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Busybox 1.11.0 and 1.10.4 are out

From:  Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux-AT-googlemail.com>
To:  busybox <busybox-AT-busybox.net>
Subject:  1.11.0 and 1.10.4 are out
Date:  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:59:12 +0200
Message-ID:  <200806252259.12692.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 800675     636    7080  808391   c55c7 busybox-1.10.4
 798392     611    6900  805903   c4c0f busybox-1.11.0

New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova), fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod
(Bernhard Fischer)

Changes since previous release:

    * build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX
    * ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes
    * hush: lots and lots of fixes
    * msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (run "$SHELL $file"
instead)
    * msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed
    * udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels
    * mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp
    * diff: make it work on non-seekable streams
    * openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one
    * mdev: fix block/char device detection
    * ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)
    * crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines
    * start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)
    * date: make it accept ISO date format
    * echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)
    * httpd: fix several bugs triggered by realtive path in -h DIR
    * printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo
    * syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate
    * ls: support Unicode in names
    * ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)
    * mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)
    * libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again
    * other fixes and code size reductions in many applets

--
vda


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