BusyBox 1.26.0, the Swiss Army Knife of Linux, Released with Over 200 Changes

Today, December 20, 2016, the development team behind well-known BusyBox software suite, which consists of a collection of numerous common UNIX utilities used for system administration tasks, released BusyBox 1.26.0.

BusyBox 1.26.0 is an unstable build and arrives six months after the release of BusyBox 1.25.0 development version, and two and a half months after the release of BusyBox 1.25.1, the current stable version used by default in many popular Linux-based operating systems.

From the looks of it, every new unstable series marks the beginning of a new stable version. For example, BusyBox 1.24.0 landed as unstable last year on October 12, and was marked as ready for deployment in production environments two weeks later, on October 24, 2015, when BusyBox 1.24.1 arrived.

Therefore, we expect that BusyBox 1.26.1, which should be out in the coming weeks, will be the new stable version of the software project. As for BusyBox 1.26....