Erik Andersen, BusyBox maintainer, writes . . .

I am very pleased to announce BusyBox 0.51 (a.k.a. “the rock-solid release”). Tarballs are already sitting on the ftp site waiting for you. Here is the announcement I just placed on the busybox web site:

BusyBox 0.51 (the “rock-solid release”) is now out there. This release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.

There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters for letting me use their system!).

You can read the changelog for complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded via ftp, here.

 
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