Release Notes

busybox-w32 version FRP-4621-gf3c5e8bc3 was released on 2022-02-28. It is the current release. For other release notes see:

• the release before this one
• index of all release notes

Bug fixes and enhancements

• A regression which caused symlink targets to be truncated to 79 characters has been fixed. (GitHub issue #237)
• The default settings for the emulation of ANSI escape sequences and the use of alternative screen buffers are appropriate for most versions of Windows. However, they don't work very well when busybox-w32 is run using Wine. The binary now detects when Wine is being used and adjusts the defaults to suit.
• busybox-w32 tries to display useful information about file ownership. It was found to produce misleading results on filesystems such as FAT32 which lack ownership information. In such cases it now reports that files belong to the current user. (GitHub issue #241)
• The FRP-4264 release included a partial fix for a problem interrupting a loop like:

     while true; do echo hello; done
  

  Further work has been done in an attempt to solve this completely.

Changes imported from upstream

busybox-w32 has been synchronised with upstream BusyBox. As a result the following enhancements are available (along with many others):

• The wget applet allows the Content-Type header to be customised in --post-data and --post-file requests. (GitHub PR #233)
• The find applet supports the -samefile option to detect files that are hard linked.
• The timeout applet supports the -K option to send a KILL signal if the child process still exists some number of seconds after being signalled.