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  <title>Changelog</title>

  <para>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 <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>

  <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  book.</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <title>Changelog Entries:</title>

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      <para>Date</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
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    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
          than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
          in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
          Glibc-2.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
          patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
          syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
          for textual suggestions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-09</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
          Fixes #1876.  Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-09-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
          be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
          /etc/resolv.conf.  Fixes #1870.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
          Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
            file.  Fixes #1837.  Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel.  Thanks to
            Peter Ennis.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
            upgrading to m4-1.4.5.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
            of its tests to fail.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
          Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
                versions.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-08-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2006-07-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>

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