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<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
<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>

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  Every package in the book is listed in the "Upgraded to:" section.
  Comment/uncomment as needed. DO NOT delete any of these lines unless that
  package is removed from the book entirely.
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<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<!-- <listitem><para>Autoconf &autoconf-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Automake &automake-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bash &bash-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Binutils &binutils-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bison &bison-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Bzip2 &bzip2-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Coreutils &coreutils-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>DB &db-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>DejaGNU &dejagnu-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Diffutils &diffutils-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>E2fsprogs &e2fsprogs-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Expect &expect-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>File &file-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Findutils &findutils-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Flex &flex-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Gawk &gawk-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GCC &gcc-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Gettext &gettext-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Glibc &glibc-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Grep &grep-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Groff &groff-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>GRUB &grub-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Gzip &gzip-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Hotplug &hotplug-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>IANA-Etc &iana-etc-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Inetutils &inetutils-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>IPRoute2 &iproute2-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Kbd &kbd-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Less &less-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>LFS-Bootscripts &lfs-bootscripts-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Libtool &libtool-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux &linux-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux-Libc-Headers &linux-libc-headers-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>M4 &m4-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Make &make-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Man-DB &man-db-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Man-pages &man-pages-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Mktemp &mktemp-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Module-Init-Tools &module-init-tools-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Ncurses &ncurses-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Patch &patch-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Perl &perl-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Procps &procps-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Psmisc &psmisc-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Readline &readline-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Sed &sed-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Shadow &shadow-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Sysklogd &sysklogd-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>SysVinit &sysvinit-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Tar &tar-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>TCL &tcl-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Texinfo &texinfo-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Udev &udev-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Util-Linux &util-linux-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Vim &vim-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Zlib &zlib-version;</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Downgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Groff &groff-version;-&groff-patchlevel;</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&bzip2-bzgrep-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&bzip2-docs-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&gawk-segfault-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&gcc-specs-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Berkeley DB-&db-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>MAN-DB-&man-db-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&mktemp-tempfile-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&perl-libc-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&shadow-configure-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-linkonce-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>iproute2-2.6.11-050330-remove_db-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Man-1.6b</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>perl-5.8.6-libc-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.3-security_fix-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that
gccbug will use mktemp.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name,
and remove the '-lpthread' overrides.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news
server until we actually have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8
support. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's
--with-libc configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example
mkswap command in chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).
</para></listitem>

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

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

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

<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Pass a valid path to
module-init-tools' --prefix configure switch and remove the now unnecessary
--mandir switch</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [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>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>December 13, 2005 [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>

<listitem><para>December 12, 2005 [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>

<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
</listitem>
  
<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [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>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>December 7, 2005 [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>

<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [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>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not
having to dump/check a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [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>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [manuel]: Changed --strip-path to
--strip-components in the unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite
package.</para></listitem>

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

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

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

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

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

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

<listitem><para>November 14, 2005 [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>

<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 11, 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]: Install the binaries from Less to
/usr/bin instead of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 7, 2005 [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>

<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Remove the optimization related
warnings from the toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
<filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename> (bug 1610).
Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy Huntwork for the fix.</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 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</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 3, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>November 3, 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 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [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>

<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [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>

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

<listitem><para>October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
</listitem>

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

<listitem><para>October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 15, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</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 9, 2005 [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>

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

<listitem><para>October 8, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
</listitem>

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

<listitem><para>October 4, 2005 [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>
 
<listitem><para>September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add more explicit reader
prerequisites (fixes bug 1629).</para></listitem>

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

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

<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
</listitem>

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

<listitem><para>September 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the
unnecessary &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17, 2005 [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>

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

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

<listitem><para>September 6, 2005 [ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect
test failures.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>September 5, 2005 [ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math
tests in glibc.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [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>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2, 2005 [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>September 2, 2005 [matt]: Avoid the potential race condition
when invoking <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [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>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the
upstream fix for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command>
 commands from gcc-pass2.</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [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>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating
to configuring rules (fixes bug 1622)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 18th, 2005 [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>August 18th, 2005 [ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's
handling of filenames.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 16th, 2005 [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>August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
</listitem>

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

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with
--enable-shadowgrp as advised by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test
failures in GCC (fixes bug 1615).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added patch to install documentation
for bzip2 (fixes bug 1603).</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [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>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix
for the failing test (bug 1611).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required
on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl
data files (fixes bug 1601).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [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>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node
creation at the start of chapter 6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for
expect's installed library (Bug 1608)</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's
installed files.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address
the latest modeline vulnerability.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  30th, 2005 [matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash
documentation (Randy McMurchy).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml as it's no longer used in the book</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.  The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>July  26th, 2005 [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>July  26th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds license and copyright information to the previous version.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  23rd, 2005 [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>July  23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once
it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>July 18th, 2005 [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>July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds,
to prevent multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 17th, 2005 [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>

<listitem><para>July  16th, 2005 [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>July  16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce
patches for gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both
chapters 5 and 6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build
with gcc-4.0.1</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [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>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with gcc-4.0.1</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  6th, 2005 [archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header
patch out again as it is not needed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para></listitem>

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

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

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 15, 2005 [jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para></listitem>

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

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

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

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

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

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