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  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>2012-02-23</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[bdubbs] - Add a note in section abput partitioning about
  36. advanced techniques (e.g. RAID and LVM).</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. </itemizedlist>
  39. </listitem>
  40. <listitem>
  41. <para>2012-02-20</para>
  42. <itemizedlist>
  43. <listitem>
  44. <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-7.1-rc1 released.</para>
  45. </listitem>
  46. </itemizedlist>
  47. </listitem>
  48. <listitem>
  49. <para>2012-02-19</para>
  50. <itemizedlist>
  51. <listitem>
  52. <para>[bdubbs] - Add sed to the m4 package to fix a false test
  53. error. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3022">#3022</ulink>.</para>
  54. </listitem>
  55. <listitem>
  56. <para>[bdubbs] - Update mountfs script to support LVM volumes when
  57. stopping.</para>
  58. </listitem>
  59. </itemizedlist>
  60. </listitem>
  61. <listitem>
  62. <para>2012-02-15</para>
  63. <itemizedlist>
  64. <listitem>
  65. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-DB-2.6.1. Fixes
  66. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3020">#3020</ulink>.</para>
  67. </listitem>
  68. <listitem>
  69. <para>[bdubbs] - Activate any possible LVM partitions
  70. in checkfs script. Thanks ot Qrux for pointing out
  71. the issue.</para>
  72. </listitem>
  73. </itemizedlist>
  74. </listitem>
  75. <listitem>
  76. <para>2012-02-14</para>
  77. <itemizedlist>
  78. <listitem>
  79. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.5. Fixes
  80. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3019">#3019</ulink>.</para>
  81. </listitem>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.6. Fixes
  84. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3018">#3018</ulink>.</para>
  85. </listitem>
  86. </itemizedlist>
  87. </listitem>
  88. <listitem>
  89. <para>2012-02-11</para>
  90. <itemizedlist>
  91. <listitem>
  92. <para>[matthew] - Correct some markup for a couple of installation
  93. commands. This helps with jhalfs' package management feature. Thanks
  94. to Pierre Labastie for the patch.</para>
  95. </listitem>
  96. <listitem>
  97. <para>[matthew] - Create /usr/lib/libstdc++.la early in chapter 6 to
  98. fix an ICA issue. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the patch.</para>
  99. </listitem>
  100. <listitem>
  101. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.4. Fixes
  102. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3017">#3017</ulink>.</para>
  103. </listitem>
  104. </itemizedlist>
  105. </listitem>
  106. <listitem>
  107. <para>2012-02-09</para>
  108. <itemizedlist>
  109. <listitem>
  110. <para>[matthew] - Remove a fixup for GMP's testsuite which was added upstream in
  111. GMP-5.0.3. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3016">#3016</ulink>.</para>
  112. </listitem>
  113. </itemizedlist>
  114. </listitem>
  115. <listitem>
  116. <para>2012-02-07</para>
  117. <itemizedlist>
  118. <listitem>
  119. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-181. Fixes
  120. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3015">#3015</ulink>.</para>
  121. </listitem>
  122. <listitem>
  123. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-5. Fixes
  124. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3014">#3014</ulink>.</para>
  125. </listitem>
  126. <listitem>
  127. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.5. Fixes
  128. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3013">#3013</ulink>.</para>
  129. </listitem>
  130. </itemizedlist>
  131. </listitem>
  132. <listitem>
  133. <para>2012-02-05</para>
  134. <itemizedlist>
  135. <listitem>
  136. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.4. Fixes
  137. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3012">#3012</ulink>.</para>
  138. </listitem>
  139. <listitem>
  140. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.3. Fixes
  141. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3011">#3011</ulink>.</para>
  142. </listitem>
  143. <listitem>
  144. <para>[matthew] - Remove last remaining mentions of Module-Init-Tools.
  145. </para>
  146. </listitem>
  147. <listitem>
  148. <para>[matthew] - Install Kmod's and Xz's pkgconfig files in
  149. the standard location. Thanks to John Burrell and Bryan for the
  150. original reports and Ken for the suggested fix.</para>
  151. </listitem>
  152. </itemizedlist>
  153. </listitem>
  154. <listitem>
  155. <para>2012-02-04</para>
  156. <itemizedlist>
  157. <listitem>
  158. <para>[bdubbs] - Fixes to bootscripts:
  159. <itemizedlist>
  160. <listitem><para>Remove unneeded function literals.</para></listitem>
  161. <listitem><para>Fix pidlist logic in statusproc.</para></listitem>
  162. <listitem><para>Fix statusproc usage statement.</para></listitem>
  163. <listitem><para>Add nodevtmpfs in mountfs stop.</para></listitem>
  164. </itemizedlist>
  165. </para>
  166. </listitem>
  167. <listitem>
  168. <para>[bdubbs] Add nodump to xml so command to print out
  169. 70-persistent-net.rules will not be used in jhalfs.
  170. Fixes a problem in kvm.</para>
  171. </listitem>
  172. <listitem>
  173. <para>[bryan] - Fix up text in section 7.4 ("device and module
  174. handling"), and change the recommendation for wrapper modules to
  175. use kmod's support for soft post-dependencies instead. Fixes
  176. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3010">#3010</ulink>.</para>
  177. </listitem>
  178. </itemizedlist>
  179. </listitem>
  180. <listitem>
  181. <para>2012-02-02</para>
  182. <itemizedlist>
  183. <listitem>
  184. <para>[bdubbs] - Remove oblolete references to consolelog.</para>
  185. </listitem>
  186. <listitem>
  187. <para>[bdubbs] - Reformat udev configure command.</para>
  188. </listitem>
  189. </itemizedlist>
  190. </listitem>
  191. <listitem>
  192. <para>2012-02-01</para>
  193. <itemizedlist>
  194. <listitem>
  195. <para>[bdubbs] - Clarify (again) the extraction order
  196. in GCC Pass 1.</para>
  197. </listitem>
  198. <listitem>
  199. <para>[bdubbs] - Reformat Kmod configure command.</para>
  200. </listitem>
  201. </itemizedlist>
  202. </listitem>
  203. <listitem>
  204. <para>2012-01-30</para>
  205. <itemizedlist>
  206. <listitem>
  207. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.6. Fixes
  208. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3009">#3009</ulink>.</para>
  209. </listitem>
  210. <listitem>
  211. <para>[matthew] - Move Xz to before GRUB so that the latter can
  212. support compressed kernel images.</para>
  213. </listitem>
  214. <listitem>
  215. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-180. Fixes
  216. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3008">#3008</ulink>.</para>
  217. </listitem>
  218. </itemizedlist>
  219. </listitem>
  220. <listitem>
  221. <para>2012-01-28</para>
  222. <itemizedlist>
  223. <listitem>
  224. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.15. Fixes
  225. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3007">#3007</ulink>.</para>
  226. </listitem>
  227. <listitem>
  228. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.3. Fixes
  229. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3006">#3006</ulink>.</para>
  230. </listitem>
  231. <listitem>
  232. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.2. Fixes
  233. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3005">#3005</ulink>.</para>
  234. </listitem>
  235. <listitem>
  236. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-179. Fixes
  237. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3004">#3004</ulink>.</para>
  238. </listitem>
  239. </itemizedlist>
  240. </listitem>
  241. <listitem>
  242. <para>2012-01-22</para>
  243. <itemizedlist>
  244. <listitem>
  245. <para>[bdubbs] - Update network bootscripts to support bridge
  246. devices in BLFS.</para>
  247. </listitem>
  248. <listitem>
  249. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.1. Fixes
  250. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2999">#2999</ulink>.</para>
  251. </listitem>
  252. <listitem>
  253. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-178, including adding its new
  254. depdendency, Kmod-4. Fixes
  255. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2998">#2998</ulink> and
  256. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3001">#3001</ulink>.</para>
  257. </listitem>
  258. </itemizedlist>
  259. </listitem>
  260. <listitem>
  261. <para>2012-01-16</para>
  262. <itemizedlist>
  263. <listitem>
  264. <para>[bdubbs] - Change bootscripts to use devtmpfs for /dev.
  265. Move mounting of /dev to mountvirtfs and ensure /dev gets
  266. placed in /etc/mtab. Change fstab and kernel configuration
  267. sections to reflect these changes.</para>
  268. </listitem>
  269. </itemizedlist>
  270. </listitem>
  271. <listitem>
  272. <para>2012-01-11</para>
  273. <itemizedlist>
  274. <listitem>
  275. <para>[bdubbs] - Add clarification to the GRUB configuration about
  276. using a separate boot partition. </para>
  277. </listitem>
  278. <listitem>
  279. <para>[matthew] - Remove Libnl, as it's not actually required by
  280. IPRoute2 after all. Thanks to Markku Pesonen for the pointer to the
  281. upstream fix.</para>
  282. </listitem>
  283. </itemizedlist>
  284. </listitem>
  285. <listitem>
  286. <para>2012-01-08</para>
  287. <itemizedlist>
  288. <listitem>
  289. <para>[matthew] - Prevent Libnl from installing static libraries.
  290. Thanks to Ken Moffat for the report.</para>
  291. </listitem>
  292. <listitem>
  293. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.15. Fixes
  294. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2996">#2996</ulink>.</para>
  295. </listitem>
  296. <listitem>
  297. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.2.0, and add its new
  298. dependency, libnl-2.0. Fixes
  299. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2995">#2995</ulink>.</para>
  300. </listitem>
  301. <listitem>
  302. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2. Fixes
  303. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2993">#2993</ulink>.</para>
  304. </listitem>
  305. <listitem>
  306. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.9.1. Fixes
  307. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2992">#2992</ulink>.</para>
  308. </listitem>
  309. <listitem>
  310. <para>[matthew] - Fix typo in Linux tarball name. Fixes
  311. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2991">#2991</ulink>.</para>
  312. </listitem>
  313. <listitem>
  314. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.10. Fixes
  315. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2989">#2989</ulink>.</para>
  316. </listitem>
  317. </itemizedlist>
  318. </listitem>
  319. <listitem>
  320. <para>2012-01-06</para>
  321. <itemizedlist>
  322. <listitem>
  323. <para>[bdubbs] - Change to simpler command for version-check.sh's
  324. Glibc version detection on all platforms.
  325. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report and fix.</para>
  326. </listitem>
  327. <listitem>
  328. <para>[bdubbs] - Change to php script for 'get counted'.</para>
  329. </listitem>
  330. </itemizedlist>
  331. </listitem>
  332. <listitem>
  333. <para>2011-12-28</para>
  334. <itemizedlist>
  335. <listitem>
  336. <para>[matthew] - Fix version-check.sh's Glibc version detection
  337. on 64-bit Debian hosts.
  338. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report and fix.</para>
  339. </listitem>
  340. </itemizedlist>
  341. </listitem>
  342. <listitem>
  343. <para>2011-12-22</para>
  344. <itemizedlist>
  345. <listitem>
  346. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.2. Fixes
  347. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2986">#2986</ulink>.</para>
  348. </listitem>
  349. <listitem>
  350. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.6. Fixes
  351. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2985">#2985</ulink>.</para>
  352. </listitem>
  353. <listitem>
  354. <para>[matthew] - Correct permissions on /run/shm. Fixes
  355. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2984">#2984</ulink>.</para>
  356. </listitem>
  357. <listitem>
  358. <para>[matthew] - Add upstream patches for MPFR. Fixes
  359. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2983">#2983</ulink>.</para>
  360. </listitem>
  361. </itemizedlist>
  362. </listitem>
  363. <listitem>
  364. <para>2011-12-10</para>
  365. <itemizedlist>
  366. <listitem>
  367. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.5. Fixes
  368. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2981">#2981</ulink>.</para>
  369. </listitem>
  370. </itemizedlist>
  371. </listitem>
  372. <listitem>
  373. <para>2011-12-05</para>
  374. <itemizedlist>
  375. <listitem>
  376. <para>[matthew] - Improve the accuracy of the list of installed files
  377. for a number of packages. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes
  378. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2979">#2979</ulink>.</para>
  379. </listitem>
  380. <listitem>
  381. <para>[matthew] - Prevent some arpd artefacts from being installed by
  382. IPRoute2. Fixes
  383. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2977">#2977</ulink>.</para>
  384. </listitem>
  385. <listitem>
  386. <para>[matthew] - Correct location of Coreutils' libstdbuf. Fixes
  387. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2976">#2976</ulink>.</para>
  388. </listitem>
  389. <listitem>
  390. <para>[matthew] - Move Psmisc to before E2fsprogs because the
  391. E2fsprogs testsuite uses killall. Fixes
  392. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2975">#2975</ulink>.</para>
  393. </listitem>
  394. </itemizedlist>
  395. </listitem>
  396. <listitem>
  397. <para>2011-12-01</para>
  398. <itemizedlist>
  399. <listitem>
  400. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42. Fixes
  401. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2973">#2973</ulink>.</para>
  402. </listitem>
  403. <listitem>
  404. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.4. Fixes
  405. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2970">#2970</ulink>.</para>
  406. </listitem>
  407. <listitem>
  408. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.1.0. Fixes
  409. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2969">#2969</ulink>.</para>
  410. </listitem>
  411. <listitem>
  412. <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
  413. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2968">#2968</ulink>.</para>
  414. </listitem>
  415. </itemizedlist>
  416. </listitem>
  417. <listitem>
  418. <para>2011-11-28</para>
  419. <itemizedlist>
  420. <listitem>
  421. <para>[dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20111128.</para>
  422. </listitem>
  423. <listitem>
  424. <para>[ken] - Fix daylight saving time bug in coreutils testsuite.</para>
  425. </listitem>
  426. </itemizedlist>
  427. </listitem>
  428. <listitem>
  429. <para>2011-11-26</para>
  430. <itemizedlist>
  431. <listitem>
  432. <para>[bdubbs] - Clean up console script.</para>
  433. </listitem>
  434. </itemizedlist>
  435. </listitem>
  436. <listitem>
  437. <para>2011-11-25</para>
  438. <itemizedlist>
  439. <listitem>
  440. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.22. Fixes
  441. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2967">#2967</ulink>.</para>
  442. </listitem>
  443. <listitem>
  444. <para>[matthew] - Install Glibc's NIS and RPC headers again. The
  445. headers have not been installed by default since Glibc-2.14, but that
  446. causes various BLFS packages to break. Fixes
  447. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2965">#2965</ulink>.</para>
  448. </listitem>
  449. <listitem>
  450. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.10. Fixes
  451. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2964">#2964</ulink>.</para>
  452. </listitem>
  453. <listitem>
  454. <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix a security vulnerability in Perl.
  455. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2963">#2963</ulink>.</para>
  456. </listitem>
  457. <listitem>
  458. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GDBM-1.10. Fixes
  459. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2962">#2962</ulink>.</para>
  460. </listitem>
  461. <listitem>
  462. <para>[matthew] - Install Coreutils'
  463. <filename class="libraryfile">libstdbuf.so</filename> to
  464. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/coreutils</filename> to
  465. maintain consistency with other packages' shared library locations.
  466. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2961">#2961</ulink>.</para>
  467. </listitem>
  468. <listitem>
  469. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.2. Fixes
  470. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2960">#2960</ulink>.</para>
  471. </listitem>
  472. <listitem>
  473. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.5.11. Fixes
  474. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2959">#2959</ulink>.</para>
  475. </listitem>
  476. </itemizedlist>
  477. </listitem>
  478. <listitem>
  479. <para>2011-11-16</para>
  480. <itemizedlist>
  481. <listitem>
  482. <para>[bdubbs] - Make /var/log/btmp have 660 permissions.
  483. Suggestion from Michael Blanchard.</para>
  484. </listitem>
  485. </itemizedlist>
  486. </listitem>
  487. <listitem>
  488. <para>2011-11-14</para>
  489. <itemizedlist>
  490. <listitem>
  491. <para>[bdubbs] - Updates to boot scripts:
  492. general cleanup;
  493. move consolelog function to rc;
  494. clean up boot logging functions;
  495. fix interactive prompt between run level S and target run level.
  496. Thanks to DJ Lucas.</para>
  497. </listitem>
  498. </itemizedlist>
  499. </listitem>
  500. <listitem>
  501. <para>2011-10-29</para>
  502. <itemizedlist>
  503. <listitem>
  504. <para>[bdubbs] - Text correction in bootscripts description.</para>
  505. </listitem>
  506. <listitem>
  507. <para>[bdubbs] - Remove erroneous sourcing line in bootscript
  508. functions used for backward BLFS compatibility.</para>
  509. </listitem>
  510. </itemizedlist>
  511. </listitem>
  512. <listitem>
  513. <para>2011-10-29</para>
  514. <itemizedlist>
  515. <listitem>
  516. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.2. Fixes
  517. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2951">#2951</ulink>.</para>
  518. </listitem>
  519. <listitem>
  520. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.20.1. Fixes
  521. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2947">#2947</ulink>.</para>
  522. </listitem>
  523. <listitem>
  524. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Libtool-2.4.2. Fixes
  525. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2946">#2946</ulink>.</para>
  526. </listitem>
  527. <listitem>
  528. <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-7.0 released.
  529. </para>
  530. </listitem>
  531. </itemizedlist>
  532. </listitem>
  533. </itemizedlist>
  534. </sect1>