Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision 952094577cb755ec70f2fb4d52ff9b25b2913910)
+++ general.ent	(revision 5ac40fda63aebd5f1fbbfb110b1d96db82b3d251)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "26">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "27">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "02">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2016">
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "February 26th &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "February 27th &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Index: general/prog/perl-modules.xml
===================================================================
--- general/prog/perl-modules.xml	(revision 952094577cb755ec70f2fb4d52ff9b25b2913910)
+++ general/prog/perl-modules.xml	(revision 5ac40fda63aebd5f1fbbfb110b1d96db82b3d251)
@@ -254,5 +254,5 @@
     <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <itemizedlist>
@@ -318,5 +318,5 @@
     <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <itemizedlist>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 952094577cb755ec70f2fb4d52ff9b25b2913910)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 5ac40fda63aebd5f1fbbfb110b1d96db82b3d251)
@@ -44,4 +44,14 @@
 
 -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>February 27th, 2016</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Fix breakage in xindy resulting from grep-2.23.
+          Fixes <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;7489">#7489</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
Index: pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml	(revision 952094577cb755ec70f2fb4d52ff9b25b2913910)
+++ pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml	(revision 5ac40fda63aebd5f1fbbfb110b1d96db82b3d251)
@@ -36,5 +36,5 @@
     </para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
Index: pst/typesetting/biber.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/typesetting/biber.xml	(revision 952094577cb755ec70f2fb4d52ff9b25b2913910)
+++ pst/typesetting/biber.xml	(revision 5ac40fda63aebd5f1fbbfb110b1d96db82b3d251)
@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@
     <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
Index: pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/typesetting/texlive.xml	(revision 952094577cb755ec70f2fb4d52ff9b25b2913910)
+++ pst/typesetting/texlive.xml	(revision 5ac40fda63aebd5f1fbbfb110b1d96db82b3d251)
@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@
     initialise the new installation will be found.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
Index: pst/typesetting/xindy.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/typesetting/xindy.xml	(revision 952094577cb755ec70f2fb4d52ff9b25b2913910)
+++ pst/typesetting/xindy.xml	(revision 5ac40fda63aebd5f1fbbfb110b1d96db82b3d251)
@@ -39,5 +39,5 @@
     </para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -97,5 +97,5 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &amp;&amp;
-
+sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" make-rules/inputenc/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;              \
             --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/$TEXARCH \
@@ -123,4 +123,14 @@
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-prefix.xml"/>
+
+    <para>
+      <parameter>sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" ...</parameter>: The build
+      sorts files in latin{1..3} encodings to create latin.xdy, and unicode
+      versions of these to create utf8.xdy after using
+      <command>grep -v '^;'</command> to remove blank lines. With
+      <application>grep-2.23</application> any data not in the expected
+      encoding is treated as binary, resulting in a useless file. This
+      command uses an alternative way of removing blank lines.
+    </para>
 
     <para><parameter>--includedir=/usr/include</parameter>:
