[git commit] Announce 1.37.0
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 26 21:27:48 UTC 2024
commit: https://git.busybox.net/busybox-website/commit/?id=201d08425c52522df1a29379ae0cb3b31f1633e3
branch: https://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>
+ <li><b>27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)</b>
+ <p><a href="https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.37.0</a>.
+ (<a href="https://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?h=1_37_stable">git</a>,
+ <a href="https://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.37.0/">patches</a>,
+ <a href="https://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Sizes of busybox-1.36.0 and busybox-1.37.0 (with equivalent config, static musl build):<pre>
+ text data bss dec hex filename
+1022792 559 4988 1028339 fb0f3 busybox-1.36.0/busybox
+1024327 559 4988 1029874 fb6f2 busybox-1.37.0/busybox
+</pre>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>Changes since previous release:
+<pre>Akos Somfai:
+ lineedit: fix crash when icanon set with -echo
+
+Andrej Picej:
+ hwclock: add get/set parameters option
+
+Arsen Arsenović:
+ fixdep: avoid underflow when end of entry doesn't coincide with EOF
+
+Christian Franke:
+ Cygwin: regenerate defconfig
+
+Dario Binacchi:
+ ip link: support for the CAN netlink
+
+David Leonard:
+ find: implement -ok
+ od: fix -O
+ od: add tests
+
+Denys Vlasenko:
+ build system: fix "Config.in:117 error: Overlong line"
+ libbb/dump: conditionalize code used only by xxd and od
+ libbb/dump: correct handling of 1-byte signed int format
+ libbb/dump: make xxd_displayoff member conditional on xxd
+ libbb/dump: use fputs_stdout where appropriate
+ libbb/sha: do not read shaNI variable twice, and factor out its setting
+ libbb/sha: fix sha-NI instruction detection
+ libbb: add bit counting function, use where appropriate
+ libbb: code shrink: introduce and use [_]exit_FAILURE()
+ libbb: consolidate NOMMU fix of restoring high bit in argv[0][0]
+ libbb: fix 64-bit bb_popcnt_long
+ libbb: pass "" rather than NULL as format string in _nomsg functions
+ lineedit: print prompt and editing operations to stderr
+ *: introduce and use exitcode_t
+ ash: code shrink - reuse is_prefixed_with() from libbb
+ ash: code shrink: do not take address of prefix(), allowing it to inline
+ ash: disable check for "good" function name, bash does not check this
+ ash: disable sleep as builtin, closes 15619
+ ash: do not abort interactive mode on >&9999 redirect
+ ash: exec: Stricter pathopt parsing - lost chunk
+ ash: fix broken new mail detection
+ ash: fix handling of single-quoted strings in pattern substitution
+ ash: fix sleep built-in not running INT trap immediately on ^C
+ ash: get rid of separate mail_var_path_changed flag variable
+ ash: remove "volatile" specifier from suppress_int
+ ash: remove limitation on fd# length
+ ash: sleep builtin with no arguments should not exit
+ hush (NOMMU): fix LINENO in execed children
+ hush: add comment about abort on syntax error %{^}
+ hush: avoid duplicate fcntl(F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) during init
+ hush: detect when terminating "done"/"fi" is missing
+ hush: do not exit interactive shell on some redirection errors
+ hush: fix "exec 3>FILE" aborting if 3 is exactly the next free fd
+ hush: fix ELIF cmd1;cmd2 THEN ... not executing cmd2, closes 15571
+ hush: fix an interactive abort on error
+ hush: fix expansion of space in "a=${a:+$a }c" construct
+ hush: make "false" built-in
+ hush: printf builtin with no arguments should not exit
+ hush: quote values in "readonly" output
+ hush: quote variable values printed by "set" (match ash behavior)
+ hush: restore tty pgrp on SIGHUP
+ hush: set G.ifs sooner (prevents segfault)
+ hush: speed up "big heredoc" code
+ shell/math.h: update comments, rearrange struct members for smaller code
+ shell/math: $((1?)) has one-too-small opstack, fix this
+ shell/math: add note on ERANGE
+ shell/math: avoid $((3**999999999999999999)) to take years
+ shell/math: bash-compatible handling of too large numbers
+ shell/math: change ?: nesting code to not have 63 level nesting limitation
+ shell/math: decrease stack usage by not allocating copies of variable names
+ shell/math: do not accept $((36#@))
+ shell/math: document ternary ?: op's weirdness, add code comments
+ shell/math: eliminate redundant endofname()
+ shell/math: eliminate some redundant stores on return code path
+ shell/math: explain the logic, small tweak to make code smaller
+ shell/math: explain why we use separate &end
+ shell/math: fix ?: to not evaluate not-taken branches
+ shell/math: fix comments about jammed-together num+num corner cases
+ shell/math: fix nested ?: and do not parse variables in not-taken branch
+ shell/math: fix one name check, other minor cleanups
+ shell/math: fix order of expansion of variables to numbers
+ shell/math: fix parsing of ?: and explain why it's parsed that way
+ shell/math: fix the order of variable resolution in binops
+ shell/math: reduce stack usage
+ shell/math: remove a redundant check
+ shell/math: remove now-unused second_val
+ shell/math: remove special code to handle a?b?c:d:e, it works without it now
+ shell/math: rename TOK_NUM to TOK_VALUE, improve comments
+ shell/math: simpler insertion of "fake" last RPAREN
+ shell/math: simplify handling of unary plus
+ shell/read: do not allow empty variable name
+ shell: add a few yet-failing arithmentic tests
+ shell: avoid segfault on ${0::0/0~09J}. Closes 15216
+ shell: document another arithmetic discrepancy with bash
+ shell: fix SIGWINCH and SIGCHLD (in hush) interrupting line input, closes 15256
+ shell: move varcmp() to shell_common.h and use it in hush
+ awk: do not infinitely recurse getvar_s() if CONVFMT is set to a numeric value
+ awk: do not read ARGIND, only set it (gawk compat)
+ awk: fix SEGV on read error in -f PROGFILE
+ awk: fix backslash handling in sub() builtins
+ awk: fix closing of non-opened file
+ awk: fix handling of empty fields
+ awk: fix splitting with default FS
+ awk: fix subst code to handle "start of word" pattern correctly (needs REG_STARTEND)
+ awk: fix use-after-realloc (CVE-2021-42380), closes 15601
+ awk: get rid of one indirection level for iF (input file structure)
+ awk: implement -E; do not reorder -f and -e
+ awk: mktime() with no arguments is not allowed
+ awk: printf(INVALID_FMT) prints it verbatim
+ awk: remove a local variable "caching" a struct member
+ awk: shrink - use setvar_sn() to set variables from non-NUL terminated strings
+ chown: stop accepting deprecated USER.GROUP syntax, only : separator is allowed
+ factor: we can pack 21, not 20, 3-bit elements into packed wheel words
+ getfattr: fix "getfattr NOTEXIST" - now prints error msg
+ httpd: do not mangle cgi-bin/SCRIPT/params URLs
+ hwclock: force LONG_OPTS, stop accepting non-compatible -t
+ i2ctransfer: fix build warning
+ ls: do not truncate username/groupname to 8 chars
+ mkfs_vfat: do not generate same volume_id when run in rapid succession
+ modprobe: call finit_module with MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE if module name doesn't end with .ko
+ nmeter: improve %T fractionals display
+ nmeter: increase maximum /proc file size (needed for large machines)
+ nproc: prepare for arbitrarily large CPU masks
+ nslookup: ensure unique transaction IDs for the DNS queries
+ ntpd: correct comment: 2^-20 is ~1 microsecond (confused with 10^-20)
+ ntpd: correct fixed->float conversions of fractions
+ ntpd: fix a warning on 32-bit arch build
+ ntpd: fold d_to_tv() into its only caller
+ od, hexdump: byte 0x11 is "dc1" not "dcl"
+ od: -l,I,L indeed depend on sizeof(long), fix this
+ od: actually remove -IL from --help, as comment says
+ od: correct -i, enable tests which pass for DESKTOP too
+ od: fix default format, shrink
+ od: for !DESKTOP, match output more closely to GNU coreutils 9.1, implement -s
+ od: implement -B
+ od: stop printing extra trailing spaces
+ od: support -DOHXIL
+ seedrng: fix for glibc <= 2.24 not providing getrandom()
+ seq: accept negative parameters
+ seq: fix yet another case of negative parameters not working
+ shuf: add (disabled) code to support very long numbers in -i LO-HI
+ shuf: another tweak to COMMON_PREFIX_HACK code
+ shuf: fix pfx_len calculation
+ shuf: remove redundant code
+ sleep: fix "sleep -- ARGS"
+ sleep: fix error exit when called as "sh" builtin
+ start-stop-daemon: do not lose error messages with -b
+ start-stop-daemon: fix --help: -K or -S is required
+ start-stop-daemon: make --output not depend on FANCY
+ start-stop-daemon: update comment, no code changes
+ syslogd: daemonize _after_ init (so that init errors are visible, if they occur)
+ syslogd: decrease stack usage, ~50 bytes
+ syslogd: fix breakage caused by "daemonize _after_ init" change
+ time: implement %% and \escapes in -f FMT
+ tls: P256: fix obscure x86_64 asm misbehavior, closes 15679
+ tls: P256: improve x86_64 multiplication asm code
+ tls: fix CONFIG_FEATURE_TLS_SHA1=y + CONFIG_SHA1_HWACCEL=y
+ top: improve large PID display in memory ('s') mode
+ top: stop using div() from libc, compilers now do it better
+ udhcpd: optional BOOTP support
+ unzip: clear SUID/GID bits, implement -K to not clear them
+ unzip: document some options we might support
+ wget: fix compile warnings when WGET_FTP is not selected
+
+Dominique Martinet:
+ sed: check errors writing file with sed -i
+
+Eric Blake:
+ readlink: support --, -n always
+
+Jones Syue:
+ crond: log5 fix typo, replace log level '4' with '5'
+
+Karsten Sperling:
+ ash: use-after-free in bash pattern substitution
+
+Louai Al-Khanji:
+ start-stop-daemon: implement option -O|--output
+
+Miroslav Lichvar:
+ ntpd: make NTP client and server Y2036/2038-ready
+
+Natanael Copa:
+ time: fix max resident set size unit
+ awk: fix use after free (CVE-2023-42363)
+
+Nero:
+ install: Fix chown resetting suid/sgid bits from chmod
+
+Peter Korsgaard:
+ util-linux/lsusb.c: print manufacturer/product strings if available
+
+Petja Patjas:
+ vi: Ensure that the edit buffer ends in a newline
+
+Petr Vorel:
+ sleep: Update doc
+
+Ron Yorston:
+ lineedit: fix matching of directories when searching PATH
+ ash: make EPOCH variables work if RANDOM is disabled
+ ash: improve trap and jobs builtins in child shells
+ ash,hush: tab completion of functions and aliases
+ tr: display usage for incorrect arguments
+ tsort: avoid use-after-free
+ awk: fix segfault when compiled by clang
+ ash: fix parsing of alias expansion + bash features
+ Makefile.flags: suppress clang warnings when cross-compiling
+ ash: remove defunct control character to save a few bytes
+ md5/shaXsum: accept uppercase hex strings
+ timeout: allow fractional seconds in timeout values
+ ash: move hashvar() calls into findvar()
+
+Russ Dill:
+ udhcp: Avoid leaking uninitialized/stale data
+
+Sertonix:
+ wget: ignore header casing
+
+Sören Tempel:
+ ed: don't use memcpy with overlapping memory regions
+
+Thomas Devoogdt:
+ seedrng: fix for glibc <= 2.24 not providing random header
+
+Tomas Paukrt:
+ appletlib: fix "warning: unused variable applet_no"
+ build system: clean more files on make clean
+
+Uwe Kleine-König:
+ build system: Make it possible to build with 64bit time_t
+
+YU Jincheng:
+ getfattr: new applet
+
+Yan Zhu:
+ docproc: avoid segfault during file closing
+
+Yousong Zhou:
+ libiproute: fix filtering ip6 route by table id
+
+ejaaskel:
+ start-stop-daemon: add -d DIR chdir option
+
+zhuyan:
+ ash: initialize basepf.buf in ash
+</pre>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+
<li><b>19 May 2023 -- BusyBox 1.36.1 (stable)</b>
<p><a href="https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.36.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.36.1</a>.
(<a href="https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/?h=1_36_stable">git</a>)</p>
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