%general-entities; ]> Changelog 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. Changelog Entries: 2011-07-08 [bdubbs] - Update location of POSIX Standard. 2011-07-01 [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.0.0. Fixes #2900. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-2.6.39. Fixes #2901. 2011-06-29 [bdubbs] - Update to Glibc-2.14. Fixes #2883. [bdubbs] - Update to Tcl-8.5.10. Fixes #2896. [bdubbs] - Update to GCC 4.6.1. Fixes #2897. [bdubbs] - Update to Binutils-2.21.1. Fixes #2898. 2011-06-26 [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5-14.1. Fixes #2874. [bdubbs] - Update to less-444. Fixes #2887. [bdubbs] - Update to glib-2.28.8. Fixes #2886. 2011-06-24 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-2.6.39.2. Fixes #2894. [bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-22.14. Fixes #2889. [bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.9. Fixes #2893. 2011-06-20 [bdubbs] - Update to grub-1.99. Fixes #2818. 2011-06-19 [bdubbs] - Update shadow location. Fixes #2888. 2011-06-05 [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39.1. Fixes #2884. [matthew] - Upgrade to Glib-2.28.7. Fixes #2881. [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-171. Fixes #2880. [matthew] - Upgrade to XZ-5.0.3. Fixes #2879. 2011-05-31 [dj] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20110531. 2011-05-23 [matthew] - Fix a typo in the PCRE instructions, and make Glib put its configuration in /etc. 2011-05-22 [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-170. Fixes #2878. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39. Fixes #2877. [matthew] - Upgrade to Pkg-config-0.26, including its dependency of Glib and Glib's dependency of PCRE. Fixes #2876. [matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.5. Fixes #2875. 2011-05-15 [matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.8. Fixes #2872. [matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.07. Fixes #2871. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.6. Fixes #2870. [matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.2. Fixes #2869. 2011-05-07 [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes #2868. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.5. Fixes #2867. [matthew] - Fix a couple of test failures in Binutils, due to incompatibilities with GCC-4.6.x. Fixes #2866. [matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.19.1. Fixes #2865. [matthew] - Don't create the /dev/shm directory anymore, as it is created in the udev bootscript now. Fixes #2864. 2011-04-25 [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-168. Fixes #2862. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.4. Fixes #2861. 2011-04-19 [bdubbs] - Update cleanfs bootscript to not clean /var/run or /var/lock because they are now linked to a fresh tmpfs. 2011-04-18 [bdubbs] - Add new /run mount point to top level directories. Mount a tmpfs on /run in bootscripts. [bdubbs] - In Chapter 6, move File to before binutils to prevent some configure warnings. [matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.06. Fixes #2860. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.3. Fixes #2859. [matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.11. Fixes #2858. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-DB-2.6.0.2, including adding its dependency, libpipeline-1.2.0. Fixes #2857. [matthew] - Upgrade to Less-443. Fixes #2856. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patch for Bash. Fixes #2855. [matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.9. Fixes #2853. [matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.0.1. Fixes #2852. [matthew] - Upgrade to XZ-Utils-5.0.2. Fixes #2851. [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-167. Fixes #2850. 2011-04-13 [bdubbs] - Added a sed to fix an intermittent test failure in coreutils. Fixes #2833. 2011-04-12 [bdubbs] - Added optional instructions to allow a user to use an include directory to supplement ld.so.conf. Fixes #2843. [bdubbs] - Rewrote General Compilation Instructions using better docbook structures and clarified a couple of points. Fixes #2725. 2011-03-30 [matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.38. Fixes #2849. [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.0. Fixes #2848. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.2. Fixes #2847. 2011-03-14 [matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.26. Fixes #2846. [matthew] - Upgrade to Dejagnu-1.5. Fixes #2845. [matthew] - Add patch to fix the sparse-fiemap test failure in Coreutils-8.10. Thanks to Tadeus (Eus) Prastowo for the report and patch. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline-6.2. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash-4.2. Fixes #2841. [matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.16. Fixes #2840. [matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.8. Fixes #2838. [matthew] - Upgrade to MPC-0.9. Fixes #2837. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.37.3. Fixes #2835. 2011-03-04 [bdubbs] - LFS-6.8 released.