%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. 2021-05-28 [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20210526. Addresses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2890. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to zstd-1.5.0. Fixes #4858. [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.34.0. Fixes #4860. [bdubbs] - Update to inux-5.12.7. Fixes #4857. [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.50. Fixes #4862. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-29. Fixes #4859. [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.4.1. Fixes #4861. [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.185. Fixes #4855. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-4.0.2. Fixes #4855. 2021-05-26 [thomas] - Remove obsolete DOCDIR option from iproute2 install command. 2021-05-17 [bdubbs] - Tweak install directories for eudev and e2fsprogs. Thanks to Ryan Marsaw for the report. 2021-05-14 [ken] - Add a Note about upgrading in OpenSSL. 2021-05-12 [bdubbs] - Removed instructions for running tests in Python due to an indefinite hang in the partial LFS envrionment. [renodr] - Moved LFS to a merged-/usr configuration. Thanks goes to Xi Ruoyao for doing almost all of the work. Fixes #4848. [renodr] - Update to gcc-11.1.0. Fixes #4847. [renodr] - Fix a FTBFS when building glibc-2.33 with gcc-11.1.0. [renodr] - Update to systemd-248. Fixes #4841. [renodr] - Update to iproute2-5.12.0. Fixes #4852. [renodr] - Update to Python-3.9.5. Fixes #4854. [renodr] - Update to meson-0.58.0. Fixes #4853. [renodr] - Update to linux-5.12.2. Fixes #4840. 2021-04-28 [renodr] - Fix building systemd with Linux-API-Headers 5.11.14 and higher, as well as with meson-0.57.2. Fixes #4851. [bdubbs] - Add manual locales needed for tests if using alternate locale installation instructions. Fixes #4844. [bdubbs] - Minor changes to boot scripts. Fixes #4842. Thanks to Scott Andrews for the report. 2021-04-26 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2812. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20210407. Addresses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to Python3-3.9.4. Fixes #4843. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.57.2. Fixes #4846. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.11.16. Addresses #4840. [bdubbs] - Update to less-581. Fixes #4849. [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.40. Fixes #4839. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-4.0.1. Fixes #4845. 2021-04-22 [xry111] - Revert 2772bb9c, as the proposed fix in it is rejected by Python maintainers explicitly. 2021-04-06 The XML source code of this book is migrated from SVN to Git. 2021-03-26 [renodr] - Update to openssl-1.1.1k (Security Update). Fixes #4838. [renodr] - Update to attr-2.5.1. Fixes #4833. [renodr] - Update to linux-5.11.10. Fixes #4834. [renodr] - Update to bc-3.3.4. Fixes #4835. [renodr] - Update to man-pages-5.11. Fixes #4836. [renodr] - Update to expat-2.3.0. Fixes #4837. [renodr] - Update to acl-2.3.1. Fixes #4832. 2021-03-17 [xry111] - Use -j1 for Binutils installation. Thanks report from Hans Meier. 2021-03-15 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2604. Addreses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20210304. Addreses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to zstd-1.4.9. Fixes #4827. [bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.99. Fixes #4822. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.11.6. Fixes #4824. [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.49. Fixes #4831. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.11.0. Fixes #4823. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.46.2. Fixes #4826. [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.6. Fixes #4828. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.3.3. Fixes #4825. [bdubbs] - Update to attr-2.5.0. Fixes #4830. [bdubbs] - Update to acl-2.3.0. Fixes #4829. 2021-03-05 [xry111] - Simplify the installation of systemd man pages. 2021-03-04 [renodr] - Patch systemd-247 so that it will function with Linux-5.11 API headers. 2021-03-02 [pierre] - Fix a header file for python, so that #include <python&python-minor;/Python.h> works. 2021-03-01 [bdubbs] - LFS-10.1 released.