%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. 2018-04-06 [bdubbs] - Add libelf to rationale. Fixes #4252. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.8.3. Fixes #4255. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.16.0. Fixes #4254. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.16. Fixes #4250. [bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-3.3.13. Fixes #4253. [bdubbs] - Update to sed-4.5. Fixes #4251. 2018-03-23 [bdubbs] - Update to several urls to use https. Thanks to avmaisak for the patch. Fixes #4247. [bdubbs] - Update to Python3-3.6.5. Fixes #4248. [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.0h. Fixes #4244. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.1. Fixes #4244. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2018d. Fixes #4243. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.45.1. Fixes #4242. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.15.14. Fixes #4241. [bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.89. Fixes #4249. 2018-03-23 [bdubbs] - Remove reference to openssl in BLFS in Chapter 9. Fixes #4240. [bdubbs] - Update minimum host system requirements. Fixes #4239. [bdubbs] - Added the rationale for including openssl. Fixes #4234. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.32. Fixes #4219. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.45.0. Fixes #4232. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.0. Fixes #4236. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.15.11. Fixes #4237. [bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.16.1. Fixes #4238. [bdubbs] - Update to systemd-238. Fixes #4233. 2018-03-03 [bdubbs] - Update to dbus-1.12.6. Fixes #4231. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.8.2. Fixes #4230. [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.2.1. Fixes #4227. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.44.1. Fixes #4226. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.44.1. Fixes #4222. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.15.7. Fixes #4221. 2018-03-02 [bdubbs] - LFS-8.2 released.