%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. 2007-09-16 [manuel] - Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 2007-09-15 [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Vim. [matthew] - Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes #2055. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline. Fixes #2068. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.64. Fixes #2061. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.6. Fixes #2070. [jhuntwork] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes #2018. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch, Robert Connolly and Dan Nicholson for investigating how best to adjust CFLAGS, and Greg Schafer for showing the technical benefits of using CFLAGS with Glibc. [jhuntwork] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.1. Fixes #2002. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch. [matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes #2051. [matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.18. Fixes #2069. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes #2067. 2007-09-07 [manuel] - Added sect1info metainformation blocks to packages pages to help adding package manager support into jhalfs. LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.