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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>2009-02-08</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[matthew] - Replaced the link to the now non-existent udev-FAQ
  36. to a more general udev information page. Fixes
  37. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2306">#2306</ulink>.</para>
  38. </listitem>
  39. <listitem>
  40. <para>[matthew] - Added a link to the wget-list file. Fixes
  41. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2333">#2333</ulink>.</para>
  42. </listitem>
  43. <listitem>
  44. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Module-init-Tools-3.6. Fixes
  45. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2343">#2343</ulink>.</para>
  46. </listitem>
  47. <listitem>
  48. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to File-5.00. Fixes
  49. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2342">#2342</ulink>.</para>
  50. </listitem>
  51. <listitem>
  52. <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to suppress a warning added in
  53. Tar-1.21 that causes the Perl testsuite to fail.</para>
  54. </listitem>
  55. <listitem>
  56. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to MPFR-2.4.0. Fixes
  57. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2341">#2341</ulink>.</para>
  58. </listitem>
  59. <listitem>
  60. <para>[matthew] - Install MPFR's documentation. Fixes
  61. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2232">#2232</ulink>. Thanks to Randy
  62. McMurchy for the report and assistance with the fix.</para>
  63. </listitem>
  64. <listitem>
  65. <para>[matthew] - Remove an unneeded --sysconfdir parameter in
  66. Inetutils' instructions. Fixes
  67. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2313">#2313</ulink>.</para>
  68. </listitem>
  69. <listitem>
  70. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.4. Fixes
  71. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2340">#2340</ulink>.</para>
  72. </listitem>
  73. <listitem>
  74. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Binutils-2.19.1. Fixes
  75. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2339">#2339</ulink>.</para>
  76. </listitem>
  77. </itemizedlist>
  78. </listitem>
  79. <listitem>
  80. <para>2009-02-01</para>
  81. <itemizedlist>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>[matthew] - Remove the redundant SBINDIR parameter from
  84. IPRoute2's commands. Fixes the remaining part of
  85. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2307">#2307</ulink>.</para>
  86. </listitem>
  87. <listitem>
  88. <para>[matthew] - Install DRM-related Linux headers, as suggested by
  89. Chris Staub in <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2307">#2307</ulink>.
  90. </para>
  91. </listitem>
  92. <listitem>
  93. <para>[matthew] - Added preloadable_libintl.so to list of files
  94. installed by Gettext. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.
  95. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2312">#2312</ulink>.</para>
  96. </listitem>
  97. <listitem>
  98. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-137. Fixes
  99. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2328">#2328</ulink>.</para>
  100. </listitem>
  101. <listitem>
  102. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.5.6. Fixes
  103. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2305">#2305</ulink>.</para>
  104. </listitem>
  105. <listitem>
  106. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tar-1.21. Fixes
  107. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2309">#2309</ulink>.</para>
  108. </listitem>
  109. <listitem>
  110. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Patch-2.5.9. Fixes
  111. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2239">#2239</ulink>.</para>
  112. </listitem>
  113. <listitem>
  114. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.17. Fixes
  115. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2327">#2327</ulink>.</para>
  116. </listitem>
  117. <listitem>
  118. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.2. Fixes
  119. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2316">#2316</ulink>.</para>
  120. </listitem>
  121. <listitem>
  122. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to IPRoute2-2.6.28. Fixes
  123. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2324">#2324</ulink>.</para>
  124. </listitem>
  125. <listitem>
  126. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Inetutils-1.6. Fixes
  127. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2308">#2308</ulink>.</para>
  128. </listitem>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Groff-1.20.1. Fixes
  131. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2322">#2322</ulink>.</para>
  132. </listitem>
  133. <listitem>
  134. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.3.3. Fixes
  135. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2334">#2334</ulink>.</para>
  136. </listitem>
  137. <listitem>
  138. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.41.4. Fixes
  139. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2336">#2336</ulink>.</para>
  140. </listitem>
  141. <listitem>
  142. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bison-2.4.1. Fixes
  143. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2300">#2300</ulink>.</para>
  144. </listitem>
  145. <listitem>
  146. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bash-3.2.48. Fixes
  147. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2319">#2319</ulink>.</para>
  148. </listitem>
  149. </itemizedlist>
  150. </listitem>
  151. <listitem>
  152. <para>2009-01-24</para>
  153. <itemizedlist>
  154. <listitem>
  155. <para>[matthew] - Corrected some package tarball sizes. Fixes
  156. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2290">#2290</ulink>.</para>
  157. </listitem>
  158. </itemizedlist>
  159. </listitem>
  160. <listitem>
  161. <para>2009-01-03</para>
  162. <itemizedlist>
  163. <listitem>
  164. <para>[bdubbs] - Reformatted several pages so pdf is properly
  165. generated. Thanks to Martin Miehe for the changes.
  166. </para>
  167. </listitem>
  168. </itemizedlist>
  169. </listitem>
  170. <listitem>
  171. <para>2008-12-29</para>
  172. <itemizedlist>
  173. <listitem>
  174. <para>[bdubbs] - Split one udev rule so it is not wider than the
  175. book's page.
  176. </para>
  177. </listitem>
  178. </itemizedlist>
  179. </listitem>
  180. <listitem>
  181. <para>2008-12-24</para>
  182. <itemizedlist>
  183. <listitem>
  184. <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the location of glibc-2.8-20080929.tar.bz2.
  185. </para>
  186. </listitem>
  187. </itemizedlist>
  188. </listitem>
  189. <listitem>
  190. <para>2008-12-19</para>
  191. <itemizedlist>
  192. <listitem>
  193. <para>[robert] - Added -v to the install command for the convert-mans
  194. script in the man-db page, for consistent use of verbose commands.</para>
  195. </listitem>
  196. </itemizedlist>
  197. </listitem>
  198. <listitem>
  199. <para>2008-12-18</para>
  200. <itemizedlist>
  201. <listitem>
  202. <para>[robert] - Removed the unneeded -e option from the Sed command
  203. in the chap6 Findutils page, for consistency.</para>
  204. </listitem>
  205. </itemizedlist>
  206. </listitem>
  207. <listitem>
  208. <para>2008-12-07</para>
  209. <itemizedlist>
  210. <listitem>
  211. <para>[jhuntwork] - Update Greg Schafer's entry in the acknowledgments section to
  212. properly reflect the work done in designing the build method.</para>
  213. </listitem>
  214. </itemizedlist>
  215. </listitem>
  216. <listitem>
  217. <para>2008-12-06</para>
  218. <itemizedlist>
  219. <listitem>
  220. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to vim-7.2-fixes-4.patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2296">#2296</ulink>.
  221. </para>
  222. </listitem>
  223. <listitem>
  224. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-135. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2284">#2284</ulink>.</para>
  225. </listitem>
  226. <listitem>
  227. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Shadow-4.1.2.2. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2287">#2287</ulink>.</para>
  228. </listitem>
  229. <listitem>
  230. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to readline-5.2-fixes-6.patch. Fixes
  231. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2295">#2295</ulink>.</para>
  232. </listitem>
  233. <listitem>
  234. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Ncurses-5.7. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2276">#2276</ulink>.</para>
  235. </listitem>
  236. <listitem>
  237. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Module-Init-Tools-3.5. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2245">#2245</ulink>.
  238. </para>
  239. </listitem>
  240. <listitem>
  241. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.15. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2269">#2269</ulink>.</para>
  242. </listitem>
  243. <listitem>
  244. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.3. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2283">#2283</ulink>.</para>
  245. </listitem>
  246. <listitem>
  247. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.27.8. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2282">#2282</ulink>.</para>
  248. </listitem>
  249. <listitem>
  250. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Kbd-1.15. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2291">#2291</ulink>.</para>
  251. </listitem>
  252. <listitem>
  253. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bison-2.4. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2281">#2281</ulink>.</para>
  254. </listitem>
  255. <listitem>
  256. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Binutils-2.19. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2268">#2268</ulink>.</para>
  257. </listitem>
  258. <listitem>
  259. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to bash-3.2-fixes-9.patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2294">#2294</ulink>.
  260. </para>
  261. </listitem>
  262. <listitem>
  263. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.2. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2286">#2286</ulink>.</para>
  264. </listitem>
  265. </itemizedlist>
  266. </listitem>
  267. <listitem>
  268. <para>2008-12-04</para>
  269. <itemizedlist>
  270. <listitem>
  271. <para>[jhuntwork] - Introduce new build method in Chapter 5 originating
  272. in DIY-Linux. Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
  273. </listitem>
  274. <listitem>
  275. <para>[jhuntwork] - Move instructions for GRUB to chapter 8 just after the
  276. compilation of the kernel. Merge GRUB build and configuration instructions
  277. into one page.</para>
  278. </listitem>
  279. </itemizedlist>
  280. </listitem>
  281. <listitem>
  282. <para>2008-12-03</para>
  283. <itemizedlist>
  284. <listitem>
  285. <para>[jhuntwork] - Initial addition of support for building on x86_64.
  286. Several ideas, principles and build instructions originated in DIY-Linux.
  287. Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
  288. </listitem>
  289. </itemizedlist>
  290. </listitem>
  291. <listitem>
  292. <para>2008-12-02</para>
  293. <itemizedlist>
  294. <listitem>
  295. <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved grep up in the build order of chapter 6
  296. to be before libtool which hardcodes references to grep in its installed
  297. files. Was previously circumvented by a symlink, but this approach sticks
  298. more closely to our build order policy. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the reminder.</para>
  299. </listitem>
  300. </itemizedlist>
  301. </listitem>
  302. <listitem>
  303. <para>2008-12-01</para>
  304. <itemizedlist>
  305. <listitem>
  306. <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjusted the line break in the adjusting toolchain
  307. section so that the output redirection does not look like a secondary
  308. bash prompt. Thanks to Chris Staub for the idea.</para>
  309. </listitem>
  310. </itemizedlist>
  311. </listitem>
  312. <listitem>
  313. <para>2008-11-23</para>
  314. <itemizedlist>
  315. <listitem>
  316. <para>[ken] - Added note to gmp about CFLAGS on 64-bit-capable
  317. machines. Reported by Tobias Gasser, thanks to Greg Schafer for
  318. the analysis.</para>
  319. </listitem>
  320. </itemizedlist>
  321. </listitem>
  322. </itemizedlist>
  323. <para>LFS 6.4 released November 23, 2008.</para>
  324. </sect1>