BusyBox 1.24 Released, Brings More Size Reductions
Nearly a year after BusyBox 1.23 was released, BusyBox 1.24 is now available today.
This widely used free software project to embedded Linux platforms has advanced quite a fair amount over the past year with hundreds of commits. In digging through the Git log since BusyBox 1.23, some of the changes include:
- Code shrinking to hush, md5sum, zcip, mpstat, gzip, and libpwdgrp, among other components.
- The reported "uname -o" output is now configurable at build-time via the Kconfig UNAME_OSNAME option.
- Improvements to the less and ash commands.
- Workarounds/updates for Android and Bionic.
- New uevent and truncate applets.
- Other code size reductions.
The release announcement for BusyBox 1.24 has yet to be formally issued, but you can grab the source for this big update over at BusyBox.net.
This widely used free software project to embedded Linux platforms has advanced quite a fair amount over the past year with hundreds of commits. In digging through the Git log since BusyBox 1.23, some of the changes include:
- Code shrinking to hush, md5sum, zcip, mpstat, gzip, and libpwdgrp, among other components.
- The reported "uname -o" output is now configurable at build-time via the Kconfig UNAME_OSNAME option.
- Improvements to the less and ash commands.
- Workarounds/updates for Android and Bionic.
- New uevent and truncate applets.
- Other code size reductions.
The release announcement for BusyBox 1.24 has yet to be formally issued, but you can grab the source for this big update over at BusyBox.net.
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