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<title>Changelog</title>
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<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;"/>.</para>

<para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.
First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Perl 5.8.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Zlib 1.2.3</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&binutils-gcc4-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&bzip2-docs-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&bzip2-bzgrep-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&glibc-rtld-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&util-linux-umount-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&vim-security_fix-patch;</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch;</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>November 18, 2005 [manuel]: PDF fixes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 12, 2005 [matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining
a locale that is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous issues and for
reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 12, 2005 [matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a
separate step, as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 7, 2005 [matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes
on the host system (fixes bug 1651).  Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
report and the fix.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 5, 2005 [matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity
check in chapter 5 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of
a broken toolchain (bug 1581).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 4, 2005 [matt]: Correct the instructions for running
Module-Init-Tools' testsuite (fixes bug 1597).  Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar
Teredesai and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [manuel]: PDF fixes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 23, 2005 [manuel]: Added Bash documentation
installation. Added notes about libiconv and Cracklib. Fixed the installation
of Sed documentation. Replaced a patch for IPRoute2 by a sed 
command.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 19, 2005 [manuel]: Updated the acknowledgements to 
current trunk version. Ported some redaction changes in preface and chapter01 
pages. Moved chapter02 to part II. Added -v switches. Ported several typos 
and redaction fixes from trunk.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 19, 2005 [manuel]: Updated the stylesheets, Makefile
and related files to current trunk versions.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 15, 2005 [matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev
rules file (fixes bug 1639).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 15, 2005 [matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the
Udev rules file</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2005 [ken]: Added a patch to allow binutils
to be built from a host running gcc-4, updated glibc instructions for the rtld
patch, updated space/time for perl and zlib.</para></listitem> 	

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added a patch to fix a security
vulnerability in util-linux.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added the updated vim security patch.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Added the bzip2 security
and install docs patches.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Added the tempfile patch
for texinfo.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2005 [ken]: Update packages and patches in
the changelog to only reflect changes since 6.1.  Update zlib.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 13th, 2005 [ken]: Fix known errors in lists of
installed files and bump the perl version.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

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