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  <title>Changelog</title>

  <para>This is version 
        <phrase revision="sysv">&version;</phrase>
        <phrase revision="systemd">&versiond;</phrase>
  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>

<!-- Changelog template

    <listitem>
      <para>Date</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    Note:  If a change is only specific to sysv or systemd, then use
    <listitem revision="sysv"> or <listitem revision="systemd"> as
    appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
    -->
    <listitem>
      <para>2019-03-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-8.4 released.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4425">#4425</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.176. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4426">#4426</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to file-5.36. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4429">#4429</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem revision="systemd">
          <para>[renodr] - Add a security patch for systemd-240
          to fix a PID1 crash over D-Bus. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4428">#4428</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem revision="sysv">
      <para>2019-02-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Suppress /lib/systemd/ directory created by
          man-db-2.8.5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add an optional modification to the build
          procedure for ninja to allow use the the environment
          variable NINJAJOBS.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4423">#4423</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Fix a problem when building Python in
          Chapter 5 where some hosts may use host dependent 
          headers.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4421">#4421</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-26. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4422">#4422</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update host system requirements.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Simlify instructions for glibc in Chapter 5.
          Thanks to Romain Geissler for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.3.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4418">#4419</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.49.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4420">#4420</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Fix psmisc URL. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4418">#4418</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.32. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4417">#4417</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-02-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.3.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4412">#4412</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.29. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4415">#4415</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libpipeline-1.5.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4413">#4413</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4409">#4409</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.49.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4410">#4410</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-4.0.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4416">#4416</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.9.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4414">#4414</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-01-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[pierre] - Fix a bug introduced in tar-1.31, by adding
          a sed to the build instructions. Also remove an obsolete comment
          about a failing test.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem revision="systemd">
      <para>2019-01-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Regenerate the systemd man pages tarball with
          the Non-namespaced versions of the Docbook XSL Stylesheets.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem revision="systemd">
      <para>2019-01-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Add a security patch for systemd-240. This fixes
          CVE-2018-16865 and CVE-2018-16864 (memory corruption in journald
          leading to stack overflows / arbitrary code execution).
          Apply this as soon as you can. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4408">#4408</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-01-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4398">#4398</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to diffutils-3.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4401">#4401</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to tar-1.31. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4402">#4402</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.8.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4403">#4403</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4404">#4404</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to readline-8.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4401">#4405</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.20.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4406">#4406</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.33.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4407">#4407</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2019-01-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gzip-1.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4400">#4400</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2018i. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4399">#4399</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-12-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to linux-4.19.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4389">#4389</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4390">#4390</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to bison-3.2.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4391">#4391</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to sed-4.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4392">#4392</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to grep-3.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4393">#4393</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem revision="systemd">
          <para>[renodr] - Update to systemd-240. Contains a critical fix for
          systemd-tmpfiles (privilege escalation). Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4394">#4394</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to Python-3.7.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4395">#4395</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to groff-1.22.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4396">#4396</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-12-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Add a note to libffi about optimizing for the
          specific CPU in use at compile time. Similar to GMP, this causes
          Illegal Operation errors if the installation is moved to another
          system.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-12-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem revision='systemd'>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to dbus-1.12.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4385">#4385</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.19.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4387">#4387</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.49.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4388">#4388</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-12-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Move /etc/bash_completions.d/grub to a 
          better location. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4385">#4385</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to dejagnu-1.6.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4382">#4382</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.19.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4383">#4383</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.28.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4384">#4384</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-11-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.2.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4380">#4380</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem revision="sysv">
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.93. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4360">#4360</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-11-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to linux-4.19.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4381">#4381</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to systemd-239-6b4878d.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem revision="systemd">
          <para>[dj] - Add "wheel" group to systemd groups.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Add touch to the list of moved coreutils programs, and
          clarify necessity of the moves to meet FHS compliance.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-11-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Add "wheel" group to satisfy systemd
          requirements. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4376">#4376</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Add a sed to fix a bug in autoconf's test suite.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4372">#4372</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to tcl-8.6.9. Security update. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4375">#4375</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to openssl-1.1.1a. This is a security
          update. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4379">#4379</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem revision="systemd">
          <para>[renodr] - Update to systemd-239-25d1ba1. This fixes
          three security problems in systemd. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4377">#4377</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to linux-4.19.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4373">#4373</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to elfutils-0.175. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4374">#4374</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-11-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] -  Update to libcap-2.26. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4378">#4378</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-11-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem revision='sysv'>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update groups file for new eudev. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4369">#4369</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.48.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4371">#4371</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.2.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4370">#4370</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-11-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem revision='sysv'>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4365">#4365</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4367">#4367</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.19.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4368">#4368</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2018g. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4366">#4366</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-v2.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4353">#4353</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to gdbm-1.18.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4364">#4364</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to Python-3.7.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4361">#4361</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-10-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to iproute2-4.19.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4363">#4363</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to file-5.35. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4359">#4359</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to tzdata-2018f. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4358">#4358</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to meson-0.48.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4357">#4357</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to linux-4.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4356">#4356</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-10-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem revision="systemd">
          <para>[dj] - Removed incorrect link to /toold/lib64 in systemd
          instructions. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4355">#4355</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem revision="systemd">
          <para>[dj] - Added systemd-239-meson-0.48.0_fixes-1.patch to resolve
          build errors with meson.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to meson-0.48.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4351">#4351</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to linux-4.18.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4352">#4352</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-09-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem revision="systemd">
          <para>[dj] - Restore build of Util-Linux in chapter5 to avoid
          reciprocal dependency for Systemd.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Moved installation of Util-Linux and E2fsprogs after
          Procps to satisfy build order in the Systemd book. This has no effect
          on the SysV book.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-09-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Clean up of unneeded symbolic links.
          Reordered packages so version specific packages are
          built as late as possible in Chapter 6. Now building
          util-linux in Chapter 5 is unneeded and has been removed.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4345">#4345</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4349">#4349</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem revision='sysv'>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4350">#4350</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.174 (libelf). Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4348">#4348</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-23.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4347">#4347</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4346">#4346</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.18.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4344">#4344</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-09-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4342">#4342</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.47.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4341">#4341</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.18. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4340">#4340</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4338">#4338</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2018-09-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-8.3 released.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>
</sect1>