Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision ad3425180c7b84f6f98852a2cb205f979f7bc716)
+++ general.ent	(revision 30be81d3d9f9cc4ab1feace240251f5ac283441e)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "10">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "11">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "11">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2018">
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "November 10th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "November 11th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision ad3425180c7b84f6f98852a2cb205f979f7bc716)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 30be81d3d9f9cc4ab1feace240251f5ac283441e)
@@ -43,4 +43,14 @@
 -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>November 11th, 2018</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Stop trying to use system poppler in texlive. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11338">#11338</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>November 10th, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
Index: pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/typesetting/texlive.xml	(revision ad3425180c7b84f6f98852a2cb205f979f7bc716)
+++ pst/typesetting/texlive.xml	(revision 30be81d3d9f9cc4ab1feace240251f5ac283441e)
@@ -163,11 +163,12 @@
       </para>
 
+<!--
       <para>
         If you came here to update an old system (because of the recent
         vulnerability) where the poppler version is before 0.62.0, such as
         BLFS-8.1, do NOT use the commands in the <literal>MYPOPPLER</literal>
-        block of instructions, nor the <literal>--with-system-poppler</literal>
-        or <literal>--with-system-xpdf</literal> options when configuring.
-      </para>
+        block of instructions, nor the <literal>\-\-with-system-poppler</literal>
+        or <literal>\-\-with-system-xpdf</literal> options when configuring.
+      </para>-->
     </note>
 
@@ -178,6 +179,6 @@
 
 patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-2.patch &amp;&amp;
-
-let MYPOPPLER=$(pkg-config --modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f2)
+<!--
+let MYPOPPLER=$(pkg-config \-\-modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f2)
 mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc{-newpoppler,}.cc
 if [ $MYPOPPLER -lt 68 ]; then
@@ -188,9 +189,11 @@
   mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-poppler0.69.0,}.cc
 fi &amp;&amp;
-unset MYPOPPLER &amp;&amp;
-
+unset MYPOPPLER &amp;&amp;-->
 mkdir texlive-build &amp;&amp;
 cd texlive-build    &amp;&amp;
-
+<!-- 
+    \-\-with-system-poppler                                       \
+    \-\-with-system-xpdf                                          \
+ -->
 ../configure                                                    \
     --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;                                  \
@@ -215,7 +218,5 @@
     --with-system-mpfr                                          \
     --with-system-pixman                                        \
-    --with-system-poppler                                       \
     --with-system-potrace                                       \
-    --with-system-xpdf                                          \
     --with-system-zlib                                          \
     --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &amp;&amp;
@@ -279,8 +280,9 @@
       various problems have come to light since the shipped source was frozen to
       be committed to DVDs. In particular, a segmentation fault in dvipdfm-x from
-      XeTeX and changes in newer versions of <application>poppler</application>,
+      XeTeX <!--and changes in newer versions of <application>poppler</application>-->,
       also an important vulnerability fix.
     </para>
 
+<!--
     <para>
       <command>let MYPOPPLER=...</command>: Because the vulnerability fix applies to
@@ -289,5 +291,5 @@
       newer versions of poppler need to be copied over the original versions,
       depending on which version is being used.
-    </para>
+    </para>-->
 
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
@@ -305,7 +307,7 @@
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
       href="../../xincludes/tex-system.xml"/>
-
-    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-      href="../../xincludes/tex-xpdf.xml"/>
+<!--
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      href="../../xincludes/tex-xpdf.xml"/>-->
 
     <para>
