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

Sam James via busybox <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:49:33 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.busybox
Organization	Gentoo
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"Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]> writes:

> On 28 Mar 2026 at 8:06, Sam James wrote:
>
> From:	Sam James <[email protected]>
> To:	[email protected]
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> Subject:	Re: Question on what is the official latest version of busybox?
> Organization:	Gentoo
> Date sent:	Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:06:04 +0000
>
>> "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?

I can't load busybox.net (again) right now, but linking to the branch to
encourage people to do backports happens sometimes.

>
> 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? 
>

Projects often don't do that.

> 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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