[BusyBox] BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released

[Erik Andersen]

Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable series.
The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of testing
(thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of bugs, and
these problems have now been fixed.

Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
init again supports pivot_root,  The 'reboot' 'halt' and
'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there
were tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.

If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
That happens sometimes.   Please re-submit your patch to the
BusyBox mailing list.

The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release.  The main feature that is
still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels.  If
necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
Hopefully (i.e.  unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by then...

As usual you can download busybox and check out the latest
Changelog here:
    http://www.busybox.net/downloads/

Have Fun! 

 -Erik

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