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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>2008-04-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated E2fsprogs to 1.40.8. Fixes #2173.
	  </para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed behavior in kbd where man pages
          for optional programs that aren't built are installed.
	  Thanks Greg Schafer for spotting this.
	  </para>
	</listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed kbd to install getkeycodes,
	  setkeycodes and resizecons. Also moved loadkeys to /bin from
          /usr/bin. Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated Kbd to 1.14.1. Fixes #2162.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated Flex to 2.5.35. Fixes #2179.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated host requirments to check for
          symbolic links from sh, awk, and yacc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Suppress installation of uptime in coreutils.
          Thanks to Randy McMurchy. Fixes #2133.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to iana-etc-2.30. Fixes #2174.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added patch for 256-byte inode support in GRUB.
          Fixes #2161.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to linux-2.6.24.4, fixes #2157.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added an upstream patch for db-4.6.21, thanks
          Randy McMurchy for the report. Fixes #2164.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-03-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added <parameter>--sysconfdir</parameter>
          parameter to Man-db's configure command so that
          <filename>man_db.conf</filename> is installed in <filename
          class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-03-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated bzip2 to 1.0.5, fixes CVE-2008-1372.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Corrected typo in name of ru-ms keymap.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Kbd to 1.13.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add --libexecdir parameter to Man-db's configure
          command so that <command>globbing</command> and
          <command>manconv</command> are installed into /usr/libexec/man-db.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2153">#2153</ulink>.  Also, remove
          the --enable-mb-groff parameter, as this is now detected
          automatically.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3, thanks to Matthew for the fix
          for automated builds.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Flex to 2.5.34.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream Vim patches.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.18. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2146">#2146</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.78. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2152">#2152</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2148">#2148</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2147">#2147</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Now that <command>mktemp</command> is installed by
          Coreutils in chapter 5, there is no need to fix up GCC's
          <command>gccbug</command> in chapter 6.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for
          the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2151">#2151</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2149">#2149</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to fix a known issue in the Automake
          test suite. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2143">#2143</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.77. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2142">#2142</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Libtool-1.5.26. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2141">#2141</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.2.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2140">#2140</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-6.10. Removed Mktemp-1.5 as
          Coreutils provides its own implementation now. Removed the coreutils
          binary suppression patch as the configure script can now be given a
          list of programs not to install. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2133">#2133</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2138">#2138</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2137">#2137</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.32. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2136">#2136</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2132">#2132</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Replaced Util-Linux-2.12r, with
          Util-Linux-NG-2.13.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2077">#2077</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2131">#2131</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.76. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2129">#2129</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2128">#2128</ulink>.</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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