History and List of Bugfixes

This is the short release history of PicoBSD, as well as the list of bugs which were found. Some of them were already corrected, so that you should read the list before reporting a new one.

We tried to make this software bug-free, but life is life... Sorry for the inconvenience.

PicoBSD 0.44

• 1999.05.10: Slightly refreshed version to match 3.2-RELEASE. No significant changes (yet)... :-(

PicoBSD 0.43

• 1999.01.19: A lot of fixes related to architectural changes in 3.0-current code. Most importantly, we run now ELF kernel and we use the new bootloader. This is most probably the last release of PicoBSD in its present shape - the next version will (hopefully) become a part of normal release building process.

PicoBSD 0.42

• 1999.01.15: Well, it seems that this version was for developers only... ;-) It was abandoned when recent massive changes in -current demanded more serious measures...
• 1998.10.15: Small fixes and updates to match the 3.0-RELEASE source tree. The binary snapshot built from 3.0-R sources will soon follow...

PicoBSD 0.41

• 1998.10.12: Two small buglets has been discovered, and fixed in CVS copy of the sources. 'kget' utility was dumping core due to unexpected change in behaviour of dumpnlist. 'ns' utility poorly handled other netmasks than class C network.

  I prepared new tar archive containing these corrected sources.

• 1998.09.26: Yes, this took more than just "a few days"... :-(. This is mainly a bugfix release of 0.4 - almost no new features were added, except the 'dmesg' to examine kernel messages buffer. Also, all programs are compiled in ELF format. SNMP services are provided now by UCD-SNMP v.3.5.

  Unfortunately, I had to remove DEVFS for now - there are too many problems with it for now. This also means that we're back to creating device nodes manually, and chances are that the one you need is missing...

PicoBSD 0.4

• 1998.08.28: Serious bug was discovered in MFS code (thanks to Eric P. Scott for detailed bug report!). Though the bug itself is in FreeBSD-current kernel code and not in the PicoBSD-specific sources, it makes PicoBSD very fragile and easy to crash.

  Some people are already working on it, so expect the fixed version in a few days. Its availability will be noted here, on this page, so keep an eye on it.

• 1998.08.27: PicoBSD source tree is now a part of official FreeBSD source tree (you can find it in src/release/picobsd). From now on, all the fixes and changes will go directly to this tree, and from time to time I'll be preparing a stand-alone snapshot of the sources.
• 1998.08.19: PicoBSD 0.4 released.

  New features include: NATd, netstat, DEVFS/SLICE instead of standard /dev, additional network drivers, and several minor fixes. Distribution contains also a collection of small versions of system programs (TinyWare), among them custom init(8).

  I added also the fourth type of setup - 'router' - which is a specialized version of PicoBSD that focuses on providing as small as possible router solution.

PicoBSD 0.31

• 1998.03.28: Some people reported that the binary files (*.flp) were being corrupted during download because their browsers assumed that these are text files. I changed the names to *.bin - their contents is the same.
• 1998.03.20: PicoBSD 0.31 released. New features include: SNMP daemon, better creation of /kernel.config, some other minor fixes. Massive changes in the building scripts. I also removed vn(4) driver from "net" and "isp" floppies.

PicoBSD 0.3

The following bugs were found in this release of PicoBSD:

• 1998.02.27: A bug in kget(8) utility caused it to dump core in certain situations. As a consequence, it wasn't possible to save the changes made in UserConfig (-c). This will be corrected in the next release (or bugfix issue).
• 1998.02.24: Wrongly sized MFS caused the passwd(1) on "net" type floppy to fail because of lack of space for temporary files. This bug affected only "net" floppies, and of course the scripts ("2000" looks quite similar to "2200" :-(( ). Also, the 'update' script didn't work as expected...

  This was fixed the same day, and the corrected files are: pb03en1.zip, pb03pn1.zip, and pbsd-s031.tgz respectively. They are now under standard links on the main page of PicoBSD project, so if you downloaded after this date, you shouldn't worry.

  Please check that you have the fixed versions - the archive name should contain the tiny number, such as "pb03en1.zip", or pbsd-s031.tgz".

• 1998.02.15: PicoBSD 0.3 released. This is the first version that I can truly recommend - previous one was too buggy... :-)

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