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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>2008-01-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add Perl to the list of host requirements, as it is
          required by Glibc.  Thanks to Ben Collver for the report.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2112">#2112</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Mention <command>strace</command> as another means
          of logging installed files, and correct the URL of the Linux Standard
          Base specifications. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2073">#2073</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2130">#2130</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-418.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2124">#2124</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to File-4.23.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2125">#2125</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2123">#2123</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-12-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Readline.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2122">#2122</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.74. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2119">#2119</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2118">#2118</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2121">#2121</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-12-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2108">#2108</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2074">#2074</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Psmisc-22.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2104">#2104</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.70. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2110">#2110</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2109">#2109</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2106">#2106</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-416. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2105">#2105</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Gettext-0.17. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2103">#2103</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
          Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
          for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
          Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
          for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2116">#2116</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-11-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Fixed test for Debian binutils.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed obsolete note from Creating Symlinks section
          about continuation lines in udev rules.  Changed dailout group
          to uucp for udev rule compatability.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to the latest upstream patches for
          Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix a segfault in usb_id.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.16. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2084">#2084</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2090">#2090</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.67. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2078">#2078</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.23.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2088">#2088</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-409. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2087">#2087</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.23. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2091">#2091</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2095">#2095</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2089">#2089</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2098">#2098</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.21. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2086">#2086</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <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] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2018">#2018</ulink>.
          Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch,
          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>[jhuntwork] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2002">#2002</ulink>.
          Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch.</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] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.18.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2069">#2069</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>

  </itemizedlist>

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

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