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| author | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2011-08-13 07:24:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2011-08-13 07:24:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 688261b45f3c4b9a2cbbdeb29d460e93aad0f225 (patch) | |
| tree | bda09fe3783ea7e4d77cbae6ee7971e2858c7fc9 | |
| parent | d7fa9eab0400c9d6292b56bc5d03726cddb38f1c (diff) | |
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Announce 1.19.0
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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2 files changed, 373 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv) Job control will be turned off since your shell can not obtain a controlling terminal. This typically happens when you run your shell on /dev/console. The kernel will not provide a controlling terminal on the /dev/console - device. You should run your shell on a normal tty such as tty1 or ttyS0 + device. Your should run your shell on a normal tty such as tty1 or ttyS0 and everything will work. </p> <p> @@ -30,6 +30,374 @@ </p> </li> + <li><b>13 August 2011 -- BusyBox 1.19.0 (unstable)</b> + <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.19.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.19.0</a>. + (<a href="http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/?h=1_19_stable">git</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.19.0/">patches</a>, + <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> + + <p>Sizes of busybox-1.18.5 and busybox-1.19.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> + text data bss dec hex filename + 837577 493 7516 845586 ce712 busybox-1.18.5/busybox + 839598 493 7508 847599 ceeef busybox-1.19.0/busybox</pre> + </p> + + <p>Changes since previous release: +<pre> +Alexander Shishkin: + diff: return 1 when skipping directories with -r, but without -N + +Alexey Fomenko: + libbb: remove dead code in getopt32 + lineedit: fix rare SEGV + route: add missing fclose's + ifupdown: don't leak malloced variables in the loop; remove double alloc + md5/sha1sum: fix small resource leak + +Alexey Soloviev: + date: preserve isdst value if date is in time_t (unix time) format + +Bernhard Reutner-Fischer: + mount: for NFS use tcp per default rather than udp + inetd: check if RPC is available + +Bogdan Harjoc: + find: implement -ipath + +Chris Rees: + build system: do not use GNU-isms in find + FreeBSD compat patches + +Dan Fandrich: + simplify Ethernet header includes + use the built-in getline on more systems that don't have it + hush: support set -o xtrace/noexec alternates for set -x/-n + fbsplash: display images even when a second buffer is active + blockdev: add --getsz to replace --getsize + platform.h: support for build under Android + +Daniel Fandrich: + replaced __u32 etc with standard uint32_t style types + support configuring Busybox from _defconfig files + add defconfig files for Android, Cygwin and FreeBSD + +Davide Cavalca: + hwclock: implement --systz + syslogd: add and use CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSTEMD + +Denys Vlasenko: + use net/ethernet.h instead of linux/if_ether.h in more cases. Closes 3619 + improve --install operation in chroot jails + incorporate header fixes proposed in bug 3097 + remove erroneous dependencies on INSTALLER + remove old "define lchown chown" + replace "depends on PLATFORM_LINUX" with "select PLATFORM_LINUX" + use user's shell instead of hardwired "/bin/sh" (android needs this) + disable automatic selection of FEATURE_SUID + if only one applet is enabled, make "busybox applet [params]" work as expected + scripts/kconfig/mconf.c: stop-gap fix for buffer overflow + libbb/login/su: do not sanitize shell name twice + libbb/progress.c: make sure we never get negative ETA + libbb/progress.c: use unicode support funcs instead of open-coding it + libbb/progress.c: better overflow protection; more precise bar + libbb/progress.c: display >999 hours ETA correctly + libbb/progress.c: fix bugs found in stall detection and unknown size logic + libbb/read_cmdline: prepend {comm} if different from argv0. Closes 3835 + libbb: make BB_EXECVP/LP try to exec real binary if there's no /proc/self/exe + libbb: make set_nport accept pointer to sockaddr, not to len_and_sockaddr + libbb: make user/group name cache strings longer (~27 chars) + libbb: optionally support RTMIN[+n] and RTMAX[-n] signal names + libbb: spawn should remove child which failed to exec + libbb: use _unlocked variants of stdio I/O + lineedit: implement optional Ctrl-R history search + lineedit: fixes for CONFIG_UNICODE_USING_LOCALE=y + main: free suid_config list after use + main: make busybox.conf mode handling less obscure + ash: fix ash-signals/signal8 testcase failure + ash: fix execution of shell scripts without shebang + ash: optional support for $TMOUT variable + ash,hush: add ulimit -e -r (RLIMIT_NICE, RLIMIT_RTPRIO) + ash,hush: optional support for $HISTFILESIZE + ash,hush: recheck LANG before every line input + hush: do not print killer signal's name for SIGPIPE + hush: fix "cmd & <newline>" problem + hush: fix FEATURE_CLEAN_UP code (was freeing unallocated memory) + hush: fix a case where return in sourced file has no effect + hush: fix a corner case of empty "do \n done" structure + hush: fix incorrect PS2 display and trap handling while reading command + hush: fix login shell's signal handling; add -l option so that it's easier to test + hush: fix misparsing of "... do eval a= ...". Closes 3721 + hush: fix bugs with IFS expansion. Closes 4027 + hush: fix source1.tests + hush: fix wrong prompt problem on empty interactive commands + hush: fixes and small shrink for HUSH_JOB!=y + hush: improve prompt in nested {}s + hush: make parse errors in sourced file non-fatal in interactive script + hush: make read builtin interruptible + hush: replace signal handling machinery + hush: use FEATURE_SH_NOFORK to enable NOFORK trick + adduser: better logic for choosing addgroup -g/--gid + adduser: prefer to call addgroup --gid, not non-std addgroup -g + adduser: safe username passing to passwd/addgroup + adduser: use better argv passing to addgroup + basename,dirname,freeramdisk,rx,raidautorun,runsv,chvt: skip "--" argument + blkid: optional support for TYPE="fstype" + busybox.conf: USER.GROUP is _optional_ + busybox: fail if --install is not given an absolute path + bzip2: plug memory leak on every processed file + chrt: -m can be used without any arguments. Closes 2989 + chrt: correct opt_complementary. Closes 2977 + cpio: allow cpio -i to take params - names of files to extract + date,touch: treat 2-digit years better (fit them into +-50 yrs around today) + date: add a comment about _SVID_SOURCE + dc: fix a case where we can run off malloced space + die_if_bad_username: tighten up a bit + echo: do not retry on write errors + echo: fix ENOSPC detection and some iffy code in \NNN handling + echo: fix SEGV when run with no args + fbset: abort on unknown options. Closes 3121 + fbset: apply modelines. Closes 3823 + fdisk: make FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS redundant when LFS=y + fdisk: reinstate a short sleep between sync() and ioctl(BLKRRPART) + fdisk_osf: simplify ifdef (incidentally, adds support for Microblaze) + find: cater for libc w/o FNM_CASEFOLD + find: fix a bug in !ENABLE_FEATURE_FIND_XDEV config + find: print/print0/prune _can_ be inverted, fix it + find: remove the hack we use to parse options first, replace with simpler code + fix !ENABLE_FEATURE_GETOPT_LONG build. Closes 3775 + fix parameter loading problem for 2.4 kernels. Closes 3223 + fuser: fix inverted access() check. Closes 3799 + gen_build_files.sh: do not use "sed --" for now + getty: add ECHOE explanation + getty: add sleep before initial tcdrain; reduce another sleep from 1 to 0.1s + getty: do clear CLOCAL and CRTSCTS unless told otherwise + getty: do not clear all c_cflag's (we were clearing baud bits!) + getty: document bits we don't set - maybe we should set some of them? + getty: fix -i (was ignored) + getty: flush _only_ input after switching to the next baud rate + getty: simplify macros; improve VSWTC[H] compat + getty: use cfsetspeed to save some bytes + groups: make it NOEXEC + halt/reboot: better message if /sbin/telinit is not found + httpd: send correct mtime for .gz files + hwclock: use locale-specific date output format + id: correct getgroups usage + id: fix inverted if (!ENABLE_DESKTOP) + init: fix a case where execv's 1st arg was wrong + init: simpler handling of leading dash in commands + insmod: check for module read errors + iplink: tweak includes to work on android + iproute: fix handling of "dev IFACE" selector + iproute: fix parsing and matching of "short" IP addrs like 10/8 + kill[all[5]],pkill: make signal list show signal numbers, and show RTMIN/MAX + klogd: fix the problem of delayed handling of ^C and SIGTERM + length: disable this applet + less: optionally query terminal size via "ESC [ 6 n". Closes 2659 + ls: -g implies -l + ls: add support for -H + ls: fix HAVE_STRVERSCMP check; add check for older uclibc versions + ls: fix bits for -T, -w and --color; make -n imply -l + ls: fix handling of symlinks by option -1 + ls: fix one-bit-off which caused -H to behave as -h + ls: for some options, only last takes effect. Closes 2959 + ls: make -F not follow symlinks of the command line + ls: make -v and -X actually work as intended + ls: make -x force columnar output + ls: print a space after each column. Closes 2941 + ls: reduce memory consumption and speed up (don't do redundant [l]stat) + ls: widen -s (1k blocks) column from 4 to 6 + lsmod: fix unsafe usage of strlen()-1 + mailutils/*: add verbose option to sendmail; remove -m and -j from makemime + mesg: make group/all writability configurable + mesg: operate on stdin, not on stderr (compat) + mktemp: make it more compatible with GNU coreutils 8.4 + modprobe-small: support compressed modules in insmod + modprobe/insmod: fix parameter quoting + modprobe: fix "modprobe -l name-with-dash" + more: exit if write to stdout errors out + more: fix tabs handling + mount: strip multiple trailing slashes, not just one + move nofork_save_area from libbb.h to vfork_daemon_rexec.c + nmeter: deprecate %NNNd specified, use -d MSEC instead + ntpd: decrease ntpd -q "no response" timeout to 10 sec + od: another fix for --strings + od: fix "od --traditional FILE" + od: fix -S NUM to not print chars >0x80 + parse_config: make test applet easier to enable; fix its code + ping: fix IPv6 pinging. Closes 3187 + ping: set not only IP_TTL, but also IP_MULTICAST_TTL + printenv: fix environ == NULL segfault + procps: remove PSSCAN_STAT define, users were using it incorrectly + ps: implement -o stat + pstree: use stdin for screen size detection + reformime: do not require \r\n + reset: "ESC(K" selects German, why did we use that? Change to "ESC(B" (US) + sed: support \r in s command + start-stop-daemon: fix "-K --test --pidfile PIDFILE" exit code + stty: enable line discipline display and change code if __linix__ + stty: make swtch and iutf8 visible/settable + su: document -l in --help text. Closes 2761 + tail: optimize "tail -c HUGENUM REGULAR_FILE". Closes 3763 + tar: fix a bug where autodetection messes up -z on extract + tar: on extract, everything up to and including last ".." is stripped + tar: skip leading / and handle names like abc/..////def -> def (not ///def) + tar: store negative mtime as 0; pack very large files using base-256 encoding + tar: support "-T -" and "-X -" + telnetd: write utmp record with correct pid + tftp: fix bad interaction between poll() and alarm(). Closes 3061 + tftp: fix progress bar for large (>32M) files. Closes 3499 + tftpd: add -l "log to syslog" option. Needed for inetd mode + top: better indicator of selected field in mem view + top: display sort indicator in memory display + top: make it possible to feed commands via pipe + top: replace %MEM with %VSZ in header text + traceroute: properly reduce poll timeout + udhcp: fix some default values from "" to NULL + udhcpc: allow -O OPT take numeric params + udhcpc: emit "correct" secs field + udhcpc: fix a problem with binary-encoded options + udhcpd: reply with NAK to clients in INIT-REBOOT state w/o existing lease + udhcpd: smaller code: do not look for REQUESTED_IP twice + uptime: more compatible output + wc: fix swapped -c and -m + wget: check for final write errors for -O FILE too + wget: chunked mode fix. Closes 3229 + wget: correctly handle rare case when we get EAGAIN _on first_ read + wget: display 100% at the _end_ of chunked download + wget: fix fname_out usage wrt redirects + wget: make "wget -O FILE URL1 URL2" concatenate output + wget: remove functions which retry on EINTR + wget: support multiple URLs on command line + wget: use FEATURE_COPYBUF_KB-sized buffer. Much faster for local transfers + wget: use closed HTTP/1.1 connection, stop when we dl'ed $content_len bytes + xargs: support --no-run-if-empty (synonym to -r) + +Eric Lammerts: + runsvdir: do not miss closely spaced service dir changes + +Harald Becker: + showkey: make -a work on any stdin + +Ian Wienand: + login: apply PAM environment + ash: clear sa_flags always + tar: ignore file size (assume 0) for hardlinks + +James Youngman: + ls: remove redundant constants LIST_FILENAME and LIST_SHORT + +Joachim Nilsson: + ping: add -t TTL option + build system: fix "make install" to skip /usr when configured so + +Keith Young: + udhcpc: add -B option + +Kevin Cernekee: + cttyhack: check sysfs for the name of the active console + cttyhack: fail gracefully if the device node is missing + +Lauri Kasanen: + pstree: new applet + df,find_mount_point: optionally don't ignore rootfs + modinfo: show firmware and depends fields + fdisk: backport disk check from util-linux + md5/shaNsum: make -c support a list of files + +Macpaul Lin: + scripts: fix fixdep.c to let it work in Cygwin + +Maksym Kryzhanovskyy: + iostat: code shrink ~0.5k + fuser: code shrink + iostat: code shrink + +Marek Bečka: + setserial: new applet + +Nigel Hathaway: + udhcp: add FEATURE_UDHCP_8021Q option + udhcpc: export unrecognized options in "optNN=XXXXXXXXX" form + +Nuno Lucas: + fbsplash: add support for 24 and 32 bit color depth + +Pascal Bellard: + chsum: fix + conspy: fix lost ESC key + +Pere Orga: + whois: new applet + pwdx: new applet + move help text from include/usage.src.h to *.c files + wget: fix SEGV with multiple urls and redirection + kill: fix infinite loop when passed PIDs are not valid numbers + uptime: add config flag to allow displaying the number of users currently logged on + +Peter Korsgaard: + getty: wait up to 5 seconds for the output buffer to drain + mount: ignore unknown mount options when remounting NFS mounts + httpd: don't send error messages with gzip encoding + setconsole: open console for writing rather than reading + +Phil Sutter: + nameif: fix parsing of /proc/net/dev + nameif: add matching by phy_address=NUM + +Ralf Friedl: + df: more compatible -P behavior + +Reuben Dowle: + ubimkvol,ubirmvol,ubirsvol,ubiupdatevol: new applets + +Rob Landley: + patch: fix "patch at the beginning" testcase failure + +Roman Borisov: + mount: fix wrong long option names + mount: properly update /etc/mtab on mount --move + mount: rprivate option fix + mount: add --rbind option support + diff: optimize diffing of files with the same metadata + +Ryan Phillips: + login: set PAM RHOST + +Sergey Naumov: + syslogd: optional support for /etc/syslog.conf + +Serj Kalichev: + modprobe: add support for --show-depends + modprobe: add -D option (synonym of --show-depends) + +Steve Iribarne: + pam link error with SHARED_BUSYBOX and LIBBUSYBOX enabled + +Timo Teras: + modprobe: use hash table. speeds up significantly if modprobe.dep is large + parse_config: use getline. BIG speedup with glibc (~40%) + platform.c: provide getline implementation + +Tito Ragusa: + passwd,chpasswd: reset password in /etc/passwd to "x" if /etc/shadow was updated + groups: new applet + users: new applet + +Vitaly Magerya: + wget: --post-data=STR should not encode STR, should send it verbatim + +Vladislav Grishenko: + udhcpc: use more correct, and more importantly, more understandable BPF code + udhcpd: optional IP selection based on MAC hash + +Wade Berrier: + pkill/pgrep: support extended regular expressions + +Walter Harms: + vi: fix regex search, make it selectable in config</pre> + </p> + </li> + <li><b>12 June 2011 -- BusyBox 1.18.5 (stable)</b> <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.18.5.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.18.5</a>. (<a href="http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/?h=1_18_stable">git</a>, @@ -65,7 +433,7 @@ <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> <p>Bug fix release. 1.18.3 has fixes for - hush (fix for "cmd & [Enter]" behavior), + hush (fix for "cmd & [Enter]" behavior), modprobe-small (better handling of "insmod BAD_MODULE_NAME"), modprobe (reverted bad change affecting module parameters with spaces), ping (IPv6 fix), @@ -1047,14 +1415,14 @@ Wolfram Sang: <li>grep: fix -E + {range}; fix -o not printing all matches. Fixes bug 489</li> <li>gzip: fix gzip with many files corrupting some files after first</li> <li>halt/reboot/poweroff: add a CONFIG_xxx to act SysV compatibly</li> - <li>hdparm: correct (t & 1) ? '0' : '5' thinko; wrap 80+ col lines</li> + <li>hdparm: correct (t & 1) ? '0' : '5' thinko; wrap 80+ col lines</li> <li>hostname: support --fqdn, --domain, --file</li> <li>httpd: allow empty lines in conf file</li> <li>httpd: speed up httpd.conf parsing at the cost of 49 bytes of code</li> <li>hush: add HUSH_BASH_COMPAT, make [[ special handling depend on it</li> <li>hush: add support for local builtin</li> <li>hush: allow umask to take symbolic modes</li> - <li>hush: disallow "{echo hi; }" (require whitespace) and "{ echo hi }" (require semicolon or &)</li> + <li>hush: disallow "{echo hi; }" (require whitespace) and "{ echo hi }" (require semicolon or &)</li> <li>hush: do not process options after non-option args</li> <li>hush: "export -n" support</li> <li>hush: fix "export not_yet_defined_var", fix parsing of "cmd | }" corner case</li> @@ -1080,7 +1448,7 @@ Wolfram Sang: <li>hush: make it possible to have interactive shell on non-ctty. init=/bin/hush: shows prompt, history works, etc</li> <li>hush: return builtin by Bayram Kurumahmut (kbayram AT ubicom.com)</li> <li>hush: set $n properly for "source" builtin</li> - <li>hush: specially handle [[ - suppress globbing & multiword expansion</li> + <li>hush: specially handle [[ - suppress globbing & multiword expansion</li> <li>hush: stop ignoring ^Z in child shells</li> <li>hush: unblock TERM, INT, HUP in child shells too</li> <li>ifupdown: if $PATH is not set, do not set it to "" in children</li> |
