From andersen@lineo.com Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:46:11 -0700
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:46:11 -0700
From: Erik Andersen andersen@lineo.com
Subject: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.50 released!
Ok, this took a lot longer then anyone expected but BusyBox 0.50 is now
released and a tarball is now sitting on the ftp site waiting for folks to
grab it while its hot.
This is the announcement I just posted to the web site:
This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route,
pivot_root, stty, and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in
the shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made smaller. For
a fairly complete overview, see the changelog.
lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it now behaves
itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as long as you don't expect
it to provide Bourne shell grammer. Standard things like pipes, redirects,
command line editing, and environment variable expansion work great. But
we have found that this shell, while very usable, does not provide an
extensible framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first
order of business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be
to merge in the new shell currently in progress at Larry Doolittle's
website.
I am really quite proud of this release. Many thanks to everybody that
helped by submitting patches and bug reports. With your help, BusyBox
is now ready to take over the world. Have fun,
-Erik
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From andersen@lineo.com Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:55:16 -0600
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:55:16 -0600
From: Erik Andersen andersen@lineo.com
Subject: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.51 released
I am very pleased to announce BusyBox 0.51 (a.k.a "the rock-solid release").
Tarballs are already sitting on the ftp site waiting for you. Here is the
announcement I just placed on the busybox web site:
BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This release adds
only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, contributed by Sterling
Huxley, is very functional, and is only 22k. This release fixes 3 critical
bugs in the 0.50 release. There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the
busybox shell) in the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical
bug in 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially deadlock
the init process and thereby break your entire system.
There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For one thing,
the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov added FTP support, and
Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism
for including utility functions in previous releases was clumsy and error
prone. Now all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which
makes maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now compiles
on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters for letting me use
their system!).
You can read the changelog for complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can
be downloaded from ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox.
Have Fun!
p.s. In just a few minutes I will be leaving to the Embedded Systems Conference
in San Francisco, where I will be presenting "Rolling your own Embedded Linux"
on the 12th. If any of you are out at the conference, please stop by the Lineo
booth and say "hi" -- or if I am out wandering, leave a message at the booth
for me so I can find you. And of course, please visit my presentation on the
12th -- it should be pretty good. When the conference is over, I plan on
re-working my presentation a bit and turning it into a HOWTO.
-Erik
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From ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:10:49 -0700
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:10:49 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov
Subject: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.51 released
Congratulations!!!
I posted a graphical representation of the "progress" of busybox at
http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/busybox-growth.ps
- Larry
From ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:36:00 -0700
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:36:00 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov
Subject: [BusyBox] San Francisco
In honor of Erik's presence in the S.F. Bay area,
I propose a busybox gathering for dinner on the
evening of the 12th. I'm pretty sure I can make
it into the city that night.
If you either live in the area, or are in town
that night for the ESC, and would be interested
in joining us, RSVP by e-mail (not to the list).
- Larry
From andersen@lineo.com Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:17:16 -0600
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:17:16 -0600
From: Erik Andersen andersen@lineo.com
Subject: [BusyBox] Getting 0.52 released....
The BusyBox 0.52 release is already _way_ overdue. I belive that 0.52pre is
already much more solid then 0.51 was, so I'd like to get 0.52 officially
released.
So here's the deal. On Friday morning, whatever is in CVS is getting released
as 0.52, ready or not. Consider this a code freeze. Bug fixes will still be
applied (if the fix is less painful then the bug), and patches that have
already been sent in will still be considered, but no new applets, and no new
code.
Please try out the latest and greatest and check if anything looks broken, and
please check the bug tracking system. I already know several of these bugs
have been fixed. And please -- help me get the changelog up to date! We have
made _tons_ of changes, but the Changelog for 0.52 has only one entry in it...
-Erik
p.s. If any of you get "Dr. Dobb's Journal", check out page 112 in the August
2001 edition, where BusyBox and uClibc get several very favorable paragraphs.
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From andersen@lineo.com Sat, 7 Jul 2001 02:48:52 -0600
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 02:48:52 -0600
From: Erik Andersen andersen@lineo.com
Subject: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.52 released
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of BusyBox 0.52 (the
"new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This release is the result of many
hours of work and has tons of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This
release adds several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush,
msh, and ash).
The changelog covers some of the more obvious details, but there are many many
things that are not mentioned but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox.
Share and Enjoy,
-Erik
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