1<!--#include file="header.html" --> 2 3 4<ul> 5 <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b> 6 <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so 7 you can now 8 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>, 9 the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of 10 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new 11 functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of 12 several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more 13 <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards 14 compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're 15 still working out the <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p> 16 17 <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b> 18 19 <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox 20 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred 21 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small 22 fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p> 23 24 <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p> 25 26 Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The 27 developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep 28 in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own 29 name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report 30 from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the 31 <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a> 32 to post all the gory details. 33 34 <p> 35 36 The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch 37 is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch 38 to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is 39 properly considered. 40 41 42 <p> 43 <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p> 44 45 When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or 46 software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox. 47 With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and 48 who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices 49 is looking very bright. 50 51 <p> 52 53 It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every 54 device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date. 55 The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived! 56 57 <p> 58 59 Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous 60 improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux 61 KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel), 62 Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development 63 work and testing of thousands of people from around the world. 64 65 <p> 66 67 If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 68 BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device 69 or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is 70 right for your application. If you need help getting started using 71 BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug 72 and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a 73 href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>. 74 75 <p> 76 77 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 78 79 <p>Have Fun! 80 81 <p> 82 <li><b>Old News</b><p> 83 <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> 84 85 86 <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p> 87 88 Here goes release candidate 3... 89 <p> 90 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. 91 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 92 93 <p>Have Fun! 94 95 <p> 96 <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p> 97 98 Here goes release candidate 2... 99 <p> 100 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. 101 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 102 103 <p>Have Fun! 104 105 <p> 106 <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p> 107 108 Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems 109 that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of 110 kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better. 111 <p> 112 113 I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real 114 reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as 115 is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for 116 everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting, 117 it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well. 118 There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with 119 it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while 120 there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work 121 is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door.... 122 <p> 123 124 Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this 125 time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a 126 bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you 127 explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch 128 has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your 129 bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]" 130 at the beginning of the email subject line! 131 132 <p> 133 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. 134 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 135 136 <p>Have Fun! 137 138 <p> 139 On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away 140 yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about 141 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I 142 could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a 143 href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation 144 as scheduled. 145 <p> 146 As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come 147 to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS 148 this year. 149 <p> 150 151 152 <p> 153 <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p> 154 155 Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox 156 pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b> 157 want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not 158 bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only 159 bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if 160 people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit 161 improvements. 162 163 <p> 164 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. 165 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 166 167 <p>Have Fun! 168 <p> 169 170 171 <p> 172 <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p> 173 174 Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for 175 bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this 176 week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at 177 this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be 178 <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation 179 and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the 180 documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some 181 assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets 182 match the features listed in the documentation. 183 184 <p> 185 I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but 186 <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796"> 187 another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy... 188 189 <p> 190 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. 191 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 192 193 <p>Have Fun! 194 <p> 195 196 197 <p> 198 <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p> 199 200 Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send 201 in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will 202 be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see 203 supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, 204 please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release 205 out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre 206 series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you 207 spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the 208 busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could 209 help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be 210 especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the 211 various applets match the features listed in the documentation. 212 213 <p> 214 215 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. 216 And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 217 218 <p>Have Fun! 219 <p> 220 221 222 <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p> 223 224 There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a 225 number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out 226 properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one 227 problem. In addition, this release fixes several other 228 problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing 229 the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates 230 from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still 231 aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to 232 the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have 233 suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the 234 busybox mailing list. 235 236 <p> 237 238 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 239 the details. And as usual you can 240 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 241 242 <p>Have Fun! 243 <p> 244 245 246 <p> 247 <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p> 248 249 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable 250 series. This release adds a number of size optimizations, 251 updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash 252 and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of 253 bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be 254 settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing 255 perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and 256 move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any 257 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please 258 feel free to email the busybox mailing list. 259 260 <p> 261 262 People who rely on the <a href= "downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a> 263 should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x 264 series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now 265 only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use 266 the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please 267 adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly. 268 269 <p> 270 271 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 272 the details. And as usual you can 273 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 274 275 <p>Have Fun! 276 <p> 277 278 279 <p> 280 <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p> 281 282 Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable 283 series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for 284 a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working 285 properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This 286 release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp, 287 fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like 288 the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x 289 modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete 290 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and 291 a few other odd fixes. 292 293 <p> 294 295 If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as 296 always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox 297 mailing list. 298 299 <p> 300 301 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 302 the details. And as usual you can 303 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 304 305 <p>Have Fun! 306 <p> 307 308 309 310 <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p> 311 312 Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable 313 series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of 314 rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new 315 devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to 316 the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a 317 common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons 318 of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the 319 testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big 320 thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and 321 helping get patches merged! 322 323 <p> 324 325 And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed 326 the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully 327 things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any 328 problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel 329 free to send an email to the busybox mailing list. 330 331 <p> 332 333 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 334 the details. And as usual you can 335 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 336 337 <p>Have Fun! 338 339 340 341 <p> 342 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p> 343 344 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable 345 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under 346 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number 347 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all 348 the testing, bug reports, and patches! 349 350 <p> 351 352 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox 353 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your 354 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has 355 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. 356 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox 357 mailing list! 358 359 <p> 360 361 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of 362 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be 363 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature 364 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO 365 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the 366 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have 367 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be 368 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports 369 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit 370 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x 371 module loading alone. 372 373 <p> 374 375 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of 376 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of 377 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> 378 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for 379 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am 380 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0 381 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September... 382 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or 383 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon 384 indeed. 385 386 <p> 387 388 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 389 the details. And as usual you can 390 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 391 392 <p>Have Fun! 393 394 395 <p> 396 <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> 397 398 Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable 399 series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of 400 testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of 401 bugs, and these problems have now been fixed. 402 403 <p> 404 405 Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up 406 with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added, 407 init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and 408 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init. 409 an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows 410 read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the 411 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were 412 tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed. 413 <p> 414 415 If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this 416 release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch 417 was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch. 418 That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the 419 BusyBox mailing list. 420 <p> 421 422 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of 423 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be 424 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that 425 is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 426 release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If 427 necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th. 428 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem 429 turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by 430 then... 431 <p> 432 433 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 434 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 435 436 <p>Have Fun! 437 <p> 438 439 <p> 440 <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> 441 442 The busybox development series has been under construction for 443 nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So 444 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release 445 of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes 446 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version 447 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison 448 1.0.x... 449 <p> 450 451 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of 452 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be 453 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen 454 later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next 455 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. 456 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns 457 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end 458 of July. 459 <p> 460 461 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release 462 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was 463 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That 464 happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches, 465 support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of 466 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches 467 sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the 468 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. 469 <p> 470 471 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn 472 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III 473 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that 474 have made this release possible. 475 <p> 476 477 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 478 You don't really need to bother with the 479 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes 480 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. 481 But you can take a look if you really want too. 482 483 <p>Have Fun! 484 <p> 485 486 487 488 <p> 489 <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> 490 491 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) 492 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for 493 the stable series to address all the problems that have turned 494 up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release 495 had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried 496 to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init 497 was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). 498 I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the 499 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I 500 mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last 501 release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work 502 will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development 503 version to have its first real release very very soon now... 504 505 <p> 506 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all 507 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 508 <p>Have Fun! 509 <p> 510 511 <p> 512 <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> 513 514 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 515 (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily 516 a bugfix release for the stable series to address all 517 the problems that have turned up since the last 518 release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. 519 I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done 520 on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and 521 should soon be getting its first real release. 522 523 <p> 524 The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all 525 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 526 <p>Have Fun! 527 <p> 528 529 530 <p> 531 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> 532 533 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is 534 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release 535 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since 536 the last release, and this should address most of those problems. 537 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The 538 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will 539 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. 540 541 <p> 542 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 543 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. 544 <p>Have Fun! 545 <p> 546 547 548 <p> 549 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> 550 551 Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to 552 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> 553 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and 554 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: 555 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> 556 in Canada and 557 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> 558 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more 559 accessible for everyone! 560 561 562<li> 563<b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> 564 565<p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox 566users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net 567(which is where you are probably reading this). 568Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both 569living on my home system (at the end of my DSL 570line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of 571busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have 572the access needed to keep that system updated (for 573example, you might notice the daily snapshots there 574stopped some time ago).</p> 575 576<p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home 577server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, 578the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, 579I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net 580co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the 581co-location effort, <a href= 582"http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> 583(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated 584his <a href= 585"http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer 586for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this 587system is co-located, the current speed problems 588should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, 589some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror 590sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> 591 592<p><!-- 593 <center> 594 Click here to help support busybox.net! 595 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> 596 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> 597 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> 598 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> 599 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg"> 600 <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> 601 <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> 602 </form> 603 </center> 604 --> 605 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox 606donations, let me assure you that no one is getting 607rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be 608spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware 609upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently 610has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when 611google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in 612not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of 613ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So 614far, donations received have been sufficient to 615cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may 616have co-location fees to worry about, but for now 617we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to 618everyone that has contributed!<br> 619 -Erik</p> 620</li> 621 622<li> 623<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> 624 625<p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 6260.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This 627one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable 628series, and it should take care of most everyone's 629needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have 630been working on in CVS ready to release (with the 631wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in 632this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh 633(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. 634Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when 635told to do complex things with backticks.</p> 636 637<p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and 638powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it 639should work with just about any Linux system you 640throw it at. See the <a href= 641"downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most 642of</small> the details. The last release was 643<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should 644be even better.</p> 645 646<p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from 647<a href= 648"downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> 649 650<p>Have Fun.<br> 651 -Erik</p> 652</li> 653 654<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> 655 656<!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> 657<center> 658Click here to help buy busybox.net! 659<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> 660<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> 661<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> 662<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> 663<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> 664<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> 665<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> 666</form> 667</center> 668<!-- End PayPal Logo --> 669 670I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing 671to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but 672will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee 673for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will 674initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my 675home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, 676but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth 677I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there 678have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't 679even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the 680time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this 681bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I 682start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth 683will start costing some money. 684<p> 685 686I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that 687idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument 688where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas 689about what we should spend our money on that don't involve 690busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the 691mailing list and web page. So... 692<p> 693 694I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick 695up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I 696know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as 697individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to 698contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that 699would be wonderful! 700<p> 701 702 703<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> 704<br> 705 706 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes 707 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in 708 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> 709 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no 710 new features, no new applets. So without further ado, 711 here it is. Come and get it. 712 <p> 713 The 714 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 715 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from 716 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. 717 <p>Have Fun! 718 <p> 719 720 721<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> 722<br> 723 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of 724 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, 725 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on 726 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number 727 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. 728 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice 729 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes 730 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and 731 cleans up a number of things. 732 733 <p> 734 735 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can 736 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> 737 to give it a try by downloading and compiling 738 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. 739 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. 740 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. 741 <p> 742 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> 743 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires 744 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the 745 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> 746 to view the tutorial. 747 <p> 748 749 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the 750 version number of this release, let me point out that this release 751 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a 752 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form 753 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a 754 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 755 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 756 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that 757 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the 758 next release and I don't want that to break products that people 759 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be 760 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will 761 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things 762 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then 763 I will release that as a new stable release series. 764 765 <p> 766 The 767 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 768 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from 769 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. 770 <p>Have Fun! 771 <p> 772 773 774<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> 775<br> 776 777 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of 778 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This 779 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons 780 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds 781 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, 782 and ash). 783 784 <p> 785 The 786 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers 787 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that 788 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, 789 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from 790 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. 791 <p>Have Fun! 792 <p> 793 794 795<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> 796<br> 797The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth 798of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / 799viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. 800 801<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you 802can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively 803turning off whichever applets you don't need.) 804<p> 805 806 807<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> 808<br> 809 810 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This 811 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, 812 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only 813 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. 814 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in 815 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in 816 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially 817 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. 818 <p> 819 820 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For 821 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov 822 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC 823 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility 824 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now 825 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes 826 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now 827 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters 828 for letting me use their system!). 829 <p> 830 You can read the 831 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for 832 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from 833 <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. 834 <p>Have Fun! 835 <p> 836 837<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> 838 839<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= 840"downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy 841image</a>. Here's how you use it: 842 843<ol> 844 845 <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> 846 Download the image</a> 847 848 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img 849 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> 850 851 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. 852 853</ol> 854 855<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: 856 857<pre> 858 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos 859 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp 860 umount /mnt 861 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz 862 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix 863</pre> 864 865 866<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> 867<br> 868 869 This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, 870 and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the 871 shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable 872 expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made 873 smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the 874 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. 875 <p> 876 lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it 877 now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as 878 long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. 879 Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and 880 environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that 881 this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible 882 framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of 883 business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell 884 currently in progress at 885 <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. 886 <p> 887 888 889<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> 890<br> 891 892 Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller 893 things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. 894 For a list of the most interesting changes 895 you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. 896 <p> 897 Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their 898 work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been 899 out of town. 900 <p> 901 <em>Special Note</em><br> 902 903 BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox 904 shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. 905 Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new 906 shell that will eventually replace lash is already under 907 construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry 908 Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in 909 progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> 910 and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next 911 release of BusyBox. 912 <p> 913 914<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> 915<br> 916 917 This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very 918 rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar 919 update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is 920 optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know 921 that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are 922 now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox 923 shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian 924 woody) a .udeb can now be generated. 925 <p> 926 The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading 927 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. 928 <p> 929 Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to 930 this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. 931 <p> 932<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> 933<br> 934 935 This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 936 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new 937 apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, 938 renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. 939 There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for 940 more correct option parsing. 941 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 942 for complete details. 943 944 945<p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> 946<br> 947 948 This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, 949 and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow 950 people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a 951 completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. 952 BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. 953 See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 954 for complete details. 955 956 957<p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> 958<br> 959 960 This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this 961 point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This 962 release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, 963 mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and 964 telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see 965 the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for 966 details). 967 <p> 968 Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own 969 <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, 970 publically browsable 971 <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, 972 anonymous 973 <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and 974 for those that are actively contributing there is even 975 <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. 976 I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. 977 <p> 978 Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced 979 a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion 980 we are just skipping 0.44. 981 <p> 982 Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release 983 of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! 984 985 986<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> 987<br> 988Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. 989For example, with the following test app: 990<pre> 991#include <syslog.h> 992 993int do_log(char* msg, int delay) 994{ 995 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); 996 while(1) { 997 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); 998 sleep(delay); 999 } 1000 closelog(); 1001 return(0); 1002}; 1003 1004int main(void) 1005{ 1006 if (fork()==0) 1007 do_log("A", 2); 1008 do_log("B", 3); 1009} 1010</pre> 1011it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff 1012from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something 1013while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). 1014<p> 1015Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. 1016Thanks Karl! 1017 1018 1019<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> 1020<br> 1021I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty 1022good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release 1023so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps 1024have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, 1025freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely 1026rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. 1027More details are available in the 1028<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. 1029Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive 1030<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. 1031 1032<p> 1033Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches 1034and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were 1035Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, 1036Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. 1037There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. 1038<p> 1039 1040You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. 1041 1042<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> 1043<br> 1044Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to 1045do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people 1046to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at 10475k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing 1048tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw 1049at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because 1050the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release 1051of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable 1052enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural 1053changes I still want to make. 1054<p> 1055The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. 1056Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. 1057 1058<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> 1059<br> 1060I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 1061lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. 1062He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and 1063it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the 1064fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody 1065and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife 1066(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying 1067down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" 1068(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the 1069contrary). 1070<p> 1071Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting 1072labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. 1073<p> 1074So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... 1075Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect 1076to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will 1077include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a 1078re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now 1079accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking 1080problems. 1081 1082 1083<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> 1084<br> 1085 1086 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many 1087 bugs have been fixed. See the 1088 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. 1089 1090 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount 1091 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and 1092 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak 1093 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, 1094 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for 1095 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound 1096 on it and let me know if you find any bugs. 1097 1098<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> 1099<br> 1100 1101 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, 1102 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, 1103 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device 1104 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. 1105 The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. 1106 1107<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> 1108<br> 1109 1110 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), 1111 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. 1112 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. 1113 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which 1114 in some cases produced serious security problems. 1115 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. 1116 1117<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> 1118<br> 1119 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) 1120 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website 1121 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also 1122 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, 1123 what arguments its apps support, etc. 1124 1125<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> 1126<br> 1127 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains 1128 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full 1129 changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. 1130<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> 1131<br> 1132 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, 1133 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. 1134 1135 1136</ul> 1137 1138 1139<!--#include file="footer.html" --> 1140 1141