1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> 2 3<HTML> 4<HEAD> 5<TITLE>BusyBox</TITLE> 6</HEAD> 7 8<body text="#000000" alink="#660000" link="#660000" bgcolor="#dee2de" vlink="#660000"> 9 10<basefont face="lucida, helvetica, arial" size="3"> 11 12 13<CENTER> 14 <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=2> 15 <TR> 16 <td bgcolor="#000000"> 17 <FONT FACE="lucida, helvetica" COLOR="#ccccc0"> 18 <B>B u s y B o x</B> 19 </FONT> 20 </TD> 21 </TR> 22 </TABLE> 23 <a href="/"><IMG SRC="images/busybox2.jpg" alt="BusyBox" border="0" width="360" height="230"</a><BR> 24 25 26<TABLE WIDTH=95% CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1> 27 28<!-- Begin Older News section --> 29 30<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 31 <A NAME="news"> 32 <BIG><B> 33 Older BusyBox News</A> 34 </B></BIG> 35 </A> 36</TD></TR> 37<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 38 39<ul> 40 41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b> 42 <hr> 43 44 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> 45 <br> 46 47 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This 48 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, 49 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only 50 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. 51 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in 52 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in 53 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially 54 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. 55 <p> 56 57 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For 58 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov 59 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC 60 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility 61 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now 62 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes 63 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now 64 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters 65 for letting me use their system!). 66 <p> 67 You can read the 68 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for 69 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from 70 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. 71 <p>Have Fun! 72 <p> 73 74 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> 75 76 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= 77 "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy 78 image</a>. Here's how you use it: 79 80 <ol> 81 82 <li> <a href= "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> 83 Download the image</a> 84 85 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img 86 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> 87 88 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. 89 90 </ol> 91 92 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: 93 94 <pre> 95 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos 96 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp 97 umount /mnt 98 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz 99 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix 100 </pre> 101 102 103 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> 104 <br> 105 106 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, 107 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the 108 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable 109 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made 110 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the 111 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. 112 <p> 113 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it 114 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as 115 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. 116 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and 117 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that 118 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible 119 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of 120 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell 121 currently in progress at 122 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. 123 <p> 124 125 126 <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> 127 <br> 128 129 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller 130 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. 131 For a list of the most interesting changes 132 you might want to look at the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. 133 <p> 134 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their 135 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been 136 out of town. 137 <p> 138 <em>Special Note</em><br> 139 140 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox 141 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. 142 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new 143 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under 144 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry 145 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in 146 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> 147 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next 148 release of BusyBox. 149 <p> 150 151 <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> 152 <br> 153 154 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very 155 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar 156 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is 157 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know 158 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are 159 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox 160 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian 161 woody) a .udeb can now be generated. 162 <p> 163 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading 164 the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. 165 <p> 166 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to 167 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. 168 <p> 169 <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> 170 <br> 171 172 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 173 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new 174 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, 175 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. 176 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for 177 more correct option parsing. 178 See the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> 179 for complete details. 180 181 182 <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> 183 <br> 184 185 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, 186 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow 187 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a 188 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. 189 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. 190 See the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> 191 for complete details. 192 193 194 <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> 195 <br> 196 197 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this 198 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This 199 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, 200 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and 201 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see 202 the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for 203 details). 204 <p> 205 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own 206 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, 207 publically browsable 208 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, 209 anonymous 210 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and 211 for those that are actively contributing there is even 212 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. 213 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. 214 <p> 215 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced 216 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion 217 we are just skipping 0.44. 218 <p> 219 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release 220 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! 221 222 223 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> 224 <br> 225 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. 226 For example, with the following test app: 227<pre> 228 #include <syslog.h> 229 230 int do_log(char* msg, int delay) 231 { 232 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); 233 while(1) { 234 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); 235 sleep(delay); 236 } 237 closelog(); 238 return(0); 239 }; 240 241 int main(void) 242 { 243 if (fork()==0) 244 do_log("A", 2); 245 do_log("B", 3); 246 } 247</pre> 248 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff 249 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something 250 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). 251 <p> 252 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a 253 <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>. 254 Thanks Karl! 255 256 257 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> 258 <br> 259 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty 260 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release 261 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps 262 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, 263 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely 264 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. 265 More details are available in the 266 <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. 267 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive 268 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. 269 270 <p> 271 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches 272 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were 273 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, 274 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. 275 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. 276 <p> 277 278 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>. 279 280 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> 281 <br> 282 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to 283 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people 284 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at 285 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing 286 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw 287 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because 288 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release 289 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable 290 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural 291 changes I still want to make. 292 <p> 293 The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>. 294 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. 295 296 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> 297 <br> 298 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 299 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. 300 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and 301 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the 302 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody 303 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife 304 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying 305 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" 306 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the 307 contrary). 308 <p> 309 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting 310 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. 311 <p> 312 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... 313 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect 314 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will 315 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a 316 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now 317 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking 318 problems. 319 320 321 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> 322 <br> 323 324 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many 325 bugs have been fixed. See the 326<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. 327 328 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount 329 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and 330 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak 331 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, 332 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for 333 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound 334 on it and let me know if you find any bugs. 335 336 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> 337 <br> 338 339 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, 340 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, 341 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device 342 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. 343 The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>. 344 345 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> 346 <br> 347 348 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), 349 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. 350 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. 351 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which 352 in some cases produced serious security problems. 353 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>. 354 355 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> 356 <br> 357 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) 358 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website 359 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also 360 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, 361 what arguments its apps support, etc. 362 363 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> 364 <br> 365 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains 366 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full 367 changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>. 368 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> 369 <br> 370 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, 371 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. 372</ul> 373 374 375<!-- Begin Links section --> 376 377<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 378 <A NAME="links"> 379 <BIG><B> 380 Important Links</A> 381 </B></BIG> 382 </A> 383</TD></TR> 384<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 385 386<ul> 387 388 <li> <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">Take me back to http://busybox.lineo.com/</a>. 389 <p> 390 391 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/"> 392 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br> 393 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written 394 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website. 395 <p> 396 397 <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html"> 398 Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> 399 <p> 400 401 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>. 402 <p> 403 404 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>. 405 <p> 406 407 <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development. 408 <p> 409 410</ul> 411 412 413<!-- End of Table --> 414 415</TD></TR> 416</TABLE> 417</P> 418 419 420 421<!-- Footer --> 422<HR> 423<TABLE WIDTH="100%"> 424 <TR> 425 <TD> 426 <font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 427 Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to 428 <a href="mailto:andersen@lineo.com">Erik Andersen</a><BR> 429 The Busybox logo is copyright 1999,2000, Erik Andersen. 430 </font> 431 </TD> 432 433 <TD> 434 <a href="http://www.vim.org"><img border=0 width=88 height=32 435 src="images/anim.written.in.vi.gif" 436 alt="This site created with the vi editor"></a> 437 </TD> 438 439 <TD> 440 <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border=0 width=88 height=38 441 src="images/gfx_by_gimp.gif" alt="Graphics by GIMP"></a> 442 </TD> 443 444 <TD> 445 <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width=90 height=36 446 src="images/ltbutton2.jpg" alt="Linux Today"></a> 447 </TD> 448 449 <TD> 450 <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width=90 height=36 451 src="images/sdsmall.gif" alt="Slashdot"></a> 452 </TD> 453 454 <TD> 455 <a href="http://freshmeat.net"><img width=90 height=36 456 src="images/fm.mini.jpg" alt="Freshmeat"></a> 457 </TD> 458 459 </TR> 460</TABLE> 461 462 463</BODY> 464</HTML> 465 466
