Re: Could of basic updated items in 419 patches to 1.38 git. (simple search of git log).

Hadn't been that many messages to list, but Guess I should have 
clarified.

The 1.38.0 git has had 4.18 patches to the code since the 1.37.0 
release.
git log --pretty=format:"<%h> %cd [%an] %s" --date=short | head 
-n 420 | tail -n 2

Lines 419 and 420
<a023f3926> 2024-09-26 [Denys Vlasenko] Start 1.38.0 development 
cycle
<be7d1b7b1> 2024-09-26 [Denys Vlasenko] Bump version to 1.37.0

So, looked at the 418 lines that have patches. sorted by data after 
the ] and the colon (seemed to be best option of most patches)
used uniq and sort -n to get the final list.

Perhaps none of these updates meet the justification of a release of 
1.38 git? but 418 patches seems like a lot, and some areas have a 
lot. 

My project doesn't use many of the very high ones at all, but a 
number of them are in my build.

Comparison of builds with my same config file.
468376 May 11 16:48 /data2/busybox-1.37
472456 May 11 16:48 /data2/busybox-1.38

Difference is about 1%, but 1.38 has the 418 patches, and is build 
on very recent code. The 1.37 is build on source going back to 
September 2024??

Again, sorry for not clearifying.
Seems some say 1.37 is the only official release, and seem to say it 
should be used as is until 1.38 is officially released.
The git log only seems to the one patch that was listed with CVE.
Think some of these patches address CVE issues.
Perhaps there is something that determines if the patches are 
cosmetic, minor, important, or security.

Thanks fro the reply.
At moment snapshot directory has 33 files, but fall into 5 groups of 
different files.
busybox-20260411.tar.bz2 2669360 2026-04-11 FILE 01 - 02
busybox-20260413.tar.bz2 2669851 2026-04-13 FILE 03 - 19
busybox-20260430.tar.bz2 2668517 2026-04-30 FILE 20 - 20
busybox-20260501.tar.bz2 2669862 2026-05-01 FILE 21 - 22
busybox-20260503.tar.bz2 2671104 2026-05-03 FILE 23 - 33


On 12 May 2026 at 15:24, Emmanuel Deloget wrote:

From:           	Emmanuel Deloget <[email protected]>
Date sent:      	Tue, 12 May 2026 15:24:42 +0200
Subject:        	Re: Could of basic updated items in 419 patches to 
1.38 git. (simple
	search of git log).
To:             	[email protected]
Copies to:      	[email protected]

> Hello Michael,
> 
> Le mar. 12 mai 2026 à 12:22, Michael D. Setzer II via busybox
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >
> > <snip numbers and strings>
> 
> Can you elaborate please? Again, what are you trying to achieve or detect?
> 
> > +------------------------------------------------------------+
> >  Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
> >  mailto:[email protected]
> >  mailto:[email protected]
> >  mailto:[email protected]
> >  Guam - Where America's Day Begins
> >  G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
> >  https://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
> > +------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- Emmanuel Deloget



+------------------------------------------------------------+
 Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)     
 mailto:[email protected]                            
 mailto:[email protected]
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 Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
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