# Changelog

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Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.

## Changelog Entries:

- 2017-11-09

  - [dj] - Create additional symlinks to simplify build of systemd and remove text references to `/tools/include`.

- 2017-11-08

  - [dj] - Remove invalid links to util-linux static archives in `/tools/lib`.

- 2017-11-06

  - [dj] - Update to linux-4.13.11. Fixes #4162.

  - [dj] - Update to expat-2.2.5. Fixes #4161.

  - [dj] - Update to dbus-1.12.0. Fixes #4160.

- 2017-10-28

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2017c. Fixes #4159.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.13.10. Fixes #4158.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to check-0.12.0. Fixes #4155.

- 2017-10-27

  - [bdubbs] - Update rule in 83-cdrom-symlinks.rules in udev-lfs tarball.

- 2017-10-20

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.2.0. Fixes #4155.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to expect-5.45.3. Fixes #4154.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.43.7. Fixes #4152.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to dejagnu-1.6.1. Fixes #4151.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.13.8. Fixes #4153.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux v2.31. Fixes #4145.

- 2017-10-15

  - [dj] - Update to D-Bus-1.10.24. Fixes #4143.

  - [dj] - Update to Systemd-235. Fixes #4147.

  - [dj] - Create a simple replacement for `/lib/systemd/systemd-user-sessions`, to enable uprivileged user logins without systemd-logind.

  - [bdubbs] - Add optional patch to ninja.

- 2017-10-14

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bash-4.4.12. Fixes #4149.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.43.0. Fixes #4148.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.6.3. Fixes #4146.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.13.7. Fixes #4144.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.29.1. Fixes #4142.

- 2017-09-24

  - [bdubbs] - Reorder packages in Chapter 6 so Python can use gdbm.

  - [dj] - Use upstream systemd tarball with meson build system and supply only prebuilt man pages.

- 2017-09-23

  - [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.26.1. Fixes #4141.

  - [bdubbs] - Add Meson-0.42.1.

  - [bdubbs] - Add Ninja-1.8.2.

  - [bdubbs] - Add Python-3.6.2.

  - [bdubbs] - Add libffi-3.2.1.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.4. Fixes #4140.

- 2017-09-22

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux 2.30.2. Fixes #4139.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.13. Fixes #4138.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.5. Fixes #4137.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-3.1.6. Fixes #4136.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.13.0. Fixes #4135.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.3. Fixes #4133.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.13.3. Fixes #4134.

- 2017-09-02

  - [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.32. Fixes #4132.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.28. Fixes #4131.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.43.6. Fixes #4130.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.4. Fixes #4127.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.12.10. Fixes #4126.

- 2017-09-01

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-8.1 released.