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<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
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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>

<!-- Changelog template

    <listitem>
      <para>Date</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

-->

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Separate standards page and rationale page
          and reformat.  Provided more information about packages
          needed to satisfy LSB.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Add a page describing the Linux standards LFS
          uses to guide its procedures. Included a sub-section on why
          each package is in the book.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1673">#1673</ulink>
          and <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2196">#2196</ulink></para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Update host requirements script to 
          print a comment that makeinfo is used to identify
          the Texinfo package version.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Added a section to each package's dependencies
          in the Appendix to list external (non-LFS) dependencies for
          LFS packages.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1682">#1682</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Remove unneccessary .install and ..install.cmd
          files that were being installed by the Linux headers.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Coreutils-8.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2518">#2518</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.8. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2517">#2517</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Libtool-2.2.6b. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2514">#2514</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Removed paragraph in LFS Target Architectures
          that said that we can't build a 64-bit loader.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Clarified explanation of why we use cross
          compilation techniques in the Toolchain Technical Notes.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2412">#2412</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Patch-2.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2513">#2513</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Udev-147. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2512">#2512</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Linux-2.6.31.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2511">#2511</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-14</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Removed obsolete note on the Host System 
          requirements page.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Added a note to 'About SBUs' to address
          parallel make procedures and how SBU values will be
          affected.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Minor changes to GRUB-1.97.1 instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Upgraded to GRUB-1.97.1 Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2510">#2510</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-11-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Glibc-2.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2509">#2509</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to latest upstream patches for Bash.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Linux-2.6.31.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2508">#2508</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Module-Init-Tools-3.11.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2507">#2507</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] Upgraded to GRUB-1.97.  Split the
          build/install portion from the configuration of /boot and 
          the mbr and placed the build portion in Chapter 6. 
          Expanded the discussion about the /boot mbr portion in Chapter 8.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2093">#2093</ulink>.
          This also eliminates the need for an initramfs as
          specified in 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2033">#2033</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-10-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Linux-2.6.31.4. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2503">#2503</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to GCC-4.4.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2504">#2504</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Binutils-2.20. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2505">#2505</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-10-12</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Kbd-1.15.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2501">#2501</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.23. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2498">#2498</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Linux-2.6.31.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2499">#2499</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Gzip-1.3.13. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2500">#2500</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-09-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Linux-2.6.31.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2496">#2496</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Install psmisc's binaries in
          <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> instead of
          <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> as they are only
          called whilst <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> is mounted.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2469">#2469</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-09-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] Upgrade to udev-config-20090925.  Fixes <ulink
              url="&lfs-ticket-root;2497">#2497</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
   
    <listitem>
      <para>2009-09-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Update list of installed headers for Linux.  Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the patch.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2495">#2495</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Update list of installed programs for various
          packages.  Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2494">#2494</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-09-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Bash-4.0-fixes-4.patch. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2484">#2484</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Linux-2.6.31. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2485">#2485</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Util-Linux-NG-2.16.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2483">#2483</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Coreutils-7.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2487">#2487</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2481">#2481</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-09-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Deleted the reference to the outdated and
          incomplete optimization hint.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-09-10</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a section to the Preface about LFS
          supported architectures.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-09-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed more documentation in the Chapter 5
          stripping section.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-08-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Udev-146. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2473">#2473</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Perl-5.10.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2479">#2479</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] Upgraded to Linux-2.6.30.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2475">#2475</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-436. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2471">2471</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.41.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2478">2478</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-7.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2477">#2477</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2009-08-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Reworded the notes in the General Compilation 
          Instructions and added a note to bin-utils to have users
          actually read the General Compilation Instructions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>


  </itemizedlist>

  <para>LFS 6.5 released August 16, 2009.</para>

</sect1>