14 DAY TRIAL // When the BusyBox 1.26.0 unstable release launched last month, just before the Christmas holidays, we told you that it would hit the stable channel as soon as the first point release is announced.
And it happened! BusyBox 1.26.1 was unveiled on January 2, 2017, and it's now the newest stable series of the Swiss army knife for embedded systems and GNU/Linux distributions. But don't get too excited because this release is just a formality to inform OS vendors that they can finally update the BusyBox packages, and it looks like it only adds various tweaks to defconfig and addresses issues with single-applet builds.
"1.26.1 has fixes for single-applet builds (all applets are verified to successfully build when individually selected), a few tweaks to defconfig were made," reads the release announcement on the project's website. "Static binaries are available for downloads, with each individual applet enabled separately, as well as the binary with almost all applets selected, and helper binaries."
It's coming soon to a distro near you
On this occasion, we'd like to remind you that the BusyBox 1.26.x series includes over 200 improvements for many of the bundled utilities. Among these, we can mention lineedit, ping, sh, wget, whois, vi, cpio, setfiles, ntpd, hush, udhcpc, ash, telnetd, unshare, fdisk, traceroute, top, hexdump, tcpsvd, tar, tc, man, less, sendmail, sed, mount, mdev, ipneigh, sha3sum, su, svc, ifplugd, dhcp, cp, df, find, awk, and patch.
BusyBox 1.26.1 is available for download right now through our website, and it's coming soon to a distro near you, so we recommend that you update your installations as soon as it lands in the stable repositories. However, if you prefer to compile BusyBox yourself from sources, the download link above should serve you well. The full changelog is attached below for the tech-savvy.