%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. 2011-04-19 [bdubbs] - Update cleanfs bootscript to not clean /var/run or /var/lock because they are now linked to a fresh tmpfs. 2011-04-18 [bdubbs] - Add new /run mount point to top level directories. Mount a tmpfs on /run in bootscripts. [bdubbs] - In Chapter 6, move File to before binutils to prevent some configure warnings. [matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.06. Fixes #2860. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.3. Fixes #2859. [matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.11. Fixes #2858. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-DB-2.6.0.2, including adding its dependency, libpipeline-1.2.0. Fixes #2857. [matthew] - Upgrade to Less-443. Fixes #2856. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patch for Bash. Fixes #2855. [matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.9. Fixes #2853. [matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.0.1. Fixes #2852. [matthew] - Upgrade to XZ-Utils-5.0.2. Fixes #2851. [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-167. Fixes #2850. 2011-04-13 [bdubbs] - Added a sed to fix an intermittent test failure in coreutils. Fixes #2833. 2011-04-12 [bdubbs] - Added optional instructions to allow a user to use an include directory to supplement ld.so.conf. Fixes #2843. [bdubbs] - Rewrote General Compilation Instructions using better docbook structures and clarified a couple of points. Fixes #2725. 2011-03-30 [matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.38. Fixes #2849. [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.0. Fixes #2848. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.2. Fixes #2847. 2011-03-14 [matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.26. Fixes #2846. [matthew] - Upgrade to Dejagnu-1.5. Fixes #2845. [matthew] - Add patch to fix the sparse-fiemap test failure in Coreutils-8.10. Thanks to Tadeus (Eus) Prastowo for the report and patch. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline-6.2. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash-4.2. Fixes #2841. [matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.16. Fixes #2840. [matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.8. Fixes #2838. [matthew] - Upgrade to MPC-0.9. Fixes #2837. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.37.3. Fixes #2835. 2011-03-04 [bdubbs] - LFS-6.8 released.