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Bug#716808: Busybox is outdated



reopen 716808

retitle 716808 please package new upstream version 1.21.1

thanks

 

Hi Michael,

 

exactly why did you close the bug?

 

On Samstag, 13. Juli 2013, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> > http://busybox.net has the details and a complete list of changes

> I was tempted to close the bug report at the first reply.

 

And, did you even read the list of changes?

 

Let me quote it for you:

 

29 June 2013 -- BusyBox 1.21.1 (stable)

BusyBox 1.21.1. (git, patches, how to add a patch)

Bug fix release. 1.21.1 has fixes for ntfs detection (big-endian fix), xz decompression of concatenated streams, mdev acquired a [ENV=regex;] extension instead of undocumented subsystem match hack it used to have prior to 1.21.x.

 

21 January 2013 -- BusyBox 1.21.0 (unstable)

Changes since previous release:

Alexey Froloff (1):

udhcpc: gracefully handle packets with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL

 

Andreas Oberritter (2):

ifupdown: improve compatibility with Debian

get_linux_version_code: don't fail on Linux version strings like "3.0-foo"

 

Anthony G. Basile (2):

build system: fix build failure when only gunzip is selected

CONFIG_PID_FILE_PATH: new configuration option for pidfile paths

 

Aurelien Jarno (1):

*: declare strings with ALIGN1, as appropriate

 

Baruch Siach (3):

nanddump: use the right operator of logic AND

nanddump: skip bad blocks when instructed to do so

nanddump: invert the meaning of the -o parameter to match upstream

 

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (1):

mount: fix -o user=foo mishandling, fix unc= generation, add prefixpath=

 

Bernhard Walle (1):

build system: fix build of kconfig on Darwin

 

Boris Reisig (1):

tar: support -J, --xz explicit compression option

 

Bradley M. Kuhn (1):

Simplify copyright/license notice that appears in the binary

 

Christoph Lohmann (1):

mdev: tell kernel that we didn't find the firmware

 

Cliff Frey (1):

lineedit: fix Alt-D when cursor==0

 

Dennis Groenen (1):

lineedit: histfile can get emptied when CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_SAVE_ON_EXIT=y

 

Denys Vlasenko:

build system: stop .eh_frame generation

build system: fix build failure when compressed help is selected, but bz2 compression is not

scripts/kconfig/mconf: work on systems w/o SIGWINCH

platform.h: disable ALIGNn macros for s390[x]

adduser: install to /usr, not /, like all other similar tools

ash: fix "read -s" + ^C. Closes 5504

ash: fix a bug in >${varexp} handling. Closes 5282

ash: implement export -n

ash: revert wrong "fix" for an apparent memory leak. Closes 5822

awk: fix FS assignment behavior. Closes 5108

awk: make -F STR interpret escape sequences. Closes 5126

brctl: fix build failure by s/strtotimeval/bb_strtotimeval/ (android has strtotimeval)

busybox: tweak help text and copyright year

decompress_uncompress: comment out debug printout on corrupted data

decompress_uncompress: move 'code' variable into loop - sole user

dhcpd: write lease file on exit

dpkg: fix creation of .list files (were empty since b768aeb). Closes 5324

du: document incompatibility with standard tool

examples/mdev_fat.conf: small addition

find: if DESKTOP=y, support -wholename (synonym for -path)

find: make -mindepth N -xdev correctly stop on mountpoints

ftpd: fix MDTM's month value. Closes 5336

ftpd: free allocated string on error path

getty: fix for NOCTTY killing us with SIGHUP

grep: fix grep -Fw not respecting the -w option. Closes 5792

ifconfig: do not accept "ifconfig eth0 up 1.2.3.4/17" (ip with mask). Closes 5786

libbb: correctness/size tweaks in signal-related helpers

lineedit: in !EDITING config, return -1 on fgets error

login: increase login name size limit from 32 to 64

lpr: don't send 0-byte print jobs (compat)

man: fix handling of gzipped manpages

mdev: add support for $DEVNAME and /dev/mdev.log debug aid

mdev: fix mode of dir1 in =dir1/dir2/file rule

mdev: remove undocumented subsystem/devname matching hack

mdev: when found, print major,minor into mdev.log

modprobe_small: make rmmod to NOT remove dependencies. Closes 5162

mount: do not pass "comment=ANYTHING" option to kernel. Closes 5240

mount: fix the wrongly stored fs creation time

mount: set up RO loop device if mount -o ro. Closes 4784

mount: support strictatime option. Closes 5240

ntpd: on time step, kill all outstanding replies from other peers

sed: fix handling of s/// which has empty matches

sed: fix zero chars match/replace

sha3: make size/speed optimization decision configurable

syslogd: do not segfault on parse error when using default config. Closes 5762

telnet: convert CR -> CR LF, not CR -> CR NUL when sending data to server

telnet: convert Enter -> CR LF in line mode too

tftpd: fix -u USER to work with chroot. Closes 5348

top/ps: argv0:"gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]" == comm:"gdm-session-wor"

top: do not touch stdin if -b

top: fix "last CPU" parsing

top: implement scrolling up/down (_very_ useful)

udhcp[cd]: fix binding to network aliases. Closes 5432, 5438

udhcpc: make -O <numeric_opt> work. Closes 5402

udhcpc[6]: show select timeout in log

unzip: make options parsing more robust on getopt w/o gnu extensions

vi: do not set autoindent by default

vi: nuke FEATURE_VI_OPTIMIZE_CURSOR

vi: save/restore screen upon invocation

volume_id/ext: detect ext4 too

wget: correctly handle failure to -c (continue)

wget: make -c _not_ truncate the file

wget: reorder fread and poll: poll only if fread returns EAGAIN. Closes 5426

wget: try reading after poll timeout - stdio may have buffered data. Closes 5426

 

Eric Martin (1):

acpid: add missing lid switch definition

 

Etienne Le Sueur (1):

tar: fix 256-bit encoded number decoding

 

Felix Fietkau (1):

udhcpc[6]: allow discover_retries == 0 (infinite)

 

Jon Tollefson (1):

ash: fix a memory leak

 

Joshua Kahlenberg (1):

sysctl: implement -q

 

Lauri Hintsala (1):

powertop: fix error message

 

Lauri Kasanen (1):

sha3sum: new applet

 

Linus Walleij (2):

fbset: respect rgba configuration lines in fb.modes

fbsplash: support non-RGB565 pixels in 16-bit mode

 

Manuel Zerpies (1):

flashcp: remove unused variable opts

 

Martin Santesson (1):

mount: add unc option to CIFS mount (needed for Linux 3.4+)

 

Matt Reimer (1):

nanddump: make dumping read-only partitions work

 

Michael Tokarev (2):

ps: use separate get_uptime() and make it work on non-linux too

*: declare strings with ALIGN1, as appropriate

 

Mike Frysinger (5):

udhcpc6: depend on ipv6

include sys/resource.h where needed

disable format security warnings

build system: use pkg-config to look up selinux libs

ifenslave: fix missing close paren

 

Mimi Li (1):

sed: allow 'w' cmd to use two address form

 

Natanael Copa (2):

tar: implement --no-recursion

unzip: ignore chmod errors

 

Nicolas Thill (1):

brctl: fix description and usage

 

Pascal Bellard (1):

su: do not change to home dir unless -l

 

Paul Marks (1):

ntpd: fix incorrect m_status field in outgoing packets. Closes 5120

 

Peter Korsgaard (4):

dmesg: handle multi-char log levels

klogd: handle multi-char log levels

syslogd: add option to log to Linux kernel printk buffer

syslogd: convert dummy functions to statics and get rid of IF_FEATURE_* checks

 

Pierre Carrier (1):

config: do not refer to HTTPS for wget

 

Ron Yorston (2):

sendmail: use host rather than NIS domain name for HELO

mktemp: fix mktemp -u temp.XXXXXX returning garbage when TMPDIR is set

 

S-G Bergh (2):

blkid: show filesystem when both label and UUID are missing, but type is known

volume_id: add exFAT detection

 

Simon B (4):

ln: support -T and -v

sed: support long opts and -iSFX

mkdir,rmdir: accept and ignore -v, --verbose

mv: accept but ignore -v

 

Sven-Göran Bergh (6):

blkid: add type display for btrfs

blkid: add support for nilfs2

blkid: add type display for hfsplus

volume_id: display hfs[+] 128-bit UUID properly

volume_id: uuid_format small code shrink

volume_id: add squashfs detection

 

Tanguy Pruvot (2):

testsuite: some more awk tests related to conditions

modinfo: match more standard module fields and fix version field

 

Tias Guns (5):

inetd: fix build failure in Android

android: fix 'stat', ifdef S_TYPEIS* in coreutiles/stat.c

platform.h: Android tweaks: ioprio defines, BB_ADDITIONAL_PATH

android: some sensible defconfig changes

libbb: add missing_syscalls.c: for now, only Android syscalls

 

Timo Teräs (1):

fbsplash: fix regression from e4fa7b7

 

Tito Ragusa (1):

adduser: make it accept "adduser USER GROUP" form

 

Vladimir Dronnikov (1):

wget: add dummy --no-cache

 

Yao Zhao (1):

testsuite: make mkfs.minix test not fail spuriously on big endian

 

walter harms (1):

refactor correct_password.c to avoid one if

 

 

cheers,

Holger

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