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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>January 23, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
          compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB.  Thanks to Alexander
          Patrakov for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 20, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
	  vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing it out.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 17, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
	  to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 10, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
          difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
          to Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
          gccbug.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 7, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
          /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
          'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl.  Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
          for explaining this.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
          will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
          use mktemp.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
          '-lpthread' overrides.  Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
          Randy McMurchy.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 5, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
          have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
          Alexander Patrakov.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
          configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
          chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 31, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
          to be repeatable.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 21, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
          Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
          configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
          bug 1610.  Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
          Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
          allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
          Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
          bug 1670).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
          with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
          Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
          and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
          the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
          Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
          in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
        </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
          packages (fixes bug 1664).  Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
          and analysis of affected packages.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 26, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
          threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
          man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
          a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
          for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
          McMurchy for the report).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
          unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 24, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
          documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
          package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 16, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
          chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 15, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
          to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 14, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
          gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
          gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
          Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 12, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[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>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 11, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
          as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
          of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
          GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646).  Also change the --libexecdir
          option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
          convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
          toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
          /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
          (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
          Huntwork for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[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>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[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>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[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>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
          the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
          the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
          Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
          and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
          of LFS.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 29, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
          the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
          required.  The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
          Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 22, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 21, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 15, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
          (fixes bug 1639).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
          file</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 9, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
          directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 8, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
          Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 4, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
          script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
          and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 29, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
          bug 1629).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
          (fixes bug 1612).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 26, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 24, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 20, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 17, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
          &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
          and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
          as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 15, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
          vulnerability.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 8, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 5, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
          when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
          ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>September 2, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
          <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
          so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
          to actually work.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
          <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
          instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
          for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
          gcc-pass2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
          builds for consistency</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
          condition when deleting files.  Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
          chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
          fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
          rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
          they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
          specs file and private include directory live.  Additionally, don't
          assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
          filenames.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
          instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
          from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
          advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
          (fixes bug 1615).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
          bug 1603).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
          ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
          bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
          test (bug 1611).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
          system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
          (fixes bug 1601).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
          to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
          of chapter 6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
          library (Bug 1608)</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
          from BLFS first.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
          modeline vulnerability.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  30th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
          (Randy McMurchy).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
          as it's no longer used in the book</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  29th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
          The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  27th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
          compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  26th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
          installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
          instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
          license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  23rd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
          so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
          that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
          document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
          acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  22nd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
          obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
          needed.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  19th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
          it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
          and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
          of the specs patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
          process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
          multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
          need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
          of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  16th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
          fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
          gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
          5 and 6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  15th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
          Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
          where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
          gcc-4.0.1</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  13th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  8th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  6th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
          as it is not needed.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>July  5th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
        </listitem>
          <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 14, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 13, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 12, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 11, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>April 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
  and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>

</sect1>