-
- 19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix
-
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
- For example, with the following test app:
-
- #include <syslog.h>
-
- int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
- {
- openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
- while(1) {
- syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
- sleep(delay);
- }
- closelog();
- return(0);
- };
-
- int main(void)
- {
- if (fork()==0)
- do_log("A", 2);
- do_log("B", 3);
- }
-
- it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
- from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
- while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
-
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
- fix for the problem.
- Thanks Karl!
-
-
-
- 18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)
-
- I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
- good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
- so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
- have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
- freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
- rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
- More details are available in the
- changelog.
- Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
- documentation, complete with examples and full usage information.
-
-
- Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
- and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
- Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
- Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
- There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
-
-
- You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here.
-
-
- 9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release
-
- Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
- do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
- to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
- 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
- tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
- at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
- the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
- of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
- enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
- changes I still want to make.
-
- The pre-release can be found here.
- Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs.
-
-
- 28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release
-
- I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
- lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
- He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
- it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
- fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
- and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
- (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
- down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
- (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
- contrary).
-
- Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
- labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
-
- So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
- Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
- to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
- include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
- re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
- accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
- problems.
-
-
-
- 11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released
+
- 21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released
- This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
- bugs have been fixed. See the
-changelog for details.
+ This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
+ point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
+ release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
+ mktemp, ,setkeycodes md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which , and
+ telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
+ the changelog for
+ details).
+
+ Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
+ mailing list,
+ publically browsable
+ CVS tree,
+ anonymous
+ CVS access, and
+ for those that are actively contributing there is even
+ CVS write access.
+ I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
+
+ Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
+ of BusyBox!
- Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
- filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
- behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
- loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
- Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
- their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
- on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
-
- 19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released
+
+
- Old News
-
- This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
- mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
- logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
- support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
- The changelog can be found here.
-
-
- 7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released
-
-
- This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
- syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
- New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
- In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
- in some cases produced serious security problems.
- As always, the changelog can be found here.
-
-
- 11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website
-
- I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
- to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
- will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
- contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
- what arguments its apps support, etc.
-
-
- 10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released
-
- This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
- the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
- changelog can be found here.
-
- 5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released
-
- This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
- and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
+ For the old news, visit the old news page.
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+ Other cool embedded software.
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+ opensource.lineo.com.
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+
Lineo is sponsoring BusyBox development.
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+ - 19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix
+
+ Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
+ For example, with the following test app:
+
+ #include <syslog.h>
+
+ int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
+ {
+ openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
+ while(1) {
+ syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
+ sleep(delay);
+ }
+ closelog();
+ return(0);
+ };
+
+ int main(void)
+ {
+ if (fork()==0)
+ do_log("A", 2);
+ do_log("B", 3);
+ }
+
+ it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
+ from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
+ while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
+
+ Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
+ fix for the problem.
+ Thanks Karl!
+
+
+ - 18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)
+
+ I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
+ good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
+ so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
+ have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
+ freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
+ rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
+ More details are available in the
+ changelog.
+ Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
+ documentation, complete with examples and full usage information.
+
+
+ Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
+ and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
+ Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
+ Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
+ There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
+
+
+ You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here.
+
+ - 9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release
+
+ Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
+ do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
+ to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
+ 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
+ tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
+ at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
+ the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
+ of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
+ enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
+ changes I still want to make.
+
+ The pre-release can be found here.
+ Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs.
+
+ - 28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release
+
+ I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
+ lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
+ He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
+ it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
+ fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
+ and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
+ (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
+ down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
+ (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
+ contrary).
+
+ Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
+ labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
+
+ So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
+ Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
+ to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
+ include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
+ re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
+ accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
+ problems.
+
+
+ - 11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released
+
+
+ This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
+ bugs have been fixed. See the
+changelog for details.
+
+ Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
+ filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
+ behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
+ loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
+ Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
+ their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
+ on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
+
+ - 19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released
+
+
+ This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
+ mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
+ logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
+ support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
+ The changelog can be found here.
+
+ - 7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released
+
+
+ This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
+ syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
+ New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
+ In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
+ in some cases produced serious security problems.
+ As always, the changelog can be found here.
+
+ - 11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website
+
+ I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
+ to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
+ will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
+ contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
+ what arguments its apps support, etc.
+
+ - 10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released
+
+ This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
+ the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
+ changelog can be found here.
+ - 5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released
+
+ This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
+ and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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