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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>

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    <listitem>
      <para>Date</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
      <para>2010-07-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-160.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2711">#2711</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.34.1.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2709">#2709</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.66.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2705">#2705</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-07-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated discussion of building packages
           in parallel. Fixes 
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2712">#2712</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated dependencies for GRUB and Glibc.
           Thanks to splotz90 for the patch. Fixes 
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2716">#2716</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Clarified wording about device creation
           when mounting virtual filesystems. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2715">#2715</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-07-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Fixed creation of a GRUB boot disk.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2706">#2706</ulink>. Thanks to
           Sebastian Plotz for the report and fix.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-07-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[robert] - Fixed the util-linux tarball url.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-07-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Clarified that SBU data is not included in 
           Chapter 5, but is included in Chapter 6.  Thanks to 
           littlebat for the patch.
           Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2702">#2702</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Expand and reformat notes concerning
           grub.cfg.</para>
        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to util-linix-ng-2.18. 
           Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2681">#2681</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-07-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Minor text correction.
           Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2701">#2701</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to udev-158.  Also add a new
           udev-testfiles tarball and an instuction to make check.
           Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2692">#2692</ulink> and
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2700">#2700</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.88dsf.
           Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2677">#2677</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Added new CFLAGS options to zlib configure
           instruction in order to prevent some seg faults when building
           with gcc-4.5.
           Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2691">#2691</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated explanation of glibc timeout 
           errors and added TIMEOUTFACTOR as a possible solution.
           Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2683">#2683</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update installed programs lists.
           Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2678">#2678</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.25.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2695">#2695</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.0.0.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2687">#2687</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-157.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2676">#2676</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.18.1.1.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2686">#2686</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Libtool-2.2.10.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2690">#2690</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Expect-5.44.1.15.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2689">#2689</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add a consolidated set of patches to DejaGNU.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2684">#2684</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Module-Init-Tools-3.12.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2675">#2675</ulink>
          and <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2688">#2688</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add a sed to the current kernel to work around
          a bug in linux-2.6.34 and earlier.  This change will be removed 
          when incorporated into a subsequent version of the kernel. 
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2662">#2662</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update kernel version specified in Chapter 5
          glibc instructions to be consistent with host requirements and
          Chapter 6 glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[robert] - Make rmdir verbose when installing udev.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-06-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update host requirements to those packages
          built in LFS-6.3.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-05-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-156.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2671">#2671</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Pkg-config-0.25.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2670">#2670</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.11.2.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2669">#2669</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.18. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2660">#2660</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-05-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add additional information to clarify the 
          build process.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-05-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Reword the ABI note in gmp (chapter06) to correct
	  it, and to stress that it is for 32-bit. Fixes
	  <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2648">#2648</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add a patch to fix some internal problems 
          in Man-DB when viewing some pages. Thanks to William Immendorf
          for posting the patch.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2652">#2652</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add installed directories information to
          each package.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2657">#2655</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-05-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove an empty documentation directory created by
          Udev-154.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.34.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2668">#2668</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.12.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2667">#2667</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.12.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2666">#2666</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added latest upstream patches for Bash.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2665">#2665</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPC-0.8.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2664">#2664</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2663">#2663</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2659">#2659</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install Man-DB's documentation in a versioned
          directory. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2658">#2658</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Diffutils-3.0.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2656">#2656</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Correct documentation installation instructions for
          MPFR. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2655">#2655</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2643">#2643</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-154. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2639">#2639</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2638">#2638</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.34. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2628">#2628</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix incorrect version numbers in
          Bzip2.  Thanks to Jeremy Huntwork (LightCube OS) for the patch.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2624">#2624</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-05-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed a sed in Chapter 6 GCC instructions that
          has been fixed in GCC-4.5.0.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2653">#2653</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-05-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to fix a buffer overflow 
          errror in tar.  The fix is specific to building with gcc-4.5
          and later.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2651">#2610</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added precedures for the new diffutils test
          suite.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2650">#2650</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Made minor text changes in Chapter 5, gawk
          and Chapter 6, patch.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2649">#2649</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Made several text changes in Section v,
          Rationale for Packages in the Book. Thanks to Chris 
          Staub for the patch.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2644">#2644</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add file to Chapter 5 to remove several warning
          messages in Chapter 6 binutils.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2640">#2640</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-04-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to GCC-4.5.0, including the addition of its
          new dependency, MPC.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2636">#2636</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Perl-5.12.0.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2635">#2635</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Kbd-1.15.2.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2634">#2634</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Remove the now unused --docdir parameter for Udev.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2633">#2633</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Psmisc-22.11.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2631">#2631</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Move <command>killall</command> to
          <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> so that installs with a
          separate <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> partition and no
          <package>Sysvinit</package> installed will boot.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2622">#2622</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.6.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2621">#2621</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Add upstream fixes 001-005 for Bash.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2620">#2620</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Remove the Vim fixes patch as it is out of date and
          looks to be applying fixes still in upstream's development cycle.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2597">#2597</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-04-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Adjust zlib instructions to ensure .pc
          file and all libraries are in the proper location.
          Thanks to Chris Staub.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2630">#2630</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.6.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2617">#2617</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.17.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2616">#2616</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Bison-2.4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2615">#2615</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add a sed to the tar command to fix an
          error in the latest release. The fix is from upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.33.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2608">#2608</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2607">#2607</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2606">#2606</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Tar-1.23. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2603">#2603</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Grub-1.98. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2602">#2602</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Remove commands no longer necessary in order to run
          the Bash test suite. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2601">#2601</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Binutils-2.20.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2599">#2599</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2010-03-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Man-pages-3.24. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2596">#2596</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to M4-1.4.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2594">#2594</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2592">#2592</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2587">#2587</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2583">#2583</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.17.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2581">#2581</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to Diffutils-2.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2577">#2577</ulink>. This also drops
          the i18n patch as it has been rejected upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgrade to GMP-5.0.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2572">#2572</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Post-LFS-6.6 cleanup.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>
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