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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 two 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>

<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Automake 1.9.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Binutils 2.15.94.0.2.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bison 2.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bzip2 1.0.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>E2fsprogs 1.37</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Expect 5.43.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>File 4.13</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Findutils 4.2.20</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GCC 3.4.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Gettext 0.14.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Glibc 20041011</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Grep 2.5.1a</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Grub 0.96</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Iana-Etc 1.04</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Iproute2 2.6.11-050330</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>LFS-Bootscripts 3.2.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Libtool 1.5.14</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux 2.6.11.12</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux-libc-headers 2.6.11.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>M4 1.4.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Man 1.5p</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Man-pages 2.01</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Module-init-tools 3.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Perl 5.8.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Procps 3.2.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Psmisc 21.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Sed 4.1.4</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Shadow 4.0.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Sysvinit 2.86</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Tar 1.15.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Texinfo 4.8</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Tcl 8.4.9</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Udev 056</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Util-linux 2.12q</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Zlib 1.2.2</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>bash-3.0-fixes-3.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bash-3.0-avoid_WCONTINUED-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gzip-1.3.5-security_fixes-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Hotplug 2004_09_23</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>shadow-4.0.7-fix_lastlog-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-fixes-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tar-1.15.1-sparse_fix-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.12p-cramfs-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.0-security_fix-1.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>bash-3.0-display_wrap-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5o1-80cols-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.85-proclen-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>texinfo-4.7-segfault-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.12b-sfdisk-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>zlib-1.2.1-security-1.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15th, 2005 [archaic]: Added --disable-nls to pass2 binutils
to avoid requirement of gettext. (merged from trunk r5983)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 14th, 2005 [archaic]: Updated all build sizes. (merged from
trunk r5916, r5917, r5918, and r5972)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 14th, 2005 [archaic]: Removed --with-included-regex from
chapter6's grep since it is less reliable than glibc's in non-C locales.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 14th, 2005 [archaic]: Removed references to separate gcc
tarballs (gcc-core, gcc-g++, etc.)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.11.12.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 8th, 2005 [archaic]: Removed suggestion on where to move
/sources, and reworded the rest of the page (chapter06/revisedchroot.xml).
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 8th, 2005 [archaic]: Added a command to prevent
module-init-tools from rewriting it's man page (which relies on
docbook2man).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Jun 1st, 2005 [manuel]: Changed patches root to
lfs/svn/testing/</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 23nd, 2005 [manuel]: Minor wording improvements (thanks to
Peter Ennis)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.11.10.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added gzip security patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux 2.6.11.9.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to LFS-Bootscripts 3.2.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2005 [matt]: More wording and tagging improvements
(thanks to Peter Ennis and Tony Morgan)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2005 [matt]: Minor wording improvements (thanks to
Peter Ennis)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 27th, 2005 [archaic]: Added a patch to fix 2 glibc
testsuite failures when the running kernel is 2.6.11.x.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 18th, 2005 [manuel]: Adjusted the beginpage tags to match
the previous text changes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 17th, 2005 [manuel]: Updated the stylesheets to use
DocBook-XSL 1.68.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 17, 2005 [matt]: Don't create hotplug's events log file;
the bootscripts handle that for us.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 17, 2005 [matt]: Use canonical charmaps in /etc/profile
and don't set LC_ALL (Ken Moffat and Alexander Patrakov)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 16, 2005 [matt]: Reword handling of hotpluggable devices
now that we install the hotplug package (Andrew Benton)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 16, 2005 [matt]: Minor wording/typo fixes (Allard Welter)
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 16, 2005 [matt]: Minor wording/typo fixes (Peter Ennis)
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 16, 2005 [matt]: Removed references to statically linking
the pass 1 toolchain which should have gone as part of bug 1061 (Andrew Benton)
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 13, 2005 [manuel]: Spelling fixes pointed by Archiac.
Added tags to fix the PDF look in chapter 06.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 12, 2005 [manuel]: Small redaction changes.
Added tags to fix the PDF look in all chapters except chapter 06.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 11, 2005 [manuel]: Mention bzip2's testsuite.
Several tags and text corrections.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 6, 2005 [matt]: Move e2fsprogs sed command to
before entering the build directory (Steffen R. Knollmann).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 4, 2005 [matt]: Typo: The udev initscript
registers udevsend, not udev, as the hotplug handler (Bryan
Kadzban)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 4, 2005 [matt]: No need to manually create
<filename class="directory">/var/log/hotplug</filename> as hotplug's Makefile
creates it (Ken Moffat).  Also minor rewording to improve consistency.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>April 4, 2005 [matt]: Fix e2fsprogs compile problem (Ken Moffat
&amp; Greg Schafer)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>April 2, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Fixed dtd url for sysklogd xml files</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 31, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Changed the link for less to point to ftp.gnu.org</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 3.2.0</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to m4-1.4.3</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 30, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to iproute2-2.6.11-050330</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 30, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Removed syslog-ng-1.6.6, libol-0.3.15. Reinstated sysklogd-1.4.1. Thanks to Archaic for the patch.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-libc-headers-2.6.11.2
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-libc-headers-2.6.11.1
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.11.6</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>March 22, 2005 [jim]: Upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.3.7.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 21, 2005 [jim]: Added patch to fix issue with shadow and lastlog.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 19, 2005 [jim]: Added patch to fix issue with tar -S</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 19, 2005 [matt]: Removed references to kernel security
patch</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 19, 2005 [jim]: Upgraded to udev-056</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 19, 2005 [jim]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.11.5</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 19, 2005 [jim]: Change references to Iproute2 to IPRoute2</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 18, 2005 [jim]: Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.20</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 16, 2005 [jim]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.11.4</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 16, 2005 [jim]: Removed reference to kernel security patch</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 16, 2005 [jim]: Removed find_update patch for IPRoute2, it is not
needed anymore</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 15, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to iproute2-2.6.11-050314</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 14, 2005 [matt]: List the installed files/directories
descriptions in a somewhat more alphabetic order.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 14, 2005 [matt]: Fix typos, and reword some of the hotplug explanations for (hopefully) improved clarity</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>March 14, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.3</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>March 14, 2005 [jim]: Added <filename class="directory">/var/log/hotplug</filename> for capturing
of hotplug events. Added /lib/firmware for firmware loading with hotplug</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated iproute2 db patch to iproute2-2.6.11-050310. Removed
unneeded find_update patch also for iproute2-2.6.11-050310</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 13, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to iproute2-2.6.11-050310</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 13, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.11.3 and linux-libc-headers-2.6.11.0</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 13, 2005 [matt]: Reword About SBUs section to reflect the
earlier fix for bug 1061</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 13, 2005 [matt]: Dynamically link the pass1 toolchain to
workaround bug 1061 and remove all related explanatory text</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 12, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to udev-054</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 12, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to findutils-4.2.19</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>March 12, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded psmisc to 21.6</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 10, 2005 [matt]: gettext no longer installs
libgettext{lib,src}.a (Jack Brown)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 3, 2005 [matt]: Remove --without-cvs from glibc
instructions, as we're not using glibc CVS snapshots anymore</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 3, 2005 [matt]: Fixed a couple of typo's in the download
locations</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 2, 2005 [matt]: Add note regarding potential
custom features in a host distribution's version of e2fsprogs.  Fixes
bug 1047.  Thanks to Steve Crosby for the suggested explanatory text.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>March 2, 2005 [jim]: Update download locations
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 28, 2005 [jim]: Upgraded bash fixes patch to -3
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 28, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded binutils to 2.14.94.0.2.2
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 28, 2005 [matt]: Move <filename>/usr/bin/logger</filename>
to <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> as the bootscripts need it there.  Fixes bug 1035.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>February 28, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to iana-etc-1.04</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>February 28, 2005 [matt]: Correct the instructions for
invoking udev's testsuite (Randy McMurchy)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27, 2005 [matt]: Correct the title of the
readline patch in chapter 3.  Fixes bug 1049</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27, 2005 [matt]: Mention udev's testsuite.  Fixes bug
1042</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27, 2005 [matt]: Use --without-csharp instead
of --disable-csharp, as the latter doesn't work as intended.  Fixes bug
1033</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.2</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to findutils-4.2.18</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to bzip2-1.0.3</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>February 19, 2005 [gerard]: Chapter 5-Stripping:
removed <filename class="directory">doc</filename> from the
directories to be removed in <filename
class="directory">/tools</filename>. This directory is not created
anymore.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 19, 2005 [jeremy]: Added correction to chapter 5
glibc build to fix the disabling of selinux functionality.  Thanks to
Bobson on IRC (bobson@bobson.net) for pointing this out.  Closes bugzilla
1034.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 19, 2005 [gerard]: Synchronized Testing
branch with current Unstable/Trunk. Move Testing branch to Trunk and
discontinue Testing branch as per lfs-dev discussion on branch
changes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 5, 2005 [matt]: Copy hotplug's pnp.distmap file to
silence its warnings.  Also tidy up some explanatory text</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to sed-4.1.4</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to procps-3.2.5</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to shadow-4.0.7</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to util-linux-2.12q.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>January 27, 2005 [matt]: Added a warning that the
<filename class="symlink">/usr/src/linux</filename> symlink shouldn't be
created.  Fixes bug 1012.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 27, 2005 [matt]: Added link to the live-cd FTP
location.  Fixes bug 1014.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 27, 2005 [matt]: Added bison, flex and m4 to binutils
dependency list.  Fixes Bug 1018.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 27, 2005 [manuel]: Updated to gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 19, 2005 [jeremy]: Added an extra symlink for
libgcc_s.so to chapter 6 - this never migrated from unstable until now.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Added a security patch for the kernel</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Added a security patch for vim</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-1.5p</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to texinfo-4.8</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to util-linux-2.12p</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to udev-050</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.9</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tar-1.15.1</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.6</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.01</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-libc-headers-2.6.10.0</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.10</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gcc-3.4.3</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to bison-2.0</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to autoconf-1.9.4</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 5, 2005 [jeremy]: Minor textual correction in network
configuration, since iproute will not recognize the old eth0:1 format for
ip aliasing. Closes bug 1013.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 5, 2005 [jeremy]: Added the --disable-selinux parameter
to Ch 5 glibc.  Allows building from hosts which use SELinux functionality,
like Fedora Core 3</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Added text suggested by MSB,
closing Bug 943</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded binutils to 2.14.94.0.2 -
should fix the TLS strip issue that's been seen, at least on X86</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 22, 2004 [manuel]: Readded to chapter09/reboot.xml a para lost
from version 5.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 20, 2004 [manuel]: Made grub's configuration location
FHS compliant.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 19, 2004 [manuel]: Added the irc.lfs-matrix.de IRC server.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 5, 2004 [jeremy]: Added the DOCBOOKTOMAN parameter
to Module-init-utils - without this, compilation fails.  Thanks Boris Buegling</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 2, 2004 [jeremy]: Removed the old display_wrap bash
patch, in favor of the newer fixes patch, and added the avoid_WCONTINUED
patch as well</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 2, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to TCL 8.4.8, Grep 2.5.1a
Util-linux 2.12i, Iana-etc 1.03, File 4.12, Module-init-tools 3.1, Procps 3.2.4
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 2, 2004 [jeremy]: Migrated change from unstable to
build Glibc against sanitized linux-libc-headers instead of raw kernel headers,
bringing us more in line with what the kernel developers think should be
happening.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 1, 2004 [jeremy]: Dropped Udev from being built in
Chapter 5, in favor of creating a minimal set of devices at the beginning
of Chapter 6.  All devices are created after the installation of Udev near
the end of Chapter 6</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 1, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to Automake 1.9.3,
Binutils 2.15.92.0.2, Findutils 4.2.3, GCC 3.4.2, Glibc 20041011, Iana-Etc 1.02
Iproute2 2.6.9-041019, LFS-Bootscripts 2.2.3, Libtool 1.5.10, Linux 2.6.9
Linux-libc-headers 2.6.9.1, Man 1.5o1, Man-pages 1.70, Shadow 4.0.6,
Udev 046, Zlib 1.2.2, Hotplug 2004_09_23, Libol 0.3.14, Syslog-ng 1.6.5</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.0 as of October 10, 2004</para>

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