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