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  7. <sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>
  9. <title>Changelog</title>
  10. <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  11. &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
  12. version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  13. mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
  14. <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  15. book.</para>
  16. <itemizedlist>
  17. <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
  18. <!-- Changelog template
  19. <listitem>
  20. <para>Date</para>
  21. <itemizedlist>
  22. <listitem>
  23. <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
  24. </listitem>
  25. <listitem>
  26. <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
  27. </listitem>
  28. </itemizedlist>
  29. </listitem>
  30. -->
  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>2006-11-25</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
  36. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. </itemizedlist>
  39. </listitem>
  40. <listitem>
  41. <para>2006-11-24</para>
  42. <itemizedlist>
  43. <listitem>
  44. <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
  45. Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
  46. </listitem>
  47. </itemizedlist>
  48. </listitem>
  49. <listitem>
  50. <para>2006-11-10</para>
  51. <itemizedlist>
  52. <listitem>
  53. <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
  54. and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
  55. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
  56. </listitem>
  57. </itemizedlist>
  58. </listitem>
  59. <listitem>
  60. <para>2006-11-05</para>
  61. <itemizedlist>
  62. <listitem>
  63. <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
  64. bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
  65. </listitem>
  66. </itemizedlist>
  67. </listitem>
  68. <listitem>
  69. <para>2006-11-03</para>
  70. <itemizedlist>
  71. <listitem>
  72. <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
  73. <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
  74. the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
  75. warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
  76. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
  77. </listitem>
  78. </itemizedlist>
  79. </listitem>
  80. <listitem>
  81. <para>2006-10-29</para>
  82. <itemizedlist>
  83. <listitem>
  84. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
  85. Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  86. </listitem>
  87. <listitem>
  88. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
  89. &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
  90. 076.</para>
  91. </listitem>
  92. </itemizedlist>
  93. </listitem>
  94. <listitem>
  95. <para>2006-10-28</para>
  96. <itemizedlist>
  97. <listitem>
  98. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
  99. </listitem>
  100. <listitem>
  101. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
  102. unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
  103. &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
  104. </listitem>
  105. <listitem>
  106. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
  107. unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  108. </listitem>
  109. <listitem>
  110. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
  111. </listitem>
  112. <listitem>
  113. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
  114. </listitem>
  115. <listitem>
  116. <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
  117. type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
  118. causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
  119. preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
  120. Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
  121. </listitem>
  122. <listitem>
  123. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
  124. </listitem>
  125. <listitem>
  126. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
  127. unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  128. </listitem>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
  131. </listitem>
  132. <listitem>
  133. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
  134. </listitem>
  135. <listitem>
  136. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
  137. the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  138. </listitem>
  139. <listitem>
  140. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
  141. </listitem>
  142. <listitem>
  143. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
  144. &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
  145. bug when parsing comments.</para>
  146. </listitem>
  147. <listitem>
  148. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
  149. </listitem>
  150. </itemizedlist>
  151. </listitem>
  152. <listitem>
  153. <para>2006-10-23</para>
  154. <itemizedlist>
  155. <listitem>
  156. <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
  157. locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
  158. </listitem>
  159. </itemizedlist>
  160. </listitem>
  161. <listitem>
  162. <para>2006-10-21</para>
  163. <itemizedlist>
  164. <listitem>
  165. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
  166. </listitem>
  167. <listitem>
  168. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
  169. doc files.</para>
  170. </listitem>
  171. <listitem>
  172. <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
  173. </listitem>
  174. </itemizedlist>
  175. </listitem>
  176. <listitem>
  177. <para>2006-10-15</para>
  178. <itemizedlist>
  179. <listitem>
  180. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
  181. the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
  182. Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
  183. </listitem>
  184. <listitem>
  185. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
  186. </listitem>
  187. <listitem>
  188. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
  189. </listitem>
  190. </itemizedlist>
  191. </listitem>
  192. <listitem>
  193. <para>2006-10-05</para>
  194. <itemizedlist>
  195. <listitem>
  196. <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
  197. </listitem>
  198. <listitem>
  199. <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
  200. also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
  201. of the rules.</para>
  202. </listitem>
  203. </itemizedlist>
  204. </listitem>
  205. <listitem>
  206. <para>2006-10-02</para>
  207. <itemizedlist>
  208. <listitem>
  209. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
  210. </listitem>
  211. <listitem>
  212. <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
  213. latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
  214. </para>
  215. </listitem>
  216. <listitem>
  217. <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
  218. &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
  219. kernel sources.</para>
  220. </listitem>
  221. <listitem>
  222. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
  223. </listitem>
  224. <listitem>
  225. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
  226. </listitem>
  227. <listitem>
  228. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
  229. </listitem>
  230. <listitem>
  231. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
  232. </listitem>
  233. <listitem>
  234. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
  235. </listitem>
  236. <listitem>
  237. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
  238. </listitem>
  239. </itemizedlist>
  240. </listitem>
  241. <listitem>
  242. <para>2006-09-23</para>
  243. <itemizedlist>
  244. <listitem>
  245. <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
  246. should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
  247. heads-up.</para>
  248. </listitem>
  249. </itemizedlist>
  250. </listitem>
  251. <listitem>
  252. <para>2006-09-22</para>
  253. <itemizedlist>
  254. <listitem>
  255. <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
  256. 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
  257. on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
  258. </listitem>
  259. </itemizedlist>
  260. </listitem>
  261. <listitem>
  262. <para>2006-09-20</para>
  263. <itemizedlist>
  264. <listitem>
  265. <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
  266. </listitem>
  267. <listitem>
  268. <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
  269. than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
  270. </listitem>
  271. </itemizedlist>
  272. </listitem>
  273. <listitem>
  274. <para>2006-09-18</para>
  275. <itemizedlist>
  276. <listitem>
  277. <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
  278. in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
  279. Glibc-2.4.</para>
  280. </listitem>
  281. </itemizedlist>
  282. </listitem>
  283. <listitem>
  284. <para>2006-09-17</para>
  285. <itemizedlist>
  286. <listitem>
  287. <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
  288. patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
  289. syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
  290. for textual suggestions.</para>
  291. </listitem>
  292. </itemizedlist>
  293. </listitem>
  294. <listitem>
  295. <para>2006-09-09</para>
  296. <itemizedlist>
  297. <listitem>
  298. <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
  299. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  300. </listitem>
  301. <listitem>
  302. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
  303. </listitem>
  304. <listitem>
  305. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
  306. </listitem>
  307. </itemizedlist>
  308. </listitem>
  309. <listitem>
  310. <para>2006-09-06</para>
  311. <itemizedlist>
  312. <listitem>
  313. <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
  314. be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
  315. </listitem>
  316. </itemizedlist>
  317. </listitem>
  318. <listitem>
  319. <para>2006-08-31</para>
  320. <itemizedlist>
  321. <listitem>
  322. <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
  323. /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.</para>
  324. </listitem>
  325. </itemizedlist>
  326. </listitem>
  327. <listitem>
  328. <para>2006-08-24</para>
  329. <itemizedlist>
  330. <listitem>
  331. <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
  332. Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
  333. </listitem>
  334. </itemizedlist>
  335. </listitem>
  336. <listitem>
  337. <para>2006-08-17</para>
  338. <itemizedlist>
  339. <listitem>
  340. <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
  341. file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
  342. </listitem>
  343. <listitem>
  344. <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
  345. Peter Ennis.</para>
  346. </listitem>
  347. <listitem>
  348. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
  349. </listitem>
  350. <listitem>
  351. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
  352. </listitem>
  353. <listitem>
  354. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
  355. </listitem>
  356. <listitem>
  357. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
  358. </listitem>
  359. <listitem>
  360. <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
  361. upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
  362. </para>
  363. </listitem>
  364. <listitem>
  365. <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
  366. of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
  367. </listitem>
  368. </itemizedlist>
  369. </listitem>
  370. <listitem>
  371. <para>2006-08-08</para>
  372. <itemizedlist>
  373. <listitem>
  374. <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
  375. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
  376. </listitem>
  377. </itemizedlist>
  378. </listitem>
  379. <listitem>
  380. <para>2006-08-05</para>
  381. <itemizedlist>
  382. <listitem>
  383. <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
  384. versions.
  385. </para>
  386. </listitem>
  387. </itemizedlist>
  388. </listitem>
  389. <listitem>
  390. <para>2006-08-03</para>
  391. <itemizedlist>
  392. <listitem>
  393. <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
  394. </listitem>
  395. </itemizedlist>
  396. </listitem>
  397. <listitem>
  398. <para>2006-07-31</para>
  399. <itemizedlist>
  400. <listitem>
  401. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
  402. </listitem>
  403. <listitem>
  404. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
  405. </listitem>
  406. <listitem>
  407. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
  408. </listitem>
  409. <listitem>
  410. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
  411. </listitem>
  412. <listitem>
  413. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
  414. </listitem>
  415. <listitem>
  416. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
  417. </listitem>
  418. <listitem>
  419. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
  420. </listitem>
  421. <listitem>
  422. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
  423. </listitem>
  424. <listitem>
  425. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
  426. </listitem>
  427. <listitem>
  428. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
  429. </listitem>
  430. <listitem>
  431. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
  432. </listitem>
  433. </itemizedlist>
  434. </listitem>
  435. </itemizedlist>
  436. <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>
  437. </sect1>