%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. 2012-03-28 [bdubbs] - Adjust minimum version of xz-utils in Host Requirements. [bdubbs] - Reword description of log files in section creating essential files. 2012-03-27 [matthew] - Add a patch to fix building of Binutils with the -O3 compiler flag. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report. [matthew] - Add the GCC fix patch back to Glibc instructions to fix a build issue on 32-bit hosts. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report. 2012-03-26 [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.38. Fixes #3047. [matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.1. Fixes #3046. [matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.15. Fixes #3045. Thanks to Andy Benton for the patch. [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.7.0. Fixes #3044. Thanks to Andy Benton for the patch. [matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.3.0. Fixes #3043. 2012-03-22 [bdubbs] - Fix corner case in ipv4-static script. 2012-03-20 [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3. Fixes #3042. [matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-7. Fixes #3041. [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-182. Fixes #3040. 2012-03-19 [bdubbs] - Move optional LVM initialization to the end of the udev boot script so an LVM partition can be used for swap. 2012-03-14 [matthew] - Remove GCC's cross-compile patch as it isn't required. [matthew] - Apply new upstream patches for Bash. Fixes #3037. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.11. Fixes #3036. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.37. Fixes #3034. 2012-03-11 [matthew] - Workaround an issue in Gettext's configure script that can cause it to hang on certain hosts when determining the path for Emacs Lisp files on certain hosts. Reported by and fix provided by DJ Lucas. 2012-03-06 [matthew] - Upgrade to Libpipeline-1.2.1. Fixes #3031. [matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-6. Fixes #3030. [matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.11. Fixes #3029. [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.3. Fixes #3028. [matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.16. Fixes #3026. [matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.11. Fixes #3024. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.9. Fixes #3023. [matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.21. Fixes #3002. 2012-03-02 [bdubbs] - LFS-7.1 released.