Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ general.ent	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "03">                   <!-- 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 4rd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "November 11th, &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 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
            "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-&harfbuzz-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "263a3f1cb014e3ad2e4123c238a9bfc5">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "3.7 MB">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "119 MB (with tests)">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-time          "1.1 SBU (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "246535f1ba011235650b3da8fcca2456">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "4.2 MB">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "147 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-time          "0.8 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -77,4 +77,7 @@
     <para role="recommended">
       <xref linkend="glib2"/> (required for Pango),
+      <xref role="first" linkend="graphite2"/> (required for building
+        <xref role="nodep" linkend="texlive"/> or 
+        <xref role="nodep" linkend="libreoffice"/> with system harfbuzz),
       <xref linkend="icu"/>, and
       <xref role="first" linkend="freetype2"/>
@@ -88,7 +91,4 @@
       <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
       <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
-      <xref role="first" linkend="graphite2"/> (required for building
-        <xref role="nodep" linkend="texlive"/> or 
-        <xref role="nodep" linkend="libreoffice"/> with system harfbuzz)
       <xref linkend="python2"/> (required for the testsuite), and
       <ulink url="https://pypi.org/project/FontTools/">FontTools</ulink> (for
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gobject &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gobject --with-graphite2 &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
Index: general/graphlib/poppler.xml
===================================================================
--- general/graphlib/poppler.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ general/graphlib/poppler.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY poppler-download-http "https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-&poppler-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum        "0881d921de62673ab558872dadc2b27b">
+  <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum        "b505011e49e922c83f3ffb57ab40bc28">
   <!ENTITY poppler-size          "1.4 MB">
-  <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize     "82 MB (with Qt5 library and tests)">
-  <!ENTITY poppler-time          "0.7 SBU (with parallelism=4, Qt5 library, and tests)">
+  <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize     "83 MB (with Qt5 library and tests)">
+  <!ENTITY poppler-time          "0.8 SBU (with parallelism=4, Qt5 library, and tests)">
 
   <!ENTITY poppler-data-version       "0.4.9">
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -43,4 +43,50 @@
 -->
     <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>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to poppler-0.71.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11273">#11273</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to v4l-utils-1.16.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11268">#11268</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libsoup-2.64.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11274">#11274</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to opus-1.3. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11267">#11267</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>November 8th, 2018</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to harfbuzz-2.1.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11262">#11262</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to alsa-{lib,plugins,tools,utils}-1.0.7. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11259">#11259</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>November 3rd, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
Index: multimedia/libdriv/alsa-lib.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/alsa-lib.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/alsa-lib.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
   <!ENTITY alsa-lib-download-http " ">
   <!ENTITY alsa-lib-download-ftp  "&alsa-download-ftp;/lib/alsa-lib-&alsa-lib-version;.tar.bz2">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-lib-md5sum        "2f981a8f7897c59ec2ddc44916d33788">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-lib-size          "967 KB">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-lib-md5sum        "51ca1283e27e7dc10207ccce33919cf2">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-lib-size          "984 KB">
   <!ENTITY alsa-lib-buildsize     "31 MB (with tests)">
   <!ENTITY alsa-lib-time          "0.3 SBU (with tests)">
Index: multimedia/libdriv/alsa-plugins.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/alsa-plugins.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/alsa-plugins.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-download-http " ">
   <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-download-ftp  "&alsa-download-ftp;/plugins/alsa-plugins-&alsa-plugins-version;.tar.bz2">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-md5sum        "8387279e99feeb2ecffaac5f293223d7">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-size          "359 KB">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-buildsize     "4.7 MB">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-md5sum        "c86cd9c069cfec2e8a491aaa7d3c584c">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-size          "364 KB">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-buildsize     "4.8 MB">
   <!ENTITY alsa-plugins-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
 ]>
Index: multimedia/libdriv/alsa-tools.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/alsa-tools.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/alsa-tools.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY alsa-tools-download-http " ">
   <!ENTITY alsa-tools-download-ftp  "&alsa-download-ftp;/tools/alsa-tools-&alsa-tools-version;.tar.bz2">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-tools-md5sum        "5ca8c9437ae779997cd62fb2815fef19">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-tools-md5sum        "475bdf6457bcf55c8c895d653ee56a54">
   <!ENTITY alsa-tools-size          "1.7 MB">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-tools-buildsize     "24 MB">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-tools-time          "0.3 SBU">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-tools-buildsize     "25 MB">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-tools-time          "0.5 SBU">
 ]>
 
Index: multimedia/libdriv/alsa-utils.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/alsa-utils.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/alsa-utils.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY alsa-utils-download-http " ">
   <!ENTITY alsa-utils-download-ftp  "&alsa-download-ftp;/utils/alsa-utils-&alsa-utils-version;.tar.bz2">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-utils-md5sum        "50ae75567459646b843bed78d916b002">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-utils-md5sum        "2b88796c6b05520e59eec6049de02f64">
   <!ENTITY alsa-utils-size          "1.2 MB">
-  <!ENTITY alsa-utils-buildsize     "9.9 MB">
+  <!ENTITY alsa-utils-buildsize     "9.7 MB">
   <!ENTITY alsa-utils-time          "0.1 SBU">
 ]>
Index: multimedia/libdriv/opus.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/opus.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/opus.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
            "&mozilla-http;/opus/opus-&opus-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY opus-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY opus-md5sum        "54bc867f13066407bc7b95be1fede090">
-  <!ENTITY opus-size          "988 KB">
-  <!ENTITY opus-buildsize     "24 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY opus-md5sum        "c4143b6823f2f0d5520d1be2155db2eb">
+  <!ENTITY opus-size          "1.0 MB">
+  <!ENTITY opus-buildsize     "26 MB (with tests)">
   <!ENTITY opus-time          "0.9 SBU  (with tests)">
 ]>
Index: multimedia/libdriv/v4l-utils.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/v4l-utils.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/v4l-utils.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
   <!ENTITY v4l-download-http "https://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/v4l-utils-&v4l-utils-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY v4l-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY v4l-md5sum        "21a6ec3605a1c3114c8ccb70a963c871">
+  <!ENTITY v4l-md5sum        "0b3553854c8b8b0102a823f8e150efbc">
   <!ENTITY v4l-size          "1.8 MB">
   <!ENTITY v4l-buildsize     "87 MB">
Index: networking/netlibs/libsoup.xml
===================================================================
--- networking/netlibs/libsoup.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ networking/netlibs/libsoup.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
   <!ENTITY libsoup-download-ftp
            "&gnome-download-ftp;/libsoup/2.64/libsoup-&libsoup-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY libsoup-md5sum        "93b1a0dff827529536d408fa9e6f747f">
+  <!ENTITY libsoup-md5sum        "cac755dc6c6acd6e0c70007f547548f5">
   <!ENTITY libsoup-size          "1.7 MB">
-  <!ENTITY libsoup-buildsize     "145 MB (with tests)"> <!-- Large increase between minor versions -->
-  <!ENTITY libsoup-time          "0.3 SBU (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY libsoup-buildsize     "23 MB (with tests)"> 
+  <!ENTITY libsoup-time          "0.2 SBU (with tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -116,5 +116,5 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
-cd build &amp;&amp;
+cd    build &amp;&amp;
 
 meson --prefix=/usr -Dvapi=true -Dgssapi=false .. &amp;&amp;
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ packages.ent	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -207,5 +207,5 @@
 <!ENTITY giflib-version               "5.1.4">
 <!ENTITY graphite2-version            "1.3.12">
-<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "1.9.0">
+<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "2.1.1">
 <!ENTITY ijs-version                  "0.35">
 <!ENTITY jasper-version               "2.0.14">
@@ -227,5 +227,5 @@
 <!ENTITY openjpeg2-version            "2.3.0">
 <!ENTITY pixman-version               "0.34.0">   <!-- Even minors only -->
-<!ENTITY poppler-version              "0.69.0">
+<!ENTITY poppler-version              "0.71.0">
 <!ENTITY potrace-version              "1.15">
 <!ENTITY qpdf-version                 "8.2.1">
@@ -586,5 +586,5 @@
 <!ENTITY libndp-version               "1.7">
 <!ENTITY libproxy-version             "0.4.7">
-<!ENTITY libsoup-version              "2.64.1">
+<!ENTITY libsoup-version              "2.64.2">
 <!ENTITY libtirpc-version             "1.1.4">
 <!ENTITY neon-version                 "0.30.2">
@@ -882,9 +882,9 @@
 <!ENTITY alsa-download-http           "http://alsa.cybermirror.org">
 <!ENTITY alsa-download-ftp            "ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub">
-<!ENTITY alsa-version                 "1.1.6">
-<!ENTITY alsa-lib-version             "1.1.6">
-<!ENTITY alsa-plugins-version         "1.1.6">
-<!ENTITY alsa-utils-version           "1.1.6">
-<!ENTITY alsa-tools-version           "1.1.6">
+<!ENTITY alsa-version                 "1.1.7">
+<!ENTITY alsa-lib-version             "1.1.7">
+<!ENTITY alsa-plugins-version         "1.1.7">
+<!ENTITY alsa-utils-version           "1.1.7">
+<!ENTITY alsa-tools-version           "1.1.7">
 <!ENTITY alsa-firmware-version        "1.0.29">
 <!ENTITY alsa-oss-version             "1.1.6">
@@ -930,5 +930,5 @@
 <!ENTITY mlt-version                  "6.10.0">
 <!ENTITY opal-version                 "3.10.10">
-<!ENTITY opus-version                 "1.2.1">
+<!ENTITY opus-version                 "1.3">
 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-major-version     "12.2">
 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-version           "&pulseaudio-major-version;">
@@ -940,5 +940,5 @@
 <!ENTITY speexdsp-version             "1.2rc3">
 <!ENTITY taglib-version               "1.11.1">
-<!ENTITY v4l-utils-version            "1.16.0">
+<!ENTITY v4l-utils-version            "1.16.2">
 <!ENTITY x264-version                 "20180819-2245">
 <!ENTITY x265-version                 "2.9">
Index: pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/typesetting/texlive.xml	(revision 1f01e5eeb41478acf90191f78c4e8933eb444e45)
+++ pst/typesetting/texlive.xml	(revision a14fafbdf7e94dc02e34b44394d984fef4b73500)
@@ -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>
