Downloading 1.37.0 from main page gives the 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) unpatched bz2 file??

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 20 Apr 2026 at 9:53, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:

From:           	"Roberto A. Foglietta" 
<roberto.foglietta at gmail.com>
Date sent:      	Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:53:41 +0200
Subject:        	Re: Downloading 1.37.0 from main page gives the 
27 September 2024 --
	BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) unpatched bz2 file??
To:             	mikes at guam.net
Copies to:      	busybox <busybox at busybox.net>

> On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 at 08:39, Michael D. Setzer II via busybox
> <busybox at busybox.net> wrote:
> >
> > 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
> > Just downloaded from main page.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >  Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
> 
> 
> Asking the same question many times and in the same manner doesn't
> help. In the meantime you can refer to this repository, as long as it
> would collect and patches and bugfixes is expected that all those
> changes will go into uchaosys branch (check the uchaosys project for
> knowing the current commit HEAD in use).
Found this link, but it fails.
git clone https://github.com/<<username>>/uchaosbox.git
tried with my github user name and password

git clone https://github.com/msetzerii/uchaosbox.git
Cloning into 'uchaosbox'...
remote: Invalid username or token. Password authentication is not 
supported for Git operations.
fatal: Authentication failed for 
'https://github.com/msetzerii/uchaosbox.git/'
So is there a special username to use? Prompted for password, 
buth then failed. 

Was able to do 
git clone https://github.com/robang74/busybox

With git.busybox.net 
2f3b16fc1b46b4b91dabb59025dffa02b2730624 PRE_PULL
2f3b16fc1b46b4b91dabb59025dffa02b2730624 POST_PULL
Nothing changed (Already up to date).

comparied two directory and it gives over 400 lines of difference?

Did a build with my .config file using the robang74 version
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 501128 Apr 18 00:01 busybox-1.38
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 501128 Apr 20 21:12 busybox-1.38R
root at setzcodell:/tmp/x# cmp busybox-1.38 busybox-1.38R -l
   809 177 151
   810  13 306
   812 175 242
   813 131 157
   814   3 111
   815 256 262
   816 147 174
   817 135  16
   818  11 142
   819  76 250
   820 314 144
   821 243 227
   822 173 300
   823 345 262
   824  37 147
   825 214  40
   826 132  60
   827 166 215
   828  27 137
479033  61  62
479034  63  60
479036  60  62
479037  71  61
479039  60  61
479040  70  61
479042  62  64
479043  63  62

So, seems to make pretty much the same binary.
Usually similar build differences with no changes.



The reason I brought it up again.
In chat with an AI engine. I was saying the the 1.37.0 version on 
main page included a number of security patches and was current?
But actually going te the 1.37.0 files it is the original version with 
no patches since September 2024.

Additionaly, downloads of git clone or git pull are bringing in the 
1.38 versions, the is no 1.37 git. It is one of the 404 errors.

If someone download the 1.37 version from the main page, they 
using source code the September 2024.

If they do a git clone or git pull they are using a git version that 
everyone seems to be saying is not valid?

So, is the 2024 code the valid version people should use?
or is the latest git clone / git pull version using the 1.38 git from 
busybox.net 

So, seems to be two or three different stories.

Additionally, from all I've seen 1.36.1 is the last version that was 
listed as stable?
27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)



> 
> https://github.com/robang74/busybox
> 
> BusyBox from last git.busybox.net master HEAD, saved in
> codeberg.org/robang74/busybox providing an US/EU manually synced
> backup. Relevant branches: master, applets, features, bugfixes. These
> include contribs proposed for upstreaming from which cherry-pick and
> in that order merged in uchaosys.
> 
> Best regards, R-


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