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  <title>Changelog</title>

  <para>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 <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>

  <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  book.</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <title>Changelog Entries:</title>

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    <listitem>
      <para>2008-11-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Changed wording introducing test suites in Chapter 5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20081031.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added explanation for --disable-libssp to GCC
          in Chapter 5.  Also expanded/added explanation on language selection 
          for GCC in Chapters 5 and 6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Wording changes to several text sections of Chapter 5. 
          Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a consolidated patch to perl to address security 
          and other issues.  Changed the configure options for perl to define
          a vendor library location.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated symbolic link creation loop for vi.1 man pages.
          Thanks to Bryan Kadzban for the construct.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-28</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to Tcl-8.5.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to latest stable kernel 2.6.27.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Changed location of man pages in Module-Init-Tools.
          Thanks to Trent Shea for pointing out the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to M4-1.4.12.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added chmod instructions to e2fsprogs and tcl to
          ensure all libraries are writable by root for stripping.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a brief explanation of the Linux API Headers
          instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added i386, linux32, and linux64 as symbolic 
          links to setarch in util-linux contents.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Moved gawk ahead of findutils in Chapter 6
          to avoid a test suite failure in findutils.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a General Compilation Instructions section
          immediatley before binutils.  Essentially reordered the presentation
          that was in the Chapter 5 Introduction.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove unnecessary mandir patch.  Updated 
          vim package contents.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated the text on the Man-DB page to accout for recent
          changes in Man-DB.  Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for providing most
          of the included text, explanations, and examples.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated to lfs-bootscritps-20081023 to account for
          changes in the console page.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated text in console page to match current situation
          regarding linux kernel changes. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for
          the text and explanations.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated Man-DB instructions and text covering manual
          pages and related i18n issues.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Corrected chown command for coreutils testsuite.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated to &coreutils-i18n-patch;.  Thanks to Bryan
          Kadzban for the suggested fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added dependency information for GMP and MPFR
          packages.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.  Also, removed
          dependency information for Mktemp.  Thanks to William Immendorf for
          the report.  Fixes #2218.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated list of minimum installed locales for testsuite
          coverage in Chapter 6 GLibc instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added ac_cv_func_working_mktime=yes to the configure 
          commands in gawk and bash to bypass the search for mktime.  This 
          works around a change in gcc.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a note to the ifcfg script description in 
          iproute2 that it requires external programs.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Added '--without-included-regex' to grep instrcutions
          in order to force the use of glibc's regex library.  This fixes the
          -i switch for grep.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Reintroduced the command to supress installation of the
          vi_VN.TCVN locale as bash is still broken with it.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Put Coreutils-i18n patch back into place.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - GCC 4.3.2 uses a new directory for fixed includes. Fixed
          the adjust toolchain scripts to point to the new location.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a note to the Host System Requirements that the
          Linux host must be a 32-bit system and that the book only supports 
          a 32-bit build.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated the book to use 4.13a as the Texinfo version,
          even though the tarball is exactly the same as the previous 4.13
          version.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Removed an unnecessary command from the Chapter 5
          Perl instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the discussion in Chapter 1 explaining that the 
          LiveCD is out of date.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a paragraph to the note in the packages page 
          explaining that bandwidth can be saved when making multiple updates within a
          minor kernel release by downloading a base version and patches.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed build locations of m4 so that it links against the
          glibc built in /tools and so that no packages in chapter 6 hard-code references
          to the temporary location. Also made m4 a host requirement.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added --disable-libssp to glibc Pass 1 in Chapter 5
          to eliminate a build failure on some systems.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated to udev-config-20081015.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Modified udev instructions following upstream
          recommendations.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Modified the Chapter 5 instructions so that instead
          of building the GMP and MPFR packages separately for GCC Pass2, they
          are built by GCC internally.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added a configure option to the Chapter 6 Gettext
          instructions so that the documentation is installed in a versioned
          directory.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Updated to E2fsprogs-1.41.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Corrected installation prefixes of Iproute2
          package with DESTDIR and MANDIR paths. Thanks to Steffen Pankratz 
          for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Modified the Chapter 6 GMP instructions to include a
          method for determining all the tests in the test suite passed.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Modified the GCC search for correct headers command
          to account for the new include-fixed directory.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added a patch to the Chapter 6 Binutils instructions
          to correct some errors in the test suite.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Corrected installation of udev rule files.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Moved the Chapter 6 M4 installation into alphabetical
          order as it is installed in Chapter 5 now and therefore doesn't need
          to precede the Bison installation.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Moved the Chapter 5 M4 installation to before GCC
          Pass1 so that the internal GCC build of GMP will not fail in case
          M4 doesn't exist on the host. Also updated GCC's dependencies to
          reflect GMP and MPFR.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Changed Chapter 5 GCC Pass 1 build to static.  Thanks to
          Jeremy Huntwork for the suggestion and supporting text.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Added note to Chapter 6 GCC about the new include-fixed
          directory and changed the sample output to match.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Added instruction to keep Chapter 5 Glibc from honoring
          /etc/ld.so.preload.  Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added descriptions of the configure options used
          in the GMP instructions and updated the installed library
          descriptions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dj] - Removed the Chapter 5 Glibc test suite information as
          it requires a working C++ compiler to run.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added three configure parameters to the Chapter 6
          Util-linux-ng instructions so that additional programs are
          installed. Also updated the installed programs list.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added a sed command to the Sysvinit instructions to
          suppress the installation of the wall program and its man page as a
          maintained version of this program is installed by
          Util-linux-ng.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added commands to the Chapter 6 Binutils instructions
          to suppress the installation of standards.info. Thanks to Greg
          Schafer for contributing the fix.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added a patch to the Procps instructions to fix a
          unicode related issue in the watch program.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the
          Chapter 6 Kbd instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Modified the IPRoute2 installation command so that the
          docs are installed in a versioned directory.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Modified the Groff installation command so that the
          docs are installed in a standardized versioned directory.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the
          Chapter 6 Gawk instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added commands to the Chapter 6 Flex instructions
          to install a .pdf doc file.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added a parameter to the configure command in the
          Automake instructions so that docs are installed in a versioned
          directory.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the
          Chapter 6 Readline instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the
          Chapter 6 Ncurses instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added documentation enhancements to the E2fsprogs
          package.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Removed an unnecessary parameter from the
          Util-linux-ng Chapter 6 make command. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
          pointing it out.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated the Perl instructions. Thanks to Greg Schafer
          for pointing out the issues. This change also required that the Zlib
          package is built right before the Perl package in Chapter 6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Vim to 7.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Udev to 130.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated File to 4.26</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Shadow to 4.1.2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Man-DB to 2.5.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Iproute to 2.6.26.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added a command to the Inetutils instructions to
          correct an issue with GCC-&gcc-version;.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Autoconf to 2.63.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Libtool to 2.2.6a.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Corrected the instruction to untar the E2fsprogs
          tarball in Section 2.3. Thanks to William Immendorf for pointing
          out the error.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Berkeley DB to 4.7.25.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Man-pages to 3.11.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Util-linux-ng to 2.14.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Texinfo to 4.13.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[robert] - Added -v to the cp command in the Chapter 5 Expect
          instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Tar to 1.20.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Perl to 5.10.0.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated M4 to 1.4.11 and added it to the Chapter 5
          build as it is required by the GMP package in Chapter 6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Findutils to 4.4.0.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated E2fsprogs to 1.41.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added the Mktemp-1.5 package to the list of
          removed items in the Chapter3 'What's new ...' page.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Coreutils to 6.12. Thanks to William
          Immendorf for contributing a patch to add the mktemp program
          information to the Coreutils page.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated the Bash Fixes patch to the -8 version.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added a patch to the Expect instructions to fix an
          issue with recent Tcl versions.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Tcl to 8.5.4.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated the Linux kernel to 2.6.26.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated Glibc to a 2.8 snapshot taken on
          9/29/2008. The tarball of this snapshot includes the libidn
          data that previously was separately packaged.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Added the GMP and MPFR packages to the list of
          packages in Chapter 3. Thanks to Lefteris Dimitroulakis for
          pointing out the omission.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-10-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added version check for Perl in Host System 
          Requirements.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[randy] - Updated GCC to 4.3.2 which includes adding the
          GMP-4.2.4 and MPFR-2.3.2 packages. This new version of GCC requires
          the added packages. Thanks to DJ Lucas for the stimulus and initial
          work resulting in this and all of the other package updates coming
          up.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-07-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Belatedly fixed known vulnerabilities in perl.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-06-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added udev-config scripts to appendices.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added lfs-bootscripts to appendices.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated license to Creative Commons with
          extracted code under the MIT license.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-05-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Install a few extra rules from the
          etc/udev/packages directory in udev.  Thanks to Dan
          Nicholson for noticing the issue.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
            
    <listitem>
      <para>2008-05-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Updated Udev to 122, udev-config to
          20080522, and lfs-bootscripts to 20080522.  Also made
          persistent-net rules able to be pre-generated, using
          udevadm test.  Fixes #2057, #2079 (I think), #2170, and
          #2186.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Use -mtune=native for glibc. We don't
          want our libc optimized for 486. It should be optimized
          for the local machine.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated Autoconf to 2.62.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated E2fsprogs to 1.40.8. Fixes #2173.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed behavior in kbd where man pages
          for optional programs that aren't built are installed.
          Thanks Greg Schafer for spotting this.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed kbd to install getkeycodes,
          setkeycodes and resizecons. Also moved loadkeys to /bin from
          /usr/bin. Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated Kbd to 1.14.1. Fixes #2162.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated Flex to 2.5.35. Fixes #2179.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated host requirments to check for
          symbolic links from sh, awk, and yacc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Suppress installation of uptime in coreutils.
          Thanks to Randy McMurchy. Fixes #2133.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to iana-etc-2.30. Fixes #2174.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added patch for 256-byte inode support in GRUB.
          Fixes #2161.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to linux-2.6.24.4, fixes #2157.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added an upstream patch for db-4.6.21, thanks
          Randy McMurchy for the report. Fixes #2164.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-03-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added <parameter>--sysconfdir</parameter>
          parameter to Man-db's configure command so that
          <filename>man_db.conf</filename> is installed in <filename
          class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-03-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated bzip2 to 1.0.5, fixes CVE-2008-1372.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Corrected typo in name of ru-ms keymap.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Kbd to 1.13.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add --libexecdir parameter to Man-db's configure
          command so that <command>globbing</command> and
          <command>manconv</command> are installed into /usr/libexec/man-db.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2153">#2153</ulink>.  Also, remove
          the --enable-mb-groff parameter, as this is now detected
          automatically.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3, thanks to Matthew for the fix
          for automated builds.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Flex to 2.5.34.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream Vim patches.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.18. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2146">#2146</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.78. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2152">#2152</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2148">#2148</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2147">#2147</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Now that <command>mktemp</command> is installed by
          Coreutils in chapter 5, there is no need to fix up GCC's
          <command>gccbug</command> in chapter 6.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for
          the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2151">#2151</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2149">#2149</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to fix a known issue in the Automake
          test suite. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2143">#2143</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.77. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2142">#2142</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Libtool-1.5.26. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2141">#2141</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.2.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2140">#2140</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-6.10. Removed Mktemp-1.5 as
          Coreutils provides its own implementation now. Removed the coreutils
          binary suppression patch as the configure script can now be given a
          list of programs not to install. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2133">#2133</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2138">#2138</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2137">#2137</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.32. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2136">#2136</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2132">#2132</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Replaced Util-Linux-2.12r, with
          Util-Linux-NG-2.13.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2077">#2077</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2131">#2131</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.76. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2129">#2129</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2128">#2128</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add Perl to the list of host requirements, as it is
          required by Glibc.  Thanks to Ben Collver for the report.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2112">#2112</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Mention <command>strace</command> as another means
          of logging installed files, and correct the URL of the Linux Standard
          Base specifications. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2073">#2073</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2130">#2130</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-418.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2124">#2124</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to File-4.23.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2125">#2125</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2123">#2123</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-12-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Readline.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2122">#2122</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.74. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2119">#2119</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2118">#2118</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2121">#2121</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-12-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2108">#2108</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2074">#2074</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Psmisc-22.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2104">#2104</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.70. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2110">#2110</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2109">#2109</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2106">#2106</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-416. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2105">#2105</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Gettext-0.17. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2103">#2103</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
          Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
          for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
          Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
          for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2116">#2116</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-11-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Fixed test for Debian binutils.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed obsolete note from Creating Symlinks section
          about continuation lines in udev rules.  Changed dailout group
          to uucp for udev rule compatability.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to the latest upstream patches for
          Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix a segfault in usb_id.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.16. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2084">#2084</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2090">#2090</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.67. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2078">#2078</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.23.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2088">#2088</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-409. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2087">#2087</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.23. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2091">#2091</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2095">#2095</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2089">#2089</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2098">#2098</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.21. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2086">#2086</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - More updates in dependencies list. Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated dependencies list. Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Fixed glibc-libidn tarball extension.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added remap attributes to userinput tags in packages
          pages to help adding package manager support and other extensions
          into jhalfs. Made all testsuite commands screen blocks for
          consistency.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos.
          Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
       <para>2007-09-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2055">#2055</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2068">#2068</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.64. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2061">#2061</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2070">#2070</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2018">#2018</ulink>.
          Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch,
          Robert Connolly and Dan Nicholson for investigating how best
          to adjust CFLAGS, and Greg Schafer for showing the technical
          benefits of using CFLAGS with Glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2002">#2002</ulink>.
          Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2051">#2051</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.18.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2069">#2069</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2067">#2067</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added sect1info metainformation blocks to packages
          pages to help adding package manager support into jhalfs.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.</para>

</sect1>