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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>
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     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - More updates in dependencies list. Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated dependencies list. Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Fixed glibc-libidn tarball extension.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added remap attributes to userinput tags in packages
          pages to help adding package manager support and other extensions
          into jhalfs. Made all testsuite commands screen blocks for
          consistency.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos.
          Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
       <para>2007-09-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2055">#2055</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2068">#2068</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.64. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2061">#2061</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2070">#2070</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove --with-arch for GCC and adjust CFLAGS for
	  Glibc instead.
	  Thanks to Robert Connolly and Dan Nicholson for investigating how best
	  to adjust CFLAGS, and Greg Schafer for showing the technical
	  benefits of using CFLAGS with Glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2051">#2051</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2067">#2067</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added sect1info metainformation blocks to packages
          pages to help adding package manager support into jhalfs.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove -m64 from binutils and gcc pass 1. Tests show that the 32-bit binary
	  versions still produce the wanted 64-bit code.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Update explanatory text for the use of -m64.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Update explanatory text for GCC's --with-arch parameter.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Add --disable-bootstrap flags to GCC pass 2 and chapter 6 GCC,
          to achieve traditional LFS build methods with GCC 4.2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to FSF Binutils version 2.18.</para>
	</listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Use --with-arch=i486 only for x86. Also force '-m64' for 64-bit builds.
	  Lastly, use 'make' instead of 'make bootstrap' on gcc pass 1. The bootstrap is now default.</para>
	</listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>


    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Use --with-arch=i486 on GCC instead of -march=i486 with Glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Add -march=i486 to Glibc for x86 builds as default of i386 is
          incompatible.</para>
        </listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Make the sed to Glibc's test-installation.pl file
	  architecture independent.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix Perl-5.8.8 to build with GCC-4.2.1.
	  Have makedepend.SH check for 'command-line' as well as 'command line'.</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix Coreutils-6.9 and Gzip-1.3.12 to work with Glibc-2.6.1.
	  Rename the futimens function.</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Use a loop, find and sed instead of the gcc specs patch</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to Glibc 2.6.1</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Add --disable-shared to gcc pass 1. Requires adding
	  a libgcc_eh.a -> libgcc.a symlink.</para>
	</listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Since we're using HJL Binutils, add m4, bison and flex
	  back to chatper 5.</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to GCC 4.2.1</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to HJL Binutils-2.17.50.0.18</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Update commands to work with both x86 and x86_64</para>
	</listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Use '-n' when creating /tools/lib64 symlink.
	  Will fail if that directory or symlink already exists, instead of
	  creating an unwanted lib -> lib symlink inside of /tools/lib. Fix
	  from Dan Nicholson.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.</para>

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