Package busybox: Information

    Source package: busybox
    Version: 1.37.0-alt2
    Latest version according to Repology
    Build time:  Mar 25, 2026, 06:17 PM in the task #411985
    Category: Shells
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    License: GPL-2.0-only
    Summary: Statically linked binary providing simplified versions of system commands
    Description: 
    BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
    small executable. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment
    for any small system, both embedded environments and more full featured
    systems concerned about space.
    
    This package can be useful in various system recovering or boot scenarios.
    
    Statically compiled with musl. CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE is enabled
    to not require symlinking.

    List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
    busybox (x86_64, i586, aarch64)
    busybox-debuginfo (x86_64, i586, aarch64)

    Maintainer: Vitaly Chikunov

    List of contributors:
    Vitaly Chikunov


      1. /proc
      2. /usr/bin/zip
      3. musl-devel-static >= 1.2.5-alt7
      4. perl-podlators

    Last changed


    March 20, 2026 Vitaly Chikunov 1.37.0-alt2
    - tc: Fix CBQ FTBFS on newer kernels/glibc-kernheaders.
    - Build static PIE executable (with ASLR).
    March 1, 2025 Vitaly Chikunov 1.37.0-alt1
    - Update to 1_37_0 (2024-09-26). (Fixes: CVE-2023-42363, CVE-2023-42366).
    Oct. 8, 2023 Vitaly Chikunov 1.36.1-alt1
    - First import 1_36_1 (2023-05-19).