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<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
<title>Changelog</title>
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<para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
&releasedate;. If this book is more than two 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;"/>.</para>
 
<para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book,
first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>less-382</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.66</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.4</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.4.25</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-utils-0.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procps-3.2.0</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>make_devices-1.2</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
 
<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to procps-3.2.0</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to lfs-utils-0.5 -
fixes a possible symlink attack in iana-get</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Altered the instructions for
Chapter 6 findutils to be FHS-Compliant</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 26th, 2004 [jeremy]: Removed the creation of the
/usr/etc directory to conform with FHS - closes bug 775.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 26th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to
Kernel 2.4.25</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 23rd, 2004 [alex]: Chapters 6 + 9 : Cleaned up the
Revision of chroot and Reboot sections.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 22nd, 2004 [alex]: Moved the stripping of the final
system from chapter 9 to the end of chapter 6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 22nd, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Coreutils and
E2fsprogs: Clarified the prerequisites for running the tests.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 19th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 5 - Stripping: Removed
an unnecessary "{,share/}" from the documentation's <command>rm</command>
command.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 14th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Upgraded to
Less-382.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 14th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapters 5 + 6 - Upgraded to
Ncurses-5.4, and removed references to the etip patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 12th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed explicit
paths from the pwconv and grpconv commands, since /usr/sbin is part of
the default path.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 9th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Moved the Bootscripts
installation section to chapter 7.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 8th, 2004 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated to
Man-pages-1.66.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 7th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 1 - Moved the Conventions
and Acknowledgements sections to the Preface.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 7th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Creating devices:
replaced the MAKEDEV script with the make_devices script. Contributed by
Matthias Benkmann.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 5th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Simplified the final
install of the kernel headers to just copying them from the temporary tools
directory.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 4th, 2004 [alex]: Chapters 5 + 6 - Moved the Mounting
of proc and devpts to before Chrooting, dropped Util-linux from the tools, and
added a little arch script for Perl.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>Release of version 5.1-pre1 on February 1st, 2004.</para>

</sect1>