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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>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
      <para>2010-05-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to fix a buffer overflow 
          errror in tar.  The fix is specific to building with gcc-4.5
          and later.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2651">#2610</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added precedures for the new diffutils test
          suite.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2650">#2650</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Made minor text changes in Chapter 5, gawk
          and Chapter 6, patch.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2649">#2649</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Made several text changes in Section v,
          Rationale for Packages in the Book. Thanks to Chris 
          Staub for the patch.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2644">#2644</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add file to Chapter 5 to remove several warning
          messages in Chapter 6 binutils.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2640">#2640</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-04-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to GCC-4.5.0, including the addition of its
          new dependency, MPC.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2636">#2636</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Perl-5.12.0.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2635">#2635</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Kbd-1.15.2.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2634">#2634</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Remove the now unused --docdir parameter for Udev.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2633">#2633</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Psmisc-22.11.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2631">#2631</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Move <command>killall</command> to
          <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> so that installs with a
          separate <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> partition and no
          <package>Sysvinit</package> installed will boot.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2622">#2622</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.6.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2621">#2621</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Add upstream fixes 001-005 for Bash.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2620">#2620</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Remove the Vim fixes patch as it is out of date and
          looks to be applying fixes still in upstream's development cycle.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2597">#2597</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-04-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Adjust zlib instructions to ensure .pc
          file and all libraries are in the proper location.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2630">#2630</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.6.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2617">#2617</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.17.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2616">#2616</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Bison-2.4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2615">#2615</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add a sed to the tar command to fix an
          error in the latest release. The fix is from upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.33.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2608">#2608</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2607">#2607</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2606">#2606</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Tar-1.23. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2603">#2603</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Grub-1.98. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2602">#2602</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Remove commands no longer necessary in order to run
          the Bash test suite. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2601">#2601</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Binutils-2.20.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2599">#2599</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Man-pages-3.24. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2596">#2596</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to M4-1.4.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2594">#2594</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2592">#2592</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2587">#2587</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2583">#2583</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.17.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2581">#2581</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Diffutils-2.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2577">#2577</ulink>. This also drops
          the i18n patch as it has been rejected upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to GMP-5.0.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2572">#2572</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Post-LFS-6.6 cleanup.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>
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