1.26.0 is released

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 22 14:16:55 UTC 2016


20 December 2016 -- BusyBox 1.26.0 (unstable)

Sizes of busybox-1.25.0 and busybox-1.26.0 (with equivalent config,
static uclibc build):

   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
 942170        491       7496     950157      e7f8d    busybox-1.25.0
 944982        491       7504     952977      e8a91    busybox-1.26.0

Changes since previous release:

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: 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/fw do not ruin $if[], use different name
      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: 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 arithmetic closing )) split by backslash-newline
      ash: fix globbing bugs when using glibc glob()
      ash: fix handling of ${VAR: -2}
      ash: fix handling of NULs in $'abc\000def\x00asd'. 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: rework "wait %jobspec" to work in non-interactive shells too
      hush: rework input char buffering to allow more than one-deep peek
      hush: simplify insert_bg_jobs
      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<suff> and -B <suff> 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
      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 <CMD>" 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
      sha3: fix to conform to final SHA3 padding standard, add -a BITS option
      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<key>" error message less likely to show garbage
      wget/ssl_helper: update to wolfssl-3.9.8
      wget/ssl_helper: strip was invoked incorrectly
      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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