1.18.0 and 1.17.4 are released
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 23 10:52:37 UTC 2010
* 22 November 2010 -- BusyBox 1.17.4 (stable)
Bug fix release. 1.17.4 has fixes for dnsd (fix for 64-bit builds),
ip route (fixed bug of misplaced argv++), ls (-g was showing
user instead of group), sort (fix for -o FILE not creating FILE),
unicode (fixed bug in build with disabled unicode support).
* 22 November 2010 -- BusyBox 1.18.0 (unstable)
Sizes of busybox-1.17.4 and busybox-1.18.0 (with equivalent config,
static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename
831950 453 7224 839627 ccfcb busybox-1.17.4/busybox
832282 450 7212 839944 cd108 busybox-1.18.0/busybox
Changes since previous release:
Alexander Shishkin:
pmap: new applet. +1k
add-shell, remove-shell: new applets
*: introduce and use xmkstemp. -65 bytes
fix out-of-tree build's recursion
ash: fix $! value when traps are set
ulimit: set both hard and soft limits by default
stat: remove superfluous setXXent() calls, plug memory leak
tail: free tailbuf upon cleaning up
smemcap: close /proc handle upon cleaning up
login: free fromhost upon cleaning up
mount: pass NULL, not "", as "data" to mount syscall if we have no opts
Baruch Siach:
nandwrite: new applet
nanddump: new applet
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer:
find_stray_empty_lines: make it work
Bradley M. Kuhn:
wget: implement -T SEC; rework progress meter to not use signals
(it was unsafe)
Carmelo AMOROSO:
insmod: do not add a pair of "" around the arguments of the module
Christian Hornung:
ip: fix command line option parsing of "ip route get ..."
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn:
remove redundant ENABLE_DESKTOP in procps/ps.c
Dan Fandrich:
improve portability of tests
rename a struct member from "interrupt"
testsuite: show the number of failures after a test run
fix some test cases
tar: add a test for extraction of read-only directory
avoid side effects in putc(), which may be implemented as a macro
fix a couple of failing tar tests
fix build failure for pmap
mark some more applets NOEXEC/NOFORK
Daniel Dickinson:
syslogd: close/re-resolve/reopen remote sockets on some sendto() errors
Denys Vlasenko:
base64: new applet
platform.h: regularize endian detection
md5 and shaN: big shrink
libbb/process_escape_sequence.c: fix recently broken handling of \\
libbb: add xfstat function
libbb: factor out common code from mpstat/iostat
libbb: fix fallout from last patch to obscure() (my mistake). +143 bytes
libbb: introduce and use common crc32 routine
libbb: introduce and use strcpy_and_process_escape_sequences
libbb: merge mail and uudecode's base64 decoders
lineedit: partially rewrite and clean up tab completion code
lineedit: do not hang on error, but return error indicator
lineedit: limit ASK_TERMINAL to the case when we can't find out the width
*: deinline SWAP_xE64 on 32-bit CPUs. Wins !90 bytes both on 32
and 64 bits
*: pass md5/shaN context pointer as 1st arg, not last
*: use SWAP_BE64 instead of open-coding it
shell/math.c: rename arith_eval_hooks to arith_state, put error
code into it
shell/math.c: stop using bss variable
shell/math: deconvolute and explain ?: handling
shell/math: return string error indicator, not integer
shell: remove lash and bbsh
shell: unify endofname() in hush and ash
ash: add a testcase for bug 2281 (currently fails)
ash: add another ${v/a/b} test we currently fail
ash: add missing casts to match CTLfoo
ash: fix another bit of var_bash4 bug
ash: fix another bug detected by var_bash4.tests
ash: fix dequoting error detected by var_bash4 test
ash: fix signal and "set -e" interaction
hush: add support for "set -o pipefail"
hush: add support for ${var/pattern/repl}, conditional on bash compat
hush: add support for set -x
hush: fix EXIT trap display inside exit trap handler
hush: fix another corner case with backslashes in heredocs
hush: fix backslash and terminator handling in <<[-]["]heredoc["]
hush: fix globbing+backslashes in unquoted $var expansion
hush: fix handling of \" in quoted/unquoted `cmd`
hush: fix handling of backslashes in variable assignment
hush: fix improper handling of newline and hash chars in a few
corner cases
hush: fix multiple dependent variable expansion cases
hush: fix set -- q w e; (IFS='' echo "$*"; IFS=''; echo "$*"); echo "$*"
hush: fix var_bash3.tests failure
hush: fix var_bash5.tests failure
hush: implement brace expansion
hush: make pun_pipe loop clearer; fix "cmd | var=`cmd` | cmd" handling
hush: make set -x support optional
hush: optional support for history saving
awk: 00.123 is not a octal constant; neither is 009.123 - fixed
awk: fix SEGV on closing non-opened file
bbconfig: add COMPRESS_BBCONFIG option
build system: make 3.82 compat fix. Closes bug 2323
cmp: with -s, do not report open errors
crond: check mtime on crontab dir every minute, and reread if changed
dc: make it use long longs for integer ops
decompress_bunzip2: handle concatenated .bz2 files; speedup
delgroup: correct the check for users who still use the group
depmod: generate "new-style" modules.dep with relative paths
diff: make diff -r much less eager to recurse into directories
dmesg: more correct skipping of <N> perfix
dnsd: fix 64-bit bug 2539
dos2unix: fix SEGV when run w/o parameters
find: add rudimentary support for -exec {} +
free: add -b/k/m/g options; remove 4 TB limitation. +100 bytes
free: more compatible output. +16 bytes. Closes bug 2383
grep: cap insane -B NUM values to MAX_INT / 8. Fixes bug 2653
grep: fix -o match with empty string (suggested by Colin Watson
(cjwatson at ubuntu.com))
ifupdown: %client%, not %clientid%
ifupdown: add manual method for IPv6. Closes bug 2497
init: do not clear CRTSCTS (fix from Debian bug 528560)
init: do not sleep forever on usage errors
init: if PID!=1, show clearer error message
ip: fix "ip r" breakage
klogd: do not log partial lines
ls: fix -lg to show group (was showing user)
lzop: fix misordered "v=NULL; free(v)"
man: add compatibility with man-db
mdev: fix non-working device deletion, add a test for that
mkswap: clear 1st kilobyte. Closes bug 1831
mktemp: fix "mktemp /path/to/tempfile.XXXXXX"
mktemp: fix for dir/file.XXXXXX param (by Rob). +9 bytes
modprobe-simple: do not error out on "rmmod module" if module is
unloaded ok
modutils: explain why we no longer quote params
move read_base64 to libbb/uuencode.c
mv: implement -n option
nandwrite: complain on malformed -s NUM
nc: fix SEGV on -v when NC_EXTRA is off
netstat: fix IPv6 problem (garbage in scope_id)
netstat: was using buffers one byte short for scanf (no place
for NUL) - fixed
ntpd: allow peer-less (standalone stratum 1 server) operation
ntpd: with -q, exit after 60 seconds even if time is not synced
patch: add -N and a test for it (fails for now)
patch: busyboxify by migrating from toybox to busybox helpers
patch: fix -N regression
patch: support "patch [FILE [PATCH]]" format
sed: fix sed -i: unlike without -i, it does not forget ranges
sed: make N command behave as in GNU sed
seq: exit on write errors
sleep: fix fractional arguments in non-POSIX locale
sleep: make it non-NOFORK. Fixes ^C in standalone shell
smemcap: use correct tar magic
sort: -o FILE should create/truncate FILE
split: use xopen_stdin()
telnet: convert CR NUL -> CR on input. Closes bug 2569
telnet: do not check for 0 return from poll (it's impossible)
top: add tie breaking for topmem mode
udhcpc: emit maxsize option in all non-NAK type packets
udhcpc: exit if iface disappeared; use correct MAC if it changes
udhcpc: periodically reread our ifindex and mac
udhcpc: reduce stack usage by de-inlining routines with on-stack pkt buf
udhcpc: remove -c CLIENTID, it is hard to use, -x 61:hexstring
does the same better
udhcpc: remove now-unneeded definitions of vendor and client-id opts
udhcpd: reduce stack usage by ~700 bytes. +28 bytes code size
umount: do not (ab)use PATH_MAX as mntent buffer size
unicode: update unicode_width on !unicode branch too. Closes bug 2593
vi: fix "ask terminal" code
wc: add support for -m
Eric Lammerts:
stat: fix mtime/ctime/atime
Gilles Espinasse:
patch: implement -E option
Harald Becker:
deluser: make it simpler, fix inability to delete user from group
Holger Blasum:
update docs/new-applet-HOWTO.txt
Javier Viguera:
find_stray_empty_lines: fix tail "invalid context" error
Jeremie Koenig:
readlink: use xmalloc_realpath()
mark Linux-specific configuration options
init,loginutils: termios portability fixes
init,halt: portability improvements
init: make the initial $TERM value configurable
libbb.h: add device names for Hurd and FreeBSD
mkdir: fix -p on FreeBSD
libbb: conditionalize AF_* usage in error reporting
tcpsvd,udpsvd: conditionalize usage of SO_ORIGINAL_DST
less: remove misguided dependency on PLATFORM_LINUX
bootchartd: mounting tmpfs is Linux-specific
vlock: disable linux console calls on other systems
cttyhack: serial console detection is Linux-specific
klogd: make it work on non-linux systems
stty: sort out preprocessor conditionals
Kevin Cernekee:
docs: change CVS references to git
docs: sync up AUTHORS and busybox_footer.pod
fdisk: initial stab at GPT partition support
Lauri Kasanen:
modprobe: make -l open the right file
libbb: remove unused variable
Lukas Huba:
patch: implement -E option
Macpaul Lin:
fdisk: add support for NDS32 architecture
modutils: add support for NDS32 architecture
Marek Polacek:
mpstat: new applet. ~5.5k
iostat: new applet. 2800 bytes
powertop: new applet
*: s/perror/bb_simple_perror_msg/g
*: use _exit() in sighandlers
showkey: do not use exit-thru-sighandler
bloat-o-meter: make it python3 compliant
Matheus Izvekov:
diff: fix "diff dir1 dir2/". Closes bug 2203
Mike Frysinger:
depmod.pl: add recursive sanity check
build system: allow SKIP_STRIP to be set in the env
gen_build_files.sh: rewrite with sed
inetd: if argv[0] is not specified, set it to program name
Mike Shal:
lineedit: fix tab-completion of file names with spaces
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:
wget: flush output to network before receving reply
Pascal Bellard:
depmod: accept and ignore -u, -q, -C FILE
cpio: avoid 'not created: newer or same age file exists' message for dirs
Peter Korsgaard:
httpd: optional support for gzip-compressed pages
httpd: simplified "gzip" test
Richard Braun:
tune2fs: implement -c and -i options
Rob Landley:
nbd-client: new applet
patch: replace it with toybox's implementation
patch: deal with omitted ",len" in hunk headers (default len to 1)
awk: reduce ifdef forest
Sergey Naumov:
blockdev: new applet
Souf Oued:
acpid: add config file and map file
Thomas Chou:
mkmakefile: make 3.82 fix
Tito Ragusa:
deluser: 2nd attempt at deluser/delgroup size reduction and improvements
deluser: do not warn spuriously when deleting group by deluser
Vladimir Dronnikov:
sendmail: fix assumption that headers should have a space after the colon
Vladislav Grishenko:
udhcp: add support for 0x21 ROUTES and 0xf9 MS_STATIC_ROUTES options
udhcpc: fix OPTION_IP_PAIR parsing
Waldemar Brodkorb:
OpenBSD compatibility
Wolfram Sang:
lineedit: create history files with mode 0600
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