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