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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>2012-02-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3014">#3014</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3013">#3013</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-02-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3012">#3012</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3011">#3011</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove last remaining mentions of Module-Init-Tools.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install Kmod's and Xz's pkgconfig files in
          the standard location.  Thanks to John Burrell and Bryan for the
          original reports and Ken for the suggested fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-02-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Fixes to bootscripts:
          <itemizedlist>
            <listitem><para>Remove unneeded function literals.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para>Fix pidlist logic in statusproc.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para>Fix statusproc usage statement.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para>Add nodevtmpfs in mountfs stop.</para></listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
          </para>
        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] Add nodump to xml so command to print out 
           70-persistent-net.rules will not be used in jhalfs.
           Fixes a problem in kvm.</para>
         </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Fix up text in section 7.4 ("device and module
          handling"), and change the recommendation for wrapper modules to
          use kmod's support for soft post-dependencies instead.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3010">#3010</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-02-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove oblolete references to consolelog.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Reformat udev configure command.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-02-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Clarify (again) the extraction order
          in GCC Pass 1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Reformat Kmod configure command.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-01-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3009">#3009</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Move Xz to before GRUB so that the latter can
          support compressed kernel images.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-180. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3008">#3008</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-01-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.15. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3007">#3007</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3006">#3006</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3005">#3005</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-179. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3004">#3004</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-01-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update network bootscripts to support bridge
          devices in BLFS.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2999">#2999</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-178, including adding its new
          depdendency, Kmod-4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2998">#2998</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3001">#3001</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-01-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change bootscripts to use devtmpfs for /dev.
          Move mounting of /dev to mountvirtfs and ensure /dev gets
          placed in /etc/mtab.  Change fstab and kernel configuration
          sections to reflect these changes.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-01-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Add clarification to the GRUB configuration about
          using a separate boot partition. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove Libnl, as it's not actually required by
          IPRoute2 after all. Thanks to Markku Pesonen for the pointer to the
          upstream fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-01-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Prevent Libnl from installing static libraries.
          Thanks to Ken Moffat for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.15. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2996">#2996</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.2.0, and add its new
          dependency, libnl-2.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2995">#2995</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2993">#2993</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.9.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2992">#2992</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix typo in Linux tarball name. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2991">#2991</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2989">#2989</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2012-01-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change to simpler command for version-check.sh's 
          Glibc version detection on all platforms.
          Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report and fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Change to php script for 'get counted'.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-12-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix version-check.sh's Glibc version detection 
          on 64-bit Debian hosts.
          Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report and fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-12-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2986">#2986</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2985">#2985</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Correct permissions on /run/shm. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2984">#2984</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add upstream patches for MPFR. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2983">#2983</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-12-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2981">#2981</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-12-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Improve the accuracy of the list of installed files
          for a number of packages.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2979">#2979</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Prevent some arpd artefacts from being installed by
          IPRoute2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2977">#2977</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Correct location of Coreutils' libstdbuf. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2976">#2976</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Move Psmisc to before E2fsprogs because the
          E2fsprogs testsuite uses killall. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2975">#2975</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-12-01</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2973">#2973</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2970">#2970</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.1.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2969">#2969</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2968">#2968</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-11-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20111128.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Fix daylight saving time bug in coreutils testsuite.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-11-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Clean up console script.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-11-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.22. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2967">#2967</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install Glibc's NIS and RPC headers again.  The
          headers have not been installed by default since Glibc-2.14, but that
          causes various BLFS packages to break. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2965">#2965</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2964">#2964</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix a security vulnerability in Perl.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2963">#2963</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GDBM-1.10. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2962">#2962</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Install Coreutils'
          <filename class="libraryfile">libstdbuf.so</filename> to
          <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/coreutils</filename> to
          maintain consistency with other packages' shared library locations.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2961">#2961</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2960">#2960</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.5.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2959">#2959</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-11-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Make /var/log/btmp have 660 permissions.
          Suggestion from Michael Blanchard.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-11-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updates to boot scripts: 
          general cleanup;
          move consolelog function to rc;
          clean up boot logging functions;
          fix interactive prompt between run level S and target run level.  
          Thanks to DJ Lucas.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Text correction in bootscripts description.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove erroneous sourcing line in bootscript 
          functions used for backward BLFS compatibility.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2011-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2951">#2951</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.20.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2947">#2947</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Libtool-2.4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2946">#2946</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-7.0 released.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>
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