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<li><b>27 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
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<p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
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</p>
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<li><b>14 December, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
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(<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>
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<p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
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needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
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and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
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bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
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busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
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adventurous desktop users.
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<p>Changes since previous release:
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<ul>
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<li>find: taking many more of standard options
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<li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
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<li>cp: added -s, -l
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<li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
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<li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
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incompatible)
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<li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
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on a big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
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(Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
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Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
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<li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
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directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
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<li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
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other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
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<li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
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(these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
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<li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
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fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
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</ul>
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<p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
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1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>29 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
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<p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>
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<p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
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produces buggy executables.
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</li>
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<li><b>24 October, 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
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<p>It's a bit overdue, but
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<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
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BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>
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<p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
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branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
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generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
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umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
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name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
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delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
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in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
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fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
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fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
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modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
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foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
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terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
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ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
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gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
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fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
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<p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
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this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis
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Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>29 September, 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
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<p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
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the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>
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<li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
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<p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
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might as well point you all at
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
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1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>
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<p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
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saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
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one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three
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embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks
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(dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
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libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
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tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge
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in a pear... Ahem.</p>
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<p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty
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gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
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the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
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value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
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a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
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switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
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than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that
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/etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
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in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>
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<li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
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<p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
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1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
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over the weekend.</p>
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<p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
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cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
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try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time
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we fix enough bugs. :)</p>
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<p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p>
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<li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
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<p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
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1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
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memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
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mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
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background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
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timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
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segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>
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<p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>
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<li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
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<p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches
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backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
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for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
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find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
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for more info.</p>
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<p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3
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will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is
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to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
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bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>
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<li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
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<p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
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maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and
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uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
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by Erik's father's law firm, and the
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<a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
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scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads
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together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
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<a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She
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referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>
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<p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
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<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
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has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other
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free and open source software projects (such as
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<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
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<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
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<a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
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in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
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phrase you get to use every day.</p>
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<li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
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<p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p>
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<p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
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the various small fixes have been collected together into a
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
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and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around
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June.</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
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<p>The new stable release is
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<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
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1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
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(It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
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but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
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that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>
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<li><b>Old News</b><p>
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<a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
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