Index: general/genutils/imagemagick.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genutils/imagemagick.xml	(revision 43c796e958812426998d8405fdddfa7e4ecfd39f)
+++ general/genutils/imagemagick.xml	(revision 4ecbd94f153c52c7849995cb62b4b269a94810f0)
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick-patch-version "10">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick-patch-version "27">
 
   <!ENTITY imagemagick-download-http "https://www.imagemagick.org/download/releases/ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;-&imagemagick-patch-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY imagemagick-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/releases/ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;-&imagemagick-patch-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick-md5sum        "9ae81c8d5f2196d9592533472110261f">
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick-size          "8.3 MB">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick-md5sum        "7acb76d418a8abd244a37bf73593f4e3">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick-size          "9.0 MB">
   <!ENTITY imagemagick-buildsize     "207 MB, with typical dependencies (add 37MB for make check)">
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick-time          "0.9 SBU - typical build with parallelism=4 (add 1.3 SBU for make check with parallelism=4 and the validation suite)">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick-time          "1.1 SBU - typical build with parallelism=4 (add 1.3 SBU for make check with parallelism=4 and the validation suite)">
 ]>
 
Index: general/genutils/imagemagick6.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genutils/imagemagick6.xml	(revision 43c796e958812426998d8405fdddfa7e4ecfd39f)
+++ general/genutils/imagemagick6.xml	(revision 4ecbd94f153c52c7849995cb62b4b269a94810f0)
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-patch-version "10">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-patch-version "27">
 
   <!ENTITY imagemagick6-download-http "https://www.imagemagick.org/download/releases/ImageMagick-&imagemagick6-version;-&imagemagick6-patch-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY imagemagick6-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/releases/ImageMagick-&imagemagick6-version;-&imagemagick6-patch-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-md5sum        "b273e560556ba1b1e66d248e524319b0">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-md5sum        "3ffedd3a745060492d2b43099e05bd45">
   <!ENTITY imagemagick6-size          "8.5 MB">
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-buildsize     "198 MB, with typical dependencies (add 32 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-time          "1.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 1.6 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-buildsize     "135 MB, with typical dependencies (add 32 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY imagemagick6-time          "0.8 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 1.6 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -21,4 +21,6 @@
      dependencies available in the book are installed.
 
+     [bdubbs 2019-92-09]  Reduced SBU and disk space for libraries only.
+     
      [bdubbs 2918-08-26] I upddated the above stats slightly for 8.3. All BLFS
      dependencies were installed except gimp and texlive. Note that at this 
@@ -52,5 +54,7 @@
      DPS/dpsXclient is from apple so not relevant to linux builds
      GVC is part of Graphviz and documented in the explanations
-     LQR is Liquid Rescale  -->
+     LQR is Liquid Rescale  
+     
+     -->
 
 <sect1 id="imagemagick6" xreflabel="ImageMagick-&imagemagick6-version;-&imagemagick6-patch-version; libraries">
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 43c796e958812426998d8405fdddfa7e4ecfd39f)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 4ecbd94f153c52c7849995cb62b4b269a94810f0)
@@ -46,4 +46,9 @@
       <para>February 9th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ImageMagick-6.9.10-27 and 
+          ImageMagick6-7.0.8-27.  Addresses
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;7859">#7859</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libxkbcommon-0.8.3.  Fixes
