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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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    <listitem>
      <para>Date</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
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    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.5. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3121">#3121</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.7.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3117">#3117</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.4.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3116">#3116</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.4.3.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3114">#3114</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Fix install error in iproute2.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3119">#3119</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update rare issues in bootscripts when using LVM
           or initramfs.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Add note about automake run time for tests. 
           Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3118">#3118</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - kbd-1.15.3 : go back to changing configure, and touch
           aclocal.m4 : thanks to Bryan for explaining the problem.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Remove --disable-perl-regexp switch from chapter
           5's Grep instruction.  It should be unnecessary now as there should
           be no way for the host's libraries to leak through to the chapter 5
           toolchain. Thanks to Jeremy Huntwork for the report.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.5.1.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3112">#3112</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Remove a couple of sed commands from Binutils'
           instructions, as the tests have been fixed upstream. Thanks to Waleed
           Hamra for the report.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.4.1.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3110">#3110</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Really remove the redundant program resizecons from kbd,
           by changing configure.ac instead of configure.  Thanks to xinglp.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Incorporate perl fixes from 2012-06-03
           in the perl patch.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.17. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3109">#3109</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.12.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3106">#3106</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Apply latest upstream patches for Bash.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3103">#3103</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-06-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Add pkg-config-0.26-internal-glib to the 
           book. Fixes 
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3105">#3105</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Add popt-1.16 to the book.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update Chapter 5 perl instructions
           for the LFS environment.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3104">#3104</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Copy all entries in /lib/udev/devices to 
           /dev in mountvirtfs. Fixes 
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3102">#3102</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Correct the location of various package's man
           pages. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3097">#3097</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.21.2. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3100">#3100</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.16.0.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3094">#3094</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.4.0.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3096">#3096</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.4.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3092">#3092</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.3. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3091">#3091</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Minor tweaks to mountkernfs boot script.
           Also fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3093">#3093</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Remove a bashism from the mountkernfs boot script.
           </para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Move the $time init capability from setclock
           to udev. Fixes 
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3085">#3085</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Remove and recreate $LFS/dev/shm in Section 6.2
           if it is a symbolic link. Fixes 
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3085">#3085</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Remove the redundant program resizecons from kbd and
           remove its man page (program was only installed on i?86, but man page
           was always installed).</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.6.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3089">#3089</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.17.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3083">#3083</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.41. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3084">#3084</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.5. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3080">#3080</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.5. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3079">#3079</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Remove sed from GCC pass 2 and chapter 6, which
           prevented the fixincludes script from being run; it is no longer run
           by default. Reported by Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Add /etc/lsb-release file in Chapter 9.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update LSB packages in BLFS.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.7. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3078">#3078</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Apply latest upstream patches for Bash.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3077">#3077</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Add back a patch for Glibc that prevents various
           BLFS programs, such as aplay, from segfaulting.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Various minor text changes to 
           both book and bootscripts.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-05-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Kbd-1.15.3. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2990">#2990</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.4. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3074">#3074</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.40. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3072">#3072</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.69. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3071">#3071</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.12. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3070">#3070</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.12. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3068">#3068</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - tidy some minor issues from the merge.
           </para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Incorporate changes developed and tested in the jh branch.
           </para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Update chapter 5 toolchain technical notes to match changes
           in build method.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Use --with-native-system-header-dir
           switch in chapter 5 gcc.  This replaces seds that were used previously
           to alter the CROSS_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR and NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR
           values to keep the toolchain searching for headers only in
           /tools/include and not /usr/include. Thanks to Pierre Labastie. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3066">#3066</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove --without-cloog and --without-ppl from chapter 5 gcc.
           These are unnecessary since it doesn't matter if pass 1 gcc is linked against
           host libs and it should be impossible for the build of pass 2 gcc to find host
           headers or libs.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust build method to use sysroot.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.3. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3067">#3067</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.39. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3065">#3065</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-8. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3064">#3064</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Change two group IDs to support a 
           legacy program. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3061">#3061</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.2. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3063">#3063</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.5. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3062">#3062</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Use su from chapter 6 Coreutils in the Bash
           instructions, instead of the one from chapter 5.  Install su as su
           rather than su-tools in chapter 5. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3057">#3057</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update networking bootscripts.  See
           bootscripts change log for details.
           Fixes 
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3053">#3053</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Change the location for the python gdb module 
           generated by gcc to the correct location. Fixes (again)
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3048">#3048</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-04-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3059">#3059</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.4. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3058">#3058</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-4.0.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3056">#3056</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.21.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3055">#3055</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.2. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3051">#3051</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.16 and drop the uname patch.
           Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3048">#3048</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Move a python module for gdb generated by gcc
           to a better location. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3048">#3048</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Adjust minimum version of xz-utils in Host
           Requirements.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Reword description of log files in section
           Creating Essential Files.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix building of Binutils with the
           -O3 compiler flag.  Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Add the GCC fix patch back to Glibc instructions
           to fix a build issue on 32-bit hosts.  Thanks to Pierre Labastie for
           the report.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.38. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3047">#3047</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3046">#3046</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.15. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3045">#3045</ulink>. Thanks to Andy
           Benton for the patch.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.7.0. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3044">#3044</ulink>. Thanks to Andy
           Benton for the patch.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.3.0. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3043">#3043</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Fix corner case in ipv4-static script. </para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3042">#3042</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-7. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3041">#3041</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-182. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3040">#3040</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Move optional LVM initialization to the end
           of the udev boot script so an LVM partition can be used for swap.
           </para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Remove GCC's cross-compile patch as it isn't
           required.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Apply new upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3037">#3037</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.11. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3036">#3036</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.37. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3034">#3034</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Workaround an issue in Gettext's configure script
           that can cause it to hang on certain hosts when determining the path 
           for Emacs Lisp files on certain hosts.  Reported by and fix provided
           by DJ Lucas.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Libpipeline-1.2.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3031">#3031</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-6. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3030">#3030</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.11. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3029">#3029</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.3. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3028">#3028</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.16. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3026">#3026</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3024">#3024</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3023">#3023</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.21. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3002">#3002</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-03-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-7.1 released.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>
</sect1>