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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>2013-08-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.23.2.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3386">#3386</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.53.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3385">#3385</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-07-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.10.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3383">#3383</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.0.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3382">#3382</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-07-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to systemd-206/udev-lfs-206-1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3384">#3384</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-07-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add comments about the kernel 
          <command>make defconfig</command> option when configuring 
          the kernel.  Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3379">#3379</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-3.10.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.10.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3380">#3380</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-07-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-14.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3373">#3373</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to systemd-205.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3375">#3375</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.52.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3376">#3376</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2013d.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3377">#3377</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.18.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3378">#3378</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-07-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change the --enable-kernel parameter 
          in glibc to 2.6.34 which is the minimum needed by
          the current udev packages.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-06-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.6.5. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3370">#3370</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.10. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3371">#3371</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.0.5. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3372">#3372</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-06-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.42.8. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3368">#3368</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.6.4. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3369">#3369</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.14. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3366">#3366</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.9.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3367">#3367</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-06-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.13.4. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3364">#3364</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.9.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3363">#3363</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-06-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gzip-1.6. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3362">#3362</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-06-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libpipeline-1.2.4. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3360">#3360</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.9.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3361">#3361</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-06-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.13.3. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3358">#3358</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update file program contents.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-06-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Util-linux-2.23.1. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3355">#3355</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gcc-4.8.1. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3356">#3356</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to procps-3.3.8. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3354">#3354</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.18.0. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3344">#3344</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.13.2. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3347">#3347</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gmp-5.1.2. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3352">#3352</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.9.4. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3348">#3348</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add a reference to a book on configuring
          the kernel.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update check program dependencies.  Thanks to 
          Gilles Espinasse for the patch. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3353">#3353</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Expand discussion of file system types and 
          make ext4 the example LFS partition type. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3346">#3346</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove unnecessary options in bootscripts
          due to mtab change.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change /etc/mtab to be a symbolic link
          to /proc/self/mounts.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.9.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3345">#3345</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Minor update to boot script mountfs 
          to ensure clean shutdown.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to gawk-4.1.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3343">#3343</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to linux-3.9.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3342">#3342</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to systemd/udev-lfs-204. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3341">#3341</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to gettext-0.18.2.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3298">#3298</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.9.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3339">#3339</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-05-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to linux-3.9.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3336">#3336</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to zlib-1.2.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3337">#3337</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>


    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add bc to Chapter 6 to support Linux-3.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3338">#3338</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3335">#3335</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to less-458. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3333">#3334</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to util-linux-2.23. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3311">#3311</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Libpipeline-1.2.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3333">#3333</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tzdata-2013c. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3332">#3332</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.51. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3331">#3331</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Check-0.9.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3330">#3330</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Use default locations for kbd files 
          because custom locations are no longer needed by the
          boot scripts.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to udev-202 (systemd-202). Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3329">#3329</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Linux-3.8.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3322">#3322</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Kmod-13. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3324">#3324</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Bison-2.7.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3327">#3327</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update list of installed libraries in GMP.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to udev-201 (systemd-201).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Fix a failure in the procps-ng test suite.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-04-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3320">#3320</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Systemd-200. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3317">#3317</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3321">#3321</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Expand tcl space for regular expressions
          needed for some tests.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Disable a g++ libmudflap test that always
          fails.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-03-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove notes about enabling LTO support; both GCC
          and Binutils enable it by default now.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add texinfo related seds to Binutils pass1 and pass2
          as hosts may have a new enough version of Texinfo to cause
          issues.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Use --disable-install-libiberty to prevent GCC from
          installing libiberty.a (thanks to Armin K. for the pointer).  Retain
          the existing sed, though, as the flag doesn't work correctly
          yet.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove the now unnecessary instructions that
          prevented GCC's info files from being built; GCC-4.8.0 contains
          upstream fixes.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-03-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.23.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3318">#3318</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Systemd-199. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3317">#3317</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Procps-NG-3.3.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3316">#3316</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Diffutils-3.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3315">#3315</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3313">#3313</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.8.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3312">#3312</ulink>. Thanks to Pierre
          Labastie for the patch on which this was based.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3310">#3310</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-03-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-lfs-198-3 to fix issues with libdrm
          installation in BLFS. Thanks to Nico P for the report, and to Armin
          for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-03-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-lfs-198-2 to fix issues with keymap
          installation in BLFS.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.50. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3308">#3308</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3307">#3307</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.1.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3306">#3306</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Dejagnu-1.5.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3305">#3305</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-5.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3304">#3304</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-03-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix a build issue with Check-0.9.9 on some hosts by
          adding the &quot;sysroot&quot; feature to Binutils. Thanks to Billy
          O'Connor, Yaacov-Yoseph Weiss and Pierre Labastie for the reports, and
          to Pierre again for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.16.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3303">#3303</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-4.2.45. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3301">#3301</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Systemd-198. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3300">#3300</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.48. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3299">#3299</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3297">#3297</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tzdata-2013b. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3296">#3296</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-03-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove extraneous ampersands in Kbd instructions.
          Thanks to Jason Daly for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2013-03-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-7.3 released.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>
</sect1>