%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; &versiond; 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. 2018-09-20 [bdubbs] - Clean up of unneeded symbolic links. Reordered packages so version specific packages are built as late as possible in Chapter 6. Now building util-linux in Chapter 5 is unneeded and has been removed. Fixes #4345 and #4349. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.6. Fixes #4350. [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.174 (libelf). Fixes #4348. [bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-23.2. Fixes #4347. [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1. Fixes #4346. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.18.9. Fixes #4344. 2018-09-02 [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.1. Fixes #4342. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.47.2. Fixes #4341. [bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.18. Fixes #4340. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.4. Fixes #4338. 2018-09-01 [bdubbs] - LFS-8.3 released.