%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. 2015-12-06 [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-5.3.0. Fixes #3866. 2015-12-03 [bdubbs] - Update to gmp-6.1.0. Fixes #3862. [bdubbs] - Clean up Eudev configure options. Fixes #3865. [bdubbs] - Update host requirements to require GCC-4.7 or later. [bdubbs] - Clarify that setting and using the LFS variable assumes the bash shell. 2015-11-18 [bdubbs] - Update to flex-2.6.0. Fixes #3860. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.5. Fixes #3859. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-22. Fixes #3861. 2015-11-06 [bdubbs] - Add glibc-2.22-largefile-1.patch. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.3. Fixes #3857. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.3.0. Fixes #3858. 2015-11-02 [bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.22. Fixes #3855. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2.5. Fixes #3854. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.27.1. Fixes #3856. 2015-10-25 [bdubbs] - Revise version-check.sh to flag bad /bin/sh symlinks. 2015-10-17 [bdubbs] - Update to less-481. Fixes #3853. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1.5. Fixes #3851. 2015-10-12 [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.4. Fixes #3850. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2.3. Fixes #3844. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata2015g. Fixes #3845. [bdubbs] - Many updates to installed files and directories. Huge thanks to Fernando. Fixes #3849. 2015-10-11 [bdubbs] - Reset location of anduin hosted files. 2015-10-02 [bdubbs] - Change references to ncursesw5 to ncursesw6. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the patch. 2015-10-01 [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.3. Fixes #3837. [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.6. Fixes #3838. [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.25. Fixes #3839. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2.1. Fixes #3840. [bdubbs] - Update to pkg-config-0.29. Fixes #3842. [bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.2.2. Fixes #3843. [bdubbs] - LFS-7.8 released.