%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via . Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. 2013-12-21 [krejzi] - Added LFS-Network-Script page. Fixes #3350. [krejzi] - Update Systemd instructions and contents for latest version of Systemd. [krejzi] - Update network configuration page to use LFS Systemd specific network configuration. [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20131216 book. 2013-12-16 [matthew] - Update to Coreutils-8.22. Fixes #3447. [matthew] - Update to Man-Pages-3.55. Fixes #3446. [matthew] - Update to Bison-3.0.2. Fixes #3442. [matthew] - Update to Libpipeline-1.2.5. Fixes #3440. [matthew] - Update to Binutils-2.24. Fixes #3438. [matthew] - Update to File-5.16. Fixes #3437. [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.12.5. Fixes #3436. 2013-12-13 [bdubbs] - Fix kmod, procps-ng, zlib, readline, ncurses, and xz methods of establishing correct symbolic links for libraries. [bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-3.3.9. Fixes #3439. [bdubbs] - Install non-essential programs from the xz package in /usr/bin. Fixes #3445. 2013-12-10 [krejzi] - Start over. [krejzi] - Import LFS SVN-20131207. [krejzi] - Remove LFS-Bootscripts-20130821, Sysklogd-1.5. [krejzi] - Remove Sysvinit-2.88dsf, Udev-208. [krejzi] - Added Acl-2.2.52, Attr-2.4.47, Libcap-2.22. [krejzi] - Added D-Bus-1.6.18, Expat-2.1.0, Gperf-3.0.4. [krejzi] - Added Intltool-0.50.2, XML::Parser-2.42_01. [krejzi] - Added Libdbus-1.6.18, a package required to satisfy circular dependency between D-Bus and Systemd. [krejzi] - Added Systemd-208. [krejzi] - Added new LFS-Network-Scripts, a replacement for LFS-Bootscripts in Systemd environment. [krejzi] - Updated most of the Chapter 7 instruction for use with Systemd environment. Removed obsolete pages. [krejzi] - Updated Kernel configuration page and added required setup for Systemd. [krejzi] - Removed unneeded pseudo file systems from /etc/fstab file creation. They are now handled by Systemd. [krejzi] - Added glibc FHS patch which prevents nscd daemon from writing into a non-FHS compliant directory. [krejzi] - Removed instructions from Coreutils and Findutils that were specific to LFS-Bootscripts.