Index: general/graphlib/qpdf.xml
===================================================================
--- general/graphlib/qpdf.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ general/graphlib/qpdf.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -73,9 +73,4 @@
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Qpdf Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required">
-      <xref linkend="pcre"/>
-    </para>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
Index: general/prog/nasm.xml
===================================================================
--- general/prog/nasm.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ general/prog/nasm.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY nasm-download-http "http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/&nasm-version;/nasm-&nasm-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY nasm-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY nasm-md5sum        "b3ae134bd1b5ead73d659286f568da95">
-  <!ENTITY nasm-size          "784 KB">
-  <!ENTITY nasm-buildsize     "28 MB" >
+  <!ENTITY nasm-md5sum        "abb79a82fa30908217e30f76eca8a557">
+  <!ENTITY nasm-size          "788 KB">
+  <!ENTITY nasm-buildsize     "29 MB" >
   <!ENTITY nasm-time          "0.2 SBU">
 ]>
Index: general/sysutils/upower.xml
===================================================================
--- general/sysutils/upower.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ general/sysutils/upower.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY upower-download-http "https://upower.freedesktop.org/releases/upower-&upower-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY upower-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY upower-md5sum        "c9dacc02dac736ea0350e8d492dcd3a0">
-  <!ENTITY upower-size          "424 KB">
-  <!ENTITY upower-buildsize     "11 MB (add 2 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY upower-md5sum        "236bb439d9ff1151450b3d8582399532">
+  <!ENTITY upower-size          "440 KB">
+  <!ENTITY upower-buildsize     "11 MB">
   <!ENTITY upower-time          "0.1 SBU">
 ]>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -46,4 +46,32 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Remove pcre as dependency for qpdf. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10094">#10094</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to curl-7.57.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10092">#10092</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to nasm-2.13.02. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10091">#10091</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to x265-2.6. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10088">#10088</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to upower-0.99.7. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10083">#10083</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to stunnel-5.44. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10074">#10074</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to QScintilla_gpl-2.10.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10070">#10070</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Add sed to cdrdao to make compatible with
           lame-3.100.</para>
Index: multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY x265-download-http "https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_&x265-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY x265-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY x265-md5sum        "192e54fa3068b594aa44ab2b703f071d">
+  <!ENTITY x265-md5sum        "4d318be1f19b58985432a144bd054572">
   <!ENTITY x265-size          "1.2 MB">
   <!ENTITY x265-buildsize     "39 MB">
-  <!ENTITY x265-time          "0.8 SBU">
+  <!ENTITY x265-time          "0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
@@ -70,15 +70,5 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
-<!--
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Required patch:
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/x265_&x265-version;-enable_static-1.patch"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
--->
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">x265 Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
@@ -112,12 +102,4 @@
     </para>
 
-<!-- The patch to change CMakeCache.txt changes with every version and
-is complex.  It is easier to just remove the static library after installation.
-
-patch -Np1 -i ../x265_&x265-version;-enable_static-1.patch &amp;&amp;
-
--DENABLE_STATIC is set to ON by default, but we remove the stalib anyway.
--->
-
 <screen><userinput>mkdir bld &amp;&amp;
 cd    bld &amp;&amp;
@@ -135,5 +117,5 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
-rm /usr/lib/libx265.a </userinput></screen>
+rm -vf /usr/lib/libx265.a </userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
@@ -143,5 +125,5 @@
 
       <para>
-        <command>rm /usr/lib/libx265.a</command>: BLFS does not recommend
+        <command>rm -vf /usr/lib/libx265.a</command>: BLFS does not recommend
         using static libraries.  
       </para>
Index: networking/netlibs/curl.xml
===================================================================
--- networking/netlibs/curl.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ networking/netlibs/curl.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY curl-download-http "https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-&curl-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY curl-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "e332347fc0b80cabf9c42f310be040c5">
+  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "93157c8f6593691bc00ae238a4c53863">
   <!ENTITY curl-size          "2.2 MB">
   <!ENTITY curl-buildsize     "36 MB (add 11 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY curl-time          "0.3 SBU (add 3.2 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY curl-time          "0.3 SBU (add 13+ SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -153,4 +153,8 @@
     but I was missing c-ares, MIT Kerberos, ldap, samba, and the six
     external packages.
+
+    2017-12-01 - bdubbs 
+    Still a lot of test failures.  I did have c-ares, Kerberos, and ldap
+    installed this time.  Best guess is that servers are not available.
 -->
     <note>
@@ -179,5 +183,7 @@
     <para>
       To run the test suite, issue: <command>make test</command>. Many tests 
-      may fail that depend on optional dependencies that may not be installed.
+      may fail that depend on optional dependencies that may not be installed
+      or upstream servers that may not be available, especially for tests 
+      numbered 700 and above.
       Test time may be significantly increase due to hanging tests that fail.
     </para>
@@ -192,8 +198,6 @@
 rm -rf docs/examples/.deps &amp;&amp;
 
-find docs \( -name Makefile\* \
-          -o -name \*.1       \
-          -o -name \*.3 \)    \
-          -exec rm {} \;      &amp;&amp;
+find docs \( -name Makefile\* -o -name \*.1 -o -name \*.3 \) -exec rm {} \; &amp;&amp;
+
 install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version; &amp;&amp;
 cp -v -R docs/*     /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;</userinput></screen>
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ packages.ent	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@
 <!ENTITY shadow-version               "4.5">
 <!ENTITY ssh-askpass-version          "&openssh-version;">
-<!ENTITY stunnel-version              "5.43">
+<!ENTITY stunnel-version              "5.44">
 <!ENTITY sudo-version                 "1.8.21p2">
 <!ENTITY tripwire-version             "2.4.3.6">
@@ -293,5 +293,5 @@
 <!ENTITY unrar-version                "5.5.8">
 <!ENTITY unzip-version                "6.0">
-<!ENTITY upower-version               "0.99.6">
+<!ENTITY upower-version               "0.99.7">
 <!ENTITY usbutils-version             "009">
 <!ENTITY weston-version               "1.12.0">
@@ -324,5 +324,5 @@
 <!ENTITY lua-version                  "5.3.4">
 <!ENTITY mercurial-version            "4.4.1">
-<!ENTITY nasm-version                 "2.13.01">
+<!ENTITY nasm-version                 "2.13.02">
 <!ENTITY ninja-version                "1.8.2">
 <!ENTITY npapi-sdk-version            "0.27.2">
@@ -459,5 +459,5 @@
 <!-- Chapter 17 -->
 <!ENTITY c-ares-version               "1.12.0">
-<!ENTITY curl-version                 "7.56.1">
+<!ENTITY curl-version                 "7.57.0">
 <!ENTITY geoclue2-version             "2.4.7">
 <!ENTITY glib-networking-version      "2.54.1">
@@ -579,5 +579,5 @@
 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-version          "5.9.3">
 <!ENTITY qtwebkit-version             "5.9.0">
-<!ENTITY qscintilla-version           "2.10.1">
+<!ENTITY qscintilla-version           "2.10.2">
 <!ENTITY shared-mime-info-version     "1.9">
 <!ENTITY startup-notification-version "0.12">
@@ -818,5 +818,5 @@
 <!ENTITY v4l-utils-version            "1.12.5">
 <!ENTITY x264-version                 "20170822-2245">
-<!ENTITY x265-version                 "2.5">
+<!ENTITY x265-version                 "2.6">
 <!ENTITY xine-lib-version             "1.2.8">
 <!ENTITY xvid-version                 "1.3.4">
Index: postlfs/security/stunnel.xml
===================================================================
--- postlfs/security/stunnel.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ postlfs/security/stunnel.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
   <!-- Following ftp only has later release -->
 <!--   "ftp://ftp.stunnel.org/stunnel/stunnel-&stunnel-version;.tar.gz"> -->
-  <!ENTITY stunnel-md5sum        "e8efcb8a28ffb7c0de30755e0ea228c1">
+  <!ENTITY stunnel-md5sum        "47697dee496c80c8e352b2b705c4a571">
   <!ENTITY stunnel-size          "684 KB">
   <!ENTITY stunnel-buildsize     "6.2 MB">
@@ -76,4 +76,5 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
+      <ulink url="http://netcat.sourceforge.net/">netcat</ulink>,
       <ulink url="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/">tcpwrappers</ulink> and
       <ulink url="https://dist.torproject.org/">TOR</ulink>
@@ -144,5 +145,6 @@
 make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+    <para>If you have installed the optional netcat application, the
+    regression tests can be run with <command>make check</command>.</para>
 
     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
Index: x/lib/qscintilla.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/qscintilla.xml	(revision c5eb8ede261d3f5c9dd0cea1012ecc3e71b94ea6)
+++ x/lib/qscintilla.xml	(revision e024fe44e1412435bb900d583130644d087e9ceb)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY qscintilla-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/pyqt/QScintilla_gpl-&qscintilla-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY qscintilla-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY qscintilla-md5sum        "e6d74c445bae69ba335acef65d526260">
+  <!ENTITY qscintilla-md5sum        "0d2b25ad607f93453c37478e83ec4640">
   <!ENTITY qscintilla-size          "2.5 MB">
   <!ENTITY qscintilla-buildsize     "27 MB (with documentation)">
-  <!ENTITY qscintilla-time          "1.5 SBU (with documentation)">
+  <!ENTITY qscintilla-time          "0.4 SBU (using parallelism=4; with documentation)">
 ]>
 
@@ -130,5 +130,4 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
-
 ln -sfv libqscintilla2_qt5.so.13.0.0 $QT5DIR/lib/libqt5scintilla2.so</userinput></screen>
 
