Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision ae88b121f269df21d0c6b4963727428c4097831d)
+++ general.ent	(revision 9b8c04edd6d6c44a62f3b18f538cd54ee6e3a77f)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "30">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "31">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2020">
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 30th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 31st, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Index: general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
===================================================================
--- general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml	(revision ae88b121f269df21d0c6b4963727428c4097831d)
+++ general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml	(revision 9b8c04edd6d6c44a62f3b18f538cd54ee6e3a77f)
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
            "https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/releases/download/&harfbuzz-version;/harfbuzz-&harfbuzz-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "eebccef549722947fda536270057936f">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "8.3 MB">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "201 MB (add 20 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-time          "0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 0.4 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "6d8393e6fb84edfb15997d1c5ba35b1b">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "9.1 MB">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "240 MB (add 6 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-time          "0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 0.2 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -120,9 +120,12 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gobject --with-graphite2 &amp;&amp;
-make</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
+<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
+cd    build &amp;&amp;
+
+meson --prefix=/usr -Dgraphite=enabled &amp;&amp;
+ninja</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>.
     </para>
 
@@ -131,5 +134,5 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
   </sect2>
 
@@ -137,12 +140,13 @@
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
-    <para>
-      <parameter>--with-gobject</parameter>: This switch enables building
+<!--
+    <para>
+      <parameter>- -with-gobject</parameter>: This switch enables building
       of the <application>HarfBuzz</application> GObject wrapper. Remove
       it if you did not install <application>GLib</application>.
     </para>
-
-    <para>
-      <parameter>--with-graphite2</parameter>: This switch enables
+-->
+    <para>
+      <parameter>-Dgraphite=enabled</parameter>: This switch enables
       <application>Graphite2</application> support, which is required for
       building <xref linkend="texlive"/> or <xref linkend="libreoffice"/>
@@ -150,6 +154,8 @@
     </para>
 
-    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-      href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
+    <para>
+      <option>-Ddocs=false</option>: If <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> is installed,
+      the documentation is built and installed. This switch prevents that.
+    </para>
 
   </sect2>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision ae88b121f269df21d0c6b4963727428c4097831d)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 9b8c04edd6d6c44a62f3b18f538cd54ee6e3a77f)
@@ -43,4 +43,15 @@
     -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>December 31st, 2020</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to harfbuzz-2.7.4. Move to meson build
+          system. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14444">#14444</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>December 30th, 2020</para>
       <itemizedlist>
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision ae88b121f269df21d0c6b4963727428c4097831d)
+++ packages.ent	(revision 9b8c04edd6d6c44a62f3b18f538cd54ee6e3a77f)
@@ -212,5 +212,5 @@
 <!ENTITY glm-version                  "0.9.9.8">
 <!ENTITY graphite2-version            "1.3.14">
-<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "2.7.3">
+<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "2.7.4">
 <!--<!ENTITY ijs-version                  "0.35">-->
 <!ENTITY jasper-version               "2.0.14">
