%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; &versiond; 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. 2020-02-16 [renodr] - Adjust the kernel configuration for systemd to adapt to reorganization changes in Linux 5.5. 2020-02-14 [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.5.2. Fixes #4597. 2020-02-13 [bdubbs] - Update to ncurses-6.2. Fixes #4596. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.05. Fixes #4595. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.5.3.tar.xz. Fixes #4592. 2020-01-27 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.0190. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.34. Fixes #4590. [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.31. Fixes #4589. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.5.1. Fixes #4588. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.5.3. Fixes #4587. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.5.0. Fixes #4586. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux 2.35.1. Fixes #4560. 2020-01-23 [renodr] - Remove obsolete installation commands from the systemd page. These have been obsolete since 243 and were recently discovered. 2020-01-27 [bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.10.0. Fixes #4585. [bdubbs] - Update to check-0.14.0. Fixes #4583. [bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.8.1. Fixes #4582. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.53.1. Fixes #4581. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.5. Fixes #4580. [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.5.1. Fixes #4579. 2020-01-19 [bdubbs] - Update to make-4.3. Fixes #4578. [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.0129. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to gmp-6.2.0. Fixes #4577. [bdubbs] - Update to sed-4.8. Fixes #4576. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.5.1. Fixes #4575. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.4.13. Fixes #4572. 2020-01-16 [pierre] - Update to libcap-2.31. Fixes #4574. 2020-01-13 [bdubbs] - Ensure zstd libraries are installed in the correct location. 2020-01-12 [bdubbs] - Added zstd-1.4.4. 2020-01-09 [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.53.0. Fixes #4571. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.5. Fixes #4570. [bdubbs] - Update to grep-3.4. Fixes #4568. [bdubbs] - Update to libpipeline-1.5.2. Fixes #4567. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.4.8. Fixes #4566. [pierre] - Add /etc/os-release to the sysV version, as it is required by some packages in BLFS. 2020-01-06 [pierre] - Update to libcap-2.30. Fixes #4569. 2020-01-04 [pierre] - Fix various issues in libcap-2.29, and update dependencies. 2020-01-01 [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.29. Fixes #4564. 2019-12-22 [pierre] - Update to python3-3.8.1. Fixes #4564. [pierre] - Update to file-5.38. Fixes #4563. [pierre] - Update to linux-5.4.6. Fixes #4562. [pierre] - Update to vim-8.2.0024. Part of #4500. 2019-12-12 [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.28. Fixes #4559. [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.5. Fixes #4561. 2019-12-10 [renodr] - Fix a regression in meson that was causing problems in dependent packages. 2019-12-05 [renodr] - Update to systemd-244. Fixes #4554. [renodr] - Update to bc-2.4.0. Fixes #4556. [renodr] - Update to shadow-4.8. Fixes #4557. [renodr] - Update to linux-5.4.2. Fixes #4558. 2019-12-01 [bdubbs] - Add upstream fixes patch for bash. Also add a note about possible problems when changing to the lfs user. [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.1.2361. Updates #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.52.1. Fixes #4555. [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.178. Fixes #4553. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.4.0. Fixes #4551. [bdubbs] - Update to libffi-3.3. Fixes #4550. [bdubbs] - Update to tcl-8.6.10. Fixes #4549. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.04. Fixes #4548. [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.30.1. Fixes #4547. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.4.1. Fixes #4546. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.3.2. Fixes #4545. 2019-11-08 [renodr] - Update to Linux-5.3.9. Resolves a regression with restarting systems with HD Audio (hda), data corruption on btrfs, and a security vulnerability with systems that use the RTLWIFI driver. Fixes #4544. 2019-11-06 [renodr] - Fix potential infinite loop with meson-0.52 and systemd-243. 2019-10-31 [dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20191031. 2019-10-25 [dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20191025. 2019-11-01 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.3.8. Fixes #4539. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.2.0. Fixes #4543. [bdubbs] - Update to check-0.13.0. Fixes #4540. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.9. Fixes #4542. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.9.0. Fixes #4541. 2019-10-17 [bdubbs] - Move attr and acl to be before shadow. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.3.6. Fixes #4534. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.03. Fixes #4536. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.52.0. Fixes #4535. [bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.8.0. Fixes #4538. [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.33.1. Fixes #4537. 2019-10-03 [renodr] - Add a consolidated patch to fix several problems with the new version of systemd, including bugs in udev, filesystem mounting (with Samba-4.11), hardware database updates, timesync fixes with adjtime as is set in LFS, and bugs with network management and domain resolution. 2019-09-29 [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.7. Fixes #4529. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.4. Fixes #4530. [bdubbs] - Update to XML-Parser-2.46. Fixes #4531. [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.9. Fixes #4532. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.3.0. Fixes #4533. 2019-09-27 [renodr] - Update to systemd-243. Fixes #4456. 2019-09-24 [pierre] - Update to linux-5.3.1. Fixes #4528. 2019-09-14 [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.8. Fixes #4527. [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.4.2. Fixes #4526. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.14. Fixes #4522. [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1d. Fixes #4523. [bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.96. Fixes #4524. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2019c. Fixes #4525. 2019-09-02 [dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20190908. 2019-09-02 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.11. Fixes #4517. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.8.7. Fixes #4518. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.51.2. Fixes #4519. [bdubbs] - Update to findutils-4.7.0. Fixes #4520. [dj] - Update to LFS-Bootscripts-20190902 - correct LSB dependency information in bootscripts and update standards page for new LSB-Tools package. 2019-09-01 [bdubbs] - LFS-9.0 released.