- 6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released

  Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be very helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets match the features listed in the documentation.

  I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but another release on 1 March 2004 has kept me busy...

  The changelog has all the details. And as usual you can download busybox here.

  Have Fun!

- 23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released

  Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the busybox mailing list. It would also be very helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the various applets match the features listed in the documentation.

  The changelog has all the details. And as usual you can download busybox here.

  Have Fun!

- 4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released

  There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one problem. In addition, this release fixes several other problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the busybox mailing list.

  The changelog has all the details. And as usual you can download busybox here.

  Have Fun!

- 30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released

  Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable series. This release adds a number of size optimizations, updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the busybox mailing list.

  People who rely on the daily BusyBox snapshots should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly.

  The changelog has all the details. And as usual you can download busybox here.

  Have Fun!

- 23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released

  Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp, fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and a few other odd fixes.

  If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox mailing list.

  The changelog has all the details. And as usual you can download busybox here.

  Have Fun!

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