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3 <h2>Old News</h2>
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5 <p>This project <a href=http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2006-September/024794.html>started in 2006</a>, got mothballed in 2009
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6 <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2009.html#18-06-2009>for</a>
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7 <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#31-03-2011>various</a>
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8 <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#08-06-2011>reasons</a>
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9 (during which time I
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10 <a href=http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-March/071783.html>contributed</a>
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11 some toybox code and design ideas to busybox</a> but retained the copyrights to
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12 my work), then <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#13-11-2011>relaunched</a>
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13 under a 2-clause BSD license in 2011.
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14 The following news entries predate that relaunch:</p>
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16 <hr>
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17 <p><b>December 1, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.1.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.1.0</a> is out.</p>
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19 <p>This release is a couple build fixes and another bugfix to patch.</p>
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21 <hr>
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22 <p><b>April 17, 2009</b> - Another bugfix release,
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23 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.2.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.9.2</a>, off by one allocation error in patch.</p>
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25 <p>(Darn fiddly command, innit?)</p>
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28 <p><b>March 29, 2009</b> - Released
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29 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.1</a> which is a bugfix
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30 release for issues with the patch command.</p>
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32 <p>The project is currently on hold while the developers learn Lua and
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33 decide whether or not to port the whole thing to that language.
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34 (Also note: the mailing list moved. See the links on the left. You'll
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35 have to resubscribe.)</p>
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37 <hr>
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38 <p><b>January 29, 2009</b> - Released
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39 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.tar.bz2</a> which is a minor packaging
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40 fix for 0.0.8. (The previous release tarball contained a prebuilt x86-64
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41 kconfig/conf file, because the release script ran defconfig to
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42 pregenerate help.h, and didn't run make clean afterwards.) The actual source
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43 code is identical to the previous release.</p>
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46 <p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.8</a>
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47 adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p>
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49 <p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit
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50 binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p>
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52 <p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to
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53 produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For
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54 example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc,
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55 pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length.
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56 (Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p>
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58 <p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several
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59 netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a
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60 reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p>
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62 <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> -
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63 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a>
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64 adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the
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65 test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p>
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67 <p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a>
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68 adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to
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69 work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated
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70 1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create
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71 already exists. Command line option parsing can now handle things like "echo
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72 -nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh),
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73 and some build fixes.</p>
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75 <p>
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76 <hr>
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77 <p><b>March 29, 2008</b> -
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78 Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with
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79 new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p>
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81 <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test
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82 scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls
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83 make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending
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84 on the context).</p>
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86 <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of
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87 the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to
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88 the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files.
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89 There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate
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90 the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt
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91 and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p>
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93 <p><b>January 2, 2008</b> - And <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2</a> is out.
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94 The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg,
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95 help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p>
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97 <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate
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98 a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p>
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100 <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p>
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102 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications,
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103 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure
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104 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p>
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106 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out
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107 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's
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108 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements
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109 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which,
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110 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other
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111 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p>
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113 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking
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114 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely
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115 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p>
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117 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making
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118 a little progress.</p>
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120 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> -
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121 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>.
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122 Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished
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123 skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library.
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124 Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck"
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125 using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p>
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127 <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side
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128 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing
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129 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p>
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131 <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> -
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132 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements
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133 df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p>
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135 <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> -
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136 Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p>
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138 <!--#include file="footer.html" -->