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I want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project:
- 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 an entire Linux distribution available for download for this board. Visit http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ for more information.
- 21 January 2013 -- BusyBox 1.21.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.21.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.20.2 and busybox-1.21.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 895377 497 7584 903458 dc922 busybox-1.20.2 897317 497 7584 905398 dd0b6 busybox-1.21.0
Changes since previous release:
Alexey Froloff (1): udhcpc: gracefully handle packets with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL Andreas Oberritter (2): ifupdown: improve compatibility with Debian get_linux_version_code: don't fail on Linux version strings like "3.0-foo" Anthony G. Basile (2): build system: fix build failure when only gunzip is selected CONFIG_PID_FILE_PATH: new configuration option for pidfile paths Aurelien Jarno (1): *: declare strings with ALIGN1, as appropriate Baruch Siach (3): nanddump: use the right operator of logic AND nanddump: skip bad blocks when instructed to do so nanddump: invert the meaning of the -o parameter to match upstream Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (1): mount: fix -o user=foo mishandling, fix unc= generation, add prefixpath= Bernhard Walle (1): build system: fix build of kconfig on Darwin Boris Reisig (1): tar: support -J, --xz explicit compression option Bradley M. Kuhn (1): Simplify copyright/license notice that appears in the binary Christoph Lohmann (1): mdev: tell kernel that we didn't find the firmware Cliff Frey (1): lineedit: fix Alt-D when cursor==0 Dennis Groenen (1): lineedit: histfile can get emptied when CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_SAVE_ON_EXIT=y Denys Vlasenko: build system: stop .eh_frame generation build system: fix build failure when compressed help is selected, but bz2 compression is not scripts/kconfig/mconf: work on systems w/o SIGWINCH platform.h: disable ALIGNn macros for s390[x] adduser: install to /usr, not /, like all other similar tools ash: fix "read -s" + ^C. Closes 5504 ash: fix a bug in >${varexp} handling. Closes 5282 ash: implement export -n ash: revert wrong "fix" for an apparent memory leak. Closes 5822 awk: fix FS assignment behavior. Closes 5108 awk: make -F STR interpret escape sequences. Closes 5126 brctl: fix build failure by s/strtotimeval/bb_strtotimeval/ (android has strtotimeval) busybox: tweak help text and copyright year decompress_uncompress: comment out debug printout on corrupted data decompress_uncompress: move 'code' variable into loop - sole user dhcpd: write lease file on exit dpkg: fix creation of .list files (were empty since b768aeb). Closes 5324 du: document incompatibility with standard tool examples/mdev_fat.conf: small addition find: if DESKTOP=y, support -wholename (synonym for -path) find: make -mindepth N -xdev correctly stop on mountpoints ftpd: fix MDTM's month value. Closes 5336 ftpd: free allocated string on error path getty: fix for NOCTTY killing us with SIGHUP grep: fix grep -Fw not respecting the -w option. Closes 5792 ifconfig: do not accept "ifconfig eth0 up 1.2.3.4/17" (ip with mask). Closes 5786 libbb: correctness/size tweaks in signal-related helpers lineedit: in !EDITING config, return -1 on fgets error login: increase login name size limit from 32 to 64 lpr: don't send 0-byte print jobs (compat) man: fix handling of gzipped manpages mdev: add support for $DEVNAME and /dev/mdev.log debug aid mdev: fix mode of dir1 in =dir1/dir2/file rule mdev: remove undocumented subsystem/devname matching hack mdev: when found, print major,minor into mdev.log modprobe_small: make rmmod to NOT remove dependencies. Closes 5162 mount: do not pass "comment=ANYTHING" option to kernel. Closes 5240 mount: fix the wrongly stored fs creation time mount: set up RO loop device if mount -o ro. Closes 4784 mount: support strictatime option. Closes 5240 ntpd: on time step, kill all outstanding replies from other peers sed: fix handling of s/// which has empty matches sed: fix zero chars match/replace sha3: make size/speed optimization decision configurable syslogd: do not segfault on parse error when using default config. Closes 5762 telnet: convert CR -> CR LF, not CR -> CR NUL when sending data to server telnet: convert Enter -> CR LF in line mode too tftpd: fix -u USER to work with chroot. Closes 5348 top/ps: argv0:"gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]" == comm:"gdm-session-wor" top: do not touch stdin if -b top: fix "last CPU" parsing top: implement scrolling up/down (_very_ useful) udhcp[cd]: fix binding to network aliases. Closes 5432, 5438 udhcpc: make -O <numeric_opt> work. Closes 5402 udhcpc[6]: show select timeout in log unzip: make options parsing more robust on getopt w/o gnu extensions vi: do not set autoindent by default vi: nuke FEATURE_VI_OPTIMIZE_CURSOR vi: save/restore screen upon invocation volume_id/ext: detect ext4 too wget: correctly handle failure to -c (continue) wget: make -c _not_ truncate the file wget: reorder fread and poll: poll only if fread returns EAGAIN. Closes 5426 wget: try reading after poll timeout - stdio may have buffered data. Closes 5426 Eric Martin (1): acpid: add missing lid switch definition Etienne Le Sueur (1): tar: fix 256-bit encoded number decoding Felix Fietkau (1): udhcpc[6]: allow discover_retries == 0 (infinite) Jon Tollefson (1): ash: fix a memory leak Joshua Kahlenberg (1): sysctl: implement -q Lauri Hintsala (1): powertop: fix error message Lauri Kasanen (1): sha3sum: new applet Linus Walleij (2): fbset: respect rgba configuration lines in fb.modes fbsplash: support non-RGB565 pixels in 16-bit mode Manuel Zerpies (1): flashcp: remove unused variable opts Martin Santesson (1): mount: add unc option to CIFS mount (needed for Linux 3.4+) Matt Reimer (1): nanddump: make dumping read-only partitions work Michael Tokarev (2): ps: use separate get_uptime() and make it work on non-linux too *: declare strings with ALIGN1, as appropriate Mike Frysinger (5): udhcpc6: depend on ipv6 include sys/resource.h where needed disable format security warnings build system: use pkg-config to look up selinux libs ifenslave: fix missing close paren Mimi Li (1): sed: allow 'w' cmd to use two address form Natanael Copa (2): tar: implement --no-recursion unzip: ignore chmod errors Nicolas Thill (1): brctl: fix description and usage Pascal Bellard (1): su: do not change to home dir unless -l Paul Marks (1): ntpd: fix incorrect m_status field in outgoing packets. Closes 5120 Peter Korsgaard (4): dmesg: handle multi-char log levels klogd: handle multi-char log levels syslogd: add option to log to Linux kernel printk buffer syslogd: convert dummy functions to statics and get rid of IF_FEATURE_* checks Pierre Carrier (1): config: do not refer to HTTPS for wget Ron Yorston (2): sendmail: use host rather than NIS domain name for HELO mktemp: fix mktemp -u temp.XXXXXX returning garbage when TMPDIR is set S-G Bergh (2): blkid: show filesystem when both label and UUID are missing, but type is known volume_id: add exFAT detection Simon B (4): ln: support -T and -v sed: support long opts and -iSFX mkdir,rmdir: accept and ignore -v, --verbose mv: accept but ignore -v Sven-Göran Bergh (6): blkid: add type display for btrfs blkid: add support for nilfs2 blkid: add type display for hfsplus volume_id: display hfs[+] 128-bit UUID properly volume_id: uuid_format small code shrink volume_id: add squashfs detection Tanguy Pruvot (2): testsuite: some more awk tests related to conditions modinfo: match more standard module fields and fix version field Tias Guns (5): inetd: fix build failure in Android android: fix 'stat', ifdef S_TYPEIS* in coreutiles/stat.c platform.h: Android tweaks: ioprio defines, BB_ADDITIONAL_PATH android: some sensible defconfig changes libbb: add missing_syscalls.c: for now, only Android syscalls Timo Teräs (1): fbsplash: fix regression from e4fa7b7 Tito Ragusa (1): adduser: make it accept "adduser USER GROUP" form Vladimir Dronnikov (1): wget: add dummy --no-cache Yao Zhao (1): testsuite: make mkfs.minix test not fail spuriously on big endian walter harms (1): refactor correct_password.c to avoid one if - 2 July 2012 -- BusyBox 1.20.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.20.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.20.2 has fixes for ash (fix for variable expansion in redirection), ifup/down (fix for "pre-up" and "pre-down" handling), man (fixes for compressed man pages handling), mke2fs (important fix! due to misplaced s_mkfs_time field, ext4 driver couldn't mount our images), ps (fix for getting uptime on non-Linux platforms), tar (fix base-256 decoding).
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