%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. 2011-02-10 [bdubbs] Upgrade to Util-linux-2.19. Changed name from util-linux-ng. Fixes #2805. 2011-02-04 [matthew] Upgrade to Glibc-2.13. Fixes #2827. [matthew] Upgrade to XZ-5.0.1. Fixes #2826. [matthew] Upgrade to Perl-5.12.3. Fixes #2824. 2011-01-27 [bdubbs] Add a sed that modifies incorrect defines in glibc. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban for identifying the proper fix. Fixes #2820. 2011-01-25 [bdubbs] Add a note about optionally building popt before pkg-config. Fixes #2781. 2011-01-24 [bdubbs] Move chroot man page to man8. Fixes #2782. 2011-01-23 [matthew] Ignore failing tests in Man-DB as they're only due to a change in Groff-1.21's warning output. Fixes #2823. [matthew] Change password hashing from MD5 to SHA-512. Fixes #2814. [matthew] Upgrade to File-5.05. Fixes #2821. [matthew] Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.37. Fixes #2817. [matthew] Upgrade to Coreutils-8.9. Fixes #2815. 2011-01-10 [ken] Updated to Linux-2.6.37. Fixes #2816. [ken] Updated to Groff-1.21. Fixes #2813. 2011-01-04 [bdubbs] Move XZ-Utils to before Man-DB. Tweak install instructions. 2011-01-02 [bdubbs] Added XZ-Utils as a new compression utility package for independent use or with tar. Fixes #2619. 2010-12-29 [ken] Allow shadow to install its korean and chinese man-pages, since man-db can now format them. Thanks to William Immendorf for the report. 2010-12-28 [matthew] Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.14. Fixes #2812. [matthew] Upgrade to Coreutils-8.8. Fixes #2811. 2010-12-19 [matthew] Upgrade to Udev-165. Fixes #2810. [matthew] Upgrade to GCC-4.5.2. Fixes #2809. [matthew] Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.13. Fixes #2807. 2010-12-14 [matthew] Upgrade to Glibc-2.12.2. Fixes #2804. 2010-12-13 [matthew] Upgrade to Binutils-2.21. Fixes #2803. [matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.32. Fixes #2802. [matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.36.2. Fixes #2799. [matthew] Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.9. Fixes #2797. 2010-11-18 [matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.31. Fixes #2794. [matthew] Upgrade to Expect-5.45. Fixes #2791. 2010-11-10 [matthew] Add security fixes for Glibc. Fixes #2790. [matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.30. Fixes #2788. [matthew] Mention Inetutils' testsuite, and also install its HTML documentation. Fixes #2784 and #2785 [matthew] Upgrade to Tar-1.25, and also install its HTML documentation. Fixes #2777 and #2786. 2010-10-27 [bdubbs] Add an example on how to use wget-list. Fixes #2778. 2010-10-26 [bdubbs] Clarify text in Chapter 5 GCC Pass 1 concerning supporting packages. 2010-10-24 [matthew] Upgrade to Udev-164. Fixes #2775. [matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.29. Fixes #2774. [matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.36. Fixes #2773. [matthew] Upgrade to Coreutils-8.6. Fixes #2771. 2010-10-18 [matthew] Upgrade to Bash 4.1 patch level 9. Fixes #2770. [matthew] Upgrade to Udev-163. Fixes #2769. [matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.28. Fixes #2765. [matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.35.7. Fixes #2764. [matthew] Upgrade to Autoconf-2.68. Fixes #2763. [matthew] Upgrade to Libtool-2.4. Fixes #2762. 2010-09-22 [matthew] Following r9370, fix the Autoconf underquoting bug in Autoconf itself, rather than just the one affected LFS package, Pkg-config. [matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.35.5. Fixes #2761. [matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.7. Fixes #2760. [matthew] Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.6. Fixes #2759. [matthew] Add patch to fix "Unknown HZ value" error in some procps tools. Thanks to DJ Lucas for the report and patch. Fixes #2758. [matthew] Upgrade to Tcl-8.5.9. Fixes #2753. [matthew] Upgrade to Perl-5.12.2. Fixes #2752. [matthew] Upgrade to Psmisc-22.13. Fixes #2751. [matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.27. Fixes #2750. [matthew] Upgrade to Udev-162. Fixes #2747. [matthew] Upgrade to M4-1.4.15. Fixes #2744. 2010-09-18 [bdubbs] - LFS-6.7 released.