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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>2007-06-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Libtool-1.5.24, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2038">#2038</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-406, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2036">#2036</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[alexander] - Updated inetutils MD5 sum. Upstream has
          re-released the tarball with the only changes being relicensing
          under GPLv3 or later, and re-autotooling.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-06-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[alexander] - Use stable download location for Man-Pages.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-06-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.60, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2034">#2035</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-06-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-112, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2030">#2030</ulink>.</para>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.56, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2034">#2034</ulink>.</para>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.21.5, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2027">#2027</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-06-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to file-4.21, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2017">#2017</ulink>.</para>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to less-403, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2019">#2019</ulink>.</para>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.55, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2028">#2028</ulink>.</para>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.31, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2025">#2025</ulink>.</para>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to tar-1.17, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2029">#2029</ulink>.</para>
	</listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-06-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added a note about possible LiveCD issues on newer
          hardware and asking for testers. See <ulink
          url="&lfs-ticket-root;1938">#1938</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added explanations to Bash testsuite commands.
          Closes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1938">#1938</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-06-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Adjusted locale settings for Bash testsuite run and
          kernel <command>make menuconfig</command> command. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1938">#1938</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-06-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Made more prominent that the headers in the system's
          include directory must be ones against which Glibc was compiled.
          Fixes  <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2024">#2024</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.21.3, Man-Pages-2.51 and
          TCL-8.4.15.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2020">#2020</ulink>,
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2021">#2021</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2022">#2022</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-05-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-111.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1998">#1998</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix an overly aggressive sed, which prevented
          several of Shadow's man pages from being installed instead of just
          groups(1).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.48.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2000">#2000</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-05-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed the toolchain sanity check after GCC
          to reference the /usr/local/include directory. Thanks to David
          Murphy for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-05-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Incorporate latest upstream patches for Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-110. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1992">#1992</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Incorporate latest upstream patches for Readline.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1991">#1991</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a patch from upstream to fix issues in Ncurses
          found by the Coverity static code analysis tool. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1995">#1995</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.46. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1994">#1994</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.21.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1993">#1993</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] -  Incorporate latest upstream patches for Bash.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-04-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade to LFS-Bootscripts-20070420.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-04-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Increase the version of Bison required on host
          systems to 1.875.  Bash doesn't work correctly with versions less than
          that.  Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1977">#1977</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Change all references to
          <filename>/etc/adjtime</filename> in the Util-Linux sources to
          <filename>/var/lib/hwclock/adjtime</filename>.  Previously, only
          <filename>hwclock/hwclock.c</filename> was changed, which meant that
          man pages contained references to the non-FHS compliant location.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1984">#1984</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-108. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1976">#1976</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.44. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1987">#1987</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-db-2.4.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1975">#1975</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1983">#1983</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1986">#1986</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1989">#1989</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove File's reg_startend patch.  It is not
          necessary on Glibc-based systems.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for the
          report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1982">#1982</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-04-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Install su from coreutils in chapter 5 as su-tools.
          Use su-tools to run test suites from coreutils and bash as user nobody.
          Fixes #1877.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-04-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.20.4. Updated linux-headers instructions
                 in chapter 5 to match instructions in chapter 6. The INSTALL_HDR_PATH is no longer
                 forcibly removed.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed a typo in the readjusting section.
          Reported by Steve Crosby.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the
          latest 011-015 patches from upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Readline fixes patch to include the
          latest 002 patch from upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Don't install the kernel headers in
          <filename class="directory">/usr/include/scsi</filename> as the ones
          provided by Glibc are preferred.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Force <command>ldd</command> to use
          <command>/bin/bash</command> since it contains Bash-specific
          syntax.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - When readjusting the GCC specs file, ensure
          that GCC will search for the system headers in /usr/include. An
          addition to the toolchain sanity checks has been made to test
          this. This fix originates from DIY Linux.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Included the branch update patch for the
          temporary Glibc in Chapter 5 to help minimize differences with the
          final Glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new users and
          do not create mail spool files for them.  Add a
          <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem> group so that if
          Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new users, it can
          do so without issuing a warning.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1850">#1850</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1971">#1971</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1974">#1974</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest
          patch from upstream.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1973">#1973</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout
          Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since
          the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed
          in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates
          from DIY Linux.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1954">#1954</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all
          upstream patches up to 206.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1969">#1969</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1967">#1967</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1968">#1968</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-03-1</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and
	  notices to appear before affected commands.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages
          builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2.
          Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers
          installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1965">#1965</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1964">#1964</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1930">#1930</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1960">#1960</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1961">#1961</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for
          <command>cpan</command> and <command>prove</command> from the
          Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf
          to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some
          commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and
          Autoconf pages.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev
          documentation install command since it is already created by
          udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing
          any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit
          the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only
          generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris
          Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching
          the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
          in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
          note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
          NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
          script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
          to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes
          part of <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Move <command>readlink</command> to
          <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> because
          <function>sysreadlink</function> in Udev's shell functions may call
          it before <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> has been
          mounted. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1913">#1913</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove some <command>chmod</command> and
          <command>chown</command> commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as
          they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1953">#1953</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1949">#1949</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1951">#1951</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1950">#1950</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-02-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1948">#1948</ulink> and the
          udev_retry script.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-01-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn
          and udev-config tarballs.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1932">#1932</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not
          required after upgrading to Readline-5.2.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1942">#1942</ulink>.  Thanks to Alexander
          Patrakov for the report and fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to
          fix a multibyte-related issue.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1945">#1945</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer
          in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1941">#1941</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1926">#1926</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1944">#1944</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1940">#1940</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1928">#1928</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1936">#1936</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1924">#1924</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1925">#1925</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1923">#1923</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1946">#1946</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1934">#1934</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-01-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-12-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
          in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
          thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-12-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
          built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
          <filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
          <filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
          the report and fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-11-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
          Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
          before starting chapter 6.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
            <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
            <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
            Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
            moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
          <command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
          configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
          the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
          by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
          This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8).  Thanks
          to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
          Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
          changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
          <ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
          this thread.</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
           overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
           to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
           Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
         </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
          required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
          the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-11-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
          Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-11-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
          and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
          Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-11-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
          bus-position-based persistence is going to be used.  Fixes #1912.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-11-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
          <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
          the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>.  Remove the
          warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
          Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
          Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch.  Drop the
          &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
          076.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-10-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
          unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
          &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
          unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
          type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
          causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
          preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function.  Thanks to Robert
          Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
          unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
          the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
          &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
          bug when parsing comments.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-10-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
          locations for network devices.  Fixes #1904.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-10-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
          doc files.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-10-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
          the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
          Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-10-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18.  This version
          also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
          of the rules.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-10-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
          latest version of Linux.  Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
          &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
          kernel sources.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
          should be extras/).  Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
          heads-up.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
          7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
          on not quoting EOF.  Fixes #1883.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
          than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
          in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
          Glibc-2.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
          patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
          syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
          for textual suggestions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
          Fixes #1876.  Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
          be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
          /etc/resolv.conf.  Fixes #1870.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
          Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
            file.  Fixes #1837.  Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel.  Thanks to
            Peter Ennis.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
            upgrading to m4-1.4.5.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
            of its tests to fail.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
          Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
                versions.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-07-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>

</sect1>