BusyBox 1.26.1 Swiss Army Knife of Linux Hits the Streets as New Stable Series

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

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 <a href="https://bus… (read more)

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