), not 0600
- tail: fix tail +N syntax not working. Closes bug 221
- tar: do not change new tarfile's mode, GNU tar doesn't do it
- tar: support GNU tar's "base256" encoding
- telnetd: correctly output 0xff char
- telnetd: do not advertise TELNET_LFLOW, we do not support it properly
- tftp: when we infer local name from remote (-r [/]path/path/file), strip path. This mimics wget and is generally more intuitive
- timeout: fix parsing of -t NUM on MMU
- top: make it work again on 2.4 kernels. Closes bug 125
- tr: fix overflow in expand and complement, fix stop after [:class:], fix handling of ranges and [x]'s
- tr: support -C as synonym to -c, support [:xdigit:]
- traceroute: rewrite. Do not emit raw IP packets, instead send UDP or ICMP packets and rely on the kernel to form IP headers, select source IP and interface
- uname: add support for -i and -o, fix printing of unknown -p value with -a option, support long options
- unzip: fix thinko with le/be conv and size. Closes bug 129
- vi: fix several instances of major goof: when text grows, text[] might get reallocated! We were keeping around pointers to old place
- vi: speedup and code shrink. By Walter Harms
- wget: --post-data support. By Harald Kuthe (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
- wget: fix --header handling, more robust EINTR detection
- 8 March 2009 -- BusyBox 1.13.3 (stable)
BusyBox 1.13.3. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
1.13.3 is a bug fix release. It has fixes for awk, depmod, init, killall, mdev, modprobe, printf, syslogd, tar, top, unzip, wget.
- 31 December 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.12.4 (stable)
BusyBox 1.13.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
BusyBox 1.12.4. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix releases. 1.13.2 has fixes for crond, dc, init, ip, printf. 1.12.4 has fixes for ip and printf.
- 29 November 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.1 (stable), BusyBox 1.12.3 (stable)
BusyBox 1.13.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
BusyBox 1.12.3. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix releases. 1.13.1 has fixes for ash, option parsing, id, init, inotifyd, klogd, line editing and modprobe. 1.12.3 has fixes for option parsing and line editing.
- 10 November 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.12.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.13.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
BusyBox 1.12.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.12.2 and busybox-1.13.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 778291 551 7856 786698 c010a busybox-1.12.2/busybox 778981 551 7852 787384 c03b8 busybox-1.13.0/busybox
New applets: blkid, devmem
Changes since previous release:
- mail applets: total overhaul. Vladimir as usual
- ash: fix "while kill -0 $child; do true; done" looping forever
- ash: fix NOEXEC mode - we were forgetting to pass environment
- ash: fix a bug in standalone mode (corrupted getopt state)
- ash: optionally support ">&file" and "&>file" redirections
- awk: bitwise ops cast oprands and results to unsigned long, not signed. closes bug 4774
- awk: fix typo in atan2 code. closes bug 5594
- awk: improve handling of negative numbers in bitwise ops; fix handling of octal costants
- awk: support hex constants
- basename: fix error code (again)
- cpio: emit TRAILER even when hard links were found. By Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
- crontab: do not destroy STDIN_FILENO, editor may need it (crontab -e)
- dc: support for bases 2 and 8, by Nate Case (ncase AT xes-inc.com)
- dhcpc: treat "discover...select...discover..." loop the same way as "discover...discover...discover..."
- dpkg: add dpkg -l PACKAGE_PATTERN. By Peter Korsgaard
- fbset: fix mode matching code: original code may trigger false positive.
- findfs: fix LUKS and FAT detection routines; do not exit if corrupted FAT fs makes us try to seek past the end
- grep: fix 'echo aaa | grep -o a' + ENABLE_EXTRA_COMPAT case. By Natanael Copa
- grep: fix EXTRA_COMPAT grep to honor -E and -i
- gunzip: restore mtime
- halt: reinstate -w even if !FEATURE_WTMP
- hexdump: fix SEGV in hexdump -e ""
- httpd: pass "Accept:" and "Accept-Language:" header to CGI scripts (Alina Friedrichsen)
- hush: fix environment and memory leaks
- hush: fix trashing of environment by local env vars: a=a; a=b cmd; - a was unset
- id: improve compatibility with coreutils. By Tito Ragusa
- inetd: fix a case when we have zero services
- inetd: use config parser. by Vladimir
- init: set stderr to NONBLOCK
- insmod: fix detection of open failure
- install: support -D
- ip: fix ip route rejecting dotted quads as prefix
- ip: route metric support (Natanael Copa)
- iplink: accept shorthands for "address" keyword: "ip link set address 00:11:22:33:44:55"
- kbd_mode: support -C TTY
- kill[all[5]]: accept -s SIG too. By Steve Bennett (steveb AT workware.net.au)
- klogd: handle many lines at once. By Steve Bennett (steveb AT workware.net.au)
- less: support -I to be able to search case-insensitively
- less: add optional line number toggle and resizing on window resize
- libbb: do not reject floating point strings like ".15"
- lineedit: fix bug 5824 "since rev 23530 fdisk and ed don't work any more"
- lineedit: fix problems with empty commands in history
- login: fix /etc/nologin handling
- man: fix inconsistencies in handling $MANPATH
- mdev: support match by major,minor. See bug 4714
- modprobe-small: make insmod command line compatible
- modprobe-small: support "blacklist" keyword in /etc/modules/MODULE_NAME
- modprobe: fix a segfault when modprobe is called with no arguments at all
- modutils/*: rewrite by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)
- mount: fix "-o parm1 -o parm2" not accumulating
- nmeter: 4k buffers are too small for /proc files, make them dynamically sized with 16k upper limit
- ping: SO_RCVBUF must be bigger than packet size, otherwise large ping packets might fail to be received
- route: fix for 64-bit BE machines by Seonghun Lim (wariua AT gmail.com)
- rpm: fix incompatibilities which prevented rpm -i foo.src.rpm
- runsvdir: support runsvdir-as-init
- setarch: do not try to use non-existent data in argv[]
- setfont: support -m and -C, support -m TEXTUAL_MAP (by Vladimir)
- setup_environment: cd $HOME regardless of clear_env value
- slattach: preserve speed in non-raw mode. By Matthieu Castet (matthieu.castet AT parrot.com)
- start_stop_daemon: accept (and ignore) -R PARAM
- sv: make default service dir configurable (Vladimir wants it)
- sysctl: fix bug 3894 (by Kryzhanovskyy Maksym)
- tar: fix bug 3844: non-root tar does not preserve perms
- telnetd: handle emacs M-DEL and IAC-NOP. by Jim Cathey (jcathey AT ciena.com)
- top: fix "top -d 1" (bug 5144)
- top: optional SMP support by Vineet Gupta (vineetg76 AT gmail.com)
- trylink: make messages less confusing
- unzip: handle "central directory". needed for OpenOffice, gmail attachment .zips etc
- vi: Rob's algorithm of reading and matching ESC sequences (nice work btw!)
- vi: deal with EOF/error on stdin and with input NULs
- vi: fix uninitialized last_search_pattern (bug 5794)
- vi: handle chars 0x80, 0x81 etc correctly
- volume identification: abolish /proc/partitions and /proc/cdroms scanning. It does not catch volume managers and such. Simply scan /dev/* for any block devices
- watchdog: WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT accepts seconds, not milliseconds
- watchdog: add -T option
- 28 September 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.1 (stable), BusyBox 1.11.3 (stable)
BusyBox 1.12.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
BusyBox 1.11.3. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bugfix-only releases for 1.11.x and 1.12.x branches.
- 21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.11.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.12.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
BusyBox 1.11.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.11.2 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.2/busybox 822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox
New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir)
Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
- ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"
- ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd!
- ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2
- ash: fix segfault in "command -v"
- ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator
- ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading
- ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before
- hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all
- hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not
- hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case
- hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites
- hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)
- hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements
- hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case
- hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')
- hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names
- libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets
Other changes:
- libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)
- libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)
- libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"
- libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()
- libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)
- libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector
- libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)
- lineedit: fix use-after-free
- libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too
- bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])
- open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor
- open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit
- arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)
- ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code
- awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading.
- build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op
- bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)
- b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)
- comm: almost total rewrite
- cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)
- cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files
- cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG
- cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k
- cpio: support some long options
- crond: use execlp instead of execl
- cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)
- envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases
- findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary
- fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)
- fuser: a bit of safety in scanf
- grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes
- halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT
- httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de
- ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks
- ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
- ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
- inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found
- insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing
- install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)
- install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)
- lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies
- ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable
- man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com
- man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given
- man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable
- man: fix missed NULL termination of an array
- man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode
- man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)
- man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config
- mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection
- mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist
- mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it
- mdev: support for serializing hotplug
- mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization
- mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)
- modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)
- modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()
- modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one
- mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"
- mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)
- mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"
- mount: testsuite for "-o mand"
- msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)
- mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints
- netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)
- nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)
- od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)
- pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)
- printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)
- printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite
- printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)
- sendmail: updates from Vladimir:
- sendmail: do not discard all headers
- sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes
- sendmail: fixed mail recipient address
- sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed
- sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified
- sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)
- ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too
- ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore
- ssd: fix -a without -x case
- ssd: use $PATH
- tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0
- tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection
- taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy
- tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")
- tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way
- telnetd: fix issue file printing
- test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does
- testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e
- time: don't segfault with no arguments
- touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)
- tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354
- tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)
- tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)
- unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)
- vi: fix reversed checks for underflow
- vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid
- xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)
- other fixes and code size reductions in many applets
- 12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.11.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk, bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi.
- 11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated
"How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc" is updated and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't work for you.
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