%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. 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.