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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.
- AOE - Open Source Web Development contributes financially.
- 22 June 2016 -- BusyBox 1.25.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.25.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.24.2 and busybox-1.25.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 894406 494 7420 902320 dc4b0 busybox-1.24.2 893717 489 7304 901510 dc186 busybox-1.25.0
Changes since previous release:
Aaro Koskinen (5): cpio: implement -R/--owner xargs: make -I imply -r gunzip: add support for long options gzip: add support for --no-name long option nandwrite: implement -n (read/write without ecc) Ari Sundholm (2): blkdiscard: new applet truncate: always set mode when opening file to avoid fortify errors Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) (1): taskset: fix non-fancy cpuset printing on big-endian Bartosz Golaszewski (7): i2cdetect: fix address skipping in auto mode i2cdump: don't read block data in non-block modes i2cdump: use I2C block mode for the 'i' mode parameter i2cdump: bail-out if block read fails i2cdump: display the numeric value for block read ioctl() errors unshare: new applet nsenter: new applet Bjørn Forsman (1): kconfig/lxdialog: get ncurses CFLAGS with pkg-config Chris Renshaw (1): Resolve linker issues with Android API 21 (dprintf, tcdrain) Christian Lindeberg (1): udhcpd: keep expired leases at startup Curt Brune (1): networking: add 'ip neigh' command Denys Vlasenko: make MKPASSWD a separate config option, not an automatic alias to cryptpw rename FEATURE_INITRD to LINUXRC and make it separate, not an alias to init fixes for problems found by bionic build build system: finer-grained selection of search speedup table build system: fix generate_BUFSIZ.sh to not alternate 1k and malloc builds scripts/trylink: fix bit-rotted linker option verification scripts/trylink: libbusybox fix scripts/trylink: remove $CPPFLAGS scripts/trylink: on failure, print a hint about CONFIG_EXTRA_LDLIBS generate_BUFSIZ.sh: catch BUFSIZE < 1024 also on "big" builds libbb: constify *bb_common_bufsiz1 (if it is compiled to be a pointer) libbb: factor out code which queries screen width libbb: get_uidgid() always called with allow_numeric=1 libbb: make "COMMON_BUFSIZE = 1024 bytes, the buffer will be malloced" work libbb: make bb_common_bufsiz1 1 kbyte, add capability to use bss tail for it libbb: make parse_chown_usergroup_or_die() set unspecified uid/gid to -1 libbb: speed up error_msg functions libbb: two new functions: wait_for_exitstatus(pid), xfchdir(fd) libarchive: fix open_zipped() libarchive: fix xmalloc_open_zipped_read_close() networking: allow dot at the end of the domain name in dhcp response arping: avoid use of ether_ntoa(). Closes 8926 ash: fix command -- crash cp: add -u/--update and --remove-destination dos2unix: try to preserve ownership. closes 8311 du: extra compat: with -k and -m, round sizes up dumpleases: make host names sanitized to shell-friendly condition find_applet_by_name: add an example of faster linear search code flock: fix -c; improve error handling of fork+exec flock: merge spawn_and_wait() code patchs for -c and sans-c uses fsck: do not use statics fsck: use printf for message, not bb_info_msg ftpd: make DIR parameter work for non-root too: chdir to it instead of chroot grep: make errors other than "not found" result in exit code 2. Closes 8796 httpd: fix heap buffer overflow. Closes 8426 i2c_tools: suppress "'blen' may be used uninitialized in this function" ifupdowm: fix "warning: unused variable 'iface_list'" inotifyd: swap meaning of 'y' and 'm' events in help text. Closes 8726 iproute: support "scope". Closes 8561 libiproute: make rt_addr_n2a() and format_host() return auto strings libiproute: rename invarg(a,b) to invarg_1_to_2(a,b) login: add commented-out PAM double password avoidance from BZ 4003 ls: fix columnar output. Closes 8731 lzop: eliminate variable, use "int" as return type mkfs_vfat: use bb_error_msg for logging, not bb_info_msg modinfo: fix "-F firmware", add "intree" field display modprobe-small: fix bogus handling of unpack errors modprobe: skip non-.conf files only in subdirectories modutils: fix build error with !DEPMOD mount: support "nofail" option. Closes 8551 nmeter: convert field list to bit list nmeter: fix a bug with unterminated varargs nmeter: reinstate and document -d-1 nmeter: remove undocumented %NNNd specifier ntpd: do not use a peer more than once (say, if two peers resolve to the same IP) ntpd: if peer does not reply anymore, try re-resolving its hostname ntpd: more informative poll lowering message ntpd: print packet delay in clock update message ntpd: retry initial DNS resolution (forever, no timeout for now) ntpd: step when |offset| > 1 sec, not 0.125 sec od: get rid of (almost all) statics patch: correctly handle "patch FILE_TO_PATCH" form. Closes 7736 pmap: fix bogus {no such process} comm field text rmmod: fix bad error message sed: fix append command to match GNU sed 4.2.1 sed: make 's///w FILE' actually write to FILE. Closes 8251 sed: support "-f -" idiom sed: understand \n, \r and \t in i and a commands. Closes 8871 setarch: add support for '-R' (disable randomization) setfiles: switch bb_info_msg to printf setsid: implement -c sort: fix ENDCHAR handling in "-kSTART,N.ENDCHAR" sort: fix key with delimiters breakage stat: make -f optional. This allows to build stat for non-linux systems sulogin: drop incorrect comment about suid-ness sulogin: remove suid paranoia code, explain why it's not necessary sulogin: use bb_error_msg instead of bb_info_msg; better message tar: add a test that we don't write into symlinks tar: add support for --strip-components=N tar: fix files skipped with --strip_components not resetting selinux context tar: implement --version for buildroot tar: shrink hardlink name handling code top: make sort field for 's' mode less confusing udhcp: add setup_common_bufsiz() as needed udhcp: fix a SEGV on malformed RFC1035-encoded domain name udhcp: get rid of bb_info_msg() udhcpc: do not use -t NUM for counting "select" packets, use 3 udhcpc: fix OPTION_6RD parsing (could overflow its malloced buffer) umount: build fix for older glibc unzip: better match for "standard" unzip's output; string shrinkage unzip: fix a case where we find wrong CDE. Closes 8821 unzip: fix percent overflow; show "stored" files properly unzip: shorter code for date/time generation unzip: test for bad archive SEGVing wget: if stderr is not a tty, progress bar shouldn't use tty-tricks wget: make -T timeout work on header reads too. Closes 8636 wget: make Bartosz's "wget --passive-ftp -nd -t 3" work zcip: do not query current time if we won't use the result zcip: use bb_error_msg for logging, not bb_info_msg Felix Fietkau (1): busybox: fix uninitialized memory when displaying IPv6 addresses Hans Dedecker (1): dhcpc: Use client IP address as source address for DHCP renew/rebind messages Isaac Dunham (1): dumpleases: new option -d to show time in seconds Jean Delvare (1): kbuild: Fix gcc -x syntax Junio C Hamano (1): kconfig: fix menuconfig on debian lenny Justin Lecher (1): menuconfig: optionally use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs Krzysztof Mazur (1): menuconfig: fix extended colors ncurses support Kylie McClain (1): Fix compiling with musl's utmp stubs Michal Marek (1): kbuild: Make scripts executable Mike Frysinger (12): trylink: include LDFLAGS when checking linkage swapon/swapoff: refine the -e (ifexists) option blkid: add bcache support truncate: use O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK build: add a sanitizer debug option modprobe: only parse files that end in .conf ash_test: printenv: fix missing includes ash_test: ignore generated files Revert "lxdialog: fix ncursesw include detection" syslogd: minor tweaks to text undeb: clean up unrpm: clean up Natanael Copa (2): ifupdown: use -x hostname:NAME with udhcpc libbb: fix time parsing of [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]. Closes 8951 Nicolas Carrier (1): init: make the command-line rewrite optional Nicolas Cavallari (1): ifupdown: allow duplicate interface definitions Pascal Bach (1): chpasswd: support -c argument and respect DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO Rafał Miłecki (1): dd: support iflag=skip_bytes Richard Genoud (1): tr: support octal ranges Ron Yorston (26): Rewrite iteration through applet names to save a few bytes libbb: move common code into run_applet_and_exit lineedit: search applets as well as PATH for tab completion ash: add tests for failures of the exec and command builtins ash: fix EXEXEC status clobbering ash: allow popredir to be called if the stack is empty ash: copy function tests from hush testsuite ash: add support for bash 'function' keyword ash: add test for issue with here document ash: allow newline after variable name in for loop ash: save a few bytes in code to parse case statements ash: respect -p flag when command builtin is run with -v/-V ash: only allow local variables in functions ash: fix error during recursive processing of here document ash: simplify EOF/newline handling in list parser ash: fix corruption of ${#var} if $var contains UTF-8 characters ash: bash-compatible $'...' shouldn't expand in double quotes busybox: alter help message in standalone shell mode busybox: make busybox an optional applet Allow "busybox APPLET" to work when busybox is disabled wget: shrink code if https isn't supported libiproute: use if_nametoindex printf: short-circuit output when argument to %b includes \c applet_tables: save space by removing applet name offsets find_applet_by_name: loop index should be signed Sven Eisenberg (2): ubirename: new applet ubirmvol: implement -N switch for ubirmvol Szabolcs Nagy (1): ip: fix problem on mips64 n64 big endian musl systems Timo Teräs (4): ifupdown: pass interface device name for ipv6 route commands fbsplash: use virtual y size in mmap size calculations modutils: merge module_entry and module_info to common networking: properly initialize ipv6 scope id for printing it Yaakov Selkowitz (2): kconfig: check ncursesw headers first in check-lxdialog kconfig: fix check-lxdialog for DLL platforms Yann E. MORIN (1): kconfig/lxdialog: rationalise the include paths where to find {.n}curses{,w}.h - 25 March 2016 -- Building on an Android tablet.
Android is based on Linux kernel, but sadly and unexplicably, Android userspace is not Unix-friendly: in many cases, things are done differently than in "usual" Unix systems. For example, there is no /bin directory (and therefore ubiquitous #!/bin/sh scripts won't work). Instead, there is /system/bin.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S (SM-T700 model) and I made it compile Busybox as follows:
- "Rooted" the tablet (acquired root access). This step is device-specific.
- Installed the SuperSU application.
- Installed the Termux application - it provides a small repository of essential tools: gcc-based toolchain, git, ncurses, etc.
- Ran its terminal, installed packages I needed, pulled Busybox git tree.
- Created a /bin symlink to /system/bin, to make #!/bin/sh scripts work (the build fails otherwise).
- Now the usual "make defconfig", "make menuconfig", "make" work.
Some parts won't compile (not all kernel headers are present, libc API different or incomplete, etc). The maximal config which did compile is now in the git tree, in configs/android_502_defconfig. The toolchain provided by Termux is based on Android's Bionic libc and Bionic has some design problems. An annoying one is that off_t is 32-bit, struct_stat::st_size is not off_t (this violates standard expectations), therefore CONFIG_LFS=y does not build, and CONFIG_LFS=n builds with warnings (printf'ing st->st_size with wrong specifier).
- 24 March 2016 -- BusyBox 1.24.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.24.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.24.2 has fixes for build system (static build with glibc fixed), truncate, gunzin and unzip.
- 24 October 2015 -- BusyBox 1.24.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.24.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.24.1 has fixes for ftpd (DIR parameter works for non-root too), httpd (heap overflow fix), sort (fix for a a problem affecting glibc build). Build system has a fix for the lost link-time optimizations. In 1.24.0 announcement, you might have noticed that sizes unexpectedly grew relative to 1.23.2. Now it is fixed:
text data bss dec hex filename 860126 486 7272 867884 d3e2c busybox-1.23.2 869074 516 7364 876954 d619a busybox-1.24.0 (buggy link script) 858906 486 7180 866572 d390c busybox-1.24.0 (fixed link script) 858941 486 7180 866607 d392f busybox-1.24.1
Check out a new applet, "uevent". It is a netlink listener. It provides alternative to having mdev as kernel hotplug helper. Instead of setting up the former via "echo /sbin/mdev >/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug", start "uevent mdev" early during boot. "uevent" will run "mdev" for each hotplug event, waiting for each child to terminate before starting a next one.
The former method does not require a long-lived listener process, but it is racy: many copies of mdev can run in parallel.
- 12 October 2015 -- BusyBox 1.24.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.24.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.23.2 and busybox-1.24.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 860126 486 7272 867884 d3e2c busybox-1.23.2 869074 516 7364 876954 d619a busybox-1.24.0
I would like to feature some less-known useful tools in Busybox. Let me talk about "nmeter" applet. I find myself using it surprisingly often. For example, it helped me to correctly parallelize a very large multiple kernel build job (~30000 kernel builds) so that all CPUs are loaded, but machine isn't evicting file cache because it has too many jobs for installed RAM.
When dealing with a machine which seems to be sluggish, it takes some time to pinpoint the cause. It can be lack of free memory. It can be excessive CPU load. It can be misbehaving (slow) storage or network. nmeter allows to monitor many such parameters and presents them in a compact one-line form. This lets you see the time evolution as well. Here is an example:
# nmeter '%t %c x %x m %[mf] f%p p %[pn] b %b net%[neth0]' 20:51:22 .......... x 837 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 0 0 20:51:23 .......... x 1195 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 128 0 20:51:24 .......... x 1687 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:25 .......... x 1829 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 875 70 20:51:26 U......... x 1567 m 2.2g f 6 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:27 U......... x 1451 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:28 .......... x 1332 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:29 .......... x 1698 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:30 .......... x 1640 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:31 .......... x 1397 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:32 .......... x 1244 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 4096 net 64 0 20:51:33 U......... x 1660 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 128 0 20:51:34 U......... x 1793 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:35 .......... x 1583 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0 20:51:36 .......... x 1308 m 2.2g f 0 p 377 b 0 0 net 64 0
If CPU load is high, the CPU bar will immediately show this. %x column shows context switches per second, allowing to detect cases where processes are waking and waiting on each other excessively. %[mf] is free memory, and it is smart enough to show actual usable memory: unlike many other tools, it considers buffer cache as free memory. %p and %[pn] columns show forks and number of processes, they let you detect a case where a daemon is respawning continuously. Two %b numbers are block IO read and write rates. %[neth0] is network IO rate on the specified interface. More specifiers exist - please read "nmeter --help" output.
With -d MSEC option and small values of MSEC, this tool allows to see a detailed view of bursty activity. Sometimes you can literally see every network packet arriving. To make this possible, this tool is written so that it reads the minimum of informaion it needs from /proc. In this example, we can see how a packet arrived to eth0, complete with its IRQ#30 firing:
# nmeter -d10 '%4t irq%30i net%[neth0]' 21:07:58.2301 irq 0 net 0 0 21:07:58.2401 irq 0 net 0 0 21:07:58.2502 irq 0 net 0 0 21:07:58.2601 irq 1 net 64 0 21:07:58.2701 irq 0 net 0 0 21:07:58.2802 irq 0 net 0 0 21:07:58.2902 irq 0 net 0 0
As you see, each update takes about 0.2 millisecond of processing time. You can run even -d1, if you want. -d0 also works, it is a mode where updates are continuous.
On the other hand, with large update interval, you can run this tool continuously on a server machine and save its output, to be able to investigate mysterious drops in performance at a time when there was no operator present. If you have an oopsing server, it is useful to have another nmeter instance's output to be constantly printed to its console, if you want to see what was going on just before oops. "Is my server occasionally dies in an IRQ storm?" situation.
Changes since previous release:
Aaro Koskinen (3): gzip: add support for compression levels 4-9 diff: fix -B with single line changes diff.tests: add testcases for -B and single line changes Adam Tkac (1): ntpd: relicense ntpd applet to ISC-style license Alex Dowad (1): ifupdown: 'prio' should have been 'metric' in static_up and static_up6 Alexander Korolkov (1): arping: fix iface name in error messages Alfonso Ranieri (1): volume_id: fix a buglet introduced by is_prefixed_with() conversion Andrew Fuller (1): vi: basic undo feature shouldn't depend on yankmark Ari Sundholm (3): dd: add optional support for status=noxfer/none dd: move suffix struct to xatonum.c truncate: new applet Arthur Gautier (1): udhcpc: dns labels can actually start with a number Bartosz Golaszewski: Makefile: fix cscope target i2cget, i2cset, i2cdetect, i2cdump: new applets i2c-tools: fix 'i2cdetect -l' i2c-tools: only try /dev/i2c/* if opening /dev/i2c-* fails with ENOENT unit-tests: remove unnecesary field from struct bbunit_listelem unit-tests: remove code depending on WANT_TIMING Makefile: add missing libraries to LDLIBS libbb: add unit tests for is_prefixed_with() libbb: add a comment describing the way is_prefixed_with() works libbb: add is_suffixed_with() function i2c-tools: remove duplicate definitions i2c-tools: rename remaining defines Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (5): dc: tweak parsing wget: fix --header to not append duplicate headers *: Switch to POSIX utmpx API include: Fallback to UTMP unless there is UTMPX support adduser: Add -k /path/to/skel Christoph J. Thompson (1): iproute: don't hardcode the path to config files Clayton Shotwell (1): applets: add installation of individual binaries Daniel Thompson (1): libbb: enable support for !CONFIG_MULTIUSER Denys Vlasenko: truncate: new applet uevent: new applet build system: -fno-builtin-printf build system: make CONFIG_EXTRA_LDFLAGS go to LDFLAGS, not EXTRA_LDFLAGS build system: remove special-casing for extra libs examples/mdev_fat.conf: document that newer mdev exposes path update example ntp.script updated android_ndk_defconfig platform.h: add compat mempcpy platform.h: enable mempcpy for FreeBSD platform.h: mempcpy needs <string.h> libbb: add setsockopt_foo helpers libbb: auto_string() for efficient handling of temporary malloced stirngs libbb: code shrink by factoring out common update_utmp_DEAD_PROCESS libbb: introduce and use is_prefixed_with() libbb: make INET[6]_rresolve use sockaddr2{host,dotted}_noport libbb: make is_suffixed_with() return pointer inside string, not key. libbb: more compact API for bb_parse_mode() libiproute: use itoa() where appropriate libpwdgrp: fix a memory leak in getXXnam (we did not save address of string buf) libpwdgrp: fix counting of commas in group list libpwdgrp: getgrXXX: empty string is not a member name, do not store it libpwdgrp: reinstate Tito's optional atexit freeing libpwdgrp: store getXXnam result in a single malloc block libpwdgrp: use FAST_FUNC to make "matching ABI" optimization more likely to succeed libpwdgrp: use a better estimate of max struct size libpwdgrp: use getpwent() instead of getpwent_r() ash: a bunch of trivial simplifications ash: add tests adapted from hush glob tests. glob2.tests currently fails ash: explain what "local -" does ash: fix a SEGV case in an invalid heredoc ash: fix a SEGV in ${#1} ash: fix handling of duplicate "local" ash: make dowait() a bit more readable. Logic is unchanged ash: simplify "you have mail" code hush: add recent ash tests to hush testsuite too (they all pass for hush) hush: document buggy handling of duplicate "local" hush: fix a nommu bug where a part of function body is lost if run in a pipe hush: fix umask: umask(022) was setting umask(755) awk: support "length" form of "length()". Closes 8371 dc: fix "dc p" printing bogus data deluser: also remove user from /etc/group deluser: implement --remove-home depmod: fix recent breakage in modules.dep generation dhcpd: fix an improper widening conversion diff: fix a bug in diffing against stdin. Closes 7784 dpkg: update supported compression methods find: support "find . -delete" idiom - do not try rmdir(".") ftpd: change_identity() must be after chroot() ftpd: prevent zombies. closes 7832 gzip: speed up and shrink put_16bit() ifconfig: fix double free fatal error in INET_sprint ifplugd: discovered why it needed net/ethernet.h: just for ETH_ALEN inetd: fix order of array index check and array access ip: increased max ID for /etc/iproute2/rt_tables to 1023 ipaddress: better formatting, no code changes less: improve regular file detection in line counting code ls: fix year 9999 bug :) mdev: if a "future" mdev.seq is seen, do not overwrite it with ours mdev: improve logging modinfo: fix fallout from basename removal modprobe-small: fix and simplify rmmod modprobe-small: fix recent breakage: modprobe -r was using full path modprobe-small: if concurrent module load did not succeed, wait modprobe: fix "modprobe devname:snd/timer" case (alias with a slash) modprobe: fix recent breakage: modules.dep reading code needs to strip dirname modprobe: revert checking for /, stop doing basename() on modprobe args ntpd: change help text about -l to say that it doesn't disable client code ntpd: get rid of G.initial_poll_complete patch: segfault fix. Closes 7916 ping: fix recently introduced build breakage for non-optimizing builds ps: fix SEGV on narrow screens. closes 8176 remove global "jmp_buf die_jmp" from !FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS builds route: fix bogus read error when route table is empty route: improve -A inet6 runsvdir: (almost) close a signal race runsvdir: do not block SIGCHLD around poll/sleep runsvdir: if pid==1, also intercept SIGINT for -s SCRIPT sed: implement ",+N" range end sort: fix -kN,M handling (was including last separator into the comparison) ssl_helper: tweaks discovered while building 32-bit version sync: add support for -d -f FILE tar: do not try to decode GNU extended headers as pax headers tc: fix print_rate trim extra newlines in help texts udhcpc: fix for some Android toolchain breakage umount: always use umount2 syscall with specified flags unzip: prevent attacks via malicious filenames uudecode: tolerate text input with CR+LF line ends vi: make BACKSPACE and DELETE join lines at start/end of line wget: make openssl/ssl_helper choice configurable Eugene Rudoy (1): ash: consider "local -" case while iterating over local variables in mklocal. Felix Fietkau (1): find: fix regression in status processing for path arguments Frank Bergmann (1): ifupdown: correct ifstate update during 'ifup -a'. Closes 6212 Guillermo Rodriguez (1): free: handle "cached" value too Isaac Dunham (1): mount: -T OTHERTAB support John Schroeder (1): udhcpd: account for script delay in lease Junling Zheng (1): chown: fix help text Kevin Wallace (1): libbb/loop: don't try to re-use existing loop device Linus Walleij (1): fbset: fix rgba parsing Maninder Singh (4): typo fixes fix if(p)/free(p) construct fix whitespaces Removes stray empty line from code Martin Kaiser (1): telnetd: we only need CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS from the Linux kernel Matt Whitlock (4): Bionic lacks ttyname_r; provide a workaround Bionic lacks tcdrain; provide a workaround Bionic lacks mempcpy; enable existing workaround Conditionalize Bionic workarounds on __ANDROID_API__ Michael Tokarev (1): ip addr: support change and replace commands Micke Prag (1): ubiattach: add option -O Mike Frysinger (3): trylink: use mktemp instead of hardcoding paths trylink: respect compiler settings when probing features echo: make escape sequences depend on fancy mode Natanael Copa (1): modprobe: fix modprobe -r and parsing of /etc/modprobe.d Peter Korsgaard (2): dmesg: add -r option to print raw format even when FEATURE_DMESG_PRETTY is enabled modprobe: handle module arguments containing spaces Phil Sutter (1): logread: implement dumpfollow mode of operation René Rhéaume (1): swaponoff: add support for -e Rich Felker (1): gzip: do not store timestamp in gzip header Ron Yorston: libbb: remove unnecessary argument to nonblock_immune_read libbb: add a function to make a copy of a region of memory ash: do not split the result of tilde expansion ash: code shrink around varvalue ash: perform tilde expansion in all parameter expansion words ash: do not expand tilde in parameter expansion within quotes ash: remove superfluous code in arithmetic mode ash: remove arithmetic expansion collapsing at parse time ash: move parse-time quote flag detection to run-time ash: fix breakage of ${v/pat/str} ash: remove parsebackquote flag ash: use alloca to get rid of setjmp ash: fix slash treatment in expmeta less: document -S flag and make it independently configurable less: fix display of line numbers less: correctly account for tabs when rewrapping lines less: improvements to verbose status messages less: fix numeric input less: move code to count lines into a separate function less: rearrange detection of non-regular files less: add a function to detect when display is at end of file less: fix line number confusion less: allow use of last column of terminal less: further tweaks to regular file detection less: fix botched attempt to use last column vi: failure to open file is not an error when initialising buffer vi: fix reading of file after last line od: fix printing of high-bit chars uname: make OS name configurable ipcalc: fix trivial usage message Serj Kalichev (1): acpid: fix logging Sören Tempel (1): login: don't print motd if .hushlogin exists in users home Thiago Jung Bauermann (2): libarchive: auto-detect .Z files as well bzcat.tests: Run both .gz and .bz2 tests, and add .Z tests Tito Ragusa (4): libpwdgrp: rewritten to use malloced implementation libpwdgrp: line counting in error meesages is broken, remove it libpwdgrp: fix thinko in getpwnam libbb: another unit test for is_suffixed_with Vladislav Grishenko (1): zcip: fix wrong comparison of source IP with our IP - 23 March 2015 -- BusyBox 1.23.2 (stable)
BusyBox 1.23.2. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.23.2 has fixes for dc (more tolerant to lack of whitespace), modinfo (was not ignoring directory component of path names in a few places), modprobe (better compatibility for "rmmod" alias), wget (--header now overrides built-in headers, not appends to).
- 27 January 2015 -- BusyBox 1.23.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.23.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.23.1 has fixes for ash (fixed a problem with ${#N} expansion), ftpd (fixed "zombie apocalypse"), modprobe (was not ignoring directory component of path names in a few places), vi.
- 23 December 2014 -- BusyBox 1.23.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.23.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.22.1 and busybox-1.23.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 873357 489 7072 880918 d7116 busybox-1.22.1 876323 490 7072 883885 d7cad busybox-1.23.0
Changes since previous release:
Aaro Koskinen (2): less: make -E work install: implement -t DIR Ari Sundholm (2): df: implement -T option df: fix -T option when ENABLE_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE=0 Bartosz Golaszewski (17): gitignore: ignore files generated by 'make test' sort: remove a magic number from compare_keys() sort: check global flags on fallback sort ntpd: fix compilation warnings top: fix compilation warnings grep: properly handle grep -w "^str" in !EXTRA_COMPAT case too Kbuild: move CONFIG_PAM to general configuration shuf: fix a segfault on 'shuf -e' shuf: improve help text docs: update new-applet-HOWTO.txt find: add optional support for '-exec ... {} +' libbb: use a wrapper around sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) to save a few bytes unit-tests: implement the unit-testing framework Rename INIT_LAST to INIT_FUNC to avoid confusion gitignore: add testsuite/echo-ne libbb: use sendfile() to copy data between file descriptors Config: select PLATFORM_LINUX if using sendfile() Baruch Siach (2): nandwrite: fix build when long options are disabled nanddump: don't show --bb in usage when disabled Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (1): libbb: provide usleep() fallback implementation Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn (1): tail: adjust help/usage texts David Marchand (1): modinfo: fix module parsing with kernel >= 2.6.37 Denys Vlasenko: *: add conditional support for -v / --verbose *: exit with 127 if applet name wasn't found - it's more POSIXy ash,hush: do not segfault on $((2**63 / -1)) ash,hush: fix a thinko about 2^64-1 factorization ash,hush: improve randomness of $RANDOM, add easy-ish way to test it ash,hush: run reinit_unicode() only if makes sense ash,hush: set $HOSTNAME is bash compat. Closes 7028 ash: factor out ASH_HELP config option ash: fix handling of negative start value in ${v:start:len} ash: fix off-by-one in "jobs %4" handling. Closes 7310 ash: in bash compat mode, always export $SHLVL ash: make "local VAR" unset VAR (bash does that) ash: make ${#var} unicode-aware awk: fix handling of "if ... break ; else ..." - closes 7226 crond: implement "SHELL=prog" in crontab. Export LOGNAME as POSIX wants crond: simplify logging code du, copy_file: fix file matching on cramfs. Closes 5456 fakeidentd: simplify ndelay manipulations false: make "false --help" exit with 1 find: exit code fixes for find -exec find: fix a regression introduced with -HLP support find: support -perm /BITS. Closes 7340 find: use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) to determine the command-line size limit ftpd: do not use root_fd if we are not in chroot ftpd: escape chroot prior to re-executing ls helper ftpd: for LIST, open current directory *in the child* ftpd: make LIST command show dotfiles too ftpd: support deprecated XPWD command getty: set tty attrs so that control chars are shown as ^c grep: fix "grep -r PATTRN SYMLINK_TO_DIR" grep: fix -w match if first match isn't a word, but second is. Closes 4520 grep: fix two bugs with -w hush: make "true" built-in hush: make ${#var} unicode-aware hwclock: fix setting of tz_minuteswest. Closes 5414 init: do not run shutdown/reexec actions from signal handler init: if libc-based Unicode support is on, run setlocale(LC_ALL, "") at startup ip link: add support for "address ETHADDR". Closes 4862 less: accept and ignore -s less: disable "suppress empty wraparound" optimization less: fix bugs discovered with "git log -p | less -m" on kernel tree less: move "retry-on-EAGAIN" logic closer to read ops libarchive: add capability to unpack to mem.buffer libarchive: open_zipped() does not need to check extensions for e.g. gzip libbb/obscure.c: code shrink. Suggested by Tito. libbb: FreeBSD fix for B<num> baud rate constants not fitting into a short libbb: don't die if crypt() returns NULL libbb: fix a bad check for uclibc >= 0.9.31 libbb: fix bb_ask() to flush input before prompt, not after. Closes 7190 libbb: fix compile failure if both ARG_MAX and _SC_ARG_MAX are defined libbb: fix empty PATH components handling libbb: fix parsing of "10101010" date/time form libbb: fix thinko in rtc_xopen() libbb: if opening /dev/loopN returns ENXIO, don't try N++ libbb: make rtc_xopen try harder on EBUSY libbb: make syslog level for bb_error_msg's configurable. use it in crond libbb: open_zipped() should not fail on non-compressed files libbb: use ARG_MAX for bb_arg_max() only if it's 60k+ lineedit: don't fall back to simple line input if tty is in raw mode ls: make "ls -s DIR" show total too. Closes 4946 lzop: add overflow check make xmalloc_open_zipped_read_close result NUL terminated man: accept a list of dirs in $MANPATH man: default to ascii man: do not mangle $MANPATH in memory mdev: treat zero-length /dev/mdev.seq the same as "\n" one. Closes 7334 modprobe,rmmod: reject module names with slashes modprobe-small: (un)load all modules which match the alias, not only first one modprobe-small: fix help messages for aliased module-related applets modprobe-small: fix safe_strncpy truncating last char of module name modprobe-small: remove redundant aliases from modules.dep.bb nc: fix option bit positions. Closes 6926 networking/ssl_helper: experimental matrixssl-based ssl helper networking: explain isrv_run() API ntpd: add optional support for /etc/ntp.conf ntpd: add support for -I IFACE ntpd: adjust last packet's recv time after a step ntpd: be less eager to use shorter poll intervals ntpd: fix wrong delay value in one of the printed messages ntpd: remove now unnecessary check for IP_PKTINFO definition ntpd: truly ignore high delay packet ping: revert "try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges" platform.h: undef HAVE_STRCHRNUL only on correct versions of FreeBSD rtcwake: fix incorrect (reversed) rtc/sys adjuestment; code shrink script: make it work even if fd 0 is closed sed: fix "sed CMD -i nonexistent_file". Closes 7484 sed: fix a buglet in s///NUM handling sendmail: make -f optional, document its default value sha3: add 32-bit optimized bit-sliced implementation sha3: code shrink (and speedup for SHA3_SMALL=0) shuf: new applet sysctl: do not error out showing write-only data. Closes 6386 syslogd: make "-O -" log to stdout tar: fix "tar -cJ" ignoring -J option. Closes 7706 tar: tighten up pax header validity check taskset: fix logic error in "if it doesn't start with 0x..." taskset: support CPU masks for more than 64 CPUs test: fix mishandling of "test '(' = '('" and similar tftpd: support full 512-byte requests tftpd: tweak HP PA-RISC firmware bug compatibility top: fix memset length (sizeof(ptr) vs sizeof(array) problem) trylink: emit names of linked executables ubiupdatevol: fix -t to not require an option. Closes 7466 udhcpc: account for script run time udhcpc: don't use BPF filter, users report problems (bugs 4598, 6746) udhcpc: fix BPF filter. Hopefully fixes the root cause of 4598 and 6746 udhcpc: ignore NAKs from "wrong" servers. Closes 4267 udhcpc: in comments, explain the kind of raw socket we create udhcpc: make hostname sanitization optional. Closes 3979 udhcpd: if a lease from lease file coincides with a static one, ignore it vi: clear undo buffer when we change to another file vi: fix incorrect memory access on brace matching. Closes 7256 wget: add commented-out code to use ssl_helper instead of openssl wget: add support for https using "openssl s_client" as a helper wget: fix a case where progress bar isn't updated if writes are very slow wget: fix use-after-free of ->user. Closes 6836 xargs: add support for -I and -i. Closes 493 zcat: complain if input is not compressed Drew Moseley (1): build system: specify '-nostldlib' when linking to .o files Eugene Rudoy (1): iplink: fix build with kernel versions prior to 2.6.23 Florian Fainelli (1): ping: add -p to specify data pattern Isaac Dunham (1): unlink: new applet Jacob Kjaergaard (1): flashcp: change BUFSIZE to 4k Jeremy Kerr (1): udhcp: add PXELINUX path prefix option (code 210) definition Jody Bruchon (1): vi: undo support for vi with intermediate queuing John Spencer (1): man: parse "DEFINE pager" in config Joshua Judson Rosen (5): syslogd: avoid spurious ftrunctate() calls for "-b 0" syslogd: remember to un-writelock log-files even when called with "-b 0" syslogd: Unify unlink/truncate + unlock log-rotation logic syslogd: syslogd: don't *decrement* log_file->size on write failures syslogd: make "reopen log file every second" logic work for multiple logs Kaarle Ritvanen (2): ifupdown: support 'link' address family sendmail: use FQDN in default envelope sender Ken Sharp (1): zcip: fix link-local IP conflict detection Matt Whitlock (3): avoid calling bb_strtou twice in MIN macro expansion fix interaction of -a and -p options in swapon add discard option -d to swapon Matthias Andree (1): build system: fix non-portable sed constructs. Michael Gernoth (1): stat: fix printing selinux context and null-dereference Michael Tokarev (3): testsuite: fix last "which" change init: do not fail build if SIGPWR is not defined iproute: support onelink route option and print route flags Michel Stam (3): udhcpd: add option for tweaking arpping zcip: allow our own class B range to be used for ZeroConf zcip: Add environment variable for overriding log functionality Mike Frysinger (2): uname: fix up usage documentation appletlib: fix set-but-unused warning Miroslav Lichvar (4): ntpd: don't wait for good offset before disabling burst mode ntpd: split out poll adjusting code ntpd: don't stay at short polling interval ntpd: calculate offset to jitter ratio before updating jitter Morten Kvistgaard (1): ftpd: add optional support for authentication Pascal Bellard (1): fatattr: new applet Peter Kümmel (1): Make it possible to override LOGIN_FAIL_DELAY in CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS Richard Genoud (4): nanddump: correct rounding to next page (lead to infinite loop) nanddump: add options --bb=skipbad and padbad nanddump: kill -b Omit bad block nanddump: change default to --bb=skipbad Romain Naour (1): su: add a delay if the password is incorrect Ron Yorston (1): lineedit: don't block when looking for escape sequence in vi-mode Ryan Mallon (1): fakeidentd: fix use-after-free Timo Teräs (1): top: fix and merge code to parse /proc/meminfo Tito Ragusa (4): adduser,addgroup: introduce and use CONFIG_LAST_ID swapon/swapoff: size reduction, cleanup, fixes, improvements swapon/swapoff: -a returns 0 on ignored errors which: rewrite - 20 January 2014 -- BusyBox 1.22.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.22.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.22.1 has fixes for find (was requiring the path argument in some cases, unlike GNU find), grep (fixes for -w handling), ntpd (wasn't slewing time after large negative step), compile fixes for some configurations.
- 1 January 2014 -- BusyBox 1.22.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.22.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.21.1 and busybox-1.22.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename 891522 497 7584 899603 dba13 busybox-1.21.1 893754 497 7568 901819 dc2bb busybox-1.22.0
Changes since previous release:
Aaro Koskinen (9): fdisk_sun: fix corrupted partition data with blank disk fdisk_sun: fix partition alignment sendmail: avoid sending mail to wrong addresses sendmail: don't mangle e-mail headers sendmail: support addresses inside angle brackets sendmail: support address lists sendmail: support long header fields for recipients sendmail: don't add To: header if it already exists sendmail: don't add multiple To: headers Alexander Shiyan (2): nanddump: fix build if nandwrite isn't enabled flash_eraseall: implement -N Bartosz Golaszewski (6): grep: don't bail out on first mismatch if '-w' option is set networking: code shrink date: accept 'yyyy-mm-dd HH' and 'yyyy-mm-dd' date formats Refactor catv. Move visible() from stty to libbb. tail compat: fix header printing for tail -f bloat-o-meter: add usage info Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (11): awk: Fix handling of functions with empty body setserial: Fix typo: s/baund_rate/baud_rate/g chrt: remove warning for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING buildsys: Add helper to list suid applets awk: Fix handling of functions with empty body swaponoff: shrink ash: Use setvar2 some more ash: Set SHLVL in ASH_BASH_COMPAT fstrim: -17b fstrim: Indicate failure on error fstrim: Needs to fire at the mp, not bd Bernhard Walle: pgrep: fix -x option Bogdan Purcareata: init: halt on SIGPWR too Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn: foo*sum: Correct syntax error Cédric Cabessa: syslogd: use _PATH_LOG when available Daniel Borca (4): platform: strchrnul is missing if __APPLE__ dpkg-deb: cosmetic correction to usage text ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges build system: fix make gconfig David A. Wheeler (2): sed: accept -E as a synonym for -r sed: accept s///i as a synonym for s///I ("ignore case") Denys Vlasenko: Call setlocale("") , not "C", if we want to set the default one Commonalize typical [b,]k,m suffix struct Make smart_ulltoa return pointer to end (allows for code shrink in callers) Makefile.custom: make "make release" delete .gitignore files too Move create_icmp[6]_socket to its only user, and simplify it Use unsigned printf/scanf conversion where more appropriate adduser: check whether run with no USERNAME. Closes 6728 awk: fix a bug in argc counting in recent change awk: fix length(array) awk: use "long long" as integer type, not "int" bootchartd: warn if .config looks wrong build system: use od -b instead of od -t x1 bunzip2: fix off-by-one check chpst: fix a bug where -U USER was using wrong USER (one from -u USER) cryptpw: do not segfault on EOF. Closes 6350 dd: do not reuse local variables for unrelated values dd: fail if swab is attempted on odd-sized block dd: support conv=swab decompress_unlzma: 10% speedup in "small" code decompress_unlzma: make "fast" version a bit smaller devfsd: remove static variable ether-wake: shorten help text, reduce packet buffer size find: support -HLP find: get rid of nested function (it's a gcc-ism) fix assorted unused code and wrong format specs found by cppcheck (bug 6716) fix build error with musl libc due to if_slip.h fix error message on failure to open /dev/null; fix zcat's help text flashcp: pad output to BUFSIZE. Hopefully closes 5882 foo*sum: report I/O errors, don't merely exit with 1 head,tail: use common suffix struct. simplify help text head: support -n -NUM and -c -NUM hexdump: don't unconditionally limit the usable address range hexdump: need to use xstrtoull for off_t hostid: do not output sign-extended host id. Closes 6056 httpd: don't allow tabs and multiple spaces in request string httpd: make sure pfd[TO_CGI].revents is cleared before poll() httpd: treat errors from stdin correctly. hush: fix build failure if FEATURE_EDITING=y && !HUSH_INTERACTIVE hush: fix for "while false && true; do echo BUG; break; done". Closes 6170 hush: source builtin should override $N only if it has args hush: typo fixes in comments ifplugd: make -k send SIGINT, not SIGQUIT ifupdown: support "source" stanza in /etc/network/interfaces init: don't use fixed size buffer for command init: remove special-case code for machines with less tham 1 MB of RAM iplink: comment out include <net/if_packet.h> iplink: fix build error (IFLA_VLAN_PROTOCOL defined before include) less: support "less 1<>TTY" libbb: introduce and use strftime_[YYYYMMDD]HHMMSS() lineedit: \W on "/bin" should show "bin", not "/bin" lineedit: add handling of \H in prompt lineedit: fix multi-line PS1 handling: calculate PS1 length from last \n lineedit: implement \T \t \A \@ prompts escapes, fix \W escape, drop \! lineedit: improve Unicode handling (still buggy though) lineedit: use unicode_strwidth instead of unicode_strlen loadkmap: explain what happens with K_ALLOCATED key value logread: don't call shmdt() before exit, kernel does it for us logread: flush output. Closes 6710 logread: intercept all fatal signals, not just SIGINT losetup: assorted fixes. Closes 6314 lzop: fiq -q and OPTION_DECOMPRESS mismatch make --help return exitcode 0. Closes 5612 man: install to /usr/bin, not /sbin md5/sha512: a better fix for strict aliasing warnings mdev: add environment variable match mdev: call index_in_strings on $ACTION only after we checked it for NULL mdev: chdir back to /dev after trying to read firmware mdev: extend debug logging output mdev: improve $SEQ handling; improve debug logging mkfs_minix: use get_volume_size_in_bytes instead of local version nc: don't redirect stderr to network in -e PROG mode nc: exit when both stdin and network are closed nc: fix build failure ("subscripted value is neither array nor pointer") nc: remove some dead code nc: remove unnecessary "errno = 0" nc: use symbolic SHUT_WR instead of literal 1 nc_bloaty: support -ll and -lk. Closes 2245 nslookup: set default DNS server again. Hopefully helps with 675 ntpd: do not invalidate datapoints after step ntpd: drop delay outliers; run "unsync" handler if no replies for some time ntpd: let user know if spike was detected ntpd: make "unsync" code actually work ntpd: promote log level 3 to production ntpd: set G.last_script_run even if script isn't configured ntpd: set offset to 0.0 in "unsync" event ntpd: speed up resyncing if our clock is seriously off ping[6]: accept and ignore -n. Code shrink ps: fix sscanf format specifier (%l); make uptime unsigned ps: seconds_since_boot: uint64_t -> ulong pstree: fix theoretically unsafe code rfkill: use new-style config/kbuild/applet rpm: make -ql display more compatible; improve help text rpm: stop using statics; move main() to the end of the source file rpm: unmap rpm file before working with next one rpm: use "create+rename" method of replacing existing files run-parts: stop providing incompatible short options sed: document where we are more liberal then GNU sed: fix "sed clusternewline" testcase sed: fix matching of newlines by $ sed: fix memory leak in 'r FILE' command sed: open input files sequentially to avoid EMFILE sed: remove now-redundant backslash-newline handling stty: disable CIBAUD leak check - it is not necessary on Linux sulogin: use common password-checking routine tail: track file size only in -f mode tar: add a testcase for previous commit tar: fix exitcode check for MMU-spawned unpacking helpers tar: prevent empty file to be treated as valid tarball testsuite: fix false positives for du touch: add conditional support for -h ubi_tools: add forgotten argv++ ubi_tools: enhance -s option to allow size multiplier to match mtd-utils ubi_tools: extend supported volume size to 64 bits; shrink code udhcpc6: fix port numbers used if !FEATURE_UDHCP_PORT udhcpc: allow zero server-id. Closes 6614 udhcpc: fix a problem with binary-encoded options #2 udhcpd: add -I LOCAL_ADDR option unicode: check $LC_ALL to detect Unicode mode, not only $LANG unicode: check $LC_CTYPE too to detect Unicode mode unpackers: by users' request, print compression percentage if -v and DESKTOP unzip: increase PEEK_FROM_END from 16k to 64k unzip: survive lack of CDF on non-streaming zip files vasprintf: do not use xmalloc, it will deadlock on OOM vasprintf: return -1 on strdup failure vi: make regexp search case-insensitive if ":set ignorecase" is active volume_id_internal.h: drop unoptimized byteswap routines wall: access FILE under real user's credentials wget: do not abort if "_" is encountered in a HTTP header zcat: fix "zcat FILE" trying to do detection twice zcat: if seamless uncompressors are defined, autodetect file's format Flemming Madsen: ash,hush: history builtin Guilherme Maciel Ferreira (2): traceroute: free some memory allocated by xzalloc() wget: if FEATURE_CLEAN_UP, free(ptr_to_globals) James Hogan: grep: fix grep -x to not set REG_NOSUB Jeremy Kerr: udhcp: add PXELINUX config file option (code 209) definition Jody Bruchon: fdisk: fix GPT size math errors Johannes Stezenbach: udhcpc: make DHCP packets to have at least 300 DHCP bytes John Spencer: man: find posix man pages Jonathan Liu: sulogin: allow system maintenance login if root password is empty Kang Kai: testsuite/du/du-k-works: fix false positive Kuleshov Aleksey: arp: fix -H/-t handling. Lasse Collin (11): xz: omit explicit \0 from HEADER_MAGIC xz: update README xz: avoid "NOTE:" in xz.h xz: add a comment about using uint32_t as vli_type xz: make bcj_x86_test_msbyte() an inline function xz: remove an empty line from xz_dec_lzma2.c xz: add C++ support to xz.h xz: fix decoding of LZMA2 streams having no uncompressed data. xz: fix incorrect XZ_BUF_ERROR xz: mention xzminidec.c in README xz: support concatenated .xz streams Lauri Kasanen (2): wget: add support for connect timeout wget: user-friendly fallback to http Leonid Lisovskiy: xz: fix put_unaligned_{l,b}e32 Malek Degachi: fstrim: New applet Mandeep Singh Baines: losetup: fix util-linux compatibility Michael Tokarev (4): fix bashisms in testsuite/ expand: use printable_string instead of hard-coding implementation do not fail build if MAXSYMLINKS isn't defined hostname: do not use gethostbyname() for "hostname -s" Mike Frysinger (12): udhcpc: support resolv.conf symlinks udhcpc: tweak math shell style with the metric var bbunzip: ignore the -q flag with the decompressors bbunzip: fix order of flags vs bit defines archival: note implicit dependencies between lzop & bbunzip udhcpc: use readlink rather than realpath platform: use KERNEL_VERSION to simplify uClibc version checking readlink: uClibc supports automatic allocation too now readlink: note that our -f is really -e pstree: stop truncating thread names md5/sha512: fix strict aliasing warnings trylink: only prefix libs with -l Nicolas Dichtel: networking: fix potential overflow in ife_print6() Nikolaus Voss: mdev: use $DEVNAME in uevent sysfs file for device node name Oliver Metz: volume_id: fix ntfs attribute search Patrick McHardy: ip link: add VLAN support Paul B. Henson (2): ubimkvol: add -m option to create volume of maximum size ubi_tools: fix typo in strcpy Paulius Zaleckas: init: don't srop unterminated processes' entries during inittab reload Peter Korsgaard (3): run-parts: add --exit-on-error | -e support run-parts: fix unicode creep in --help ar: read_num(): fix reading fields using the entire width Rich Felker: *: change execl sentinels from NULL to (char*)0 Ron Yorston: vi: fix adjustment of buffer on partial file read Ryan Mallon (2): libbb: Add xsetegid(), xseteuid(), xopen_as_uid_gid() functions wall,crontab: use xopen_as_uid_gid() SASAKI Suguru: tar: fix tar -T to add entries in the exact order as the input list Shawn J. Goff: lineedit: initialize delptr Stefan Hellermann (2): ash: move code to allow setting $HOME in /etc/profile ash: read $HOME/.profile instead of $(pwd)/.profile Sven-Göran Bergh (5): volume_id: Adopt to new kbuild style. volume_id: Adopt to new config style. volume_id: nilfs config description. volume_id: add f2fs detection awk: optionally support -e AWK_PROG Thomas De Schampheleire (2): nameif: fix use-after-free in ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP code lsof: correct check for symbolic link Thomas Petazzoni: libbb: use <poll.h> instead of <sys/poll.h> Tito Ragusa (2): ifplugd: use a larger netlink buffer swapon: support "pri=NNN" in fstab Uros Vampl: killall5: return 2 if no processes got killed Yuan-Hsiang Lee: init: fix illegal memory access when max message length is reached - 29 June 2013 -- BusyBox 1.21.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.21.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
Bug fix release. 1.21.1 has fixes for ntfs detection (big-endian fix), xz decompression of concatenated streams, mdev acquired a [ENV=regex;] extension instead of undocumented subsystem match hack it used to have prior to 1.21.x.
- 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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