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  <title>Changelog</title>

  <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
  version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>

  <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  book.</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <title>Changelog Entries:</title>

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          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
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          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
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    <listitem>
      <para>July 21, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added a reminder to check that the virtual
          kernel file systems are mounted after the description of the
          revised chroot command.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 18, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Several textual corrections.  Thanks to 
          Chris Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
    
    <listitem>
      <para>July 15, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to module-init-tools to
          correct a possible problem when aliesa are specified with
          regular expressions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.26.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added sed to correct path to the find
          program in updatedb after moving find to /bin.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text concerning test failures in 
          glibc to describe the most recent results.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 13, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode,
          openvt, and setfont to /bin to support boot scripts.
          Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure so that keyboard 
          data will always be on the root partition.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text in section 7.9 (The Bash 
          Shell Startup Files) to better explain the Xlib example.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 12, 20006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to man-pages-2.34.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to e2fsprogs-1.39.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Changed text explaining the installation
          of the udev-config rules. Thanks to Matthew Burgess.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Various fixes and additions for examples
          of custom rules in Udev courtesy of Alexander Patrakov. Added
          the "Creating custom symlinks" page which includes examples
          of creating persistent device symlinks, including CD-ROMs. Added
          a second set of guidelines for creating persistent symlinks for
          network cards. Other text touch ups on the configuration pages
          involving Udev. Closes ticket #1818.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated udev-config and bootscripts download
          location.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added commands to create the vi to vim
          man page symlink in all available languages. Closes ticket
          #1811. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to udev-096 and udev-config-20060712.
          Removed the bug.c program and the cd symlinks script. The cd
          symlinks will be covered in Chapter 7. Closes ticket #1804. Thanks
          to Alexander Patrakov for making the appropriate changes in the
          Udev rules.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 11, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Changed url for the SBU pages to a generic 
          location.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning 
          charmap specifications.  Thanks to Dan Nicholson.
          Closes ticket #1813.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain"
          referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not
          get included later in gcc-pass2.
          Closes ticket #1822.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24.
          Closes ticket #1808.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 10, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Specified the full path to
          <command>modprobe</command> in the example modprobe rule.
          Closes ticket #1812.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Remove the
          <command>locale country</command> command from the heuristic to
          determine the locale in the Bash Shell Startup Files since it
          doesn't produce results in all locales.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 7, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt] - Updated module-init-tools download information as it
          has a new maintainer.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>June 10, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Added <command>gettext.sh</command> to list of programs
	  installed by gettext, similarly <command>nologin</command> for shadow,
	  <command>grub-set-default</command> for grub, <command>enc2xs</command>
	  and <command>instmodsh</command> for perl, <command>slabtop</command>
	  for procps, <command>flock</command> and <command>tailf</command> for
	  util-linux, <command>bootlogd</command> for sysvinit, <command>manpath
	  </command>for man-db, <command>filefrag</command> for e2fsprogs.
	  Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 31, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.16.19.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.33.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.96.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[gerard] - Added <command>tee</command> to chapter 6's Glibc
          <command>make check</command> so the output can be seen on screen
          as well as captured in the log file.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 30, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed an out of date comment regarding having to
          run <command>pwconv</command> to reset passwords after enabling
          password shadowing.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>getunimap</command>,
          <command>setlogons</command>, and <command>setvesablank</command> from
          the list of programs installed by kbd.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the
          patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 30, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>swapdev</command> from the list of
            files installed by util-linux.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 27, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove the 'refer back's in the gcc-pass2 and
          chapter06/gcc pages. Better organizes the commands and data so that
	  the flow of the book is not lost.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a note about installing spell files for
          Vim in a language other than English.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Correct Vim's installation of man pages to work
          well with Man-DB. Patch from Alexander Patrakov and Ag Hatzim.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 26, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Some version corrections in the vim page.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 25, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to Vim-7.0. Fixes #1793.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed generation of diff's man page.
	  Thanks Randy McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix.
	  Fixes #1800.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 22, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Fixed a constant support question asked in #IRC and
 	  the mailing lists about shadow's additional sed command
	  for cracklib. Using a complete sed command instead.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 15, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-config-20060515. This adds the rule
          to create /dev/usb nodes as well as making the rules files slightly
          more modular by reorganizing which rules go to which files. This is a
          very minor update.</para>
        </listitem>
       <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.32.</para>
        </listitem>
         <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-092.</para>
        </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 14, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated SBU and disk usage values.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Created packages.ent. Moved data about packages
          to packages.ent as entities.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 12, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.16.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 9, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated packages and patches sizes.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 8, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Made the directory tree creation more concise and
          removed the extraneous /opt/* hierarchy (it is not required by
          FHS). Closes ticket #1656.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 7, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.14.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Use ext3 filesystem instead of ext2.
	  Resolves ticket #1792.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 6, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added MD5 sums for packages and patches.
	  Resolves ticket #1788.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 3, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.16.13.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current
          findings. Resolves ticket #1657.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent
          leakage reports.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 2, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC
          and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
          it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 1, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
          Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
          and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
          re-install its binaries.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
          udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
          program.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 27, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
          acknowledgements.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 23, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
          ownership. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 22, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
          wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
          ticket #1779.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 21, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
          required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
          for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for reviewing the
          wording.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
          R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 20, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
          Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
          is required on the host system.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
          for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 19, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
          software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
          and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
          Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 18, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
          Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
          build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
          information is complete enough at this point to close out the
          long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
          and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 15, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
          that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 14, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
          command changes.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
          replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
          inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
          Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 13, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
          removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
          Shadow.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 12, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
          Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
          Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
          convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
          Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
        </listitem>
       <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
          in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
          the symlink we used to create.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 11, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 8, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
          in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
          programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
          slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
          'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 6, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
          links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 2, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
          and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
          mounting of kernel filesystems before the package management page and
          rewrote the page to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel
          filesystems while outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering
          chroot and remounting kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list
          of dirs created in chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 30, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
          Man-DB.  Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
          and Udev-088.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 29, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
          to convert its UTF-8 man pages.  Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
          the script and commands.  Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>March 22, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated to
          lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

   <listitem>
      <para>March 21, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
          hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
          udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 18, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
          is run automatically by the Makefile.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the
          patch.  Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
          tempfile command.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.  Fixes ticket
          #1713.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
          patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
          installed.  Fixes #1690.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 11, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 8, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
          does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
          Patrakov.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
          present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 7, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
          upload firmware to devices that need it.  Improve explanations of
          device and module handling.  Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
          LFS-style patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 3, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
          to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>March 1, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
          symlinks.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
          help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>February 27, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
          upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>February 20, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
          keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
          expanded by the shell.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>February 19, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
          to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
          every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
          --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile.  Thanks to Greg Schafer
          for the report and the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
          vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
          Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
          instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml.  Add
          &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
          <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
          can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>February 10, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
          changes.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>February 8, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
          reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
          module loading.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>February 3, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Create the
          <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
          can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
          hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
          download.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>February 2, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
          enable custom rules to be written more easily.  Also, change the
          rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
          bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript.
          Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 30, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
          on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
          of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
          Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
          pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 29, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
          readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 26, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
          allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
          for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
          sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
          Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
          section.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 25, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
          patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
          the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
          and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
          6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
          so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
          Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
          chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
          Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
          issue.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
          <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
          coreutils' test coverage.  Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689.  Thanks to
          Alexander Patrakov.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management.  Thanks to
          the BLFS project for the text.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 24, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 23, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel.  Thanks
          to Tushar for the report.  Fixes bug 1683.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
          compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB.  Thanks to Alexander
          Patrakov for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 20, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
          vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
          it out.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 17, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
          to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 10, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
          difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
          to Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
          gccbug.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 7, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
          /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
          'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl.  Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
          for explaining this.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
          will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
          use mktemp.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
          '-lpthread' overrides.  Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
          Randy McMurchy.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 5, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
          have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
          Alexander Patrakov.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
          configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
          chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 31, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
          to be repeatable.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 21, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
          Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
          configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
          bug 1610.  Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
          Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 16, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
          testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
          allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
          Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
          bug 1670).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
          with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
          Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
          and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
          the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
          Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
          in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
        </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
          packages (fixes bug 1664).  Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
          and analysis of affected packages.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 26, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
          threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
          man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
          a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
          for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
          McMurchy for the report).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
          unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
          documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
          package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 16, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
          chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 15, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
          to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 14, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
          gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
          gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
          Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 12, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
          is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
          Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
          issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
          Chris Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 11, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
          as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 10, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
          Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
          of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
          GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646).  Also change the --libexecdir
          option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
          convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
          toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
          /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
          (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
          Huntwork for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
          system (fixes bug 1651).  Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
          report and the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
          to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
          toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
          testsuite (fixes bug 1597).  Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
          and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
          the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
          the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
          Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
          and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
          of LFS.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 29, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
          the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
          required.  The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
          Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 22, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 21, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 15, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
          (fixes bug 1639).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules.
          file</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 9, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
          directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 8, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
          Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 4, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
          script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
          and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 29, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
          bug 1629).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
          (fixes bug 1612).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 26, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 24, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 20, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 17, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
          &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
          and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
          as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 15, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
          vulnerability.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 8, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 5, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
          when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
          ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 2, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
          <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
          so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
          to actually work.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
          <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
          instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
          for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
          gcc-pass2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
          builds for consistency</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
          condition when deleting files.  Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
          chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
          fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
          rules (fixes bug 1622).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils' binaries to /bin as
          they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
          specs file and private include directory live.  Additionally, don't
          assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
          filenames.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
          instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
          from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
          advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
          (fixes bug 1615).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
          bug 1603).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
          ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
          bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
          test (bug 1611).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
          system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
          (fixes bug 1601).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
          to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
          of chapter 6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
          library (Bug 1608).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
          from BLFS first.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
          modeline vulnerability.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  30th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
          (Randy McMurchy).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
          as it's no longer used in the book</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  29th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
          The test no longer fails under GCC-4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  27th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
          compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  26th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
          installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
          instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
          license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  23rd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
          so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
          that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
          document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
          acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  22nd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
          obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
          needed.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  19th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
          it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
          and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
          of the specs patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
          process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
          multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
          need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
          of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  16th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
          fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
          gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
          5 and 6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  15th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
          Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
          where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
          gcc-4.0.1</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  13th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  8th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  6th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
          as it is not needed.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  5th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
        </listitem>
          <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 14, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 13, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 12, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 11, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
  and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>

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