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<li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p>
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Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
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series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of
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rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new
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devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to
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the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a
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common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons
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of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the
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testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big
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thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and
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helping get patches merged!
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And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed
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the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully
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things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any
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problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel
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free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.
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The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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the details. And as usual you can
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<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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<p>Have Fun!
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<li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
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Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable
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series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under
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testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
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of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
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the testing, bug reports, and patches!
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If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
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mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
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patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
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somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
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Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
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mailing list!
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The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
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people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
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fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
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(besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
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list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
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modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
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patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
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integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
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a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
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more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
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module loading alone.
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I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
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course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
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<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
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out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
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stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
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not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
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-pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
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But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
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exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
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indeed.
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<p>
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The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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the details. And as usual you can
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<a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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<p>Have Fun!
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<li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
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Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
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series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
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testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
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bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
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Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
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with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
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init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
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'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
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an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
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read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
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'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
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tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
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<p>
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If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
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release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
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was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
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That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
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BusyBox mailing list.
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<p>
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The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
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people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
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fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
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is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
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release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
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necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
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Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
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turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
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then...
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<p>
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The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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<p>Have Fun!
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<p>
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<li><b>Old News</b><p>
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