Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision 678ce3b04c892f1bcd04441805d0744983e219df)
+++ general.ent	(revision 277c9f4e28dc6dc238b3189eb69e416e575116ae)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "20">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "21">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "11">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2020">
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "November 20th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "November 21st, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Index: general/genlib/libxml2.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/libxml2.xml	(revision 678ce3b04c892f1bcd04441805d0744983e219df)
+++ general/genlib/libxml2.xml	(revision 277c9f4e28dc6dc238b3189eb69e416e575116ae)
@@ -77,4 +77,10 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>
+          Required patch:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/libxml2-&libxml2-version;-security_fixes-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
           Optional Testsuite:
           <ulink url="http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts&testsuite-version;.tar.gz"/> - This
@@ -125,4 +131,10 @@
 
     <para>
+      Apply a patch to fix various errors:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -p1 -i ../libxml2-&libxml2-version;-security_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
+<!--<para>
       First fix a problem generating the Python3 module with Python-3.9.0 and later:
     </para>
@@ -135,9 +147,9 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>sed -i '/_PyVerify_fd/,+1d' python/types.c</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      If you are going to run the tests, disable one test that prevents the
-      tests from completing:
+<screen><userinput>sed -i '/_PyVerify_fd/,+1d' python/types.c</userinput></screen>-->
+
+    <para>
+      If you are going to run the tests, disable one test that causes the Python
+      tests to terminate early with an error:
     </para>
 
Index: general/genutils/imagemagick.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genutils/imagemagick.xml	(revision 678ce3b04c892f1bcd04441805d0744983e219df)
+++ general/genutils/imagemagick.xml	(revision 277c9f4e28dc6dc238b3189eb69e416e575116ae)
@@ -163,5 +163,7 @@
       <xref role="nodep" linkend="lcms"/> or
       <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
-      <xref linkend="libexif"/>,
+      <!-- although libexif may have been used in the past, I can find no
+          evidence that it has been used in imagemagick-7.  ken
+      <xref linkend="libexif"/>,-->
       <xref linkend="libgxps"/>,
       <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
Index: general/graphlib/libexif.xml
===================================================================
--- general/graphlib/libexif.xml	(revision 678ce3b04c892f1bcd04441805d0744983e219df)
+++ general/graphlib/libexif.xml	(revision 277c9f4e28dc6dc238b3189eb69e416e575116ae)
@@ -79,5 +79,4 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
-<!-- Applied in 0.6.22
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -85,9 +84,8 @@
         <para>
           Required patch:
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/libexif-&libexif-version;-security_fix-1.patch"/>
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/libexif-&libexif-version;-security_fixes-1.patch"/>
         </para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
--->
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libexif Dependencies</bridgehead>
@@ -107,11 +105,12 @@
     <title>Installation of libexif</title>
 
-<!--
+
     <para>
-      First, apply a patch to fix a security issue (integer overflow):
+      First, apply a patch to fix a security issue (integer overflow leading to
+      Out Of Buffer write):
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../libexif-&libexif-version;-security_fix-1.patch</userinput></screen>
--->
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../libexif-&libexif-version;-security_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
 
     <para>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 678ce3b04c892f1bcd04441805d0744983e219df)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 277c9f4e28dc6dc238b3189eb69e416e575116ae)
@@ -43,4 +43,18 @@
     -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>November 21st, 2020</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Patch libexif for security fixes. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14272">#14272</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Patch libxml2 for security fixes. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14271">#14271</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>November 20th, 2020</para>
       <itemizedlist>
