Update busybox to 1.37

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Update busybox to 1.37

New update released and 24.x is still under development so can we get newest busybox out of thebox for new version of openwrt.

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That is relevant, why…?

Don't get me wrong, OpenWrt has a motivation to follow the various upstreams reasonably quickly, but what's the specific feature you are looking for in this new version?

BusyBox is an important piece of OpenWrt, but by its very nature it's rather 'unsexy' - it just has to work, without too many functional bugs or security issues. Obviously its current feature set 'works' well enough for OpenWrt, otherwise we would have a (known-) problem (and a Number One Feature everyone is looking for), so any update is appreciated, but not quite tabloid material.

If you have a specific need for this new version, the usual route of providing patches/ a tested PR would be more sensible, than pasting links to release announcements (by default, OpenWrt ships with roundabout ~150 (x86_64) different packets preinstalled, disregarding multiple binary packages split from a common source, that still leaves around ~100 genuinely different packages, each of them important in their own realm, starting a forum thread for all of those would get crowded and pretty boring soon).

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OpenWrt does get weekly uscan reports.

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There is now a draft PR from @rsalvaterra where I left some comments.

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you could try to be polite ...

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But the pull not yet merged waiting this to be merged thanks.

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Sure i will be more cautious nexttime

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Yep,
and as there is the PR, you can easily download and apply its commit when you compile your own firmware from sources. So you can help testing it.

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For testing i can't do this i can compile my self but as i only have routers all are used up.

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boot it off a flash drive on a PC.

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Or even a virtual machine will be able to test a new version of BB