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  <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.10.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 781405     679    7500  789584   c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
 773551     640    7372  781563   becfb busybox-1.10.0
</pre>
    <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
busybox-1.9.2:               busybox-1.10.0:
echo_dg                 4116 bb_full_fd_action       4112
bb_full_fd_action       4112 find_list_entry2        4096
discard_dg              4108 readlink_main           4096
discard_dg              4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush    3900
echo_stream             4096 iproute_list_or_flush   3680
discard_stream          4096 insmod_main             3152
find_list_entry2        4096 fallbackSort            2952
readlink_main           4096 do_iproute              2492
ipaddr_list_or_flush    3900 cal_main                2464
iproute_list_or_flush   3680 readhere                2308
</pre>

    <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
        findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;),
        lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;),
        sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov AT gmail.com&gt;), tac, tftpd.

    <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd.

    <p>Changes since previous release:
      <ul>
        <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter
        <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations
        <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;)
        <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134
        <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947
        <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2&gt;/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142
        <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case
        <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host
        <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"
        <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376
        <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU
        <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
        <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite
        <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets
        <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed
        <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)
        <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels
        <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples &lt;roy at marples.name&gt;)
        <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr &gt;= 256 * 256)/(blknr &lt; 256 * 256)/
        <li>fuser: substantial rewrite
        <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.com&gt;
        <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund &lt;Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se&gt;)
        <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled
        <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530
        <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked
        <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"
        <li>httpd: fix for POST upload
        <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard &lt;jacmet AT uclibc.org&gt;)
        <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure
        <li>hush: more correct handling of piping
        <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU
        <li>hush: report [v]fork failures
        <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed
        <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness
        <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work
        <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable
        <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher &lt;eugebo AT gmail.com&gt;)
        <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"
        <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing
        <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words
        <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
        <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)
        <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error
        <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)
        <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now
        <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars
        <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption
        <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages
        <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], &lt;enter search pattern&gt;, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!
        <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too
        <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets
        <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error
        <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito &lt;farmatito AT tiscali.it&gt;
        <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!
        <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended
        <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible
        <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t
        <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras &lt;timo.teras at iki.fi&gt;)
        <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected
        <li>mount: add another mount helper call method
        <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option
        <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)
        <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity
        <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command
        <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)
        <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root
        <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143
        <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make
        <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)
        <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin
        <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing
        <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)
        <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed
        <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway
        <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters
        <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc
        <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]
        <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin &lt;mailinglist.cache at gmail.com&gt;
        <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly
        <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file
        <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time
        <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns
        <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414
        <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez &lt;roberto.gordo AT gmail.com&gt;
        <li>run-parts: add --reverse
        <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output
        <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214
        <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591
        <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl &lt;Ralf.Friedl AT online.de&gt;)
        <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425
        <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls
        <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead
        <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check
        <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436
        <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574
        <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling
        <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)
        <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end
        <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992
        <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt; 
        <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket
        <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"
        <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"
        <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected
        <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable
        <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports
        <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE
        <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com&gt;)
        <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson &lt;jonas.danielsson AT axis.com&gt;)
        <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint
        <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro
        <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604
        <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com&gt;
        <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)
        <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly
        <li>vi: many fixes
        <li>zcip: don't chdir to root
        <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can thrash syslog socket)
      </ul>
    </p>

  <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox stable releases</b>
    <p>
    Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations
    for future hot patches are in parentheses.
    <p>
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2>1.9.2</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/>patches</a>),
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2>1.8.3</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/>patches</a>),
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2>1.7.5</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/>patches</a>),
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2>1.5.2</a>
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/>patches</a>).
    <p>
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>How to add a patch.</a>
    <p>
    <a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt>How to build static busybox against uclibc</a>
    <p>
    The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
    the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
    </p>

  <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.9.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck,
    iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p>
    <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is
    inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork).
    The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.9.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre>
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 792796     978    9724  803498   c42aa busybox-1.8.2
 783803     683    7508  791994   c15ba busybox-1.9.0
</pre>
    <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre>
busybox-1.8.2:               busybox-1.9.0:
input_tab             10428  echo_dg                4116
umount_main            8252  bb_full_fd_action      4112
rtnl_talk              8240  discard_dg             4096
xrtnl_dump_filter      8240  echo_stream            4096
sendMTFValues          5316  discard_stream         4096
mainSort               4700  find_list_entry2       4096
mkfs_minix_main        4288  readlink_main          4096
grave                  4260  ipaddr_list_or_flush   3900
unix_do_one            4156  iproute_list_or_flush  3680
parse_prompt           4132  insmod_main            3152
</pre>

    <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost
       the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works
       on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU,
       though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush.

    <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes
       problems for you.

    <p>Changes since previous release:
      <ul>
        <li>Build system improvements
        <li>Testsuite additions
        <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions
        <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both
        <li>New applets: hd, sestatus
        <li>Removed applets: lash
        <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins
        <li>init: simplify forking of children
        <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed
        <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root
        <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets
          (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)
        <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for
          (Stefan Hellermann &lt;stefan at the2masters.de&gt;)
        <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping)
          (Jonas Danielsson &lt;jonas.danielsson at axis.com&gt;)
        <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length
        <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths
        <li>vi: Del key works
        <li>sed: support GNUism '\t'
        <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying
        <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy
        <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd
        <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too
        <li>netstat: wide output mode
        <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth &lt;masta at perlgolf.de&gt;)
        <li>test: become NOFORK applet
        <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser &lt;alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at&gt;)
        <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com&gt;)
        <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard &lt;pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com&gt;)
      </ul>
    </p>

  <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.2</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.4</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>These are bugfix-only releases.
    1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system.
    1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.8.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush.

    <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x:
    <p>httpd:
      <ul>
        <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd
        <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length
        <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau)
        <li>optional support for partial downloads
        <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me)
        <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino &lt;Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>)
        <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com>)
      </ul>

    <p>top:
      <ul>
        <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command
        <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1)
        <li>fix for command line wrapping
      </ul>

    <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles).

    <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre>
Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 768123    1055   10768  779946   be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox
 759693     974    9420  770087   bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre>

    <p>New applets:
      <ul>
        <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.ru&gt;
        <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie &lt;loic.grenie at gmail.com&gt;
        <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code
        <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie &lt;loic.grenie at gmail.com&gt;
        <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
      </ul>

    <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
      <ul>
        <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)
        <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion
        <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link
        <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T
        <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement
        <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat)
        <li>wget: allow dots in header field names
        <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits
        <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us
        <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing
        <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly
        <li>hush: fix glob()
        <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us
        <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection
        <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;)
        <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good
        <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
        <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
        <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
        <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files
        <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov)
        <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b
        <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too)
        <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter &lt;jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de&gt;
        <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec
        <li>less: make 'f' key page forward
        <li>libiproute: add missing break statements
        <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
        <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first
        <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth
        <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie &lt;loic.grenie at gmail.com&gt;)
        <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64
        <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
        <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei &lt;kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com&gt;
        <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i
        <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines
        <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov &lt;dronnikov at gmail.ru&gt;)
        <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C
        <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei &lt;kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com&gt;
        <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked)
        <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)
        <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled
        <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)
        <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK
        <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug
        <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there
        <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too
        <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket
        <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read()
        <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA &lt;kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp&gt;)
        <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;)
        <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name
        <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug
        <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes
        <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs
        <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences
        <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)
        <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM
      </ul>
    </p>

  </li>

  <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.3</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.2</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.7.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x:
    <p>httpd:
      <ul>
        <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;)
        <li>indexer example is rewritten in C
        <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras &lt;genepi at sympatico.ca&gt;)
        <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads
        <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs
        <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT
        <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras &lt;genepi at sympatico.ca&gt;)
        <li>add support for Status: CGI header
        <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd)
        <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me...
      </ul>

    <p>udhcp[cd]:
      <ul>
        <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options
        <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug
        <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats at blue2net.com&gt; (Blue2Net AB))
        <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order
        <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines
        <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt()
        <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing
      </ul>

    <p>top, ps, killall, pidof:
      <ul>
        <li>simpler loadavg processing
        <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars
        <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu)
        <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code
        <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name)
        <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!)
        <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable
        <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display
        <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense
      </ul>

    <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need,
        generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link
        scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things).

    <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre>
Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 672671    2768   16808  692247   a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox
 662948    2660   13528  679136   a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox
 662783    2631   13416  678830   a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld

Same .config built against static uclibc:
 765021    1059   11020  777100   bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre>

    <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode,
        test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode,
        runit/*, in libbb.

    <p>New applets:
      <ul>
        <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
        <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
        <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin &lt;virtuoso at slind.org&gt;)
        <li>slattach, ttysize
      </ul>

    <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled
        by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing
        qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website)
        for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine.

    <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged):
      <ul>
        <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
        <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;
        <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed
        <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output)
        <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login
        <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy &lt;pclouds at gmail.com&gt;)
        <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters
        <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty)
        <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;)
        <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning)
        <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling
        <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message
        <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version)
        <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified
        <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;
        <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo
        <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset
        <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei &lt;kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp&gt;)
        <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find
        <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn &lt;cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com&gt;)
        <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
        <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing
        <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon at freebox.fr&gt; (Freebox))
        <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon at freebox.fr&gt; (Freebox))
        <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack
        <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. &gt; 255
        <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable
        <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...)
        <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir
        <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms &lt;wharms at bfs.de&gt;)
        <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off
        <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options
        <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;
        <li>login: optional support for PAM
        <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes)
        <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames
        <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum
        <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading
        <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off
        <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN &lt;yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr&gt;)
        <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher &lt;tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca&gt;
        <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr)
        <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd"
        <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling
        <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy &lt;pclouds at gmail.com&gt;)
        <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision.
        <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon &lt;bc-info at styx.cabel.net&gt;)
        <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6
        <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni &lt;kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in&gt;)
        <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura &lt;ynakam at hitachisoft.jp&gt;)
        <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code
        <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case
        <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy &lt;pclouds at gmail.com&gt;)
        <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau &lt;landau_alex at yahoo.com&gt;
        <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV
        <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that
        <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing
        <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process
        <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644
        <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
        <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"'
        <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof &lt;jcz at google.com&gt;
        <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;
        <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes
        <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width
        <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday
      </ul>
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.6.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/>svn</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
    label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p>
    <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now,
    but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please
    report any such cases.</p>
    <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0
    and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt>Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p>
    <p>Other changes since previous release:
    <ul>
<li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places
<li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs
<li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action
<li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU
<li>SELinux: load_policy applet
<li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples &lt;uberlord at gentoo.org&gt;)
<li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito)
<li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
<li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling
<li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore
<li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
<li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
<li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337
<li>awk: guard against empty environment
<li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller)
<li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens
<li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text
<li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist &lt;lists at zelow.no&gt;)
<li>cttyhack: new applet
<li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens &lt;develop at cle-mens.de&gt;)
<li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito &lt;farmatito at tiscali.it&gt;)
<li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N
<li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard &lt;peter.korsgaard at barco.com&gt;)
<li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged
<li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino &lt;Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com&gt;)
<li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes
<li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
<li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes)
<li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it
<li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code
<li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;)
<li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa)
<li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it
<li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;)
<li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array
<li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier &lt;niteblade at gmx.net&gt;)
<li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov &lt;lich at math.spbu.ru&gt;)
<li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links
<li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused
<li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;
<li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete &lt;amirabete at catix.cat&gt;)
<li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier
<li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp
<li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa &lt;natanael.copa at gmail.com&gt;
<li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file)
<li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off
<li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b
<li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array()
<li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter
<li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes)
<li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes)
<li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin
<li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd
<li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements.
<li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH)
<li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson &lt;mats.andersson64 at comhem.se&gt;)
<li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets
<li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less &lt;HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop
<li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe
<li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL
<li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable
<li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y)
<li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use
<li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions
<li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file
<li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them
<li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!)
<li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes
<li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes)
<li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
<li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1
<li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox
<li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets
<li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes
<li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore
<li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice
<li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)
<li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer)
<li>run_parts: rewrite
<li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo &lt;somlo at cmu.edu&gt;
<li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f
<li>split: new applet
<li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas
<li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer &lt;s.hauer at pengutronix.de&gt;)
<li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM
<li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N"
<li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape &lt;pape at smarden.org&gt;, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/
<li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction
<li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken
<li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it
<li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair
<li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize
<li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management
<li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery)
    </ul>
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps
    and sed.</p>
  </li>

  <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.5.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/>patches</a>,
    <a href=http://busybox.net/fix.html>how to add a patch</a>)</p>

    <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable"
    label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p>
    <p>Notable changes since previous release:
    <ul>
    <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm
    <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module
    <li>ping[6]: unified code for both
    <li>less: regex search improved
    <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added
    <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed
    <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX)
    <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again
    <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them
    <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files
    <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes)
    <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs
    <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir,
        not only in /cgi-bin/
    <li>chrt: new applet
    <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets,
        new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon.
    <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch
        improper usage of string constants.
    <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU
        targets.
    <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize,
        sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp
    <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock,
        udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp
    <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix,
        syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd
    </ul>
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.2</a>.
    </p>

    <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1.
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/>patches</a>)</p>

    <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0.
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.4.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/>patches</a>)</p>

    <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable"
    than usual.</p>
    <p>Changes since previous release:
    <ul>
    <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain,
    the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because
    it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can
    ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up.
    <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files
    (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars
    don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy
    anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input
    as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it
    for general use now.
    <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are
    upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is
    already much better than what we had previously.
    <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman).
    <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90%
    of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it).
    <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten.
    <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit.
    <li>sed: better hadling of NULs
    <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output
    <li>chown: user.grp works again.
    <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar,
    ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,...
    </ul>
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p>

    <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.1</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/>patches</a>)</p>

    <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.3.0</a>.
    (<a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/>patches</a>)</p>

    <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features
    needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod
    and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly
    bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make
    busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly
    adventurous desktop users.
    <p>Changes since previous release:
    <ul>
    <li>find: taking many more of standard options
    <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented
    <li>cp: added -s, -l
    <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
    <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
        incompatible)
    <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
        on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
        (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
        Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
    <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for
        directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes.
    <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support,
        other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb.
    <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
        (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys)
    <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp,
        fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod.
    </ul>
    <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different.
    1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess.
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b>
    <p><a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2>BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p>

    <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc
    produces buggy executables.
  </li>

  <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b>
    <p>It's a bit overdue, but
    <a href=http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2>here is
    BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p>

    <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development
    branch.  There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation
    generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix
    umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by
    name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev
    delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault
    in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build
    fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test
    fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in
    modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf
    foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the
    terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in
    ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in
    gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning
    fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>

    <p>As <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>Linux Weekly News noted</a>,
    this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox.  The new maintainer is Denis
    Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href=http://landley.net/code>other things</a>.
    </p>
  </li>

  <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b>
    <p>The email address gpl@busybox.net is now the recommended way to contact
    the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p>

  <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b>
    <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I
    might as well point you all at
    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox
    1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p>

    <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without
    saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and
    one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.)  Fix three
    embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command.  Two build tweaks
    (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the
    libbb subdirectory).  One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated
    tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions).  And a partridge
    in a pear...  Ahem.</p>

    <p>But wait, there's more!  A passwd changing fix so an empty
    gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains
    the gecos field.  Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return
    value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent
    a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from
    switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather
    than continue with root privileges).  A fix to adduser to make sure that
    /etc/group gets updated.  And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf
    in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p>

  <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b>
    <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is
    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox
    1.2.0</a>.  Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog
    over the weekend.</p>

    <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development
    cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to
    try a longer one.  Expect 1.3.0 in December.  (Expect 1.2.1 any time
    we fix enough bugs. :)</p>

    <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>

  <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b>
    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox
    1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release.  It makes passwd use salt, fixes a
    memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes
    mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill
    background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a
    timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could
    segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p>

    <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p>

  <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b>
    <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
    backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes
    for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for
    find -xdev, and a fix for comm.  Check the file "changelog" in the tarball
    for more info.</p>

    <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June.  A 1.1.3
    will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up.  (The new plan is
    to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable
    bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p>

  <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b>
    <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox
    maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement.  BusyBox and
    uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation
    by Erik's father's law firm, and the
    <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't
    scaled to match the popularity of the projects.  So we put our heads
    together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of
    <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions.  She
    referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p>

    <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the
    <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a>
    has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc.  We join a number of other
    free and open source software projects (such as
    <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>,
    <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and
    <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a>
    in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a
    phrase you get to use every day.</p>

  <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b>
    <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>
    <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases,
    the various small fixes have been collected together into a
    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>,
    and new fixes will be appended to that as needed.  Expect 1.1.2 around
    June.</p>
  </li>
  <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b>
    <p>The new stable release is
    <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox
    1.1.0</a>.  It has a number of improvements, including several new applets.
    (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>,
    but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how
    that works.  Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p>

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