Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
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--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision e319d3bea6fd2a8c16ff4ce4fcca3d87ead84a7b)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 1f4c3f9f90949c017778ee4c46ebc7f91b9ebce8)
@@ -45,4 +45,10 @@
       <para>January 3rd, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] Update to nfs-utils-2.3.1 and move start-statd to
+          /usr/sbin. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10200">#10200</ulink> and
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10203">#10203</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[dj] Update to samba-4.7.4. Fixes
Index: networking/netprogs/nfs-utils.xml
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--- networking/netprogs/nfs-utils.xml	(revision e319d3bea6fd2a8c16ff4ce4fcca3d87ead84a7b)
+++ networking/netprogs/nfs-utils.xml	(revision 1f4c3f9f90949c017778ee4c46ebc7f91b9ebce8)
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/nfs/nfs-utils-&nfs-utils-version;.tar.bz2">
+  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/nfs/nfs-utils-&nfs-utils-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY nfs-utils-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-md5sum        "6e7e0dc10664ac40bd84df1a881bad85">
-  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-size          "836 KB">
-  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-buildsize     "17 MB">
+  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-md5sum        "fda23f37a703d15e5697dd9a8084b9c9">
+  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-size          "623 KB">
+  <!ENTITY nfs-utils-buildsize     "18 MB">
   <!ENTITY nfs-utils-time          "0.2 SBU">
 ]>
@@ -125,4 +125,10 @@
         for example in a distro trying to mount from a BLFS v3 server.
       </para>
+      <para>
+        Even if neither end of the connection supports nfs v4, adding
+        <literal>nfsver=3</literal> is still beneficial because it prevents an
+        error message "NFS: bad mount option value specified: minorversion=1"
+        being logged on every mount.
+      </para>
     </note>
 
@@ -174,12 +180,18 @@
 make</userinput></screen>
 
+    <!-- Test breakage: see
+    http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-book/2017-December/071861.html -->
+    <para>This package does not come with a working test suite."</para>
+
     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
 
 <!-- dev note: make statduser=$(whoami) DESTDIR=<DESTDIR> install -->
 
-<screen role='root'><userinput>make install                   &amp;&amp;
-chmod u+w,go+r /sbin/mount.nfs &amp;&amp;
+<screen role='root'><userinput>make install                      &amp;&amp;
+mv -v /sbin/start-statd /usr/sbin &amp;&amp;
+chmod u+w,go+r /sbin/mount.nfs    &amp;&amp;
 chown nobody.nogroup /var/lib/nfs</userinput></screen>
 
+    <!-- commented, in case the tests get fixed
     <para>The tests for this package require that the package be installed and
     configured as specified below.  In addition, the the daemon from <xref
@@ -187,5 +199,5 @@
     <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user.</para>
 
-    <para>To test the results, issue, as root: <command>make check</command>.</para>
+    <para>To test the results, issue, as root: <command>make check</command>.</para>-->
 
   </sect2>
@@ -316,5 +328,6 @@
       <para>The options which can be used are specified in <command>man 5 nfs</command>.
       If both the client and server are running recent versions of linux, most of the
-      options will be negotiated. You can specify either <literal>rw</literal> or
+      options will be negotiated (but see the Note above on nfsver=3). You can specify
+      either <literal>rw</literal> or
       <literal>ro</literal>, <literal>_netdev</literal> if the filesystem is to be
       automatically mounted at boot, or <literal>noauto</literal> (and perhaps
Index: packages.ent
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--- packages.ent	(revision e319d3bea6fd2a8c16ff4ce4fcca3d87ead84a7b)
+++ packages.ent	(revision 1f4c3f9f90949c017778ee4c46ebc7f91b9ebce8)
@@ -434,5 +434,5 @@
 <!ENTITY ncftp-version                "3.2.6">
 <!ENTITY net-tools-version            "CVS_20101030">
-<!ENTITY nfs-utils-version            "2.2.1">
+<!ENTITY nfs-utils-version            "2.3.1">
 <!ENTITY ntp-version                  "4.2.8p10">
 <!ENTITY rpcbind-version              "0.2.4">
