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<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
<title>Changelog</title>
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<para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
&releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;"/>.</para>

<para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.
First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>

<itemizedlist>

<!--
  Every package in the book is listed in the "Upgraded to:" section.
  Comment/uncomment as needed. DO NOT delete any of these lines unless that
  package is removed from the book entirely.
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<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<!-- <listitem><para>Autoconf &autoconf-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Automake &automake-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Bash &bash-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Binutils &binutils-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bison &bison-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Bzip2 &bzip2-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Coreutils &coreutils-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>DejaGNU &dejagnu-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Diffutils &diffutils-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>E2fsprogs &e2fsprogs-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Expect &expect-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>File &file-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Findutils &findutils-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Flex &flex-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Gawk &gawk-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GCC &gcc-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Gettext &gettext-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Glibc &glibc-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Grep &grep-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Groff &groff-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GRUB &grub-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Gzip &gzip-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Hotplug &hotplug-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>IANA-Etc &iana-etc-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Inetutils &inetutils-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>IPRoute2 &iproute2-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Kbd &kbd-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Less &less-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>LFS-Bootscripts &lfs-bootscripts-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Libtool &libtool-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux &linux-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux-Libc-Headers &linux-libc-headers-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>M4 &m4-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Make &make-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Man &man-version;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Man-pages &man-pages-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Mktemp &mktemp-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Module-Init-Tools &module-init-tools-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Ncurses &ncurses-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Patch &patch-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Perl &perl-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Procps &procps-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Psmisc &psmisc-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Readline &readline-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Sed &sed-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Shadow &shadow-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Sysklogd &sysklogd-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>SysVinit &sysvinit-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Tar &tar-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>TCL &tcl-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Texinfo &texinfo-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Udev &udev-version;</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Util-Linux &util-linux-version;</para></listitem> -->
<!-- <listitem><para>Vim &vim-version;</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Zlib &zlib-version;</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&bzip2-bzgrep-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&bzip2-docs-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&coreutils-echo-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&gawk-segfault-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&gcc-specs-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&glibc-gcc4_elf-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&glibc-gcc4_iconvdata-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&glibc-gcc4_mathtest-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&glibc-gcc4_string-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&glibc-gcc4_symbols-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&glibc-testfix-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&mktemp-tempfile-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&perl-libc-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&vim-security_fix-patch;</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-linkonce-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>iproute2-2.6.11-050330-remove_db-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>perl-5.8.6-libc-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.3-security_fix-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 8, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile
creation in Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 8, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 4, 2005 [matt]: Prevent GCC from running the
<command>fixincludes</command> script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug
1636).  Thanks to Tushar and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
</listitem>
 
<listitem><para>September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add more explicit reader
prerequisites (fixes bug 1629).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands
that accept it (fixes bug 1612).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 20, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the
unnecessary &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17, 2005 [matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve
echo's POSIX and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax as
required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 15, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to
prevent a umount vulnerability.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 8, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 6, 2005 [ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect
test failures.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>September 5, 2005 [ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math
tests in glibc.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Add patch to stop
<command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting when invoked on devices with partitions
that don't contain an ext2, ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2, 2005 [matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux
comes from <filename>configure</filename> rather than
<filename>MCONFIG</filename>, so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for
the segfault fix to actually work.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2, 2005 [matt]: Avoid the potential race condition
when invoking <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by
compiling with -O instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug
1604).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the
upstream fix for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command>
 commands from gcc-pass2.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 28th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash
and Glibc chapter six builds for consistency</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due
to a race condition when deleting files.  Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing fixed
headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating
to configuring rules (fixes bug 1622)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 20th, 2005 [matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries
to /bin as they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 18th, 2005 [matt]: Simplify the method for finding where
GCC's default specs file and private include directory live.  Additionally,
don't assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 18th, 2005 [ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's
handling of filenames.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Install sed's man page to
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 15th, 2005 [matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed
to protect from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with
--enable-shadowgrp as advised by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test
failures in GCC (fixes bug 1615).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added patch to install documentation
for bzip2 (fixes bug 1603).</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix
for the failing test (bug 1611).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required
on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl
data files (fixes bug 1601).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure
switch explanations to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug
1613).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node
creation at the start of chapter 6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for
expect's installed library (Bug 1608)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 7th, 2005 [archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding
building Cracklib from BLFS first.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's
installed files.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address
the latest modeline vulnerability.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  30th, 2005 [matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash
documentation (Randy McMurchy).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml as it's no longer used in the book</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  29th, 2005 [manuel]: Removed the text about defining
gvimrc.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.  The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  27th, 2005 [matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file
as we don't compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  26th, 2005 [matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the
list of programs installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by
coreutils instead (Randy McMurchy).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  26th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds license and copyright information to the previous version.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  23rd, 2005 [matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information
into the book, so as people can actually see it.  The space constraint argument
in that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page document
(PDF).  Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis> acknowledge the efforts
of previous contributors.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  22nd, 2005 [manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the
Makefile to obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once
it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  19th, 2005 [matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description of the specs patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds,
to prevent multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from
gcc-pass1 as we may need to fix up host's headers.  Also reinstate the
associated removal of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds
to force the fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce
patches for gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both
chapters 5 and 6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build
with gcc-4.0.1</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its
specs file by default.  Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first
dump the specs file where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with gcc-4.0.1</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  13th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  6th, 2005 [archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header
patch out again as it is not needed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July  5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 24th, 2005 [jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 23nd, 2005 [jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 15, 2005 [jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 14, 2005 [jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 12, 2005 [manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 11, 2005 [manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 6, 2005 [jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>

</sect1>