Oops - I should have posted this in general and not here ...
Noticed quite a few bug fixes in the 1.31.0 unstable release of Busybox. Stable usually follows pretty rapidly.
Not expecting TC to immediately adopt, but under certain circumstances I'll run the newer release as a user prepending it to my own path. Especially when there are vi fixes, along with bc/dc and other things I like.
I let the devs decide on what to adopt as part of TC and it's init and so forth, but if you keep your head straight, running a different version from a *user* standpoint has been ok for me.