%general-entities; ]> 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 . Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. 2011-12-10 [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.5. Fixes #2981. 2011-12-05 [matthew] - Improve the accuracy of the list of installed files for a number of packages. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes #2979. [matthew] - Prevent some arpd artefacts from being installed by IPRoute2. Fixes #2977. [matthew] - Correct location of Coreutils' libstdbuf. Fixes #2976. [matthew] - Move Psmisc to before E2fsprogs because the E2fsprogs testsuite uses killall. Fixes #2975. 2011-12-01 [matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42. Fixes #2973. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.4. Fixes #2970. [matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.1.0. Fixes #2969. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes #2968. 2011-11-28 [dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20111128. [ken] - Fix daylight saving time bug in coreutils testsuite. 2011-11-26 [bdubbs] - Clean up console script. 2011-11-25 [matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.22. Fixes #2967. [matthew] - Install Glibc's NIS and RPC headers again. The headers have not been installed by default since Glibc-2.14, but that causes various BLFS packages to break. Fixes #2965. [matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.10. Fixes #2964. [matthew] - Add a patch to fix a security vulnerability in Perl. Fixes #2963. [matthew] - Upgrade to GDBM-1.10. Fixes #2962. [matthew] - Install Coreutils' libstdbuf.so to /usr/lib/coreutils to maintain consistency with other packages' shared library locations. Fixes #2961. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.1.2. Fixes #2960. [matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.5.11. Fixes #2959. 2011-11-16 [bdubbs] - Make /var/log/btmp have 660 permissions. Suggestion from Michael Blanchard. 2011-11-14 [bdubbs] - Updates to boot scripts: general cleanup; move consolelog function to rc; clean up boot logging functions; fix interactive prompt between run level S and target run level. Thanks to DJ Lucas. 2011-10-29 [bdubbs] - Text correction in bootscripts description. [bdubbs] - Remove erroneous sourcing line in bootscript functions used for backward BLFS compatibility. 2011-10-29 [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.2. Fixes #2951. [matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.20.1. Fixes #2947. [matthew] - Upgrade to Libtool-2.4.2. Fixes #2946. [bdubbs] - LFS-7.0 released.