lfs-book/chapter01/changelog.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>

<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
  <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>

  <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>2009-07-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Correct the commands for running Module-Init-Tools'
          testsuite. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2468">#2468</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.64. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2467">#2467</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2465">#2465</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2464">#2464</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.22. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2463">#2463</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2457">#2457</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove an unnecessary sed from Kbd's commands.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2454">#2454</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Prevent E2fsprogs from installing the fsck wrapper
          as this is provided by Util-Linux-NG. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2453">#2453</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove an unnecessary sed from File's commands.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2452">#2452</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream Vim patches. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2449">#2449</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream Bash patches. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2450">#2450</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.4.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2451">#2451</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.03. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2448">#2448</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.30.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2446">#2446</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Move GDBM build before Perl, so that Perl's
          GDBM_File module will be built. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2447">#2447</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Prevent E2fsprogs from overwriting Util-Linux-NG's
          version of <command>uuidd</command>. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2443">#2443</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2441">#2441</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove Berkeley DB, as Man-DB prefers GDBM and the
          only other program that requires bdb is arpd, which is specialist
          enough to be catered for by BLFS.  Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the
          report. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2440">#2440</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-ng-2.16.  Removed it from
          Chapter 5.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2391">#2391</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to udev-145.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2433">#2433</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.41.8. 
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2439">#2439</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove obsolete instructions about installing
          man pages for optional programs.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the 
          report and patch.  Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2436">#2436</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add description of the --disable-libuud and 
          --disable-blkid parameters for E2fsprogs.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-07-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.16-rc2. This
          is temporary until the release version of 2.16 comes out.
          See <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2391">#2391</ulink> for
          more details.</para>
          <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
              <para>Remove E2fsprogs in Chapter 5.  It was only there as a
              dependency of Util-Linux-NG to provide
              <systemitem class="library">libuuid</systemitem> and
              <systemitem class="library">libblkid</systemitem>, which
              Util-Linux-NG provides for itself now.</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Move Util-Linux-NG to before E2fsprogs in Chapter 6 and add
              &quot;--disable-libblkid&quot; and &quot;--disable-libuuid&quot;
              configure switches to E2fsprogs so that it uses Util-Linux-NG's
              versions.</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Add Pkg-Config as it's a pre-requisite of E2fsprogs' new
              configure switches.</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Remove &quot;--with-col&quot; from Man-DB's configure
              command as Man-DB is now installed after Util-Linux-NG so
              <command>col</command> is found automatically.</para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed-4.2.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2427">#2427</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.30.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2430">#2430</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Correct GCC <command>sed</command> command to add
          -fomit-frame-pointer for non-bootstrapped builds of GCC-4.4.x.  Thanks
          to Guy Dalziel for the report and fix.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2428">#2428</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-06-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fixed the generation of the HTML documentation for
          Sed. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2422">#2422</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added upstream Readline patches. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2426">#2426</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2420">#2420</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.30. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2424">#2424</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2423">#2423</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2421">#2421</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>


    <listitem>
      <para>2009-06-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to Udev-143.  Remove the testsuite
          dependencies from Appendix C.  Fixes <ulink
          url="&lfs-ticket-root;2425">#2425</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-06-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a list entry in the help section to
          suggest that the results of the version check script be 
          posted when asking for help.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-06-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Add a sed to glibc to fix the constants passed
          to futex(2) in 32-bit builds with certain --enable-kernel values,
          including our 2.6.18.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-06-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change instruction for minimum kernel version
          to 2.6.18 in glibc. This corresponds to the stealth changes made to 
          the host requirements page made on May 26.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-06-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove no longer used zlib patch from patches
          list in Chapter 3.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update grub make instruction to ensure all
          checks pass.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add a reference to the kernel-configuration hint.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2184">#2184</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
         <para>[gerard] - Commented out the <quote>LFS next to
         existing systems</quote> hint reference. Addresses <ulink
         url="&lfs-ticket-root;2411">#2411</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update build sizes and SBU times for all
          packages.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2419">#2419</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Revert zlib to doing separate builds for
          static and dynamic libraries to ensure the -fPIC parameter
          is set properly in both cases.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2329">#2329</ulink> (again).</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update gettext patch to -2 for an additional 
          bug fix.  Thanks to Robert Connolly for the patch.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2417">#2417</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[gerard] - Split the Linux API Headers index terms into
          individual entries rather than one long line. Fixes excessive
          long lines in the Index.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update Chapter 5 glibc wording concerning 
          locales.  
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2410">#2410</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>[gerard] - Removed <quote>From Power Up To Bash Prompt</quote>
          reference. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2409">#2409</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to GMP-4.3.1.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2416">#2416</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Various edits. Update glibc to fix a
          make check error.</para>
        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[gerard] - Various edits. Partialy addresses <ulink
           url="&lfs-ticket-root;2092">#2092</ulink> and <ulink
           url="&lfs-ticket-root;2326">#2326</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Clarified the interpretation of test results
          in GMP. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2406">#2406</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed redundencies in ncurses.  Thanks to Chris
          Staub. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2403">#2403</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Various minor text changes.  Thanks to Chris
          Staub. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2407">#2407</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change the bootsripts and udev configuration
          so the rtc is set by udev upon boot. Removed aio device
          from udev configuration.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2266">#2266</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2297">#2297</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Expand package management discussion and
          add a section on deploying an LFS system to another host. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2073">#2073</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Shorten the command used to adjust the linker in
          Chapter 6.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the improvement.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2404">#2404</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.4.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2408">#2408</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.10.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2401">#2401</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.29.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2402">#2402</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2400">#2400</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add GDBM as a pre-requisite for Man-DB.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2298">#2298</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add upstream Bash patches.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2397">#2397</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change reference to /etc/udev/rules.d to /lib/udev/rules.d
          in two instances.  Add a sed to fix zdiff operation.
          Finishes problems identified in 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2315">#2315</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Ignore error in ifdown script when determining status.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add gettext upstream patches.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2264">#2264</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add optimization (-O3 and -pipe) to
          glibc in Chapter 6.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2299">#2299</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove reference to watch program not
          supporting UTF-8 locales in the Bash Shell Startup
          Files section.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2310">#2310</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update gcc instruction explanations.
          Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2363">#2363</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add an explanation about using the barrier
          option in fstab.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2318">#2318</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add zlib-1.2.3-fPIC-1.patch which allows
          building static and dynamic libraries in one step.  Also
          moved the libraries to /usr/lib.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2329">#2329</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Make symbolic links installed by bzip2 relative.
          Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2396">#2396</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add creation of
          <filename>/etc/modprobe.conf</filename> to prevent ohci_hcd and
          uhci_hcd modules being loaded before ehci_hcd, and thus avoid a
          boot-time warning. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2280">#2280</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-142. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2395">#2395</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2394">#2394</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2392">#2392</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Procps-3.2.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2393">#2393</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Update table of languages &amp; encodings supported
          by Man-DB.  Remove alteration of man_db.conf, as the latest version of
          Man-DB handles the <filename class="symlink">/usr/share/man</filename>
          symlink correctly.  Also, remove <command>convert-mans</command> as
          the latest version of Man-DB correctly detects the encoding of manual
          pages.  Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2298">#2298</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-05-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.5.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2385">#2385</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.3.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2382">#2382</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed-4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2389">#2389</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2381">#2381</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-3.21. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2384">#2384</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.13. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2377">#2377</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.29.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2374">#2374</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-429. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2380">#2380</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.29-1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2375">#2375</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-4.3.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2390">#2390</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.4.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2388">#2388</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.4.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2387">#2387</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2386">#2386</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-7.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2376">#2376</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add upstream Bash fixes patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-04-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Udev-141.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-04-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove erroneous --enable threads from M4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-03-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Re-introduce the Glibc-libidn package, as the
          release tarball doesn't include it. Thanks to Alexander Kozlov for
          the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-140. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2370">#2370</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2372">#2372</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.28.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2373">#2373</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-03-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Don't move readlink to /bin.  It's not specified by
          the FHS and not required by the bootscripts, so can stay in
          /usr/bin. Thanks to Archaic for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-03-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Remove the uucp group (replace with dialout).  Handle
          ISDN devices with a file from upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-03-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Correct some dependency info.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the
          report and patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2368">#2368</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix a few typos.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and
          patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2367">#2367</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Reword the explanation of the Expect tests in Binutils'
          instructions to clarify what the expected test output is.  Thanks to Chris
          Staub for the report and patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2365">#2365</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Reorder the contents of chapter 7 to flow better. Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the report and suggested order.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2366">#2366</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install Inetutils' version of hostname, rather than
          Coreutils' version, as it is more featureful.  Thanks to Chris Staub &amp;
          DJ Lucas. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2364">#2364</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Build mkswap in chapter 5's Util-Linux-NG as it is
          required by the e2fsprogs test suite.  Also, remove the now
          unnecessary BLKID_LIBS variable.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2361">#2361</ulink>. Thanks to Chris
          Staub for the reports.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-03-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Mention Dejagnu test suite, as a C++ compiler is
          available in chapter 5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2362">#2362</ulink>. Thanks to Chris
          Staub for the report and patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove an obsolete GCC fixup command from Inetutils'
          instructions.  Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2360">#2360</ulink>.
          Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-139. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2350">#2350</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tar-1.22. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2358">#2358</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Readline-6.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2353">#2353</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to MPFR-2.4.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2359">#2359</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2352">#2352</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2356">#2356</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2338">#2338</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2349">#2349</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Glibc-2.9.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2357">#2357</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-7.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2354">#2354</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bash-4.0.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2351">#2351</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-02-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.5.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2348">#2348</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Grep-2.5.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2346">#2346</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.18.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2347">#2347</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Util-Linux-NG-2.14.2.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2345">#2345</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-02-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove the &quot;enable-multibyte&quot; configure
          switch from Groff, which is not required following the upgrade to
          Groff-1.20.1.  Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install sysklogd binaries to
          <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename> for FHS compatibility.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2317">#2317</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Replaced the link to the now non-existent udev-FAQ
          to a more general udev information page.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2306">#2306</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added a link to the wget-list file.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2333">#2333</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Module-init-Tools-3.6.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2343">#2343</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to File-5.00.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2342">#2342</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to suppress a warning added in
          Tar-1.21 that causes the Perl testsuite to fail.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to MPFR-2.4.0.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2341">#2341</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install MPFR's documentation.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2232">#2232</ulink>. Thanks to Randy
          McMurchy for the report and assistance with the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove an unneeded --sysconfdir parameter in
          Inetutils' instructions. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2313">#2313</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2340">#2340</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Binutils-2.19.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2339">#2339</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-02-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove the redundant SBINDIR parameter from
          IPRoute2's commands.  Fixes the remaining part of
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2307">#2307</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install DRM-related Linux headers, as suggested by
          Chris Staub in <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2307">#2307</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added preloadable_libintl.so to list of files
          installed by Gettext. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2312">#2312</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-137.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2328">#2328</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.5.6.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2305">#2305</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tar-1.21.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2309">#2309</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Patch-2.5.9.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2239">#2239</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.17.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2327">#2327</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.2.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2316">#2316</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to IPRoute2-2.6.28.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2324">#2324</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Inetutils-1.6.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2308">#2308</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Groff-1.20.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2322">#2322</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.3.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2334">#2334</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.41.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2336">#2336</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bison-2.4.1.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2300">#2300</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bash-3.2.48.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2319">#2319</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-01-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Corrected some package tarball sizes.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2290">#2290</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-01-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Reformatted several pages so pdf is properly
          generated.  Thanks to Martin Miehe for the changes.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Split one udev rule so it is not wider than the
          book's page.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the location of glibc-2.8-20080929.tar.bz2.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[robert] - Added -v to the install command for the convert-mans
          script in the man-db page, for consistent use of verbose commands.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[robert] - Removed the unneeded -e option from the Sed command
          in the chap6 Findutils page, for consistency.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Update Greg Schafer's entry in the acknowledgments section to
          properly reflect the work done in designing the build method.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to vim-7.2-fixes-4.patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2296">#2296</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-135. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2284">#2284</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Shadow-4.1.2.2. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2287">#2287</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to readline-5.2-fixes-6.patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2295">#2295</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Ncurses-5.7. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2276">#2276</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Module-Init-Tools-3.5. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2245">#2245</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.15. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2269">#2269</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.3. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2283">#2283</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.27.8. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2282">#2282</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Kbd-1.15. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2291">#2291</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bison-2.4. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2281">#2281</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Binutils-2.19. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2268">#2268</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to bash-3.2-fixes-9.patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2294">#2294</ulink>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.2.  Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2286">#2286</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Introduce new build method in Chapter 5 originating
          in DIY-Linux. Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Move instructions for GRUB to chapter 8 just after the
          compilation of the kernel. Merge GRUB build and configuration instructions
          into one page.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Initial addition of support for building on x86_64.
	  Several ideas, principles and build instructions originated in DIY-Linux.
          Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved grep up in the build order of chapter 6
          to be before libtool which hardcodes references to grep in its installed
          files. Was previously circumvented by a symlink, but this approach sticks
          more closely to our build order policy. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the reminder.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-12-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjusted the line break in the adjusting toolchain
          section so that the output redirection does not look like a secondary
	  bash prompt. Thanks to Chris Staub for the idea.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-11-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Added note to gmp about CFLAGS on 64-bit-capable
          machines.  Reported by Tobias Gasser, thanks to Greg Schafer for
	  the analysis.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>


  </itemizedlist>

  <para>LFS 6.4 released November 23, 2008.</para>

</sect1>