%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. 2017-04-25 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.0.586. Fixes #4078. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.2. Fixes #4077. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.10.12. Fixes #4075. [bdubbs] - Update to gperf-3.1. Fixes #4053. [bdubbs] - Improve instructions to save debugging information for selected libraries when stripping at the end of Chapter 6. Fixes #4076 (again). 2017-04-22 [bdubbs] - Add instructions to save debugging information for selected libraries when stripping at the end of Chapter 6. Fixes #4076. 2017-04-11 [dj] - Update to dbus-1.10.18. Fixes #4072. [bdubbs] - Remove unneeded --disable-compile-warnings from pkg-config instructions. Thanks to Jeffery Smith for pointing this out. 2017-04-10 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.10.9. Fixes #4073. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-1.07.1. Fixes #4074. 2017-04-07 [bdubbs] - Fix an error in bc-1.07. 2017-04-03 [bdubbs] - Update to bc-1.07. Fixes #4071. 2017-03-31 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.10.8. Fixes #4070. [bdubbs] - Update to less-487. Fixes #4069. 2017-03-28 [bdubbs] - Move readline to be before bc in Chapter 6. Fixes #4068. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.10.6. Fixes #4065. [bdubbs] - Update to pkg-config-0.29.2. Fixes #4066. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2017b. Fixes #4067. [bdubbs] - Add option -Dusethreads to perl in Chapter 6. 2017-03-25 [dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20170825. Fix a scope issue in the rc script. Thanks to "quesker" in #lfs-support for the report and subsequent testing. 2017-03-18 [bdubbs] - Update formats of error messages in checkfs boot script. Fixes #4064. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.10. Fixes #4063. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.10.3. Fixes #4062. [bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.13. Fixes #4061. [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.27. Fixes #4060. 2017-03-11 [dj] - Fix description of modifications to gcc/config/{linux,i386/linux{,64}}.h in gcc pass 1. 2017-03-08 [dj] - Update /etc/hosts in network configuration. 2017-03-03 [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.28. Moved m4 and bc to before binutils to accomodate the gold linker regression tests. Fixes #4059. [renodr] - Update to dbus-1.10.16. Fixes #4050. [renodr] - Update to linux-4.10.1. Fixes #4056. [renodr] - Update to tzdata2017a. Fixes #4057. [renodr] - Update to systemd-233. Fixes #4058. 2017-02-28 [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-24. Fixes #4054. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux 2.29.2. Fixes #4052. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.10.0. Fixes #4051. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.10. Fixes #4049. 2017-02-25 [bdubbs] - LFS-8.0 released.