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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>2008-04-22</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated Kbd to 1.14.1. Fixes #2162.</para>
  36. </listitem>
  37. <listitem>
  38. <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated Flex to 2.5.35. Fixes #2179.</para>
  39. </listitem>
  40. </itemizedlist>
  41. </listitem>
  42. <listitem>
  43. <para>2008-04-11</para>
  44. <itemizedlist>
  45. <listitem>
  46. <para>[bdubbs] - Updated host requirments to check for
  47. symbolic links from sh, awk, and yacc.</para>
  48. </listitem>
  49. </itemizedlist>
  50. </listitem>
  51. <listitem>
  52. <para>2008-04-03</para>
  53. <itemizedlist>
  54. <listitem>
  55. <para>[jhuntwork] - Suppress installation of uptime in coreutils.
  56. Thanks to Randy McMurchy. Fixes #2133.</para>
  57. </listitem>
  58. <listitem>
  59. <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to iana-etc-2.30. Fixes #2174.</para>
  60. </listitem>
  61. <listitem>
  62. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added patch for 256-byte inode support in GRUB.
  63. Fixes #2161.</para>
  64. </listitem>
  65. </itemizedlist>
  66. </listitem>
  67. <listitem>
  68. <para>2008-04-02</para>
  69. <itemizedlist>
  70. <listitem>
  71. <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to linux-2.6.24.4, fixes #2157.</para>
  72. </listitem>
  73. <listitem>
  74. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added an upstream patch for db-4.6.21, thanks
  75. Randy McMurchy for the report. Fixes #2164.</para>
  76. </listitem>
  77. </itemizedlist>
  78. </listitem>
  79. <listitem>
  80. <para>2008-03-30</para>
  81. <itemizedlist>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>[dnicholson] - Added <parameter>--sysconfdir</parameter>
  84. parameter to Man-db's configure command so that
  85. <filename>man_db.conf</filename> is installed in <filename
  86. class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
  87. </listitem>
  88. </itemizedlist>
  89. </listitem>
  90. <listitem>
  91. <para>2008-03-27</para>
  92. <itemizedlist>
  93. <listitem>
  94. <para>[ken] - Updated bzip2 to 1.0.5, fixes CVE-2008-1372.</para>
  95. </listitem>
  96. </itemizedlist>
  97. </listitem>
  98. <listitem>
  99. <para>2008-02-26</para>
  100. <itemizedlist>
  101. <listitem>
  102. <para>[ken] - Corrected typo in name of ru-ms keymap.</para>
  103. </listitem>
  104. <listitem>
  105. <para>[ken] - Updated Kbd to 1.13.</para>
  106. </listitem>
  107. </itemizedlist>
  108. </listitem>
  109. <listitem>
  110. <para>2008-02-24</para>
  111. <itemizedlist>
  112. <listitem>
  113. <para>[matthew] - Add --libexecdir parameter to Man-db's configure
  114. command so that <command>globbing</command> and
  115. <command>manconv</command> are installed into /usr/libexec/man-db.
  116. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2153">#2153</ulink>. Also, remove
  117. the --enable-mb-groff parameter, as this is now detected
  118. automatically.</para>
  119. </listitem>
  120. </itemizedlist>
  121. </listitem>
  122. <listitem>
  123. <para>2008-02-19</para>
  124. <itemizedlist>
  125. <listitem>
  126. <para>[ken] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3, thanks to Matthew for the fix
  127. for automated builds.</para>
  128. </listitem>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>[ken] - Updated Flex to 2.5.34.</para>
  131. </listitem>
  132. <listitem>
  133. <para>[ken] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4.</para>
  134. </listitem>
  135. </itemizedlist>
  136. </listitem>
  137. <listitem>
  138. <para>2008-02-17</para>
  139. <itemizedlist>
  140. <listitem>
  141. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream Vim patches.</para>
  142. </listitem>
  143. <listitem>
  144. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.18. Fixes
  145. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2146">#2146</ulink>.</para>
  146. </listitem>
  147. <listitem>
  148. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.78. Fixes
  149. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2152">#2152</ulink>.</para>
  150. </listitem>
  151. <listitem>
  152. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.1. Fixes
  153. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2148">#2148</ulink>.</para>
  154. </listitem>
  155. <listitem>
  156. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24.2. Fixes
  157. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2147">#2147</ulink>.</para>
  158. </listitem>
  159. <listitem>
  160. <para>[matthew] - Now that <command>mktemp</command> is installed by
  161. Coreutils in chapter 5, there is no need to fix up GCC's
  162. <command>gccbug</command> in chapter 6. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
  163. the report.</para>
  164. </listitem>
  165. <listitem>
  166. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.33. Fixes
  167. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2151">#2151</ulink>.</para>
  168. </listitem>
  169. <listitem>
  170. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.6. Fixes
  171. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2149">#2149</ulink>.</para>
  172. </listitem>
  173. </itemizedlist>
  174. </listitem>
  175. <listitem>
  176. <para>2008-02-07</para>
  177. <itemizedlist>
  178. <listitem>
  179. <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to fix a known issue in the Automake
  180. test suite. Fixes
  181. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2143">#2143</ulink>.</para>
  182. </listitem>
  183. <listitem>
  184. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.77. Fixes
  185. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2142">#2142</ulink>.</para>
  186. </listitem>
  187. <listitem>
  188. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Libtool-1.5.26. Fixes
  189. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2141">#2141</ulink>.</para>
  190. </listitem>
  191. <listitem>
  192. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.2.3. Fixes
  193. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2140">#2140</ulink>.</para>
  194. </listitem>
  195. <listitem>
  196. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-6.10. Removed Mktemp-1.5 as
  197. Coreutils provides its own implementation now. Removed the coreutils
  198. binary suppression patch as the configure script can now be given a
  199. list of programs not to install. Fixes
  200. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2133">#2133</ulink>.</para>
  201. </listitem>
  202. <listitem>
  203. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.5. Fixes
  204. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2138">#2138</ulink>.</para>
  205. </listitem>
  206. </itemizedlist>
  207. </listitem>
  208. <listitem>
  209. <para>2008-01-29</para>
  210. <itemizedlist>
  211. <listitem>
  212. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24. Fixes
  213. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2137">#2137</ulink>.</para>
  214. </listitem>
  215. <listitem>
  216. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.32. Fixes
  217. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2136">#2136</ulink>.</para>
  218. </listitem>
  219. <listitem>
  220. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.1. Fixes
  221. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2132">#2132</ulink>.</para>
  222. </listitem>
  223. </itemizedlist>
  224. </listitem>
  225. <listitem>
  226. <para>2008-01-22</para>
  227. <itemizedlist>
  228. <listitem>
  229. <para>[matthew] - Replaced Util-Linux-2.12r, with
  230. Util-Linux-NG-2.13.1. Fixes
  231. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2077">#2077</ulink>.</para>
  232. </listitem>
  233. <listitem>
  234. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes
  235. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2131">#2131</ulink>.</para>
  236. </listitem>
  237. <listitem>
  238. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.76. Fixes
  239. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2129">#2129</ulink>.</para>
  240. </listitem>
  241. <listitem>
  242. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.14. Fixes
  243. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2128">#2128</ulink>.</para>
  244. </listitem>
  245. </itemizedlist>
  246. </listitem>
  247. <listitem>
  248. <para>2008-01-19</para>
  249. <itemizedlist>
  250. <listitem>
  251. <para>[matthew] - Add Perl to the list of host requirements, as it is
  252. required by Glibc. Thanks to Ben Collver for the report. Fixes
  253. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2112">#2112</ulink>.</para>
  254. </listitem>
  255. <listitem>
  256. <para>[matthew] - Mention <command>strace</command> as another means
  257. of logging installed files, and correct the URL of the Linux Standard
  258. Base specifications. Fixes
  259. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2073">#2073</ulink> and
  260. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2130">#2130</ulink>.</para>
  261. </listitem>
  262. </itemizedlist>
  263. </listitem>
  264. <listitem>
  265. <para>2008-01-04</para>
  266. <itemizedlist>
  267. <listitem>
  268. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim.</para>
  269. </listitem>
  270. <listitem>
  271. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-418. Fixes
  272. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2124">#2124</ulink>.</para>
  273. </listitem>
  274. <listitem>
  275. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to File-4.23. Fixes
  276. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2125">#2125</ulink>.</para>
  277. </listitem>
  278. <listitem>
  279. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.4. Fixes
  280. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2123">#2123</ulink>.</para>
  281. </listitem>
  282. </itemizedlist>
  283. </listitem>
  284. <listitem>
  285. <para>2007-12-23</para>
  286. <itemizedlist>
  287. <listitem>
  288. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Readline.
  289. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2122">#2122</ulink>.</para>
  290. </listitem>
  291. <listitem>
  292. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.74. Fixes
  293. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2119">#2119</ulink>.</para>
  294. </listitem>
  295. <listitem>
  296. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.12. Fixes
  297. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2118">#2118</ulink>.</para>
  298. </listitem>
  299. <listitem>
  300. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Bash. Fixes
  301. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2121">#2121</ulink>.</para>
  302. </listitem>
  303. </itemizedlist>
  304. </listitem>
  305. <listitem>
  306. <para>2007-12-08</para>
  307. <itemizedlist>
  308. <listitem>
  309. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. Fixes
  310. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2108">#2108</ulink>.</para>
  311. </listitem>
  312. <listitem>
  313. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes
  314. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2074">#2074</ulink>.</para>
  315. </listitem>
  316. <listitem>
  317. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Psmisc-22.6. Fixes
  318. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2104">#2104</ulink>.</para>
  319. </listitem>
  320. <listitem>
  321. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.70. Fixes
  322. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2110">#2110</ulink>.</para>
  323. </listitem>
  324. <listitem>
  325. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.0. Fixes
  326. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2109">#2109</ulink>.</para>
  327. </listitem>
  328. <listitem>
  329. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.9. Fixes
  330. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2106">#2106</ulink>.</para>
  331. </listitem>
  332. <listitem>
  333. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-416. Fixes
  334. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2105">#2105</ulink>.</para>
  335. </listitem>
  336. <listitem>
  337. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Gettext-0.17. Fixes
  338. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2103">#2103</ulink>.</para>
  339. </listitem>
  340. <listitem>
  341. <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
  342. Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around. Fixes
  343. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
  344. for the report.</para>
  345. </listitem>
  346. <listitem>
  347. <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
  348. Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around. Fixes
  349. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
  350. for the report.</para>
  351. </listitem>
  352. <listitem>
  353. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.3. Fixes
  354. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2116">#2116</ulink>.</para>
  355. </listitem>
  356. </itemizedlist>
  357. </listitem>
  358. <listitem>
  359. <para>2007-11-25</para>
  360. <itemizedlist>
  361. <listitem>
  362. <para>[bdubbs] - Fixed test for Debian binutils.</para>
  363. </listitem>
  364. </itemizedlist>
  365. </listitem>
  366. <listitem>
  367. <para>2007-10-29</para>
  368. <itemizedlist>
  369. <listitem>
  370. <para>[bdubbs] - Removed obsolete note from Creating Symlinks section
  371. about continuation lines in udev rules. Changed dailout group
  372. to uucp for udev rule compatability.</para>
  373. </listitem>
  374. <listitem>
  375. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to the latest upstream patches for
  376. Vim.</para>
  377. </listitem>
  378. <listitem>
  379. <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix a segfault in usb_id.</para>
  380. </listitem>
  381. <listitem>
  382. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.16. Fixes
  383. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2084">#2084</ulink>.</para>
  384. </listitem>
  385. <listitem>
  386. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.19. Fixes
  387. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2090">#2090</ulink>.</para>
  388. </listitem>
  389. <listitem>
  390. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.67. Fixes
  391. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2078">#2078</ulink>.</para>
  392. </listitem>
  393. <listitem>
  394. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.23.1. Fixes
  395. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2088">#2088</ulink>.</para>
  396. </listitem>
  397. <listitem>
  398. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-409. Fixes
  399. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2087">#2087</ulink>.</para>
  400. </listitem>
  401. <listitem>
  402. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.23. Fixes
  403. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2091">#2091</ulink>.</para>
  404. </listitem>
  405. <listitem>
  406. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.7. Fixes
  407. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2095">#2095</ulink>.</para>
  408. </listitem>
  409. <listitem>
  410. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.2. Fixes
  411. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2089">#2089</ulink>.</para>
  412. </listitem>
  413. <listitem>
  414. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.6. Fixes
  415. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2098">#2098</ulink>.</para>
  416. </listitem>
  417. <listitem>
  418. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.21. Fixes
  419. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2086">#2086</ulink>.</para>
  420. </listitem>
  421. </itemizedlist>
  422. </listitem>
  423. <listitem>
  424. <para>2007-09-25</para>
  425. <itemizedlist>
  426. <listitem>
  427. <para>[manuel] - More updates in dependencies list. Thanks to
  428. Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
  429. </listitem>
  430. </itemizedlist>
  431. </listitem>
  432. <listitem>
  433. <para>2007-09-23</para>
  434. <itemizedlist>
  435. <listitem>
  436. <para>[manuel] - Updated dependencies list. Thanks to
  437. Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
  438. </listitem>
  439. </itemizedlist>
  440. </listitem>
  441. <listitem>
  442. <para>2007-09-21</para>
  443. <itemizedlist>
  444. <listitem>
  445. <para>[manuel] - Fixed glibc-libidn tarball extension.</para>
  446. </listitem>
  447. </itemizedlist>
  448. </listitem>
  449. <listitem>
  450. <para>2007-09-18</para>
  451. <itemizedlist>
  452. <listitem>
  453. <para>[manuel] - Added remap attributes to userinput tags in packages
  454. pages to help adding package manager support and other extensions
  455. into jhalfs. Made all testsuite commands screen blocks for
  456. consistency.</para>
  457. </listitem>
  458. </itemizedlist>
  459. </listitem>
  460. <listitem>
  461. <para>2007-09-16</para>
  462. <itemizedlist>
  463. <listitem>
  464. <para>[manuel] - Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos.
  465. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
  466. </listitem>
  467. </itemizedlist>
  468. </listitem>
  469. <listitem>
  470. <para>2007-09-15</para>
  471. <itemizedlist>
  472. <listitem>
  473. <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Vim.</para>
  474. </listitem>
  475. <listitem>
  476. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes
  477. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2055">#2055</ulink>.</para>
  478. </listitem>
  479. <listitem>
  480. <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline. Fixes
  481. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2068">#2068</ulink>.</para>
  482. </listitem>
  483. <listitem>
  484. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.64. Fixes
  485. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2061">#2061</ulink>.</para>
  486. </listitem>
  487. <listitem>
  488. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.6. Fixes
  489. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2070">#2070</ulink>.</para>
  490. </listitem>
  491. <listitem>
  492. <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes
  493. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2018">#2018</ulink>.
  494. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch,
  495. Robert Connolly and Dan Nicholson for investigating how best
  496. to adjust CFLAGS, and Greg Schafer for showing the technical
  497. benefits of using CFLAGS with Glibc.</para>
  498. </listitem>
  499. <listitem>
  500. <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.1. Fixes
  501. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2002">#2002</ulink>.
  502. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch.</para>
  503. </listitem>
  504. <listitem>
  505. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes
  506. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2051">#2051</ulink>.</para>
  507. </listitem>
  508. <listitem>
  509. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.18. Fixes
  510. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2069">#2069</ulink>.</para>
  511. </listitem>
  512. <listitem>
  513. <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
  514. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2067">#2067</ulink>.</para>
  515. </listitem>
  516. </itemizedlist>
  517. </listitem>
  518. <listitem>
  519. <para>2007-09-07</para>
  520. <itemizedlist>
  521. <listitem>
  522. <para>[manuel] - Added sect1info metainformation blocks to packages
  523. pages to help adding package manager support into jhalfs.</para>
  524. </listitem>
  525. </itemizedlist>
  526. </listitem>
  527. </itemizedlist>
  528. <para>LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.</para>
  529. </sect1>