BusyBox Changelog

What's new in BusyBox 1.31.0

Jun 11, 2019

Aaro Koskinen:
sysctl: fix compatibility with procps sysctl
Aitor Esteve Alvarado:
start-stop-daemon: change priority before dropping privileges
Alexander Vickberg (3):
httpd: when sending gzipped content use content-length header
httpd: pass authorization header to CGI if not Basic
start-stop-daemon: fix -x is not required for -K
Andrey Mazo:
udhcpc: don't exit after backgrounding on -n -b
Antoine Girard-Vallée:
udhcp: add 100 and 101 dhcp options for ipv4
Ari Sundholm (2):
grep: fix -x -v with certain pattern orders
grep: short-circuit -v to bail out on first match
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (5):
checkstack.pl: fix arch autodetection
checkstack: pull from upstream
checkstack.pl: tweak bfin re
ip link: Fix vlan proto, closes 8261 and 11638
ipaddress: remove unused variable no_link
Brian Foley (4):
awk: Guard pointer chasing when parsing ternary expressions.
awk: Syntax error if delete isn't given an arg.
awk: Fix overly permissive func arg list parsing
sed: Fix backslash parsing for 'w' command arg
Chen Qi:
dc.tests: fix two test case to also depend on DC_BIG
Danijel Tasov:
telnet: provide feedback after successful connect
Denys Vlasenko:
make_single_applets.sh: fix for BSS trick
examples/var_service: use "exec sleep 5" instead of "{ sleep 5; exit; }"
dhcp service example: cater for servers not giving subnet and/or router
service examples: do not respawn supplicant too often
service examples: if iface do not exist, retry upping it
service examples: ifplugd -M to prevents frequent respawning
libarchive: treat one "FIXME: avoid seek"
libbb: move netlink socket binding to the utility function
libbb: find_mount_point() too eager to stat mounted devices
lineedit: fix SEGV in fdisk, hexedit, ed, closes 11661
ash,hush: implement optional "BASE#nnnn" numeric literals
ash,hush: move all definitions of strto_arith_t() together
ash,hush: add tests for backslashes in export VAR=VAL
ash,hush: bash compat for ulimit: -w => -x, -p => -u
ash,hush: bash compat for ulimit: reorder to match
ash,hush: fix ulimit to be more bash-compat, closes 11791
ash,hush: show 'c' in $- if run in "sh -c CMD"
ash,hush: ulimit: add -i RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, -q RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE
ash: add "wait -n" bashism
ash: allocate line editing structure only if needed
hush: add "wait -n" bashism
hush: allocate line edit buffer only for interactive shell
hush: fix "export PS1=xyz" and "local PS1=xyz" messing up prompt
hush: fix "wait -n" to wait for a _job_, not a _process_
hush: fix quoted "${notexist-}" expansion to not disappear
hush: handle LINENO the same way as RANDOM: variable is "ephemeral"
hush: implement $-, set default PATH if it is not set on startup
hush: remove code to track PS1/2 values dynamically - it's too much work
hush: remove test for "echo ${-}" errorring out - now it works
hush: set default PS1/2 only if we are interactive
hush: show 's' in $-
adduser: fix a bug of getpwnam() overwriting shell name, closes 8586
awk: fix testsuite
bc: disallow invalid syntax like "{ print 1 print 2 }"
bc: fix "...; return}" to work, disallow "return ()"
bc: implement pass-by-reference code from upstream
bc: in xc_read_line(), check ^C on NUL input bytes too
bc: make error line number also size_t, like everything else
bc: remove "empty expression" check/message, parsing fails in these cases anyway
bc: remove extra div/0 test, remove test for string function parameter
bc: shorten "limits" output
bc: speed up string printing, fix print ""
bc: support ibase up to 36 (GNU compat)
bc: support void functions (GNU compat)
bc: upstream fixes
dc: fix returning of string
dc: fix '?'
dc: make 4 % 0 emit error messgaes and set result to 0
brctl: convert all commands to work via /sys
brctl: simplify str_to_jiffies()
bunzip2: the correct condition is "n < groupCount", not "n

New in BusyBox 1.30.1 (Feb 18, 2019)

New in BusyBox 1.30.0 (Jan 4, 2019)

Andre Goddard Rosa:
smemcap: keep outputting by ignoring transient processes
Baruch Siach:
install.sh: don't clobber dangling symlinks
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer:
brctl: use a single buffer for brname and ifname
printf: fix printing +-prefixed numbers
Brandon Maier:
ifupdown: support "source-directory" stanza
Brandon P. Enochs:
ntpd: add support for MD5/SHA1 message authentication
Chen Qi:
testsuite: check CONFIG_DESKTOP before using 'od -t'
Chen Yu:
remove_file: don't call rmdir if remove_file return failure
Christoph Schulz:
ash: reset tokpushback before prompting while parsing heredoc
Denys Vlasenko:
libbb: @ in "x3@" is not a valid hex digit
libbb: do not misinterpret 0x10-0x19 chars in "xNNN" too
libbb: fix potential NULL pointer use
libbb: fix use-after-free in copy_file
libbb: in xmalloc_fgets(), use size_t for bb_get_chunk_from_file()
tls: add support for ECDHE-ECDSA-AES-128-CBC-SHA and x25519 curve
tls: add support for TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 cipher
tls: add support for TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 cipher
tls: add support for 8 more cipher ids - all tested to work
tls: in AES-CBC code, do not set key for every record - do it once
tls: introduce FEATURE_TLS_SHA1 to make SHA1 code optional
tls: simplify hmac_begin(), speed up prf_hmac_sha256()
extend fractional duration support to "top -d N.N" and "timeout"
Revert "libbb: remove unnecessary variable in xmalloc_fgets"
ash: allow shell scripts to be embedded in the binary
ash: eval: Restore input files in evalcommand
ash: eval: Variable assignments on functions are no longer persistent
ash: exec: Return 126 on most errors in shellexec
ash: expand: Do not quote backslashes in unquoted parameter expansion
ash: expand: Fix ghost fields with unquoted $@/$*
ash: parser: Fix parsing of ${}
ash: var: Set IFS to fixed value at start time
ash,hush: fold shell_builtin_read() way-too-many params into a struct param
ash,hush: properly handle ${v//pattern/repl} if pattern starts with /
hush: expand_vars_to_list() should not assume it starts new word
hush: faster/smaller code to check for presense of multiple chars in string
hush: fix another case where empty "for" wasn't setting exitcode to 0
hush: fix/explain corner cases of redirection colliding with script fd
hush: fix handling of heredocs not enclosed in groups where they are "declared"
hush: fix handling of heredocs starting with empty lines
hush: fix handling of '' in ${var:+ARG}
hush: fix heredoc handling in the "cmd

New in BusyBox 1.29.3 (Sep 10, 2018)

New in BusyBox 1.29.2 (Jul 31, 2018)

New in BusyBox 1.29.1 (Jul 16, 2018)

New in BusyBox 1.28.4 (May 23, 2018)

New in BusyBox 1.28.1 (Feb 19, 2018)

Avi Fishman:
i2cset: fix 'i' & 's' modes (3 extra bytes were sent)
Avi Halachmi:
lineedit: improve multiline PS1 - redraw using last PS1 line. Closes 10381
Bartosz Golaszewski:
i2c-tools: remove unneeded include
i2c-tools: don't include linux/i2c-dev.h
Denys Vlasenko:
stop using atexit in non-debug build: saves ~260 bytes in bss with musl
use %m printf specifier where appropriate
standalone shell / prefer_applets: fix "exe" in comm fields
change BB_EXTRA_VERSION: now it needs to contain any spaces/parenthesis
regularize format of source file headers, no code changes
move get_unaligned_le32() macros to platform.h
sparc: needs -fPIC
config: deindent all help texts
config: FEDORA_COMPAT option (so far only tweaks uname)
config: merge "Busybox Settings" and "Busybox Library Tuning" into one menu
config: more tweaking of help texts
config: reorder items in "Busybox Settings", improve help
config: trim/improve item names and help texts
build system: FEATURE_LIBBUSYBOX_STATIC - try to pull libc/libm into libbusybox
build system: fix "allnoconfig" to clear all options. Closes 10296
build system: remove unused CONFIG_FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
libarchive: do not extract unsafe symlinks unless $EXTRACT_UNSAFE_SYMLINKS=1
libarchive: FEATURE_LZMA_FAST should be visible if FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA
libbb: avoid malloc/free in bb_unsetenv()
libbb: do not die if setgid/setuid(real_id) on startup fails
libbb/dump: allow skipping over stdin too
libbb/dump: fix a few broken commits and shrink code
libbb: hide getnetbyaddr() inside "#if ENABLE_FEATURE_ETC_NETWORKS" block
libbb: make trim() return pointer to terminating NUL
libbb: move capability names code to libbb
libbb: new function bb_getgroups() - allocating wrapper around getgroups()
libbb: safe_write should not return EINTR
libbb: use _exit, not exit, in bb_daemonize_or_rexec()
libbb: rearrange NOFORK/NOEXEC code, logic is not changed
libbb: simplify NOFORK/NOEXEC defines, move set_task_comm to libbb
lineedit: do not tab-complete any strings which have control characters
lineedit: get terminal width before printing prompt
lineedit: make read_line_input() not take timeout param
main: fix the case where user has "halt" as login shell. Closes 9986
networking/interface.c: remove superfluous "& 0377"
noexec: consolidate code
noexec: do GETOPT_RESET() before entering APPLET_main()
noexec: set comm field for noexecs
nofork: fix a bug uncovered by hush testsuite (forgotten fflush)
adjtimex,blkdiscard,free: make it NOFORK
clear,nproc,tty,uname,arch,unlink,which: make them NOFORK
pwdx,pivot_root,kill[all5],ttysize,realpath,readlink: make them NOFORK
add/remove-shell,add/deluser,add/delgroup: make them NOEXEC
make 17 state-changing execing applets (ex: "nice PROG ARGS") NOEXEC
blkid: make it NOEXEC, make FEATURE_BLKID_TYPE=y default
blockdev,fsfreeze,fstrim,mountpoint: make them NOEXEC
brctl,chattr,lsattr,tune2fs: make them NOEXEC
chvt,deallocvt,dumpkmap,fgconsole,loadkmap: make them NOEXEC
cryptpw,mkpasswd: make them NOEXEC
df,dnsdomainname,hostname,dumpleases,expr,fatattr: make them NOEXEC
freeramdisk,free,stat,getopt,ifenslave,ipcalc,rdev,ipcrm,ipcs: make them NOEXEC
ip,ip*: make them NOEXEC
kbd_more: make it NOEXEC, remove redundant opt clearing
loadfont,setfont,losetup,lspci,lsscsi,lsusb: make them NOEXEC
makedevs,mesg,mktemp,nameif: make ithem NOEXEC
modutils: make them NOEXEC except depmod
nbd-client: make it NOEXEC, stop using argc
date,resize,partprobe,ps,pstree,raidautorun,runlevel,setconsole: make them NOEXEC
setkeycodes: make it NOEXEC, better --help text
setlogcons: make it NOEXEC, better --help text
setserial,stty,sv,svc,sysctl,tunctl,umount: make them NOEXEC
users,w,who,uptime,renice,vconfig: make them NOEXEC
adjtimex: zero-fill whole structure, to be on the safe side
arch: new applet (same as uname -m). ~30 bytes
ash: align --login code with dash
ash: alloc slightly smaller buffer in cvtnum(); faster unsetvar()
ash: allow "trap NUM [SIG]..." syntax
ash: implement BASH_XTRACEFD bashism
ash: do not set a signal to SIG_DFL if it already is
ash: fix display of ">&-" redirect in job strings
ash: fix matching of unicode greek letter rho (cf 81) and similar cases
ash: note which versions of glibc exhibit "rho bug"
ash: fix nofork bug where environment is not properly passed to a command
ash: fix redir_leak.tests if STANDALONE=y
ash: fix "unset OPTIND" throwing an error message
ash: force inlining of a trivial function
ash: if !ENABLE_ASH_EXPAND_PRMT, disable PSSYNTAX code
ash: improve set -x to quote strings as necessary
ash: INT_OFF/INT_ON around run_nofork_applet()
ash: less hackish implementation of evaltreenr()
ash: make tryexec(cmd) parameter const char
ash: more general format ${var:EXPR:EXPR}
ash: more s/error/perror/ for better error reporting
ash: one "current line = 1" might be missing, fix that
ash: [PARSER] Add FAKEEOFMARK for expandstr
ash: [PARSER] Catch variable length expansions on non-existant specials
ash: [PARSER] Removed noexpand/length check on eofmark
ash: [REDIR] Fix popredir on abnormal exit from built-in
ash: [REDIR] Replace GPL noclobberopen code with the FreeBSD version
ash: remove REDIR_SAVEFD2
ash: retain envvars with bad names in initial environment. Closes 10231
ash: revert previous implementation of "A=1 A=2 B=$A cmd" code
ash: [SHELL] Optimize dash -c "command" to avoid a fork
ash: significant overhaul of redirect saving logic
ash: stage backported LINENO support as a separate patch
ash: survive failures in $PS1 expansion. Closes 10371
ash: sync up with dash with respect to redirection escaping
ash: unset OPTARG if getopts exits 1, support OPTERR=0 behavior
ash: use mempcpy() where appropriate
ash: [VAR] Add localvars nesting
ash: [VAR] Do not poplocalvars prematurely on regular utilities
ash: [VAR] Fix loss of variables when hash collides
ash: [VAR] Fix poplocalvar leak
ash: [VAR] Fix poplocalvar on abnormal exit from function
ash: [VAR] Move unsetvar functionality into setvareq
ash: [VAR] Replace cmdenviron with localvars
ash,hush: ">&10" redirects to script/tty fds should not work
hush: add a test which fails due to uclibc bug in getopt()
hush: add support for "set -e"
hush: add TODO for "set -e"
hush: convert exp/ro/local parameters to bitfields in one flag param
hush: correctly handle quoting in "case" even if !BASH_PATTERN_SUBST
hush: do not accept "if() { echo; }" function def
hush: do not assign to readonly VAR in "VAR=VAL CMD" syntax too
hush: explain why wait5.tests is failing
hush: fix a case when redirect to a closed fd #1 is not restoring (closing) it
hush: fix and_or_and_backgrounding.tests failure
hush: fix "cmd1 && cmd2 &" handling on NOMMU
hush: fix comment parsing in `cmd`, closes 10421
hush: fix ${##}, ${#?}, ${#!} handling
hush: fix handling of empty heredoc EOF marker
hush: fix quoted_punct.tests failure
hush: fix readonly2.tests failure
hush: fix redirect code (was using uninitialized variables)
hush: fix "(sleep 1; exit 3) & sleep 2; echo $?; wait $!; echo $?"
hush: fix "true | func_with_return" not allowing return
hush: fix two redirection testcase failures
hush: forgot to emit error on (failing) second "readonly VAR=VAL"
hush: functions have priority over builtins (!)
hush: implement "getopts" builtin
hush: implement "readonly" builtin
hush: implement "times" builtin
hush: implement -d DELIM option for "read"
hush: make SIGINT handling visually less confusing
hush: make "wait %1" work even if the job is dead
hush: massage redirect code to be slightly more like ash
hush: print error messages on "shift -1"
hush: remove redundant "G_flag_return_in_progress = -1"
hush: remove superfluous comparison
hush: rename a few functions
hush: simplify insert_job_into_table() a bit
hush: support ${VAR:N:-M}
hush: treat ${#?} as "length of $?"
hush: use mempcpy where useful
hush: if STANDALONE, close interactive fd for NOEXECed children
msh: delete this applet
shell: improve comments on signal handling
shell: add OPTARG poisoning to getopt_optarg.tests
shell: and_or_and_backgrounding.tests is no longer "UNFIXED BUG"
shell: make standalone shell tab-complete "busybox"
shell: more efficient check for EOL in read
shell: optional support for read -t N.NNN, closes 10101
awk: stop on first non-option, closes 9861
basename: do not use argc
beep: disallow FEATURE_BEEP_FREQ = 0 in configuration
blkdiscard: provide our own BLK[SEC]DISCARD if necessary
bunzip2: fix runCnt overflow from bug 10431
bzcat: compile bunzip2_main() if BZCAT
bzcat,zcat: simplify code if gunzip/bunzip2 is not selected
cat: fix "cat -An" ignoring -n; make numbering go througn all files
chat: do not die when HANGUP param is missing. Closes 10016
chattr: fix option parsing to accept more cryptic option combos
chown: fix a mistake in opt_complementary change
crond: allow $SHELL and starting user's shell override DEFAULT_SHELL. Closes 6458
crond: do not assume setenv() does not leak
crond: support @daily etc
date: maybe_set_utc only once
dd: fix status=none. Closes 10066
ed: fix --help and reorder functions, no code changes
ed: fix "n" removal in command line; make "w" set "dirty = 0"
free: no longer include common_bufsiz.h
getopt32: factor out code to treat all args as options
getopt32: move support for "always treat first arg as option" to users (tar/ar)
getopt32: remove applet_long_options
getopt32: remove opt_complementary
hexedit: new applet
httpd: fix handling of range requests
httpd: skip "Status: " from CGI, including space. Closes 10291
inetd: fix for running by non-root
inetd,mount: do not die if uclibc without RPC is detected
init: reduce the window when init can lose reboot/poweroff signals
ipcalc: trim help text
ipcs: tweak output orer to match util-linux 2.28
kbd_mode: show "off" mode too
kbd_mode: try harder to find console device if -C TTY is not given
klibc-utils: add ipconfig.c work-in-progress
klibc-utils: new applets: resume, nuke, minips
less,microcom,lineedit: use common routine to set raw termios
makedevs: allow much longer filenames
microcom: require exactly one non-option
netcat: net applet (alias to nc)
ntpd: do run the script at least once in 11 minutes
ntpd: improve treatment of DNS resolution failures
ntpd: mention in help text that -d can be repeated
ntpd: perform DNS resolution out of send/receive loop. Closes 10466
ntpd: skip over setting next DNS resolution attempt if it is not needed
pgrep: fix "pgrep -v -P1"; also allow matching of comm. Closes 10086
ping: better config help text for FEATURE_FANCY_PING
ping: fix help text to show what parameter -p takes
pmap: tweak help text, show usage if no params are given
ps: implement -o sid
ps: improve TIME column for large times: showing "14453:50" is not good
ps: stop using AT_CLKTCK, there are more standard ways
readprofile: do not close/free just before exiting
rpm2cpio: handle LZMA compressed rpms. closes 10166
rpm2cpio: use rpm_gettags
rpm: prepare rpm_gettags for reuse in rpm2cpio
rpm,rpm2cpio: do not compile not-configured parts of rpm.c
rpm,rpm2cpio: INIT_G() was missing (it is a nop here so far)
rpm,rpm2cpio: put both sources into one file, no code changes
run-init: new applet
script: -f means "flush", not "fsync"
script: make -t[FILE] compatible with util-linux
script: make -t independent of scriptreplay
sed: in '/regexp/cmd1;//cmd2', cmd2 should use the same regexp as cmd1
sendmail allow "=" symbol in recipient, closes 10241
sendmail: fix segfault if "To: email1,email2" is used
setconsole: much better help text
setconsole: since SUSE version has no -r, nuke our --reset longopt
setfattr: new applet
setpriv: accept any case in capability names
setpriv: code shrink, and grouping capability code together
setpriv: dump user and group info
setpriv: factor out capability name printing
setpriv: placate "declaration of 'index' shadows a global declaration" warning
setpriv: remove dependency on libcap headers
shuf: fix random line selection. Closes 9971
stty: add cmspar, flusho, extproc attributes
stty: fix bb_common_bufsiz1 use in NOEXEC
svc: fix a case where with more than one option, getopt() state is not reset
svc: remove superfluout INIT_G()
swapon: do not use FEATURE_MOUNT_LABEL, have your own FEATURE_SWAPONOFF_LABEL
sysctl: fix file parsing, do not require -w for VAR=VAL
sysctl: recognize ";comment" and "#comment" lines
syslogd,logger: code shrink for musl
tar: postpone creation of symlinks with "suspicious" targets. Closes 8411
telnet: "-a" + "-l USER" should respect USER
test: fix 4-argument case
time: fix build for toolchains without O_CLOEXEC
tls: fix build problem on non-static i386
tls: fix pstm asm constraint problem
tls: remove last int16 local variables in pstm code
tls: use capped SNI len everywhere
top: switch to malloced "globals"
ttysize: if stdin is not tty, try stdout, then stderr
ubi_tools: a bit smaller applet resolution code
ubi_tools: ubiupdatevol supports "-" input and actually respects -s SIZE
ubiupdatevol: fix bug with -sSIZE: was ignoring IMAGE_FILE
udhcpc[6]: downgrade "adapter index N" messages to log2 level
udhcpc[6]: fix messages referring to select() while we use poll()
udhcpc[6]: initialize entire sockaddr_ll
udhcpc[6]: make log2 messages for chaddr field indented like the rest
udhcpc[6]: on log level 1, three messages about raw socket is overkill
udhcpc: downgrade "MAC X:X:X:X:X:X" message to log2 level
udhcpc: paranoia when using kernel UDP mode for sending renew: server ID may be bogus
unlzma: fix SEGV, closes 10436
unshare: -r implies -U, not -u
unshare: -r should map root to user, not the other way around
unxz: get_le32 macro is obviously wrong
unzip: implement -j, closes 9126
unzip: robustify overwrite checks
unzip: sanitize filename length: malloc(1234mb) is not funny
unzip: support symlinks. Closes 10031
uuencode: allow space instead of "`" as padding char. Closes 10046
volume_id: enable minix detection
watchdog: do not use argc, other cleanups
xargs: optional support for -P NUM. Closes 9511
xxd: allow "-" as file name meaning stdin
zcip: fix slow environment leak
Eugene Rudoy (3):
iproute/iprule: support toolchains without RTA_TABLE routing attribute
unzip: fix content listing and filtering when -j is used
unzip: add missing -j to trivial usage
James Clarke (6):
networking: Fall back on IPPROTO_RAW when SOL_RAW is not defined
blkdiscard: Only build on Linux
xfuncs: Handle missing non-POSIX termios constants
df: Use statvfs instead of non-standard statfs
udp_io, traceroute: Standardise IPv6 PKTINFO handling to be portable
grep: skip grepping symlinks to directories
Johannes Schindelin (7):
ash: protect WIFSTOPPED use with #if JOBS
copyfd: guard use of munmap() with #if (windows builds need this)
ash: remove no-longer-used variable
ash: implement -d DELIM option for read
ash: report reason when a script file could not be opened
ash: when cd fails, say why
xargs: support -a FILE
Kang-Che Sung (3):
cat: allow compiling out -n and -b
make_single_applets: fix ": $((fail++))" expansion error
ps: allow ps config options if minips is enabled
Markus Gothe:
lsscsi: fix xchdir("..") from symlink in /sys/bus/scsi/devices
Matt Spinler:
watchdog: stop watchdog first on startup
Natanael Copa:
unzip: fix regression on big-endian machines
Patrick Steinhardt (8):
setpriv: do not process remaining args
setpriv: prepare option parsing logic for additional opts
setpriv: dump no-new-privs info
setpriv: dump inheritable capability set
setpriv: dump capability bounding set
setpriv: dump ambient capabilities
setpriv: allow modifying inheritable caps
setpriv: allow modifying ambient capabilities
Peter Korsgaard:
dpkg: fix CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP handling
Ron Yorston (9):
printf: fix format string sanity check
od_bloaty: fix floating point output
ash: support platforms that don't have '%m' printf specifier
libbb: remove vdprintf
ps: fix build failure if FEATURE_PS_TIME is disabled
libarchive: fix build failure on NOMMU systems
tar: fix handling of first argument without '-'
kill: add '--' option to separate options from arguments
env: -u option fails due to typo
Thomas Petazzoni:
Makefile: include per-arch Makefile before Makefile.flags
Timo Teräs:
add-remove-shell: fix crash when shell is already added
Uwe Geuder:
bootchartd: prevent premature stop by device mapper
Xabier Oneca:
chcon: show '--reference' in help text only if LONG_OPTS=y

New in BusyBox 1.28.0 (Jan 2, 2018)

Avi Fishman:
i2cset: fix 'i' & 's' modes (3 extra bytes were sent)
Avi Halachmi:
lineedit: improve multiline PS1 - redraw using last PS1 line. Closes 10381
Bartosz Golaszewski:
i2c-tools: remove unneeded include
i2c-tools: don't include linux/i2c-dev.h
Denys Vlasenko:
stop using atexit in non-debug build: saves ~260 bytes in bss with musl
use %m printf specifier where appropriate
standalone shell / prefer_applets: fix "exe" in comm fields
change BB_EXTRA_VERSION: now it needs to contain any spaces/parenthesis
regularize format of source file headers, no code changes
move get_unaligned_le32() macros to platform.h
sparc: needs -fPIC
config: deindent all help texts
config: FEDORA_COMPAT option (so far only tweaks uname)
config: merge "Busybox Settings" and "Busybox Library Tuning" into one menu
config: more tweaking of help texts
config: reorder items in "Busybox Settings", improve help
config: trim/improve item names and help texts
build system: FEATURE_LIBBUSYBOX_STATIC - try to pull libc/libm into libbusybox
build system: fix "allnoconfig" to clear all options. Closes 10296
build system: remove unused CONFIG_FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
libarchive: do not extract unsafe symlinks unless $EXTRACT_UNSAFE_SYMLINKS=1
libarchive: FEATURE_LZMA_FAST should be visible if FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA
libbb: avoid malloc/free in bb_unsetenv()
libbb: do not die if setgid/setuid(real_id) on startup fails
libbb/dump: allow skipping over stdin too
libbb/dump: fix a few broken commits and shrink code
libbb: hide getnetbyaddr() inside "#if ENABLE_FEATURE_ETC_NETWORKS" block
libbb: make trim() return pointer to terminating NUL
libbb: move capability names code to libbb
libbb: new function bb_getgroups() - allocating wrapper around getgroups()
libbb: safe_write should not return EINTR
libbb: use _exit, not exit, in bb_daemonize_or_rexec()
libbb: rearrange NOFORK/NOEXEC code, logic is not changed
libbb: simplify NOFORK/NOEXEC defines, move set_task_comm to libbb
lineedit: do not tab-complete any strings which have control characters
lineedit: get terminal width before printing prompt
lineedit: make read_line_input() not take timeout param
main: fix the case where user has "halt" as login shell. Closes 9986
networking/interface.c: remove superfluous "& 0377"
noexec: consolidate code
noexec: do GETOPT_RESET() before entering APPLET_main()
noexec: set comm field for noexecs
nofork: fix a bug uncovered by hush testsuite (forgotten fflush)
adjtimex,blkdiscard,free: make it NOFORK
clear,nproc,tty,uname,arch,unlink,which: make them NOFORK
pwdx,pivot_root,kill[all5],ttysize,realpath,readlink: make them NOFORK
add/remove-shell,add/deluser,add/delgroup: make them NOEXEC
make 17 state-changing execing applets (ex: "nice PROG ARGS") NOEXEC
blkid: make it NOEXEC, make FEATURE_BLKID_TYPE=y default
blockdev,fsfreeze,fstrim,mountpoint: make them NOEXEC
brctl,chattr,lsattr,tune2fs: make them NOEXEC
chvt,deallocvt,dumpkmap,fgconsole,loadkmap: make them NOEXEC
cryptpw,mkpasswd: make them NOEXEC
df,dnsdomainname,hostname,dumpleases,expr,fatattr: make them NOEXEC
freeramdisk,free,stat,getopt,ifenslave,ipcalc,rdev,ipcrm,ipcs: make them NOEXEC
ip,ip*: make them NOEXEC
kbd_more: make it NOEXEC, remove redundant opt clearing
loadfont,setfont,losetup,lspci,lsscsi,lsusb: make them NOEXEC
makedevs,mesg,mktemp,nameif: make ithem NOEXEC
modutils: make them NOEXEC except depmod
nbd-client: make it NOEXEC, stop using argc
date,resize,partprobe,ps,pstree,raidautorun,runlevel,setconsole: make them NOEXEC
setkeycodes: make it NOEXEC, better --help text
setlogcons: make it NOEXEC, better --help text
setserial,stty,sv,svc,sysctl,tunctl,umount: make them NOEXEC
users,w,who,uptime,renice,vconfig: make them NOEXEC
adjtimex: zero-fill whole structure, to be on the safe side
arch: new applet (same as uname -m). ~30 bytes
ash: align --login code with dash
ash: alloc slightly smaller buffer in cvtnum(); faster unsetvar()
ash: allow "trap NUM [SIG]..." syntax
ash: implement BASH_XTRACEFD bashism
ash: do not set a signal to SIG_DFL if it already is
ash: fix display of ">&-" redirect in job strings
ash: fix matching of unicode greek letter rho (cf 81) and similar cases
ash: note which versions of glibc exhibit "rho bug"
ash: fix nofork bug where environment is not properly passed to a command
ash: fix redir_leak.tests if STANDALONE=y
ash: fix "unset OPTIND" throwing an error message
ash: force inlining of a trivial function
ash: if !ENABLE_ASH_EXPAND_PRMT, disable PSSYNTAX code
ash: improve set -x to quote strings as necessary
ash: INT_OFF/INT_ON around run_nofork_applet()
ash: less hackish implementation of evaltreenr()
ash: make tryexec(cmd) parameter const char
ash: more general format ${var:EXPR:EXPR}
ash: more s/error/perror/ for better error reporting
ash: one "current line = 1" might be missing, fix that
ash: [PARSER] Add FAKEEOFMARK for expandstr
ash: [PARSER] Catch variable length expansions on non-existant specials
ash: [PARSER] Removed noexpand/length check on eofmark
ash: [REDIR] Fix popredir on abnormal exit from built-in
ash: [REDIR] Replace GPL noclobberopen code with the FreeBSD version
ash: remove REDIR_SAVEFD2
ash: retain envvars with bad names in initial environment. Closes 10231
ash: revert previous implementation of "A=1 A=2 B=$A cmd" code
ash: [SHELL] Optimize dash -c "command" to avoid a fork
ash: significant overhaul of redirect saving logic
ash: stage backported LINENO support as a separate patch
ash: survive failures in $PS1 expansion. Closes 10371
ash: sync up with dash with respect to redirection escaping
ash: unset OPTARG if getopts exits 1, support OPTERR=0 behavior
ash: use mempcpy() where appropriate
ash: [VAR] Add localvars nesting
ash: [VAR] Do not poplocalvars prematurely on regular utilities
ash: [VAR] Fix loss of variables when hash collides
ash: [VAR] Fix poplocalvar leak
ash: [VAR] Fix poplocalvar on abnormal exit from function
ash: [VAR] Move unsetvar functionality into setvareq
ash: [VAR] Replace cmdenviron with localvars
ash,hush: ">&10" redirects to script/tty fds should not work
hush: add a test which fails due to uclibc bug in getopt()
hush: add support for "set -e"
hush: add TODO for "set -e"
hush: convert exp/ro/local parameters to bitfields in one flag param
hush: correctly handle quoting in "case" even if !BASH_PATTERN_SUBST
hush: do not accept "if() { echo; }" function def
hush: do not assign to readonly VAR in "VAR=VAL CMD" syntax too
hush: explain why wait5.tests is failing
hush: fix a case when redirect to a closed fd #1 is not restoring (closing) it
hush: fix and_or_and_backgrounding.tests failure
hush: fix "cmd1 && cmd2 &" handling on NOMMU
hush: fix comment parsing in `cmd`, closes 10421
hush: fix ${##}, ${#?}, ${#!} handling
hush: fix handling of empty heredoc EOF marker
hush: fix quoted_punct.tests failure
hush: fix readonly2.tests failure
hush: fix redirect code (was using uninitialized variables)
hush: fix "(sleep 1; exit 3) & sleep 2; echo $?; wait $!; echo $?"
hush: fix "true | func_with_return" not allowing return
hush: fix two redirection testcase failures
hush: forgot to emit error on (failing) second "readonly VAR=VAL"
hush: functions have priority over builtins (!)
hush: implement "getopts" builtin
hush: implement "readonly" builtin
hush: implement "times" builtin
hush: implement -d DELIM option for "read"
hush: make SIGINT handling visually less confusing
hush: make "wait %1" work even if the job is dead
hush: massage redirect code to be slightly more like ash
hush: print error messages on "shift -1"
hush: remove redundant "G_flag_return_in_progress = -1"
hush: remove superfluous comparison
hush: rename a few functions
hush: simplify insert_job_into_table() a bit
hush: support ${VAR:N:-M}
hush: treat ${#?} as "length of $?"
hush: use mempcpy where useful
hush: if STANDALONE, close interactive fd for NOEXECed children
msh: delete this applet
shell: improve comments on signal handling
shell: add OPTARG poisoning to getopt_optarg.tests
shell: and_or_and_backgrounding.tests is no longer "UNFIXED BUG"
shell: make standalone shell tab-complete "busybox"
shell: more efficient check for EOL in read
shell: optional support for read -t N.NNN, closes 10101
awk: stop on first non-option, closes 9861
basename: do not use argc
beep: disallow FEATURE_BEEP_FREQ = 0 in configuration
blkdiscard: provide our own BLK[SEC]DISCARD if necessary
bunzip2: fix runCnt overflow from bug 10431
bzcat: compile bunzip2_main() if BZCAT
bzcat,zcat: simplify code if gunzip/bunzip2 is not selected
cat: fix "cat -An" ignoring -n; make numbering go througn all files
chat: do not die when HANGUP param is missing. Closes 10016
chattr: fix option parsing to accept more cryptic option combos
chown: fix a mistake in opt_complementary change
crond: allow $SHELL and starting user's shell override DEFAULT_SHELL. Closes 6458
crond: do not assume setenv() does not leak
crond: support @daily etc
date: maybe_set_utc only once
dd: fix status=none. Closes 10066
ed: fix --help and reorder functions, no code changes
ed: fix "n" removal in command line; make "w" set "dirty = 0"
free: no longer include common_bufsiz.h
getopt32: factor out code to treat all args as options
getopt32: move support for "always treat first arg as option" to users (tar/ar)
getopt32: remove applet_long_options
getopt32: remove opt_complementary
hexedit: new applet
httpd: fix handling of range requests
httpd: skip "Status: " from CGI, including space. Closes 10291
inetd: fix for running by non-root
inetd,mount: do not die if uclibc without RPC is detected
init: reduce the window when init can lose reboot/poweroff signals
ipcalc: trim help text
ipcs: tweak output orer to match util-linux 2.28
kbd_mode: show "off" mode too
kbd_mode: try harder to find console device if -C TTY is not given
klibc-utils: add ipconfig.c work-in-progress
klibc-utils: new applets: resume, nuke, minips
less,microcom,lineedit: use common routine to set raw termios
makedevs: allow much longer filenames
microcom: require exactly one non-option
netcat: net applet (alias to nc)
ntpd: do run the script at least once in 11 minutes
ntpd: improve treatment of DNS resolution failures
ntpd: mention in help text that -d can be repeated
ntpd: perform DNS resolution out of send/receive loop. Closes 10466
ntpd: skip over setting next DNS resolution attempt if it is not needed
pgrep: fix "pgrep -v -P1"; also allow matching of comm. Closes 10086
ping: better config help text for FEATURE_FANCY_PING
ping: fix help text to show what parameter -p takes
pmap: tweak help text, show usage if no params are given
ps: implement -o sid
ps: improve TIME column for large times: showing "14453:50" is not good
ps: stop using AT_CLKTCK, there are more standard ways
readprofile: do not close/free just before exiting
rpm2cpio: handle LZMA compressed rpms. closes 10166
rpm2cpio: use rpm_gettags
rpm: prepare rpm_gettags for reuse in rpm2cpio
rpm,rpm2cpio: do not compile not-configured parts of rpm.c
rpm,rpm2cpio: INIT_G() was missing (it is a nop here so far)
rpm,rpm2cpio: put both sources into one file, no code changes
run-init: new applet
script: -f means "flush", not "fsync"
script: make -t[FILE] compatible with util-linux
script: make -t independent of scriptreplay
sed: in '/regexp/cmd1;//cmd2', cmd2 should use the same regexp as cmd1
sendmail allow "=" symbol in recipient, closes 10241
sendmail: fix segfault if "To: email1,email2" is used
setconsole: much better help text
setconsole: since SUSE version has no -r, nuke our --reset longopt
setfattr: new applet
setpriv: accept any case in capability names
setpriv: code shrink, and grouping capability code together
setpriv: dump user and group info
setpriv: factor out capability name printing
setpriv: placate "declaration of 'index' shadows a global declaration" warning
setpriv: remove dependency on libcap headers
shuf: fix random line selection. Closes 9971
stty: add cmspar, flusho, extproc attributes
stty: fix bb_common_bufsiz1 use in NOEXEC
svc: fix a case where with more than one option, getopt() state is not reset
svc: remove superfluout INIT_G()
swapon: do not use FEATURE_MOUNT_LABEL, have your own FEATURE_SWAPONOFF_LABEL
sysctl: fix file parsing, do not require -w for VAR=VAL
sysctl: recognize ";comment" and "#comment" lines
syslogd,logger: code shrink for musl
tar: postpone creation of symlinks with "suspicious" targets. Closes 8411
telnet: "-a" + "-l USER" should respect USER
test: fix 4-argument case
time: fix build for toolchains without O_CLOEXEC
tls: fix build problem on non-static i386
tls: fix pstm asm constraint problem
tls: remove last int16 local variables in pstm code
tls: use capped SNI len everywhere
top: switch to malloced "globals"
ttysize: if stdin is not tty, try stdout, then stderr
ubi_tools: a bit smaller applet resolution code
ubi_tools: ubiupdatevol supports "-" input and actually respects -s SIZE
ubiupdatevol: fix bug with -sSIZE: was ignoring IMAGE_FILE
udhcpc[6]: downgrade "adapter index N" messages to log2 level
udhcpc[6]: fix messages referring to select() while we use poll()
udhcpc[6]: initialize entire sockaddr_ll
udhcpc[6]: make log2 messages for chaddr field indented like the rest
udhcpc[6]: on log level 1, three messages about raw socket is overkill
udhcpc: downgrade "MAC X:X:X:X:X:X" message to log2 level
udhcpc: paranoia when using kernel UDP mode for sending renew: server ID may be bogus
unlzma: fix SEGV, closes 10436
unshare: -r implies -U, not -u
unshare: -r should map root to user, not the other way around
unxz: get_le32 macro is obviously wrong
unzip: implement -j, closes 9126
unzip: robustify overwrite checks
unzip: sanitize filename length: malloc(1234mb) is not funny
unzip: support symlinks. Closes 10031
uuencode: allow space instead of "`" as padding char. Closes 10046
volume_id: enable minix detection
watchdog: do not use argc, other cleanups
xargs: optional support for -P NUM. Closes 9511
xxd: allow "-" as file name meaning stdin
zcip: fix slow environment leak
Eugene Rudoy (3):
iproute/iprule: support toolchains without RTA_TABLE routing attribute
unzip: fix content listing and filtering when -j is used
unzip: add missing -j to trivial usage
James Clarke (6):
networking: Fall back on IPPROTO_RAW when SOL_RAW is not defined
blkdiscard: Only build on Linux
xfuncs: Handle missing non-POSIX termios constants
df: Use statvfs instead of non-standard statfs
udp_io, traceroute: Standardise IPv6 PKTINFO handling to be portable
grep: skip grepping symlinks to directories
Johannes Schindelin (7):
ash: protect WIFSTOPPED use with #if JOBS
copyfd: guard use of munmap() with #if (windows builds need this)
ash: remove no-longer-used variable
ash: implement -d DELIM option for read
ash: report reason when a script file could not be opened
ash: when cd fails, say why
xargs: support -a FILE
Kang-Che Sung (3):
cat: allow compiling out -n and -b
make_single_applets: fix ": $((fail++))" expansion error
ps: allow ps config options if minips is enabled
Markus Gothe:
lsscsi: fix xchdir("..") from symlink in /sys/bus/scsi/devices
Matt Spinler:
watchdog: stop watchdog first on startup
Natanael Copa:
unzip: fix regression on big-endian machines
Patrick Steinhardt (8):
setpriv: do not process remaining args
setpriv: prepare option parsing logic for additional opts
setpriv: dump no-new-privs info
setpriv: dump inheritable capability set
setpriv: dump capability bounding set
setpriv: dump ambient capabilities
setpriv: allow modifying inheritable caps
setpriv: allow modifying ambient capabilities
Peter Korsgaard:
dpkg: fix CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP handling
Ron Yorston (9):
printf: fix format string sanity check
od_bloaty: fix floating point output
ash: support platforms that don't have '%m' printf specifier
libbb: remove vdprintf
ps: fix build failure if FEATURE_PS_TIME is disabled
libarchive: fix build failure on NOMMU systems
tar: fix handling of first argument without '-'
kill: add '--' option to separate options from arguments
env: -u option fails due to typo
Thomas Petazzoni:
Makefile: include per-arch Makefile before Makefile.flags
Timo Teräs:
add-remove-shell: fix crash when shell is already added
Uwe Geuder:
bootchartd: prevent premature stop by device mapper
Xabier Oneca:
chcon: show '--reference' in help text only if LONG_OPTS=y

New in BusyBox 1.27.0 (Jul 7, 2017)

Andrei Gherzan:
switch_root: don't bail out when console doesn't exist
Andrey Mozzhuhin:
ftpd: new option -a ANON_USER to allow anonymous logins
André Draszik:
iproute: support for filtering by and printing of scope
Assaf Gordon:
setpriv: new applet
Ben Hutchings:
modprobe: read modules.builtin
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn:
appletlib: avoid warning on unused function ingroup
unzip: remove now-pointless lseek which returns current position
Denys Vlasenko:
fix "ifdef ENABLE_foo": should always be "#if ENABLE_foo"
fix "loginutils/Config.in:319 error: Overlong line"
make DPKG=y and DPKG_DEB=y by default
make FEATURE_USERNAME_COMPLETION=y by default
make INSMOD=y by default
make RMMOD=y by default
move FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH config option to two applets which use it
move FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS config option to two applets which use it
make_single_applets.sh: a tool to check single-applet builds
qemu_multiarch_testing: small improvements
archival: add option -k "keep" to gzip/bzip2/lzop, add -U "nokeep" to lzop
libbb: consolidate the code to set termios unbuffered mode
libbb: eliminate redundant variable in sha_crypt
libbb: fix "error: redefinition of 'is_tty_secure'"
libbb: make check_password() also return CHECKPASS_PW_HAS_EMPTY_PASSWORD
libbb: match_fstype() is unreadable in the extreme, fixing it
libbb: move isqrt from factor, use it in diff too
libbb: shrink dump.c
libbb: spawn_and_wait() fflushes before forking NOEXEC; child reinits logmode
libiproute: FACT_FUNCization
add/remove-shell: copy /etc/shells mode to new file
ash: 16-bit nprocs field is a pain for many CPUs
ash: add INT_OFF/ON around allocations
ash: commented-out possible fix for 7694
ash: error out if ASH_INTERNAL_GLOB is not selected on uClibc
ash: fix a bug in argv restoration after sourcing a file
ash: fix $HOME/.profile reading if !ASH_EXPAND_PRMT
ash: fix open fds leaking in redirects. Closes 9561
ash: fix 'trap - 65'
ash: implement "exec -a ARGV0 CMD ARGV1..."
ash: revert "make dot command search current directory first"
hush: conditionalize print_escaped() on EXPORT || TRAP
hush: correct exitcode for unterminated ')' - exitcode2.tests testcase
hush: fix a bug in argv restoration after sourcing a file
hush: fix 'defined but not used' warning
hush: fix kill builtin without jobs support
hush: global_args_malloced is used only if set builtin is enabled
hush: kill builtin and kill %jobspec support
hush: make echo builtin optional
hush: make export builtin optional
hush: make memleak builtin optional
hush: make read and trap builtins optional
hush: make set/unset builtins optional
hush: make umask builtin optional
hush: reinstate [[ builtin
hush: remove redundand test for ENABLE_HUSH_JOB
hush: reorder builtins (cd and pwd ought to be close, etc), no code changes
hush: support %%, %+ and % jobspec (meaning "current job")
ash,hush: fix SIGCHLD interrupting read builtin
ash,hush: move "config" blocks above their use in coditional includes
ash,hush: make hush test optional, rename ASH_BUILTIN_foo to ASH_foo
ash,hush: make it possible to select "sh" and "bash" aliases without selecting ash or hush
busybox: stop depending on FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH for applet list
catv: convert this bbox-specific applet into "cat -v"
cryptpw: support "rounds=NNNNNNN$" thing in salts
depmod: don't build it if MODPROBE_SMALL=y
diff: fix -N and nonexistent files. Closes 7454
factor: new applet
fallocate: new applet
fsfreeze: new applet
ftpd/ls: show directories first
grep: FEATURE_GREP_CONTEXT should be available for "fgrep only" too
httpd: defend against attempts to OOM us. Closes 9611
httpd: use "Content-Length", not "-length"
init: dont send "Sent SIGTERM to all" msg to syslog: we just TERMed it!
init: rename FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET to FEATURE_INIT_QUIET
iplink: implement "set promisc on|off". Closes 4682
ip: make ip aliases individually selectable
iproute: add "a" command as a synonym to "add"
iproute: support advmss option
link: new applet
ls: -1 should be ignored by -l (and options which imply -l)
ls: convert DISP_DIRNAME to a bool variable
ls: get rid of opt_flags[], handle -l1c through option_mask32
ls: handle -a and -A through option_mask32
ls: handle all sort options through option_mask32
ls: handle -d and -R through option_mask32
ls: handle -i through option_mask32
ls: handle -p and -F through option_mask32
ls: handle -s through option_mask32
ls: handle -x through option_mask32, remove default -C from --help
ls: LIST_ID_NAME/ID_NUMERIC/LOPT/LONG are the same, merge as LONG
ls: LIST_NLINKS/SIZE/DATE_TIME/SYMLINK are always the same, merge as LIST_LOPT
ls: make -Z output compatible with GNU coreutils 8.25
ls: more correct handling of -c, -u
ls: replace -e with --full-time, add --group-directories-first, delete -K
modprobe: do not descend into /etc/modprobe.d/DIR/. Closes 8686
modprobe-small: fix "modprobe non-existing-module" exitcode (should be 1)
modprobe_small: if only MODPROBE and DEPMOD are selected, no need to test for them
modprobe-small: make applets individually selectable
more: hardcode FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS=y in this applet; code shrink
mount: create loop devices with LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR flag
nc_bloaty: use poll() instead of select()
nc: use poll() instead of select()
nl: new applet; also implement cat -nb (similar functionality to nl)
nproc: new applet
ntpd: print result of hostname resolution
partprobe: new applet
paste: delimiter list use should restart for each new output line
pgrep: fix pgrep -flx "sleep 11" - saw "sleep 11" processes as "sleep 11 "
pgrep: implement -a
ps: avoid -o stat to contain spaces. Closes 9631
rdate: make it do something remotely sane, facing 32-bit time overflow
rdate: time(NULL) is shorter than time(&var)
runit: fix chpst -n -N -u USER
runsv: update to match version 2.1.2 of runit
sendmail: allow "+" symbol in recipient. Closes 9646
sha512: use larger constant table only if sha512 is in fact selected
shred: new applet
su: FEATURE_SU_BLANK_PW_NEEDS_SECURE_TTY
svlogd: support -ttt (dateTtime instead of date_time)
taskset: rewrite to be task size-agnostic
taskset: separate "current" and "new" strings
tcpudp: define SO_ORIGINAL_DST directly, not via include
time: inplement -f FMT
top: FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS shouldn't control reading of screen size
udhcpc6: fix problems found running against dnsmasq
udhcpc6: fix releasing
udhcpc6: move misplaced comment
udhcpc6: read_interface should save link-local ipv6 address
udhcpc6: add comments about option 39, no code changes
udhcpc6: add support for timezones
udhcpc6: make -O OPT work
udhcpc: do not accept --background on NOMMU (same as -b)
udhcpc: fix "udhcpc -x hostname:NAME" not working on nommu
udhcpc: make sure we do not overflow poll timeout
udhcp: do not clobber errno by signal handler
udhcp: use poll() instead of select()
unlzma: fix erroneous "while" instead of "if". Closes 4682
unzip: do not use CDF.extra_len, read local file header. Closes 9536
unzip: optional support for bzip2, lzma, xz
unzip: properly use CDF to find compressed files. Closes 9536
umount: revert "umount: make -d always active, add -D to suppress it"
vi: don't touch file with :x when modified_count == 0
vi: survive if stdin is nonblocking. closes 9851
vi,fsck: do not use build timestamp unconditionally. Closes 9626
tls: a tiny TLS1.2 code, wire it up for wget
ssl_client: TLStest applet
wget: add a big explanation what TLS code implements and what does not
wget: add support for -S --server-response
wget: fix for brain-damaged HTTP servers. Closes 9471
wget/tls: session_id of zero length is ok (arxiv.org responds with such)
w: new applet, alias to "who -H"
xxd: new applet
Explorer09:
modprobe-small: optimizations for single applet build
Felix Fietkau:
ash: improve / fix glob expansion
Glenn Matthews:
reset: before calling execvp(), reset needs to flush stdout
James Byrne:
sv: update to match version 2.1.2 of runit
Jody Bruchon:
uniq: add -i option to ignore case
Add help text for 'uniq -i'
Jörg Krause:
Fix dependency for IFUPDOWN_UDHCPC_CMD_OPTIONS
Kaarle Ritvanen:
libbb: GETOPT_RESET macro
login: move check_securetty to libbb
Kang-Che Sung:
Allow FAST_FUNC to be overridden at build time
build system: no longer prompt for PLATFORM_LINUX option
bunzip2: fix code bloat caused by zcat's seamless magic
Fix FEATURE_{GZIP,BZIP2}_DECOMPRESS link error
Allow 'gzip -d' and 'bzip2 -d' without gunzip or bunzip2
shell: clarify help text of CONFIG_{SH,BASH}_IS_* options
ash: explicitly group ash options
ash: fix "kill %1" not working if CONFIG_ASH is disabled
hush: split bash compatible extensions into separate defines. No code changes
kill: need not build kill.c when ash's job control is off
kill: optimizations for single-applet build
modutils: fix config options dependency
modprobe-small: move lsmod code out of modprobe_main()
modutils: remove redundant "select PLATFORM_LINUX" configs
cmdline module options can be disabled on "big" modutils
Reorder modutils config options & fix yet more dependency
modprobe-small: document '-n' in depmod usage
modprobe-small: define and use DEPMOD_OPT_n (option mask)
Update depmod & modprobe upstream help text in comments
Laurent Bercot:
httpd: fix address family for reverse proxy client socket
ls: fix support for long options when FEATURE_LS_COLOR is deselected
Markus Gothe:
lsscsi: new applet
Maxime Coste:
paste: new applet
Ming Liu:
tar: add IF_FEATURE_* checks
Natanael Copa:
ntpd: improve postponed hostname resolution
Ron Yorston:
ash: fix error code regression
Rostislav Skudnov:
Replace int by uint to avoid signed integer overflow
dd: call fsync() only once before exiting if conv=fsync is specified
Stefan Tomanek:
ip rule: add suppress_{prefixlength,ifgroup} options
Tito Ragusa:
README_distro_proposal.txt: typo fixes
Tommi Rantala:
time: document -p in usage
time: implement -a, -o FILE
Waldemar Brodkorb:
modutils: remove special handling of uClibc
Youfu Zhang:
ash: fix incorrect path in describe_command
Yousong Zhou:
vi: avoid touching a new file with ZZ when no editing has been done

New in BusyBox 1.26.1 (Jan 3, 2017)

New in BusyBox 1.26.0 (Dec 20, 2016)

Aaro Koskinen (3):
cpio: add ownership (-R) test cases
patch: fix debug log failure
patch: fix matching failure
Bartosz Golaszewski (1):
i2cdump: don't use common_bufsiz1
Brian Foley (2):
awk: fix segfault on for loop syntax error
udhcpc: check read of option length byte to be within packet
Denys Vlasenko:
build system: always rewrite NUM_APPLETS.h
build system: different fix for include/applet_tables.h/include/NUM_APPLETS.h
build system: fix a few warnings for allnoconfig build
build system: fix include/NUM_APPLETS.h generation
build system: make CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_BSS_TAIL less funky
examples/var_service/fw: optionally flush all netdevs; optionally prefer one 0/0 routing
examples/var_service/supplicant_if: new service example
examples: add a useful "see abridged log" script for ntpd service example
examples: add example of a DHCP server
examples: update var_service/README
config: disentangle PREFER_APPLETS from SH_STANDALONE and SH_NOFORK
trylink: use "mktemp tmp.XXXXXXXXXX" to placate OS X
getopt32: add new syntax of 'o:+' and 'o:*' for -o NUM and -o LIST
libbb/speed_table.c: expand comments
libbb/speed_table.c: survive B115200 and B230400 not fitting into 16 bits
libbb/xwrite: print errno on "short write" errors
libbb: do not use fflush_unlocked, musl does not like fflush_unlocked(NULL)
libbb: handle S in /etc/issue
libbb: make xmalloc_sockaddr2dotted use NI_NUMERICSCOPE
libbb:/send_to_from: do not require that "to" should have the same AF. Closes 9146
lineedit: fix completion with applet names. closes 9361
lineedit: fix two bugs in SIGWINCH signal handling
libiproute: eliminate some redundant zero stores
ash: [EXPAND] Do not split quoted VSLENGTH and VSTRIM
ash: [EXPAND] Fix ifsfirst/ifslastp leak
ash: [EXPAND] Optimise nulonly away and just use quoted as before
ash: [EXPAND] Removed herefd hack
ash: [EXPAND] Split unquoted $@/$* correctly when IFS is set but empty
ash: [JOBS] Fix dowait signal race
ash: [MEMALLOC] Add pushstackmark
ash: [MEMALLOC] Made grabstackblock an inline wrapper for stalloc
ash: [PARSER] Add nlprompt/nlnoprompt helpers
ash: [PARSER] Do not show prompts in expandstr
ash: [PARSER] Fix parsing of ${##1}
ash: [PARSER] Handle backslash newlines properly after dollar sign
ash: [PARSER] Recognise here-doc delimiters terminated by EOF
ash: [PARSER] Report substition errors at expansion time
ash: [PARSER] Size optimisations in parameter expansion parser
ash: [REDIR] Move null redirect checks into caller
ash: [REDIR] Remove EMFILE special case
ash: [REDIR] Remove redundant CLOEXEC calls
ash: [REDIR] Replace copyfd by savefd and use dup2 elsewhere
ash: [SHELL] Expand ENV before using it
ash: [SHELL] Move flushall to the point just before _exit
ash: [SIGNAL] Remove EXSIG
ash: [VAR] Initialise OPTIND after importing environment
ash: [VAR] Remove setvarsafe
ash: [VAR] Sanitise environment variable names on entry
ash: add a FIXME for bug 9246
ash: add comment explaining "set -e; $(cmd)" discrepancy
ash: all blocks in function node copying must be SHELL_ALIGNed
ash: comment out free(p) just before _exit, tweak some outdated comments
ash: delete leftovers from "simplify EOF/newline handling in list parser" commit
ash: do not leave SIGQUIT ignored on "exec CMD"
ash: eval: Return status in eval functions
ash: expand: Fixed "$@" expansion when EXP_FULL is false
ash: explain EXP_REDIR and why we (dont) glob redir filenames
ash: fix "duplicate local" code (forgot to re-enable interrupts)
ash: fix "return N" not setting $? in loop conditionals
ash: fix a thinko in the last commit
ash: fix arithmetic closing )) split by backslash-newline
ash: fix bit-rotten debug infrastructure
ash: fix globbing bugs when using glibc glob()
ash: fix handling of ${VAR: -2}
ash: fix handling of NULs in $'abc00defx00asd'. Closes 9286
ash: fix handling of bashism $'xxx' with high-bit chars. Closes 9236
ash: fix interactive "command eval STRING" exiting on errors.
ash: fix return_in_trap1.tests failure
ash: fix signed char expansion bug
ash: get rid of two global data variables
ash: if using libc glob(), skip it if no metachars are in word
ash: in heredoc code, fix access past the end of allocated memory. Closes 9276
ash: input: Allow two consecutive calls to pungetc
ash: jobs: Don't attempt to access job table for job %0
ash: make internal globbing code selectable from config
ash: make popfile() anfter popallfiles() safe
ash: move ifsbreakup() and ifsfree() up
ash: open-code blocking_dowait_with_raise_on_sig()
ash: optimize tryexec(): avoid one allocation
ash: partially sync with dash on "fork if traps are set" logic
ash: placate gcc: "warning: ! is only applied to the left hand side of =="
ash: reduce code differences from upstream
ash: remove dead stores and unused variables
ash: remove unused EXSHELLPROC
ash: return to DOWAIT_* constants similar to dash, no logic changes
ash: style fixes
ash: support "--" in "source" builtin
ash: undo "tokname hack"
ash: use glob() from libc
ash: use pause(), not sigsuspend(), in wait builtin
ash: use shellparam.optind/optoff in getopts() directly, not through pointers
ash: while (!got_sig) pause() is not reliable, use sigsuspend()
hush: "wait $!; echo $?" should return 127 if $! already exited
hush: 'return' should have effect earlier
hush: G.user_input_buf[] is needed only if line editing is enabled
hush: `cmd` and arithmetic also need the fix for FILE rewind
hush: add commented-out debug printouts in "memleak" built-in
hush: add func6.tests
hush: add var4.tests, var5.tests
hush: allow { cmd } to not be terminated by semicolon in some cases
hush: bit better comments in redirect code. No logic changes
hush: case logic for setting $? was still wrong
hush: do not allow sh -c '{ echo boo }'
hush: do not leak script fds into NOEXEC children
hush: document better where bad redirect syntax is detected
hush: enable "msh is deprecated" message in msh stub
hush: factor out %jobspec parsing
hush: fix "(sleep 1; exit 3) & sleep 2; echo $?; wait $!; echo $?"
hush: fix ". EMPTY_LINE" not setting $? to 0
hush: fix "redirects can close script fd" bug
hush: fix "wait PID"
hush: fix 'eval ""' handling
hush: fix a bug in FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE=y config. Closes 9186
hush: fix a memory corruption when exported variable is modified
hush: fix a possible bug
hush: fix exitcode on exec failure with EACCES - should be 126
hush: fix handling of by backslash-newline in $((arith)) and $(cmd)
hush: fix interactive input handling of backslash+newline
hush: fix typo in comment
hush: fix var3.tests
hush: implement "wait %jobspec"
hush: make "wait %1" less likely to play with signal mask
hush: make getch/peek functions directly called
hush: non-matching "case" statement sets $? to 0
hush: renumber PIPE_foo, make PIPE_SEQ = 0
hush: rework "wait %jobspec" to work in non-interactive shells too
hush: rework input char buffering to allow more than one-deep peek
hush: rework input char buffering to allow more than one-deep peek
hush: simplify insert_bg_jobs
hush: small optimization in run_list
hush: speed optimizations
sh: do not print empty line at the end of "help" output
cp: fix -i for POSIX mode. Closes 9106
cp: make verbose cp show symlink copies too
cpio: fix restoration of file ownership, closes 9306
df: implement -B n and -B formats of -B option
dhcp: merge files.c into dhcpd.c
dhcp: merge leases.c and static_leases.c into dhcpd.c
dhcp: merge most of static_leases.c into dhcpd.c
dnsdomainname: split it from "hostname", make it independently selectable
dpkg-deb: remove unused FEATURE_DPKG_DEB_EXTRACT_ONLY config option
dpkg-deb: shorten code, improve help text
fdisk: fix CONFIG_FEATURE_SUN_LABEL=y build
fdisk: print much less cryptic partition table
fdisk: sanitize partition name printing; drop "Code" column; get rid of one static var
fdisk_gpt: simplify GPT partition name printing
find: fix handling of trailing slashes in -name PATTERN comparisons
hexdump: fix numerous bugs in handling of backslashes
httpd: explain why we use sprintf and why it should be fine
ifplugd: if SIOCSIFFLAGS fails with ENODEV, don't die
ifupdown: rewrite state file atomically
ifupdown: when flushing addresses with "ip", add label %label%
init: fix for FreeBSD console opening. Closes 9031
install: fix musl problem with dirname
ip: fix an improper optimization: req.r.rtm_scope may be nonzero here
ipneigh: add this shortcur similar to other "ip " shortcuts
less: fall back to using fd #1 for keyboard reading. Closes 9231
less: fix SEGV
less: fix bracket search to match behavior of less 481
less: switch off nonblock on kbd_fd before exit
loadfont: 32k size limit is not enough
makedevs: make special node creation idempotent
man: allow nroff and tbl commands be overridden; unmangle writing to files
man: fix parsing of "DEFINE pager xyz". Closes 8976
man: make width selection more thorough; explain how to override it
man: remove -Tascii from nroff invocation
mdev: create devices from /sys/dev
more: accept and ignore a bunch of options
mount: for cifs, dont insert "ip=ADDR" option if user gave it explicitly
mount: tweak "IPv6 scoped addr" commit
ntpd: daemonize before DNS resolution
sed: fix "sed n (flushes pattern space, terminates early)" testcase failure
sendmail: make it possible to pause after connection helper is started
service/fw example: do not ruin $if[], use different name
sha3: fix to conform to final SHA3 padding standard, add -a BITS option
sha3sum: fix config text (it's no longer only 512-bit)
ssl_helper.sh: strip was invoked incorrectly
su: expand help; simplify passing of -c CMD to run_shell()
svc: new applet (daemontools-compatible version of "sv")
tar: handle pax-encoded utf8 filenames and link names. Closes 9406
tc: consolidate its disabled bits
tcpsvd: don't keep shared fd open if fd limit is reached. closes 9331
telnetd: fix a corner case where CRLF->CR translation can misbehave
telnetd: fix corner case of input processing of 0xff bytes
telnetd: fix handling of short writes to pty
telnetd: ifdef out a buggy error handling code path
telnetd: treat all 2-byte IACs in 240..249 range as NOPs.
test: make [ and [[ forms individually selectable
test: memory leak: free group id list
top: move free(prev_hist) out of signal path
traceroute: cleanup and fixes for packet size calculations
udhcpc: check read of overload option data byte to be within packet
udhcpc: run "deconfig" script in manual renew state too. closes 9061
unshare: --network should be --net. Closes 9116
vi: fix '' command (goto to prev context)
vi: make "g" error message less likely to show garbage
wget/ssl_helper: update to wolfssl-3.9.8
wget: run s_client helper with -servername HOST
wget: there is no -s option in GNU Wget 1.18, we should be compatible
wget: treat 201,202,203 as success codes too. Closes 9211
whois: implement -i
whois: make it actually work
{md5,shaN}sum: make -c EMPTY fail
Francis Rounds (1):
svlogd: strip leading '!' from processor lines
Hauke Mehrtens (1):
libnetlink: fix alignment of netlink messages
Jonas Danielsson (1):
ping: populate icmp_id field for "simple" ping too
Kang-Che Sung (1):
docs: Update filenames in keep_data_small.txt
Linus Walleij (1):
AUTHORS: Add myself to AUTHORS
Lukasz Nowak (1):
libiproute: handle table ids larger than 255
Mike Frysinger (4):
modutils: support finit_module syscall
mdev.conf: rename hw_random to hwrng
setfiles: fix build failure after common_bufsiz change
selinux: drop deprecated headers
Miroslav Lichvar (1):
ntpd: respond only to client and symmetric active packets
Natanael Copa (4):
df: use f_frsize instead of f_bsize for correct sizes
lineedit: trivial codeshrink for vi-mode
gzip: fix compression level bug. Closes 9131
gzip: add test that checks that -9 compresses better than -1
Peter Korsgaard (1):
udhcpc: Unconditionally call deconfig script, not only if lease is active
Ron Yorston (2):
libbb: suppress warning about run_applet_and_exit
ash: return exit status of nofork applets
Rostislav Skudnov (2):
ash: exit after subshell error when errexit option is set
lineedit: fix handling of repeating Alt-b, Alt-f, Alt-d, Alt-Backspace
Serj Kalichev (1):
volume_id: Add support for UBIFS
Tito Ragusa (1):
strings: implement -t radix

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New in BusyBox 1.24.1 (Oct 24, 2015)

New in BusyBox 1.24.0 (Oct 12, 2015)

Aaro Koskinen (3):
gzip: add support for compression levels 4-9
diff: fix -B with single line changes
diff.tests: add testcases for -B and single line changes
Adam Tkac (1):
ntpd: relicense ntpd applet to ISC-style license
Alex Dowad (1):
ifupdown: 'prio' should have been 'metric' in static_up and static_up6
Alexander Korolkov (1):
arping: fix iface name in error messages
Alfonso Ranieri (1):
volume_id: fix a buglet introduced by is_prefixed_with() conversion
Andrew Fuller (1):
vi: basic undo feature shouldn't depend on yankmark
Ari Sundholm (3):
dd: add optional support for status=noxfer/none
dd: move suffix struct to xatonum.c
truncate: new applet
Arthur Gautier (1):
udhcpc: dns labels can actually start with a number
Bartosz Golaszewski:
Makefile: fix cscope target
i2cget, i2cset, i2cdetect, i2cdump: new applets
i2c-tools: fix 'i2cdetect -l'
i2c-tools: only try /dev/i2c/* if opening /dev/i2c-* fails with ENOENT
unit-tests: remove unnecesary field from struct bbunit_listelem
unit-tests: remove code depending on WANT_TIMING
Makefile: add missing libraries to LDLIBS
libbb: add unit tests for is_prefixed_with()
libbb: add a comment describing the way is_prefixed_with() works
libbb: add is_suffixed_with() function
i2c-tools: remove duplicate definitions
i2c-tools: rename remaining defines
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (5):
dc: tweak parsing
wget: fix --header to not append duplicate headers
*: Switch to POSIX utmpx API
include: Fallback to UTMP unless there is UTMPX support
adduser: Add -k /path/to/skel
Christoph J. Thompson (1):
iproute: don't hardcode the path to config files
Clayton Shotwell (1):
applets: add installation of individual binaries
Daniel Thompson (1):
libbb: enable support for !CONFIG_MULTIUSER
Denys Vlasenko:
truncate: new applet
uevent: new applet
build system: -fno-builtin-printf
build system: make CONFIG_EXTRA_LDFLAGS go to LDFLAGS, not EXTRA_LDFLAGS
build system: remove special-casing for extra libs
examples/mdev_fat.conf: document that newer mdev exposes path
update example ntp.script
updated android_ndk_defconfig
platform.h: add compat mempcpy
platform.h: enable mempcpy for FreeBSD
platform.h: mempcpy needs
libbb: add setsockopt_foo helpers
libbb: auto_string() for efficient handling of temporary malloced stirngs
libbb: code shrink by factoring out common update_utmp_DEAD_PROCESS
libbb: introduce and use is_prefixed_with()
libbb: make INET[6]_rresolve use sockaddr2{host,dotted}_noport
libbb: make is_suffixed_with() return pointer inside string, not key.
libbb: more compact API for bb_parse_mode()
libiproute: use itoa() where appropriate
libpwdgrp: fix a memory leak in getXXnam (we did not save address of string buf)
libpwdgrp: fix counting of commas in group list
libpwdgrp: getgrXXX: empty string is not a member name, do not store it
libpwdgrp: reinstate Tito's optional atexit freeing
libpwdgrp: store getXXnam result in a single malloc block
libpwdgrp: use FAST_FUNC to make "matching ABI" optimization more likely to succeed
libpwdgrp: use a better estimate of max struct size
libpwdgrp: use getpwent() instead of getpwent_r()
ash: a bunch of trivial simplifications
ash: add tests adapted from hush glob tests. glob2.tests currently fails
ash: explain what "local -" does
ash: fix a SEGV case in an invalid heredoc
ash: fix a SEGV in ${#1}
ash: fix handling of duplicate "local"
ash: make dowait() a bit more readable. Logic is unchanged
ash: simplify "you have mail" code
hush: add recent ash tests to hush testsuite too (they all pass for hush)
hush: document buggy handling of duplicate "local"
hush: fix a nommu bug where a part of function body is lost if run in a pipe
hush: fix umask: umask(022) was setting umask(755)
awk: support "length" form of "length()". Closes 8371
dc: fix "dc p" prinitng bogus data
deluser: also remove user from /etc/group
deluser: implement --remove-home
depmod: fix recent breakage in modules.dep generation
dhcpd: fix an improper widening conversion
diff: fix a bug in diffing against stdin. Closes 7784
dpkg: update supported compression methods
find: support "find . -delete" idiom - do not try rmdir(".")
ftpd: change_identity() must be after chroot()
ftpd: prevent zombies. closes 7832
gzip: speed up and shrink put_16bit()
ifconfig: fix double free fatal error in INET_sprint
ifplugd: discovered why it needed net/ethernet.h: just for ETH_ALEN
inetd: fix order of array index check and array access
ip: increased max ID for /etc/iproute2/rt_tables to 1023
ipaddress: better formatting, no code changes
less: improve regular file detection in line counting code
ls: fix year 9999 bug :)
mdev: if a "future" mdev.seq is seen, do not overwrite it with ours
mdev: improve logging
modinfo: fix fallout from basename removal
modprobe-small: fix and simplify rmmod
modprobe-small: fix recent breakage: modprobe -r was using full path
modprobe-small: if concurrent module load did not succeed, wait
modprobe: fix "modprobe devname:snd/timer" case (alias with a slash)
modprobe: fix recent breakage: modules.dep reading code needs to strip dirname
modprobe: revert checking for /, stop doing basename() on modprobe args
ntpd: change help text about -l to say that it doesn't disable client code
ntpd: get rid of G.initial_poll_complete
patch: segfault fix. Closes 7916
ping: fix recently introduced build breakage for non-optimizing builds
ps: fix SEGV on narrow screens. closes 8176
remove global "jmp_buf die_jmp" from !FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS builds
route: fix bogus read error when route table is empty
route: improve -A inet6
runsvdir: (almost) close a signal race
runsvdir: do not block SIGCHLD around poll/sleep
runsvdir: if pid==1, also intercept SIGINT for -s SCRIPT
sed: implement ",+N" range end
sort: fix -kN,M handling (was including last separator into the comparison)
ssl_helper: tweaks discovered while building 32-bit version
sync: add support for -d -f FILE
tar: do not try to decode GNU extended headers as pax headers
tc: fix print_rate
trim extra newlines in help texts
udhcpc: fix for some Android toolchain breakage
umount: always use umount2 syscall with specified flags
unzip: prevent attacks via malicious filenames
uudecode: tolerate text input with CR+LF line ends
vi: make BACKSPACE and DELETE join lines at start/end of line
wget: make openssl/ssl_helper choice configurable
Eugene Rudoy (1):
ash: consider "local -" case while iterating over local variables in mklocal.
Felix Fietkau (1):
find: fix regression in status processing for path arguments
Frank Bergmann (1):
ifupdown: correct ifstate update during 'ifup -a'. Closes 6212
Guillermo Rodriguez (1):
free: handle "cached" value too
Isaac Dunham (1):
mount: -T OTHERTAB support
John Schroeder (1):
udhcpd: account for script delay in lease
Junling Zheng (1):
chown: fix help text
Kevin Wallace (1):
libbb/loop: don't try to re-use existing loop device
Linus Walleij (1):
fbset: fix rgba parsing
Maninder Singh (4):
typo fixes
fix if(p)/free(p) construct
fix whitespaces
Removes stray empty line from code
Martin Kaiser (1):
telnetd: we only need CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS from the Linux kernel
Matt Whitlock (4):
Bionic lacks ttyname_r; provide a workaround
Bionic lacks tcdrain; provide a workaround
Bionic lacks mempcpy; enable existing workaround
Conditionalize Bionic workarounds on __ANDROID_API__
Michael Tokarev (1):
ip addr: support change and replace commands
Micke Prag (1):
ubiattach: add option -O
Mike Frysinger (3):
trylink: use mktemp instead of hardcoding paths
trylink: respect compiler settings when probing features
echo: make escape sequences depend on fancy mode
Natanael Copa (1):
modprobe: fix modprobe -r and parsing of /etc/modprobe.d
Peter Korsgaard (2):
dmesg: add -r option to print raw format even when FEATURE_DMESG_PRETTY is enabled
modprobe: handle module arguments containing spaces
Phil Sutter (1):
logread: implement dumpfollow mode of operation
René Rhéaume (1):
swaponoff: add support for -e
Rich Felker (1):
gzip: do not store timestamp in gzip header
Ron Yorston:
libbb: remove unnecessary argument to nonblock_immune_read
libbb: add a function to make a copy of a region of memory
ash: do not split the result of tilde expansion
ash: code shrink around varvalue
ash: perform tilde expansion in all parameter expansion words
ash: do not expand tilde in parameter expansion within quotes
ash: remove superfluous code in arithmetic mode
ash: remove arithmetic expansion collapsing at parse time
ash: move parse-time quote flag detection to run-time
ash: fix breakage of ${v/pat/str}
ash: remove parsebackquote flag
ash: use alloca to get rid of setjmp
ash: fix slash treatment in expmeta
less: document -S flag and make it independently configurable
less: fix display of line numbers
less: correctly account for tabs when rewrapping lines
less: improvements to verbose status messages
less: fix numeric input
less: move code to count lines into a separate function
less: rearrange detection of non-regular files
less: add a function to detect when display is at end of file
less: fix line number confusion
less: allow use of last column of terminal
less: further tweaks to regular file detection
less: fix botched attempt to use last column
vi: failure to open file is not an error when initialising buffer
vi: fix reading of file after last line
od: fix printing of high-bit chars
uname: make OS name configurable
ipcalc: fix trivial usage message
Serj Kalichev (1):
acpid: fix logging
Sören Tempel (1):
login: don't print motd if .hushlogin exists in users home
Thiago Jung Bauermann (2):
libarchive: auto-detect .Z files as well
bzcat.tests: Run both .gz and .bz2 tests, and add .Z tests
Tito Ragusa (4):
libpwdgrp: rewritten to use malloced implementation
libpwdgrp: line counting in error meesages is broken, remove it
libpwdgrp: fix thinko in getpwnam
libbb: another unit test for is_suffixed_with
Vladislav Grishenko (1):
zcip: fix wrong comparison of source IP with our IP

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New in BusyBox 1.22.0 (Jan 3, 2014)

Aaro Koskinen (9):
fdisk_sun: fix corrupted partition data with blank disk
fdisk_sun: fix partition alignment
sendmail: avoid sending mail to wrong addresses
sendmail: don't mangle e-mail headers
sendmail: support addresses inside angle brackets
sendmail: support address lists
sendmail: support long header fields for recipients
sendmail: don't add To: header if it already exists
sendmail: don't add multiple To: headers
Alexander Shiyan (2):
nanddump: fix build if nandwrite isn't enabled
flash_eraseall: implement -N
Bartosz Golaszewski (6):
grep: don't bail out on first mismatch if '-w' option is set
networking: code shrink
date: accept 'yyyy-mm-dd HH' and 'yyyy-mm-dd' date formats
Refactor catv. Move visible() from stty to libbb.
tail compat: fix header printing for tail -f
bloat-o-meter: add usage info
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (11):
awk: Fix handling of functions with empty body
setserial: Fix typo: s/baund_rate/baud_rate/g
chrt: remove warning for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
buildsys: Add helper to list suid applets
awk: Fix handling of functions with empty body
swaponoff: shrink
ash: Use setvar2 some more
ash: Set SHLVL in ASH_BASH_COMPAT
fstrim: -17b
fstrim: Indicate failure on error
fstrim: Needs to fire at the mp, not bd
Bernhard Walle:
pgrep: fix -x option
Bogdan Purcareata:
init: halt on SIGPWR too
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn:
foo*sum: Correct syntax error
Cédric Cabessa:
syslogd: use _PATH_LOG when available
Daniel Borca (4):
platform: strchrnul is missing if __APPLE__
dpkg-deb: cosmetic correction to usage text
ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges
build system: fix make gconfig
David A. Wheeler (2):
sed: accept -E as a synonym for -r
sed: accept s///i as a synonym for s///I ("ignore case")
Denys Vlasenko:
Call setlocale("") , not "C", if we want to set the default one
Commonalize typical [b,]k,m suffix struct
Make smart_ulltoa return pointer to end (allows for code shink in callers)
Makefile.custom: make "make release" delete .gitignore files too
Move create_icmp[6]_socket to its only user, and simplify it
Use unsigned printf/scanf conversion where more appropriate
adduser: check whether run with no USERNAME. Closes 6728
ash: add comment about failures in source builtin. No code changes.
awk: fix a bug in argc counting in recent change
awk: fix length(array)
awk: use "long long" as integer type, not "int"
bootchartd: warn if .config looks wrong
build system: use od -b instead of od -t x1
bunzip2: fix off-by-one check
chpst: fix a bug where -U USER was using wrong USER (one from -u USER)
cryptpw: do not segfault on EOF. Closes 6350
dd: do not reuse local variables for unrelated values.
dd: fail if swab is attempted on odd-sized block
dd: fix example in a comment. No code changes.
dd: support conv=swab
decompress_unlzma: 10% speedup in "small" code
decompress_unlzma: make "fast" version a bit smaller
decompress_unlzma: move function, no code changes
devfsd: remove static variable
ether-wake: shorten help text, reduce packet buffer size
find: support -HLP
find: get rid of nested function (it's a gcc-ism)
fix assorted unused code and wrong format specs found by cppcheck (bug 6716)
fix build error with musl libc due to if_slip.h
fix error message on failure to open /dev/null; fix zcat's help text
flashcp: pad output to BUFSIZE. Hopefully closes 5882
foo*sum: report I/O errors, don't merely exit with 1.
head,tail: use common suffix struct. simplify help text.
head: support -n -NUM and -c -NUM
hexdump: don't unconditionally limit the usable address range
hexdump: need to use xstrtoull for off_t
hostid: do not output sign-extended host id. Closes 6056
httpd: don't allow tabs and multiple spaces in request string
httpd: make sure pfd[TO_CGI].revents is cleared before poll()
httpd: treat errors from stdin correctly.
hush: fix build failure if FEATURE_EDITING=y && !HUSH_INTERACTIVE
hush: fix for "while false && true; do echo BUG; break; done". closes 6170
hush: source builtin should override $N only if it has args
hush: typo fixes in comments
ifplugd: make -k send SIGINT, not SIGQUIT
ifupdown: support "source" stanza in /etc/network/interfaces
init: don't use fixed size buffer for command
init: remove special-case code for machines with less tham 1 MB of RAM.
iplink: comment out include
iplink: fix build error (IFLA_VLAN_PROTOCOL defined before include)
less: support "less 1TTY"
libbb: introduce and use strftime_[YYYYMMDD]HHMMSS()
lineedit: \W on "/bin" should show "bin", not "/bin"
lineedit: add handling of \H in prompt
lineedit: fix multi-line PS1 handling: calculate PS1 length from last \n
lineedit: implement \T \t \A \@ prompts escapes, fix \W escape, drop \!
lineedit: improve Unicode handling (still buggy though)
lineedit: use unicode_strwidth instead of unicode_strlen
loadkmap: explain what happens with K_ALLOCATED key value
logread: don't call shmdt() before exit, kernel does it for us.
logread: flush output. closes 6710
logread: intercept all fatal signals, not just SIGINT
losetup: assorted fixes. Closes 6314
lzop: fiq -q and OPTION_DECOMPRESS mismatch
make --help return exitcode 0. Closes 5612
man: install to /usr/bin, not /sbin
md5/sha512: a better fix for strict aliasing warnings
mdev: add environment variable match
mdev: call index_in_strings on $ACTION only after we checked it for NULL
mdev: chdir back to /dev after trying to read firmware
mdev: extend debug logging output
mdev: improve $SEQ handling; improve debug logging
mkfs_minix: use get_volume_size_in_bytes instead of local version
nc: don't redirect stderr to network in -e PROG mode
nc: exit when both stdin and network are closed.
nc: fix build failure ("subscripted value is neither array nor pointer")
nc: remove some dead code
nc: remove unnecessary "errno = 0"
nc: use symbolic SHUT_WR instead of literal 1
nc_bloaty: support -ll and -lk. Closes 2245
nslookup: set default DNS server again. Hopefully helps with 675
ntpd: do not invalidate datapoints after step
ntpd: drop delay outliers; run "unsync" handler if no replies for some time
ntpd: let user know if spike was detected
ntpd: make "unsync" code actually work.
ntpd: promote log level 3 to production
ntpd: set G.last_script_run even if script isn't configured
ntpd: set offset to 0.0 in "usync" event
ntpd: speed up resyncing if our clock is seriously off
ping[6]: accept and ignore -n. Code shrink
ps: fix sscanf format specifier (%l); make uptime unsigned
ps: seconds_since_boot: uint64_t -> ulong
pstree: fix theoretically unsafe code
rfkill: use new-style config/kbuild/applet
rpm: make -ql display more compatible; improve help text
rpm: stop using statics; move main() to the end of the source file
rpm: unmap rpm file before working with next one
rpm: use "create+rename" method of replacing existing files
run-parts: stop providing incompatible short options
sed: document where we are more liberal then GNU
sed: fix "sed clusternewline" testcase
sed: fix matching of newlines by $
sed: fix memory leak in 'r FILE' command
sed: open input files sequentially to avoid EMFILE
sed: remove now-redundant backslash-newline handling
stty: disable CIBAUD leak check - it is not necessary on Linux
sulogin: use common password-checking routine
tail: track file size only in -f mode
tar: add a testcase for previous commit
tar: fix exitcode check for MMU-spawned unpacking helpers
tar: prevent empty file to be treated as valid tarball
testsuite: fix false positives for du
touch: add conditional support for -h
ubi_tools: add forgotten argv++
ubi_tools: enhance -s option to allow size multiplier to match mtd-utils
ubi_tools: extend supported volume size to 64 bits; shrink code
udhcpc6: fix port numbers used if !FEATURE_UDHCP_PORT
udhcpc: allow zero server-id. Closes 6614.
udhcpc: fix a problem with binary-encoded options #2
udhcpd: add -I LOCAL_ADDR option
unicode: check $LC_ALL to detect Unicode mode, not only $LANG
unicode: check $LC_CTYPE too to detect Unicode mode
unpackers: by users' request, print compression percentage if -v and DESKTOP
unzip: increase PEEK_FROM_END from 16k to 64k
unzip: survive lack of CDF on non-streaming zip files
vasprintf: do not use xmalloc, it will deadlock on OOM
vasprintf: return -1 on strdup failure
vi: make regexp search case-insensitive if ":set ignorecase" is active
volume_id_internal.h: drop unoptimized byteswap routines
wall: access FILE under real user's credentials
wget: do not abort if "_" is encountered in a HTTP header
zcat: fix "zcat FILE" trying to do detection twice
zcat: if seamless uncompressors are defined, autodetect file's format
Flemming Madsen:
ash,hush: history builtin
Guilherme Maciel Ferreira (2):
traceroute: free some memory allocated by xzalloc()
wget: if FEATURE_CLEAN_UP, free(ptr_to_globals)
James Hogan:
grep: fix grep -x to not set REG_NOSUB
Jeremy Kerr:
udhcp: add PXELINUX config file option (code 209) definition
Jody Bruchon:
fdisk: fix GPT size math errors
Johannes Stezenbach:
udhcpc: make DHCP packets to have at least 300 DHCP bytes
John Spencer:
man: find posix man pages
Jonathan Liu:
sulogin: allow system maintenance login if root password is empty
Kang Kai:
testsuite/du/du-k-works: fix false positive
Kuleshov Aleksey:
arp: fix -H/-t handling.
Lasse Collin (11):
xz: omit explicit \0 from HEADER_MAGIC
xz: update README
xz: avoid "NOTE:" in xz.h
xz: add a comment about using uint32_t as vli_type
xz: make bcj_x86_test_msbyte() an inline function
xz: remove an empty line from xz_dec_lzma2.c
xz: add C++ support to xz.h
xz: fix decoding of LZMA2 streams having no uncompressed data.
xz: fix incorrect XZ_BUF_ERROR
xz: mention xzminidec.c in README
xz: support concatenated .xz streams
Lauri Kasanen (2):
wget: add support for connect timeout
wget: user-friendly fallback to http
Leonid Lisovskiy:
xz: fix put_unaligned_{l,b}e32
Malek Degachi:
fstrim: New applet
Mandeep Singh Baines:
losetup: fix util-linux compatibility
Michael Tokarev (4):
fix bashisms in testsuite/
expand: use printable_string instead of hard-coding implementation
do not fail build if MAXSYMLINKS isn't defined
hostname: do not use gethostbyname() for "hostname -s"
Mike Frysinger (12):
udhcpc: support resolv.conf symlinks
udhcpc: tweak math shell style with the metric var
bbunzip: ignore the -q flag with the decompressors
bbunzip: fix order of flags vs bit defines
archival: note implicit dependencies between lzop & bbunzip
udhcpc: use readlink rather than realpath
platform: use KERNEL_VERSION to simplify uClibc version checking
readlink: uClibc supports automatic allocation too now
readlink: note that our -f is really -e
pstree: stop truncating thread names
md5/sha512: fix strict aliasing warnings
trylink: only prefix libs with -l
Nicolas Dichtel:
networking: fix potential overflow in ife_print6()
Nikolaus Voss:
mdev: use $DEVNAME in uevent sysfs file for device node name
Oliver Metz:
volume_id: fix ntfs attribute search
Patrick McHardy:
ip link: add VLAN support
Paul B. Henson (2):
ubimkvol: add -m option to create volume of maximum size
ubi_tools: fix typo in strcpy
Paulius Zaleckas:
init: don't srop unterminated processes' entries during inittab reload
Peter Korsgaard (3):
run-parts: add --exit-on-error | -e support
run-parts: fix unicode creep in --help
ar: read_num(): fix reading fields using the entire width
Rich Felker:
*: change execl sentinels from NULL to (char*)0
Ron Yorston:
vi: fix adjustment of buffer on partial file read
Ryan Mallon (2):
libbb: Add xsetegid(), xseteuid(), xopen_as_uid_gid() functions
wall,crontab: use xopen_as_uid_gid()
SASAKI Suguru:
tar: fix tar -T to add entries in the exact order as the input list
Shawn J. Goff:
lineedit: initialize delptr
Stefan Hellermann (2):
ash: move code to allow setting $HOME in /etc/profile
ash: read $HOME/.profile instead of $(pwd)/.profile
Sven-Göran Bergh (5):
volume_id: Adopt to new kbuild style.
volume_id: Adopt to new config style.
volume_id: nilfs config description.
volume_id: add f2fs detection
awk: optionally support -e AWK_PROG
Thomas De Schampheleire (2):
nameif: fix use-after-free in ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP code
lsof: correct check for symbolic link
Thomas Petazzoni:
libbb: use instead of
Tito Ragusa (2):
ifplugd: use a larger netlink buffer
swapon: support "pri=NNN" in fstab
Uros Vampl:
killall5: return 2 if no processes got killed
Yuan-Hsiang Lee:
init: fix illegal memory access when max message length is reached

New in BusyBox 1.21.1 (Jul 1, 2013)

New in BusyBox 1.19.4 (Feb 6, 2012)

New in BusyBox 1.19.3 (Nov 29, 2011)

New in BusyBox 1.18.4 (Jun 9, 2011)

New in BusyBox 1.17.3 (Oct 11, 2010)

New in BusyBox 1.17.2 (Aug 31, 2010)

New in BusyBox 1.17.0 (Jul 7, 2010)

New applets:
conspy by Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com),
rev by Marek Polacek (mmpolacek AT gmail.com),
ubiattach,ubidetach by Baruch Siach (baruch AT tkos.co.il),
modinfo by Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com),
fgconsole by Grigory Batalov (bga AT altlinux.org),
fkill by Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr),
flock by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi),
smemcap, bootchartd, unxz (complete with xzcat and xz -d aliases)
Other changes:
build system: make it possible to have include/applets.h-esque entries in .c files, to keep Config/Kbuild snippets in *.c files, to keep usage texts in .c files
build system: gold may not support --sort-common (yet)
unicode: support for it is significantly improved, by Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
libbb: teach tar et. al. to understand .xz
libbb: fix bb_ask() to operate on correct fd
libbb: locate PAGE_SIZE on Hurd
libbb: make index_in_substrings return -1 on ambiguous matches
libbb/copyfd.c: don't mmap a largish buffer if we only want to copy a few kb
libbb/read_key: fix buffer length calculation
*: s/"/bin/sh"/DEFAULT_SHELL by Ladislav Michl (Ladislav.Michl AT seznam.cz)
ash,hush: make it possible to alias one of shells to "bash"
ash,hush: make "source" a synonym for . if bash compat is on
ash,hush: make bare "." set exitcode to 2
ash: FILE does not truncate FILE anymore. By Andreas BÃ¼hmann (buehmann AT users.berlios.de)
ash: fix ". EMPTY_FILE" exitcode
ash: fix bug which causes signal6.tests to fail
ash: fix SEGV on empty command with redirection (bug 1087). Fix by Leonid (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
ash: fix cubic matching slowdown is ${v/*foo*/repl} (really bad one)
ash: fix obscure case of replacing + globbing + backslashes
ash: fix redirection of fd 0 in scripts are sourced from interactive ash
ash: fix signal5.tests
ash: fix unset in standalone mode
ash: fix var_leak testcase
ash: fix var_leak.tests so that it actually catches the NOFORK bug
ash: refresh stack pointers after makestrspace in rmescapes. By Colin Watson (cjwatson AT ubuntu.com)
ash: make trap with bad signal name not abort
ash: use CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_MAX_LEN
hush: fix "hush -c 'echo $#'" showing -1
hush: fix a=abc; c=c; echo ${a%${c}}
hush: fix hush -c 'echo $0' - was showing empty string
hush: fix hush-bugs/parse_err.tests
hush: fix more obscure ${var%...} cases
hush: fix segfault in ${?:N:M}
hush: fix var=`exit 2` not setting $? to 2
hush: handle expansions in ${var?expanded_word} constructs
hush: optional support for ${var:N:M} bashism
hush: support "cd -- DIR" and other such double-dash constructs in builtins
hush: support ${var:EXPR:EXPR}
hush: use ash's ulimit builtin; make it more more bash-like while at it
adduser: copy /etc/skel to mew homes. +100 bytes
ar: add archive creation support. By Alexander Shishkin (virtuoso AT slind.org)
ar: fix a regression: "ar t arch.a" stopped showing files. By Nguyá»…n ThÃ¡i Ngá»c Duy (pclouds AT gmail.com)
awk: be more paranoid when freeing loop variable; make code less obfuscated
awk: don't append bogus data after NUL in sub()
awk: fix the case where nested "for" loops with the same variable misbehave
awk: skip whitespace between array name and subscript. By Alexander Shishkin (virtuoso AT slind.org)
beep: the -d option takes milliseconds, not microseconds. By Natanael Copa (natanael.copa AT gmail.com)
brctl: fix parsing of timespec to allow 0 (setfd, sethello..), fix stp parameters incompatibility. By Maciek Borzecki (maciek.borzecki AT gmail.com)
busybox --list option. +140 bytes. Rob wanted it
cmp: ifdefectomy by Rob Landley (rob AT landley.net)
cpio: "NNN blocks" message should go to stderr. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
cttyhack: don't do anything if ctty is already available
data_extract_all(): do not chmod symlink. Closes bug 2053
date,touch: accept "Jan 7 00:00:00 2010" format. By Alexander Shishkin (virtuoso AT slind.org)
date: optional support for %N. Closes bug 1861
date: support -d @SECONDS_SINCE_1970
devmem: map two pages only if it is necessary
dnsd: add -s option. This allows (clumsy) operation with real DNS servers
dnsd: enforce alignment on packet buffer
dnsd: fix one big-endian goof; add a TODO about RA bit
dnsd: fix unaligned access problem
dpkg: add support for lzma compression, by Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
dpkg: better check for validity of options
dpkg: support config file overwrite options. By Kim B. Heino (Kim.Heino AT bluegiga.com)
dpkg: enable tar compability even if tar applet is not enabled
[un]expand: account for different character widths
fbsplash: reinstate drawing of over/undersized images
fdisk: do not treat names ending in '0' as partitions
fdisk: make 'b' command optionally adjust C/H/S; "fdisk IMAGE_FILE" sets cylinders
find: fix -name matching for dotfiles. -1 byte
ftpd: work around LIST -aXYZ too, not only LIST -lXYZ
fuser: fix default signal, exitcode and PID display. By Maksym Kryzhanovskyy (xmaks AT email.cz)
getty: do not emit bogus error message on EOF
grep: fix -Fi. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)
grep: make -w support unconditional
gunzip: inflate_codes(): add fix from upstream gzip to prevent false CRC error
head,tail: make suffixes unconditional for head too
hexdump: fix "hexdump NONEXISTENT_FILE" handling
hexdump: make -s 0xNNNNN work
httpd: fix proxy mode bug (annoying but harmless)
ifconfig: do not truncate interface names. Closes bug 1795
ifdown: use /var/run/udhcpc.%iface%.pid only if it exists
ifplugd: more robust interface name match check
ifplugd: replace potentially-leaking setenv with malloc/putenv/free
init: clear utmp entries for dead processes, if they (entries) exist
ip a: fix SEGV if "dev IFACE" is not specified
ip addr/rule/tunnel: unify parsing args. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
ip link: add qlen. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
ipaddress: print OPERSTATEs and NO-CARRIER. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
ipcalc: more correct checking for proper number of arguments
iplink: support add/delete. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
loadfont/setfont: optional PSF2 font support
loop: correct minor device number limit
losetup: support /dev/loop10 and higher. Closes bug 1627
lsusb: 2.6.32 compat. By Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr)
mdev: add "!" syntax support
mdev: fix a SEGV when subsystem is not known
mdev: fix subsystem passing (new kernels broke it again). Closes bugs 639, 721
mkswap: support [KBYTES] parameter
mkXXXX: unify [KBYTES] parameter handling
mkfs_ext2: fix handling of -I argument. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
mktemp: be more compatible: bare "mktemp" creates tempfile in /tmp, not cwd
modinfo: needs DEFAULT_MODULES_DIR and DEFAULT_DEPMOD_FILE
modinfo: support relative paths in modules.dep
modprobe: add support for -l and -s. By Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
modprobe: pick up module options from /proc/cmdline too
modprobe: remove 2k limit on /proc/cmdline
modutils-24: [mips] modutlis-24 segfault fix for 2.4 kernel modules, by Ralf RÃ¶sch (ralf.roesch AT rw-gmbh.de)
mount: add an optional capability to create new /dev/loopN as needed. By Lauri Kasanen (curaga AT operamail.com)
mount: fix a case when sometimes error message is not printed
mount: handle EDQUOT > 255 properly. Closes bug 1579
nc: introduce CONFIG_NC_110_COMPAT option
tftp/tftp: make tftp/tftpd-related options less confusing in config. Closes bug 2017
ntpd: step correction to variables had wrong sign, fixing
passwd: make 'echo -e "foo\nfoo" | passwd USER' work
ping: do not leak data from stack
provide safe_gethostname() for non-linux systems
ps: fix non-DESKTOP option handling code
ps: make "ps -o BAD" emit list of good -o params
rpm: use open_zipped's logic (factored out into setup_unzip_on_fd())
rpm: make rpm -i SRPM.rpm install it to surrent dir
rpm2cpio: teach it to understand xz format
sed: fix a case when one-line range matches past lines. Closes bug 1867
sed: fix a command with multiple trailing backslashes
sed: fix c cmd
sed: fix nested {} case
setkeycodes: fix handling of 0exx scancodes
setsid: check for setsid error directly
shaNNNsum: accept and ignore -b and -t
stat: make output more similar to GNU stat. By Seb (sbb AT tuxfamily.org)
swapon: skip noauto entries. By Lauri Kasanen (curaga AT operamail.com)
syslogd: allow multiple -R options. By Thomas Geulig (geulig AT nentec.de)
syslogd: remove stray umask(0) - was giving log files bad mode
syslogd: make maximum message length configurable. By Janne Kiviluoto (janne.kiviluoto AT bluegiga.com)
tail: document FANCY flags in helptext
tar: fix "hardlinks to symlinks chown" bug 1519
tar: fix mishandling of repeated hardlink in tarball
tar: make typical extraction less memory-hungry
tar: optional support for --to-command. By Ladislav Michl (Ladislav.Michl AT seznam.cz)
tar: optional support for restoring selinux context. By J. Tang (tang AT jtang.org)
tar: support GNU 256-bit encoding in all numeric fields
telnet: prevent SEGV if we are requested TELOPT_NEW_ENVIRON
telnetd: fill hostname field in utmp/wtmp records
telnetd: write LOGIN/DEAD_PROCESS utmp records. Closes bug 1363
test: "" is not a valid number. Closes bug 1915
tftp: do not show progress bar if we get error right away. +13 bytes
tftp: increase initial retry timeout from 50 to 100 ms
tftp: make message about 512 byte block less confusing
tftpd: fix file creation with bogus mode. Closes bug 1021
top: make 's' display easier to understand
touch: do not ignore argument of -d/-t option. By Mikhail Gusarov (dottedmag AT dottedmag.net)
udhcp: abort if we see unknown option, and show valid options if so
udhcp: disable time and log server options
udhcp: fix DNS domain codec bug: bad compression flag checks
udhcp: handle errors in read_staticlease
udhcp: implement "raw" binary options. Closes bug 735
udhcp: remove support for some really old and odd options
udhcp: s/sipservers/sipsrv/ to match other similar option names
udhcp: we call DNS name encoder with NULL, this can SEGV. added a check
udhcp: truncate packets instead of padding them to 574 bytes. Closes bug 1849
udhcpc: add -x OPT:VAL option
udhcpc: make it possible to disable vendor id
udhcpd: apparently, sometimes IP is in ciaddr, not requested_ip
udhcpd: fix -v/-P mixup
udhcpd: fix daemonize crash on nommu systems. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
udhcpd: fix hostname truncation bug 1663
udhcpd: support decoding of option 120 "SIP servers". Closes bug 737
udhcpd: untangle incredibly messy handling of DHCPREQUEST
unexpand: fix "a b"\n" input case. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
unlzma: add "lzma -d" alias, add -t support, rename lzmacat to lzcat
unzip: restore unix file mode if possible. Closes bug 1045
unzip: improve handling of stream ZIP files
vi: save/restore errno in signal handlers
vi: discover window size even on serial consoles (optional)
vi: fix "set ic" command. Closes bug 1765
vi: fix NUM + "$" handling
volume_id/linux_swap: detect suspended image signatures too
wc: compat: make "wc -c ONE_FILE" not print leading spaces. +2 bytes
wget: fix bug 1057 "busybox wget segfaults with http_proxy environment set"
wget: ignore --no-check-certificate
who: fix attempts to open '/dev/dev/ttyX'; make columns a bit wider, add -H
xargs: bump default -sNUM up to 32k. Use sysconf() to trim it down if necessary
xargs: make -s NUM accept practically unlimited range

New in BusyBox 1.16.0 (Jan 27, 2010)

New applets:
lspci: new applet. +573 bytes. By Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr)
lsusb: new applet. +400 bytes. By Souf Oued (souf_oued AT yahoo.fr)
flashcp: new applet. +900 bytes. By Stefan Seyfried (stefan.seyfried AT googlemail.com)
mkfs.reiser: new applet. Needs much polishing. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
mkfs_ext2: new applet. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
ntpd: new applet, +5k. By Adam Tkac (vonsch AT gmail.com)
traceroute6: new applet. +1562 bytes. By Leonid Lisovskiy (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
tune2fs: new applet by Vladimir. Only supports -L LABEL
wall: new applet. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
Other changes:
ash,hush: check that variable names are sane
ash,hush: fix "'read' without parameters" bash compat thingy
ash,hush: fix $RANDOM in children being repeated
ash: do not let EXIT trap to fire in `trap`
ash: error out on ${#1#}, ${#$11}, ${#11#}. By Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn (cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com)
ash: factor out $RANDOM support and read builtin
ash: fix `trap`
ash: fix bad interaction of "stty -echo" + ASK_TERMINAL
ash: fix bug 585 (>"$VAR_WITH_UNICODE_CHARS" problem)
ash: fix for read $IFS splitting. Closes bug 235
ash: fix handling of Unicode chars in redirects. Closes bug 585
ash: fix mishandling of bash-style redirects. By Chris Metcalf (cmetcalf AT tilera.com)
ash: implement set -o pipefail (conditional on bash compat). By Michael Abbott (michael AT araneidae.co.uk)
ash: make "jobs -l" more similar to bash. By Earl Chew. Closes bug 481
ash: re-enable SIGHUP on entry. Closes bug 771
hush: add printf builtin. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
hush: add support for $RANDOM
hush: code shrink by Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
hush: do not reset to default "" traps in subshell
hush: export PWD
hush: fix `trap`
hush: fix exec builtin in a better way (+ "glob in exec" bug fixed)
hush: fix exit code propagation from `cmd`
hush: fix exitcodes of killed processes
hush: fix handling of empty arguments
hush: fix handling of words with braces
hush: fix potential buffer overflow on NOMMU
hush: fix subshell.tests failure on NOMMU
hush: handle empty execs. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
hush: make memleak debugging more robust
hush: plug a memory leak
hush: small speed optimization
hush: support $PPID
hush: two NOMMU fixes for bugs 877 and 883
hush: unify handling of builtin applets. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
hush: use ash's read builtin
hush: wait for `cmd` to complete, and immediately store its exitcode in $?
build system: fix for coarse mtime problem
build system: fix parallel make
build system: more fixes to parallel build
build system: update documentation generator so that it sucks less
libbb: add and use xopen_nonblocking (-18b). By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
libbb: add mallopt tweaks for reduced memory consumption
libbb: added xfdopen_for_read/write
libbb: better unicode width support. Hopefully fixes bug 839
libbb: make spawn() print "can't execute '%s'" on execv error
libbb: move generate_uuid from mkswap to libbb. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
libbb: optimize most of isXXXXX() macros
libbb/lineedit: fix the case when we configured history to have 0 lines
libbb/lineedit: restore ^D handling for unicode
libbb/lineedit: try to make FEATURE_EDITING_ASK_TERMINAL less ugly
libbb/lineedit: do not hardcode ctrl-C and ctrl-D, use termios fields
libbb/lineedit: handle Ctrl-arrows
libbb/read_key,lineeedit: parse position answerback faster; sanitize its use
libbb/read_key: ignore unknown keys (do not return them to caller byte-by-byte)
libunarchive: fix a bug where mode and time is no longer restored. Introduced by vda in 1.15.x. Found by Rob Landley
libunarchive: fix reversed test for older/newer
libunarchive: move dpkg-specific things into dpkg.c. 0 byte size differences
*: add more compat code for non GNU environments. By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
*: do not assign to stdout/stderr, it's not portable. Based on patch by Aaron Carroll (xaaronc AT gmail.com)
*: platform compatibility work. By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
*: use utimes() rather than obsolescent utime(). By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
INSTALL: update obsolete doc, as suggested by Doug Clapp (doug.clapp AT triad.rr.com)
adduser: create a group for net user too
adduser: fix a logical inversion which made -G GRP inoperative. By Tito Ragusa (farmatito AT tiscali.it)
all_sourcecode.tests: check commented out applet order too. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
applets/usage_compressed: combine many seds in one; hide dd stats. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
applets: fix alphabetical order. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
ar: fix long filenames handling. Closes bug 611
awk: fix an incorrect casting to string (bug 725)
awk: implement mktime. By Leonid Lisovskiy (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
btrfs: check first two superblocks, for additional robustness
chown: support long options. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
chpst: tiny shrinkage and add possible TODO. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
cp: add support for --parents and long option synonyms of short opts. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)
cp: fix -H handling
cpio: fix -o-less cpio -F FILE
cpio: fix unpacking of names with leading slashes
crond: do not log info messages at LOG_ERR. Closes bug 681
date: handle long options. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
dc: make "dc -1.23 ..." work
dd: fix conv=noerror w/o sync to not write out zeroed blocks
dd: speed measurement. optional. By Gabor Heja (kakaopor AT kakaopor.hu)
df: unicode-aware column formatting. By Tomas Heinrich (theinric AT redhat.com)
diff: rewrite. much smaller and more correct. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
documentation and typo fixes. By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
dpkg: fix handling of names with leading dots. Closes bug 783
dumpleases: unicode spport. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
echo et al: support e escape
env: don't SEGV on bare "env -"
ether-wake: can use ether_hostton on uclibc >= 0.9.30. By Leonid Lisovskiy (lly.dev AT gmail.com)
examples: add ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_RENAME_REGEXP examples to mdev documentation. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
examples: add mdev.conf and mdev_fat.conf
examples: adding runit-style service directory
fbset: add possibility to set timing and sync polarity. By Michael Grzeschik (m.grzeschik AT pengutronix.de)
fbsplash: allow compressed image files. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
fdisk: add a warning and truncate disks with >= 2^32 sectors
find: -follow should not error out on dangling links
find: add optional support for -links. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
find: add zeroing of G.xxx; ftpd - remove extraneous zeroing of G.xxx. Brought "G trick" to the same shape in a few more places
find: correct handling of -xdev
find: do not recurse into directories with depth == --maxdepth. This may avoid many, many unnecessary stat() calls
fold: fix a corner case. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
fold: unicode support. Based on a patch by Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
ftpd: conditional support for broken clients. By Stefan Seyfried (stefan.seyfried AT googlemail.com)
ftpget/put: make 3rd parameter optional. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
grep: fix a case when -o loops forever
gzip: add optional support for --long-opts. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
httpd: -m: output salted MD5 hash. By (forrest AT hifulltech.com)
httpd: fix bug 601 "I:index.php does not run interpreter on DIR/ url"
httpd: shrink mime type matching code (suggested by Bernhard)
httpd_indexcgi: fix off-by-one error
httpd_post_upload.txt example: handle binary files too
hwclock: fix sizeof bug (used it on pointer, not array)
hwclock: make --systohc exact
ifplugd: mention iff mode in help; restore auto-ifup unless -a; make iff method less iffy :D
ifup: make /etc/network/interfaces parser tolerant to trailing spaces
inetd: be more careful with syslog socket; other small fixes
init: fix "while true; do reboot; done" bug. Closes bug 781
init: fix logically inverted FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET check
init: for paranoid reasons, restore SIGCONT too
init: make FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET more consistent. +1 byte
init: restore possibility to reload inittab even before we finish initialization
init: use applet_name instead of "init" (we can be linuxrc)
login: log PAM errors to syslog, not stderr. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)
ls: add "total NNNN" header if DESKTOP. By Johannes Stezenbach (js AT sig21.net)
ls: fix for !FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE (forgotten free); cleanups
ls: fix sort of very large files
ls: make it so that group never glues itself to file size
lsmod: unicode-aware column formatting. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)
mdev: adjust error message. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
mdev: do not die on mknod errors
mdev: handle string modes. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
mdev: tiny shrinkage by index_in_strings. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
mkfs_vfat: fixes for large image cases
mkswap: add -L LABEL option. Closes bug 689
modprobe-small: hopefully fix bug 591 (incorrect detection of alias with '-')
modprobe-small: make string buffer code robust; fix help text
modprobe: it's not an error if module is already loaded. Closes bug 833
modprobe: protect against possible SEGV
modutils: add FEATURE_INSMOD_TRY_MMAP option
mount: "already mounted" msg appears only if -v
mount: add support for -O list. By Michael Abbott (michael AT araneidae.co.uk)
mount: do not execute "mount.(null)" :)
mount: if we mount //host/xxx, add ip=IPADDR to options
mount: prevent second mount -a from mounting everything again
mount: support -o union. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
mountpoint: btrfs fix. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
nc: fix "nc -nl -p LPORT RHOST" case (was expecting remote port 0). Closes bug 837
networking/httpd_ssi.c: new example CGI handler
od: fix -tx without length spec
passwd: do not complain if /etc/shadow is missing
patch: add longopts, --dry-run, add one more test
patch: ignore -g NUM. By Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov AT gmail.com)
pidof/killall: fix bug 625 (kernel threads get stale "binary name")
ping6: do not play dirty tricks with argv
ping: fix unaligned access. Closes bug 745
ping: use ICMP_MINLEN. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
ps,top: add an option to show threads. +260 bytes
ps: conditionally enable -T on non-DESKTOP build too
ps: document -T option
ps: show longer COMMAND
rpm2cpio: handle bz2 too. By Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)
rpm2cpio: handle unseekable input correctly
sed: fix bug 623 (SEGV on some sed commands)
sed: minor usage tweak. By Rob Landley (rob AT landley.net)
sed: on output file, set not only mode, but owner too
sendmail: accept -i too, not only -oi. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
sendmail: fix for long headers. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
sendmail: update by Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
sort: make sort -o FILE FILE (same FILE) work. Closes bug 785
split: handle - as "use stdin". Closes bug 741
start-stop-daemon: we could need ssd -d (fancy). By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
stty: add B921600. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
stty: fix columns command. Closes bug 791
swaponoff: add uuid/label support. By Natanael Copa (natanael.copa AT gmail.com)
tar: accept spaces at the end of header fields (compat)
tar: add support for --overwrite
tar: add support for -o as synonym to --no-same-owner. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
tar: do chown, not lchown to restore mode (compat)
tar: fix --numeric-owner, --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions bits
tar: fix bug 673 (misdetection of repeated dir as hardlink)
tar: fix problem handling tarballs with chksums prepended by spaces
tar: handle "tar fx TARFILE" etc
tar: optional support for -m (--touch). By Mikhail Gusarov (dottedmag AT dottedmag.net)
telnetd: optional support for -w ("inetd wait")
tests: fix POSIX shell source style. By Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org)
tftp: add optional support for progress bar. By Magnus Damm (magnus.damm AT gmail.com)
tftp: extend tsize support a little. By Magnus Damm (magnus.damm AT gmail.com)
top: add -m ("memory") option
tty: use defines rather than constants. By Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (rep.dot.nop AT gmail.com)
udhcpc: fix bug 629: use bcast receive when we perform rebinding
udp_io: fix two potential cases of unaligned accesses
uniq: plug memory leak. Patch from OpenWRT project
volume_id: add support for btrfs. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
wc: fix a hang gue to isprint(EOF). By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)
wget: check for close success; fix chunked; do not bother to send QUIT to ftp
wget: factor out progress bar code. By Magnus Damm (magnus.damm AT gmail.com)
wget: fix for code 302. By Vladimir Dronnikov (dronnikov AT gmail.com)
[un]expand: unicode support. By Tomas Heinrich (heinrich.tomas AT gmail.com)

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