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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  </itemizedlist>

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

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