Re: Question on what is the official latest version of busybox?

On 28 Mar 2026 at 8:06, Sam James wrote:

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Subject:	Re: Question on what is the official latest version of busybox?
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> "Michael D. Setzer II via busybox" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Web Page shows.
> > 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
> >
> > BusyBox 1.37.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch)
> >
> > Sizes of busybox-1.36.0 and busybox-1.37.0 (with equivalent config, 
> > static musl build):
> >
> >    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> > 1022792	    559	   4988	1028339	  fb0f3
> > 	busybox-1.36.0/busybox
> > 1024327	    559	   4988	1029874	  fb6f2
> > 	busybox-1.37.0/busybox
> >
> > The link for git is: 
> > https://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?h=1_37_stable
> >
> > I use git clone git://busybox.net/busybox.git
> > and build and it shows.
> > BusyBox v1.38.0.git (2026-03-27 22:43:15 ChST) multi-call binary.
> 
> '.git' means it is an unreleased version.
> 
> >
> > An Web search via AI gives this.
> 
> It's nonsense.
> 
Question is then? does the page show the git link for 1.37.0 then?

Page shows
27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
but git link has it as stable?
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?h=1_37_stable

Then there is difference between the current date and 27 
September 2024? That's about 1 1/2 years.

Extracted the busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2 to a directory, and did a git 
clone.
did a diff -r on directories and comes with 25187 diff37-38b lines.

Removing the Only in liness it drops to 24085

So that would be a significant difference in the 1.37 and the 1.38 
gits?

Know that AI result are often not fully correct, but think would be 
interesting to at least mention the 1.38 git, and show that work is 
being done, and it isn't a 1 1/2 year old project? 

Know lots of work is done with the project.

My project uses it, and I've been maintainer of it going back to 
2004. And previous maintainers had the busybox.

Thanks to all that have put all the work into it.
Have a nice day.



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