[BusyBox] BusyBox 0.51 released

[Edmund Troche]

Is someone going to notify the Linuxdevices guys of this release? I think
this is a very nice piece of work that hopefully more and more people will
use in their embedded Linux projects and Linuxdevices is probably a good
spot to let everyone know of the progress. I know the previous release was
listed there.


Edmund

-----Original Message-----
From: busybox-admin at busybox.net
[mailto:busybox-admin at busybox.net]On Behalf Of Erik Andersen
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:55 PM
To: BusyBox
Subject: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.51 released


I am very pleased to announce BusyBox 0.51 (a.k.a "the rock-solid release").
Tarballs are already sitting on the ftp site waiting for you.  Here is the
announcement I just placed on the busybox web site:

   BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This release
adds
   only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, contributed by Sterling
   Huxley, is very functional, and is only 22k. This release fixes 3
critical
   bugs in the 0.50 release. There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the
   busybox shell) in the 0.50 release which are now fixed.  Another critical
   bug in 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
deadlock
   the init process and thereby break your entire system.  

   There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For one
thing,
   the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov added FTP support,
and
   Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC compliant for HTTP 1.1. The
mechanism
   for including utility functions in previous releases was clumsy and error
   prone. Now all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which
   makes maintaining utility functions much simpler.  And BusyBox now
compiles
   on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters for letting me
use
   their system!).  

   You can read the changelog for complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can
   be downloaded from ftp://busybox.net/busybox.
       
Have Fun! 

p.s. In just a few minutes I will be leaving to the Embedded Systems
Conference
in San Francisco, where I will be presenting "Rolling your own Embedded
Linux"
on the 12th.  If any of you are out at the conference, please stop by the
Lineo
booth and say "hi" -- or if I am out wandering, leave a message at the booth
for me so I can find you.  And of course, please visit my presentation on
the
12th -- it should be pretty good.  When the conference is over, I plan on
re-working my presentation a bit and turning it into a HOWTO.

 -Erik

--
Erik B. Andersen   email:  andersen at lineo.com
--This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--


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