%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. 2017-10-15 [dj] - Update to D-Bus-1.10.24. Fixes #4143. [dj] - Update to Systemd-235. Fixes #4147. [dj] - Create a simple replacement for /lib/systemd/systemd-user-sessions, to enable uprivileged user logins without systemd-logind. [bdubbs] - Add optional patch to ninja. 2017-10-14 [bdubbs] - Update to bash-4.4.12. Fixes #4149. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.43.0. Fixes #4148. [bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.6.3. Fixes #4146. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.13.7. Fixes #4144. [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.29.1. Fixes #4142. 2017-09-24 [bdubbs] - Reorder packages in Chapter 6 so Python can use gdbm. [dj] - Use upstream systemd tarball with meson build system and supply only prebuilt man pages. 2017-09-23 [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.26.1. Fixes #4141. [bdubbs] - Add Meson-0.42.1. [bdubbs] - Add Ninja-1.8.2. [bdubbs] - Add Python-3.6.2. [bdubbs] - Add libffi-3.2.1. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.4. Fixes #4140. 2017-09-22 [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux 2.30.2. Fixes #4139. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.13. Fixes #4138. [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.5. Fixes #4137. [bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-3.1.6. Fixes #4136. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.13.0. Fixes #4135. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.3. Fixes #4133. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.13.3. Fixes #4134. 2017-09-02 [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.32. Fixes #4132. [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.28. Fixes #4131. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.43.6. Fixes #4130. [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.4. Fixes #4127. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.12.10. Fixes #4126. 2017-09-01 [bdubbs] - LFS-8.1 released.