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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>

<!-- 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>

-->
    <listitem>
      <para>2011-08-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Update to Udev-173. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2908">#2908</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Update to Linux-3.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2905">#2905</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add /etc/sysconfig to Creating Directories.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update boot logging to remove terminal escape
          sequences.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-08-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7.</para>
          <itemizedlist>
             <listitem><para>Make scripts compatible with initd format (see BLFS).</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para>Move functions and services to /lib/boot.</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para>Log boot messages to /run/var/bootlog.</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para>Move ifup/ifdown to /sbin.</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para>Move network device configuration files to
                             /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.*.</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para>Add IFACE variable to network configuration files.
                             </para></listitem>
             <listitem><para>Read optional configuration file /etc/sysconfig/init_params
                             in functions.</para></listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-07-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-172. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2904">#2904</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2903">#2903</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-07-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update location of POSIX Standard.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-07-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.0.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2900">#2900</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-2.6.39. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2901">#2901</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-06-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Glibc-2.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2883">#2883</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Tcl-8.5.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2896">#2896</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to GCC 4.6.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2897">#2897</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Binutils-2.21.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2898">#2898</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-06-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5-14.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2874">#2874</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to less-444. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2887">#2887</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to glib-2.28.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2886">#2886</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-06-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-2.6.39.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2894">#2894</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-22.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2889">#2889</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2893">#2893</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-06-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to grub-1.99. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2818">#2818</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-06-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update shadow location. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2888">#2888</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-06-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2884">#2884</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glib-2.28.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2881">#2881</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-171. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2880">#2880</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to XZ-5.0.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2879">#2879</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-05-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20110531.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-05-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix a typo in the PCRE instructions, and make
          Glib put its configuration in
          <filename class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-05-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-170. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2878">#2878</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2877">#2877</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Pkg-config-0.26, including its
          dependency of Glib and Glib's dependency of PCRE. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2876">#2876</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2875">#2875</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-05-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2872">#2872</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.07. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2871">#2871</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2870">#2870</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2869">#2869</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-05-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2868">#2868</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2867">#2867</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix a couple of test failures in Binutils, due to
          incompatibilities with GCC-4.6.x. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2866">#2866</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.19.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2865">#2865</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Don't create the
          <filename class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> directory anymore, as
          it is created in the udev bootscript now. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2864">#2864</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-04-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-168. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2862">#2862</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2861">#2861</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-04-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update cleanfs bootscript to 
          not clean /var/run or /var/lock because
          they are now linked to a fresh tmpfs.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-04-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add new /run mount point to top
          level directories.  Mount a tmpfs on /run in
          bootscripts.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - In Chapter 6, move File to before
          binutils to prevent some configure warnings.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.06. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2860">#2860</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2859">#2859</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2858">#2858</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-DB-2.6.0.2, including adding its
          dependency, libpipeline-1.2.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2857">#2857</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-443. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2856">#2856</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patch for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2855">#2855</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2853">#2853</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.0.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2852">#2852</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to XZ-Utils-5.0.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2851">#2851</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-167. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2850">#2850</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-04-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a sed to fix an intermittent test 
          failure in coreutils.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2833">#2833</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-04-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added optional instructions to allow a user
          to use an include directory to supplement ld.so.conf.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2843">#2843</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Rewrote General Compilation Instructions using
          better docbook structures and clarified a couple of points. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2725">#2725</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-03-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.38. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2849">#2849</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2848">#2848</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2847">#2847</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-03-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.26. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2846">#2846</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Dejagnu-1.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2845">#2845</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add patch to fix the sparse-fiemap test failure in
          Coreutils-8.10.  Thanks to Tadeus (Eus) Prastowo for the report and
          patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline-6.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash-4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2841">#2841</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.16. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2840">#2840</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2838">#2838</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPC-0.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2837">#2837</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.37.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2835">#2835</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-03-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-6.8 released.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>
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