[git commit] Announce 1.22.0

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 31 23:48:35 UTC 2013


commit: http://git.busybox.net/busybox-website/commit/?id=c7436d0fe969a15e3cbf861c0e3122002ecd7d6e
branch: http://git.busybox.net/busybox-website/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
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+  <li><b>1 January 2014 -- BusyBox 1.22.0 (unstable)</b>
+    <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.22.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.22.0</a>.
+    (<a href="http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/?h=1_22_stable">git</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.22.0/">patches</a>,
+    <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+    <p>Sizes of busybox-1.21.1 and busybox-1.22.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre>
+   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
+ 891522     497    7584  899603   dba13 busybox-1.21.1
+ 893754     497    7568  901819   dc2bb busybox-1.22.0</pre>
+    </p>
+
+    <p>Changes since previous release:
+<pre>
+Aaro Koskinen (9):
+      fdisk_sun: fix corrupted partition data with blank disk
+      fdisk_sun: fix partition alignment
+      sendmail: avoid sending mail to wrong addresses
+      sendmail: don't mangle e-mail headers
+      sendmail: support addresses inside angle brackets
+      sendmail: support address lists
+      sendmail: support long header fields for recipients
+      sendmail: don't add To: header if it already exists
+      sendmail: don't add multiple To: headers
+
+Alexander Shiyan (2):
+      nanddump: fix build if nandwrite isn't enabled
+      flash_eraseall: implement -N
+
+Bartosz Golaszewski (6):
+      grep: don't bail out on first mismatch if '-w' option is set
+      networking: code shrink
+      date: accept 'yyyy-mm-dd HH' and 'yyyy-mm-dd' date formats
+      Refactor catv. Move visible() from stty to libbb.
+      tail compat: fix header printing for tail -f
+      bloat-o-meter: add usage info
+
+Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (11):
+      awk: Fix handling of functions with empty body
+      setserial: Fix typo: s/baund_rate/baud_rate/g
+      chrt: remove warning for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
+      buildsys: Add helper to list suid applets
+      awk: Fix handling of functions with empty body
+      swaponoff: shrink
+      ash: Use setvar2 some more
+      ash: Set SHLVL in ASH_BASH_COMPAT
+      fstrim: -17b
+      fstrim: Indicate failure on error
+      fstrim: Needs to fire at the mp, not bd
+
+Bernhard Walle:
+      pgrep: fix -x option
+
+Bogdan Purcareata:
+      init: halt on SIGPWR too
+
+Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn:
+      foo*sum: Correct syntax error
+
+Cédric Cabessa:
+      syslogd: use _PATH_LOG when available
+
+Daniel Borca (4):
+      platform: strchrnul is missing if __APPLE__
+      dpkg-deb: cosmetic correction to usage text
+      ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges
+      build system: fix make gconfig
+
+David A. Wheeler (2):
+      sed: accept -E as a synonym for -r
+      sed: accept s///i as a synonym for s///I ("ignore case")
+
+Denys Vlasenko:
+      Call setlocale("") , not "C", if we want to set the default one
+      Commonalize typical [b,]k,m suffix struct
+      Make smart_ulltoa return pointer to end (allows for code shink in callers)
+      Makefile.custom: make "make release" delete .gitignore files too
+      Move create_icmp[6]_socket to its only user, and simplify it
+      Use unsigned printf/scanf conversion where more appropriate
+      adduser: check whether run with no USERNAME. Closes 6728
+      ash: add comment about failures in source builtin. No code changes.
+      awk: fix a bug in argc counting in recent change
+      awk: fix length(array)
+      awk: use "long long" as integer type, not "int"
+      bootchartd: warn if .config looks wrong
+      build system: use od -b instead of od -t x1
+      bunzip2: fix off-by-one check
+      chpst: fix a bug where -U USER was using wrong USER (one from -u USER)
+      cryptpw: do not segfault on EOF. Closes 6350
+      dd: do not reuse local variables for unrelated values.
+      dd: fail if swab is attempted on odd-sized block
+      dd: fix example in a comment. No code changes.
+      dd: support conv=swab
+      decompress_unlzma: 10% speedup in "small" code
+      decompress_unlzma: make "fast" version a bit smaller
+      decompress_unlzma: move function, no code changes
+      devfsd: remove static variable
+      ether-wake: shorten help text, reduce packet buffer size
+      find: support -HLP
+      find: get rid of nested function (it's a gcc-ism)
+      fix assorted unused code and wrong format specs found by cppcheck (bug 6716)
+      fix build error with musl libc due to if_slip.h
+      fix error message on failure to open /dev/null; fix zcat's help text
+      flashcp: pad output to BUFSIZE. Hopefully closes 5882
+      foo*sum: report I/O errors, don't merely exit with 1.
+      head,tail: use common suffix struct. simplify help text.
+      head: support -n -NUM and -c -NUM
+      hexdump: don't unconditionally limit the usable address range
+      hexdump: need to use xstrtoull for off_t
+      hostid: do not output sign-extended host id. Closes 6056
+      httpd: don't allow tabs and multiple spaces in request string
+      httpd: make sure pfd[TO_CGI].revents is cleared before poll()
+      httpd: treat errors from stdin correctly.
+      hush: fix build failure if FEATURE_EDITING=y && !HUSH_INTERACTIVE
+      hush: fix for "while false && true; do echo BUG; break; done". closes 6170
+      hush: source builtin should override $N only if it has args
+      hush: typo fixes in comments
+      ifplugd: make -k send SIGINT, not SIGQUIT
+      ifupdown: support "source" stanza in /etc/network/interfaces
+      init: don't use fixed size buffer for command
+      init: remove special-case code for machines with less tham 1 MB of RAM.
+      iplink: comment out include <net/if_packet.h>
+      iplink: fix build error (IFLA_VLAN_PROTOCOL defined before include)
+      less: support "less 1<>TTY"
+      libbb: introduce and use strftime_[YYYYMMDD]HHMMSS()
+      lineedit: \W on "/bin" should show "bin", not "/bin"
+      lineedit: add handling of \H in prompt
+      lineedit: fix multi-line PS1 handling: calculate PS1 length from last \n
+      lineedit: implement \T \t \A \@ prompts escapes, fix \W escape, drop \!
+      lineedit: improve Unicode handling (still buggy though)
+      lineedit: use unicode_strwidth instead of unicode_strlen
+      loadkmap: explain what happens with K_ALLOCATED key value
+      logread: don't call shmdt() before exit, kernel does it for us.
+      logread: flush output. closes 6710
+      logread: intercept all fatal signals, not just SIGINT
+      losetup: assorted fixes. Closes 6314
+      lzop: fiq -q and OPTION_DECOMPRESS mismatch
+      make --help return exitcode 0. Closes 5612
+      man: install to /usr/bin, not /sbin
+      md5/sha512: a better fix for strict aliasing warnings
+      mdev: add environment variable match
+      mdev: call index_in_strings on $ACTION only after we checked it for NULL
+      mdev: chdir back to /dev after trying to read firmware
+      mdev: extend debug logging output
+      mdev: improve $SEQ handling; improve debug logging
+      mkfs_minix: use get_volume_size_in_bytes instead of local version
+      nc: don't redirect stderr to network in -e PROG mode
+      nc: exit when both stdin and network are closed.
+      nc: fix build failure ("subscripted value is neither array nor pointer")
+      nc: remove some dead code
+      nc: remove unnecessary "errno = 0"
+      nc: use symbolic SHUT_WR instead of literal 1
+      nc_bloaty: support -ll and -lk. Closes 2245
+      nslookup: set default DNS server again. Hopefully helps with 675
+      ntpd: do not invalidate datapoints after step
+      ntpd: drop delay outliers; run "unsync" handler if no replies for some time
+      ntpd: let user know if spike was detected
+      ntpd: make "unsync" code actually work.
+      ntpd: promote log level 3 to production
+      ntpd: set G.last_script_run even if script isn't configured
+      ntpd: set offset to 0.0 in "usync" event
+      ntpd: speed up resyncing if our clock is seriously off
+      ping[6]: accept and ignore -n. Code shrink
+      ps: fix sscanf format specifier (%l); make uptime unsigned
+      ps: seconds_since_boot: uint64_t -> ulong
+      pstree: fix theoretically unsafe code
+      rfkill: use new-style config/kbuild/applet
+      rpm: make -ql display more compatible; improve help text
+      rpm: stop using statics; move main() to the end of the source file
+      rpm: unmap rpm file before working with next one
+      rpm: use "create+rename" method of replacing existing files
+      run-parts: stop providing incompatible short options
+      sed: document where we are more liberal then GNU
+      sed: fix "sed clusternewline" testcase
+      sed: fix matching of newlines by $
+      sed: fix memory leak in 'r FILE' command
+      sed: open input files sequentially to avoid EMFILE
+      sed: remove now-redundant backslash-newline handling
+      stty: disable CIBAUD leak check - it is not necessary on Linux
+      sulogin: use common password-checking routine
+      tail: track file size only in -f mode
+      tar: add a testcase for previous commit
+      tar: fix exitcode check for MMU-spawned unpacking helpers
+      tar: prevent empty file to be treated as valid tarball
+      testsuite: fix false positives for du
+      touch: add conditional support for -h
+      ubi_tools: add forgotten argv++
+      ubi_tools: enhance -s option to allow size multiplier to match mtd-utils
+      ubi_tools: extend supported volume size to 64 bits; shrink code
+      udhcpc6: fix port numbers used if !FEATURE_UDHCP_PORT
+      udhcpc: allow zero server-id. Closes 6614.
+      udhcpc: fix a problem with binary-encoded options #2
+      udhcpd: add -I LOCAL_ADDR option
+      unicode: check $LC_ALL to detect Unicode mode, not only $LANG
+      unicode: check $LC_CTYPE too to detect Unicode mode
+      unpackers: by users' request, print compression percentage if -v and DESKTOP
+      unzip: increase PEEK_FROM_END from 16k to 64k
+      unzip: survive lack of CDF on non-streaming zip files
+      vasprintf: do not use xmalloc, it will deadlock on OOM
+      vasprintf: return -1 on strdup failure
+      vi: make regexp search case-insensitive if ":set ignorecase" is active
+      volume_id_internal.h: drop unoptimized byteswap routines
+      wall: access FILE under real user's credentials
+      wget: do not abort if "_" is encountered in a HTTP header
+      zcat: fix "zcat FILE" trying to do detection twice
+      zcat: if seamless uncompressors are defined, autodetect file's format
+
+Flemming Madsen:
+      ash,hush: history builtin
+
+Guilherme Maciel Ferreira (2):
+      traceroute: free some memory allocated by xzalloc()
+      wget: if FEATURE_CLEAN_UP, free(ptr_to_globals)
+
+James Hogan:
+      grep: fix grep -x to not set REG_NOSUB
+
+Jeremy Kerr:
+      udhcp: add PXELINUX config file option (code 209) definition
+
+Jody Bruchon:
+      fdisk: fix GPT size math errors
+
+Johannes Stezenbach:
+      udhcpc: make DHCP packets to have at least 300 DHCP bytes
+
+John Spencer:
+      man: find posix man pages
+
+Jonathan Liu:
+      sulogin: allow system maintenance login if root password is empty
+
+Kang Kai:
+      testsuite/du/du-k-works: fix false positive
+
+Kuleshov Aleksey:
+      arp: fix -H/-t handling.
+
+Lasse Collin (11):
+      xz: omit explicit \0 from HEADER_MAGIC
+      xz: update README
+      xz: avoid "NOTE:" in xz.h
+      xz: add a comment about using uint32_t as vli_type
+      xz: make bcj_x86_test_msbyte() an inline function
+      xz: remove an empty line from xz_dec_lzma2.c
+      xz: add C++ support to xz.h
+      xz: fix decoding of LZMA2 streams having no uncompressed data.
+      xz: fix incorrect XZ_BUF_ERROR
+      xz: mention xzminidec.c in README
+      xz: support concatenated .xz streams
+
+Lauri Kasanen (2):
+      wget: add support for connect timeout
+      wget: user-friendly fallback to http
+
+Leonid Lisovskiy:
+      xz: fix put_unaligned_{l,b}e32
+
+Malek Degachi:
+      fstrim: New applet
+
+Mandeep Singh Baines:
+      losetup: fix util-linux compatibility
+
+Michael Tokarev (4):
+      fix bashisms in testsuite/
+      expand: use printable_string instead of hard-coding implementation
+      do not fail build if MAXSYMLINKS isn't defined
+      hostname: do not use gethostbyname() for "hostname -s"
+
+Mike Frysinger (12):
+      udhcpc: support resolv.conf symlinks
+      udhcpc: tweak math shell style with the metric var
+      bbunzip: ignore the -q flag with the decompressors
+      bbunzip: fix order of flags vs bit defines
+      archival: note implicit dependencies between lzop & bbunzip
+      udhcpc: use readlink rather than realpath
+      platform: use KERNEL_VERSION to simplify uClibc version checking
+      readlink: uClibc supports automatic allocation too now
+      readlink: note that our -f is really -e
+      pstree: stop truncating thread names
+      md5/sha512: fix strict aliasing warnings
+      trylink: only prefix libs with -l
+
+Nicolas Dichtel:
+      networking: fix potential overflow in ife_print6()
+
+Nikolaus Voss:
+      mdev: use $DEVNAME in uevent sysfs file for device node name
+
+Oliver Metz:
+      volume_id: fix ntfs attribute search
+
+Patrick McHardy:
+      ip link: add VLAN support
+
+Paul B. Henson (2):
+      ubimkvol: add -m option to create volume of maximum size
+      ubi_tools: fix typo in strcpy
+
+Paulius Zaleckas:
+      init: don't srop unterminated processes' entries during inittab reload
+
+Peter Korsgaard (3):
+      run-parts: add --exit-on-error | -e support
+      run-parts: fix unicode creep in --help
+      ar: read_num(): fix reading fields using the entire width
+
+Rich Felker:
+      *: change execl sentinels from NULL to (char*)0
+
+Ron Yorston:
+      vi: fix adjustment of buffer on partial file read
+
+Ryan Mallon (2):
+      libbb: Add xsetegid(), xseteuid(), xopen_as_uid_gid() functions
+      wall,crontab: use xopen_as_uid_gid()
+
+SASAKI Suguru:
+      tar: fix tar -T to add entries in the exact order as the input list
+
+Shawn J. Goff:
+      lineedit: initialize delptr
+
+Stefan Hellermann (2):
+      ash: move code to allow setting $HOME in /etc/profile
+      ash: read $HOME/.profile instead of $(pwd)/.profile
+
+Sven-Göran Bergh (5):
+      volume_id: Adopt to new kbuild style.
+      volume_id: Adopt to new config style.
+      volume_id: nilfs config description.
+      volume_id: add f2fs detection
+      awk: optionally support -e AWK_PROG
+
+Thomas De Schampheleire (2):
+      nameif: fix use-after-free in ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP code
+      lsof: correct check for symbolic link
+
+Thomas Petazzoni:
+      libbb: use <poll.h> instead of <sys/poll.h>
+
+Tito Ragusa (2):
+      ifplugd: use a larger netlink buffer
+      swapon: support "pri=NNN" in fstab
+
+Uros Vampl:
+      killall5: return 2 if no processes got killed
+
+Yuan-Hsiang Lee:
+      init: fix illegal memory access when max message length is reached
+</pre>
+    </p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><b>29 June 2013 -- BusyBox 1.21.1 (stable)</b>
     <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.21.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.21.1</a>.
     (<a href="http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/?h=1_21_stable">git</a>,


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