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10
11 <title>Changelog</title>
12
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
17
18 <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
19 book.</para>
20
21 <itemizedlist>
22 <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26 <listitem>
27 <para>Date</para>
28 <itemizedlist>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 </itemizedlist>
36 </listitem>
37
38-->
39 <listitem>
40 <para>2012-06-05</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.4.1. Fixes
44 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3110">#3110</ulink>.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 </itemizedlist>
47 </listitem>
48
49 <listitem>
50 <para>2012-06-04</para>
51 <itemizedlist>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>[bdubbs] - Incorporate perl fixes from 2012-06-03
54 in the perl patch.</para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.17. Fixes
58 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3109">#3109</ulink>.</para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.12.1. Fixes
62 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3106">#3106</ulink>.</para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>[matthew] - Apply latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
66 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3103">#3103</ulink>.</para>
67 </listitem>
68 </itemizedlist>
69 </listitem>
70
71 <listitem>
72 <para>2012-06-03</para>
73 <itemizedlist>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>[bdubbs] - Add pkg-config-0.26-internal-glib to the
76 book. Fixes
77 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3105">#3105</ulink>.</para>
78 </listitem>
79 <listitem>
80 <para>[bdubbs] - Add popt-1.16 to the book.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>[bdubbs] - Update Chapter 5 perl instructions
84 for the LFS environment. Fixes
85 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3104">#3104</ulink>.</para>
86 </listitem>
87 </itemizedlist>
88 </listitem>
89
90 <listitem>
91 <para>2012-05-30</para>
92 <itemizedlist>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>[bdubbs] - Copy all entries in /lib/udev/devices to
95 /dev in mountvirtfs. Fixes
96 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3102">#3102</ulink>.</para>
97 </listitem>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>[matthew] - Correct the location of various package's man
100 pages. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3097">#3097</ulink>.</para>
101 </listitem>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.21.2. Fixes
104 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3100">#3100</ulink>.</para>
105 </listitem>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.16.0. Fixes
108 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3094">#3094</ulink>.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.4.0. Fixes
112 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3096">#3096</ulink>.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 <listitem>
115 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.4. Fixes
116 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3092">#3092</ulink>.</para>
117 </listitem>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.3. Fixes
120 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3091">#3091</ulink>.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 </itemizedlist>
123 </listitem>
124
125 <listitem>
126 <para>2012-05-24</para>
127 <itemizedlist>
128 <listitem>
129 <para>[bdubbs] - Minor tweaks to mountkernfs boot script.
130 Also fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3093">#3093</ulink>.</para>
131 </listitem>
132 </itemizedlist>
133 </listitem>
134
135 <listitem>
136 <para>2012-05-20</para>
137 <itemizedlist>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>[bdubbs] - Remove a bashism from the mountkernfs boot script.
140 </para>
141 </listitem>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>[bdubbs] - Move the $time init capability from setclock
144 to udev. Fixes
145 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3085">#3085</ulink>.</para>
146 </listitem>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>[bdubbs] - Remove and recreate $LFS/dev/shm in Section 6.2
149 if it is a symbolic link. Fixes
150 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3085">#3085</ulink>.</para>
151 </listitem>
152 </itemizedlist>
153 </listitem>
154
155 <listitem>
156 <para>2012-05-18</para>
157 <itemizedlist>
158 <listitem>
159 <para>[ken] - Remove the redundant program resizecons from kbd and
160 remove its man page (program was only installed on i?86, but man page
161 was always installed).</para>
162 </listitem>
163 </itemizedlist>
164 </listitem>
165
166 <listitem>
167 <para>2012-05-14</para>
168 <itemizedlist>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.6. Fixes
171 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3089">#3089</ulink>.</para>
172 </listitem>
173 </itemizedlist>
174 </listitem>
175
176 <listitem>
177 <para>2012-05-13</para>
178 <itemizedlist>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.17. Fixes
181 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3083">#3083</ulink>.</para>
182 </listitem>
183 </itemizedlist>
184 </listitem>
185
186 <listitem>
187 <para>2012-05-11</para>
188 <itemizedlist>
189 <listitem>
190 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.41. Fixes
191 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3084">#3084</ulink>.</para>
192 </listitem>
193 <listitem>
194 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.5. Fixes
195 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3080">#3080</ulink>.</para>
196 </listitem>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.5. Fixes
199 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3079">#3079</ulink>.</para>
200 </listitem>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>[matthew] - Remove sed from GCC pass 2 and chapter 6, which
203 prevented the fixincludes script from being run; it is no longer run
204 by default. Reported by Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
205 </listitem>
206 </itemizedlist>
207 </listitem>
208
209 <listitem>
210 <para>2012-05-10</para>
211 <itemizedlist>
212 <listitem>
213 <para>[bdubbs] - Add /etc/lsb-release file in Chapter 9.</para>
214 </listitem>
215 </itemizedlist>
216 </listitem>
217
218 <listitem>
219 <para>2012-05-09</para>
220 <itemizedlist>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>[bdubbs] - Update LSB packages in BLFS.</para>
223 </listitem>
224 </itemizedlist>
225 </listitem>
226
227 <listitem>
228 <para>2012-05-06</para>
229 <itemizedlist>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.7. Fixes
232 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3078">#3078</ulink>.</para>
233 </listitem>
234 <listitem>
235 <para>[matthew] - Apply latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
236 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3077">#3077</ulink>.</para>
237 </listitem>
238 <listitem>
239 <para>[matthew] - Add back a patch for Glibc that prevents various
240 BLFS programs, such as aplay, from segfaulting.</para>
241 </listitem>
242 </itemizedlist>
243 </listitem>
244
245 <listitem>
246 <para>2012-05-05</para>
247 <itemizedlist>
248 <listitem>
249 <para>[bdubbs] - Various minor text changes to
250 both book and bootscripts.</para>
251 </listitem>
252 </itemizedlist>
253 </listitem>
254
255 <listitem>
256 <para>2012-05-01</para>
257 <itemizedlist>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Kbd-1.15.3. Fixes
260 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2990">#2990</ulink>.</para>
261 </listitem>
262 </itemizedlist>
263 </listitem>
264
265 <listitem>
266 <para>2012-04-29</para>
267 <itemizedlist>
268 <listitem>
269 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.4. Fixes
270 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3074">#3074</ulink>.</para>
271 </listitem>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.40. Fixes
274 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3072">#3072</ulink>.</para>
275 </listitem>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.69. Fixes
278 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3071">#3071</ulink>.</para>
279 </listitem>
280 <listitem>
281 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.12. Fixes
282 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3070">#3070</ulink>.</para>
283 </listitem>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.12. Fixes
286 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3068">#3068</ulink>.</para>
287 </listitem>
288 </itemizedlist>
289 </listitem>
290
291 <listitem>
292 <para>2012-04-26</para>
293 <itemizedlist>
294 <listitem>
295 <para>[ken] - tidy some minor issues from the merge.
296 </para>
297 </listitem>
298 </itemizedlist>
299 </listitem>
300
301 <listitem>
302 <para>2012-04-25</para>
303 <itemizedlist>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>[bdubbs] - Incorporate changes developed and tested in the jh branch.
306 </para>
307 </listitem>
308 <listitem>
309 <para>[jhuntwork] - Update chapter 5 toolchain technical notes to match changes
310 in build method.</para>
311 </listitem>
312 <listitem>
313 <para>[jhuntwork] - Use --with-native-system-header-dir
314 switch in chapter 5 gcc. This replaces seds that were used previously
315 to alter the CROSS_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR and NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR
316 values to keep the toolchain searching for headers only in
317 /tools/include and not /usr/include. Thanks to Pierre Labastie. Fixes
318 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3066">#3066</ulink>.</para>
319 </listitem>
320 <listitem>
321 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove --without-cloog and --without-ppl from chapter 5 gcc.
322 These are unnecessary since it doesn't matter if pass 1 gcc is linked against
323 host libs and it should be impossible for the build of pass 2 gcc to find host
324 headers or libs.</para>
325 </listitem>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust build method to use sysroot.</para>
328 </listitem>
329 </itemizedlist>
330 </listitem>
331
332 <listitem>
333 <para>2012-04-24</para>
334 <itemizedlist>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.3. Fixes
337 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3067">#3067</ulink>.</para>
338 </listitem>
339 <listitem>
340 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.39. Fixes
341 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3065">#3065</ulink>.</para>
342 </listitem>
343 <listitem>
344 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-8. Fixes
345 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3064">#3064</ulink>.</para>
346 </listitem>
347 </itemizedlist>
348 </listitem>
349
350 <listitem>
351 <para>2012-04-19</para>
352 <itemizedlist>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>[bdubbs] - Change two group IDs to support a
355 legacy program. Fixes
356 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3061">#3061</ulink>.</para>
357 </listitem>
358 </itemizedlist>
359 </listitem>
360
361 <listitem>
362 <para>2012-04-15</para>
363 <itemizedlist>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.2. Fixes
366 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3063">#3063</ulink>.</para>
367 </listitem>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.5. Fixes
370 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3062">#3062</ulink>.</para>
371 </listitem>
372 <listitem>
373 <para>[matthew] - Use su from chapter 6 Coreutils in the Bash
374 instructions, instead of the one from chapter 5. Install su as su
375 rather than su-tools in chapter 5. Fixes
376 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3057">#3057</ulink>.</para>
377 </listitem>
378 </itemizedlist>
379 </listitem>
380
381 <listitem>
382 <para>2012-04-09</para>
383 <itemizedlist>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>[bdubbs] - Update networking bootscripts. See
386 bootscripts change log for details.
387 Fixes
388 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3053">#3053</ulink>.</para>
389 </listitem>
390 </itemizedlist>
391 </listitem>
392
393 <listitem>
394 <para>2012-04-05</para>
395 <itemizedlist>
396 <listitem>
397 <para>[bdubbs] - Change the location for the python gdb module
398 generated by gcc to the correct location. Fixes (again)
399 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3048">#3048</ulink>.</para>
400 </listitem>
401 </itemizedlist>
402 </listitem>
403
404 <listitem>
405 <para>2012-04-03</para>
406 <itemizedlist>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3.1. Fixes
409 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3059">#3059</ulink>.</para>
410 </listitem>
411 <listitem>
412 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.11.4. Fixes
413 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3058">#3058</ulink>.</para>
414 </listitem>
415 <listitem>
416 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-4.0.1. Fixes
417 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3056">#3056</ulink>.</para>
418 </listitem>
419 <listitem>
420 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.21.1. Fixes
421 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3055">#3055</ulink>.</para>
422 </listitem>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.2. Fixes
425 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3051">#3051</ulink>.</para>
426 </listitem>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.16 and drop the uname patch.
429 Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3048">#3048</ulink>.</para>
430 </listitem>
431 </itemizedlist>
432 </listitem>
433
434 <listitem>
435 <para>2012-03-28</para>
436 <itemizedlist>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>[bdubbs] - Move a python module for gdb generated by gcc
439 to a better location. Fixes
440 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3048">#3048</ulink>.</para>
441 </listitem>
442 <listitem>
443 <para>[bdubbs] - Adjust minimum version of xz-utils in Host
444 Requirements.</para>
445 </listitem>
446 <listitem>
447 <para>[bdubbs] - Reword description of log files in section
448 Creating Essential Files.</para>
449 </listitem>
450 </itemizedlist>
451 </listitem>
452
453 <listitem>
454 <para>2012-03-27</para>
455 <itemizedlist>
456 <listitem>
457 <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix building of Binutils with the
458 -O3 compiler flag. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report.</para>
459 </listitem>
460 <listitem>
461 <para>[matthew] - Add the GCC fix patch back to Glibc instructions
462 to fix a build issue on 32-bit hosts. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for
463 the report.</para>
464 </listitem>
465 </itemizedlist>
466 </listitem>
467
468 <listitem>
469 <para>2012-03-26</para>
470 <itemizedlist>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.38. Fixes
473 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3047">#3047</ulink>.</para>
474 </listitem>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.42.1. Fixes
477 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3046">#3046</ulink>.</para>
478 </listitem>
479 <listitem>
480 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.15. Fixes
481 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3045">#3045</ulink>. Thanks to Andy
482 Benton for the patch.</para>
483 </listitem>
484 <listitem>
485 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.7.0. Fixes
486 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3044">#3044</ulink>. Thanks to Andy
487 Benton for the patch.</para>
488 </listitem>
489 <listitem>
490 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-3.3.0. Fixes
491 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3043">#3043</ulink>.</para>
492 </listitem>
493 </itemizedlist>
494 </listitem>
495
496 <listitem>
497 <para>2012-03-22</para>
498 <itemizedlist>
499 <listitem>
500 <para>[bdubbs] - Fix corner case in ipv4-static script. </para>
501 </listitem>
502 </itemizedlist>
503 </listitem>
504
505 <listitem>
506 <para>2012-03-20</para>
507 <itemizedlist>
508 <listitem>
509 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.3. Fixes
510 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3042">#3042</ulink>.</para>
511 </listitem>
512 <listitem>
513 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-7. Fixes
514 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3041">#3041</ulink>.</para>
515 </listitem>
516 <listitem>
517 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-182. Fixes
518 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3040">#3040</ulink>.</para>
519 </listitem>
520 </itemizedlist>
521 </listitem>
522
523 <listitem>
524 <para>2012-03-19</para>
525 <itemizedlist>
526 <listitem>
527 <para>[bdubbs] - Move optional LVM initialization to the end
528 of the udev boot script so an LVM partition can be used for swap.
529 </para>
530 </listitem>
531 </itemizedlist>
532 </listitem>
533
534 <listitem>
535 <para>2012-03-14</para>
536 <itemizedlist>
537 <listitem>
538 <para>[matthew] - Remove GCC's cross-compile patch as it isn't
539 required.</para>
540 </listitem>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>[matthew] - Apply new upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
543 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3037">#3037</ulink>.</para>
544 </listitem>
545 <listitem>
546 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.11. Fixes
547 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3036">#3036</ulink>.</para>
548 </listitem>
549 <listitem>
550 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.37. Fixes
551 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3034">#3034</ulink>.</para>
552 </listitem>
553 </itemizedlist>
554 </listitem>
555
556 <listitem>
557 <para>2012-03-11</para>
558 <itemizedlist>
559 <listitem>
560 <para>[matthew] - Workaround an issue in Gettext's configure script
561 that can cause it to hang on certain hosts when determining the path
562 for Emacs Lisp files on certain hosts. Reported by and fix provided
563 by DJ Lucas.</para>
564 </listitem>
565 </itemizedlist>
566 </listitem>
567
568 <listitem>
569 <para>2012-03-06</para>
570 <itemizedlist>
571 <listitem>
572 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Libpipeline-1.2.1. Fixes
573 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3031">#3031</ulink>.</para>
574 </listitem>
575 <listitem>
576 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Kmod-6. Fixes
577 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3030">#3030</ulink>.</para>
578 </listitem>
579 <listitem>
580 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.11. Fixes
581 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3029">#3029</ulink>.</para>
582 </listitem>
583 <listitem>
584 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.3. Fixes
585 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3028">#3028</ulink>.</para>
586 </listitem>
587 <listitem>
588 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.16. Fixes
589 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3026">#3026</ulink>.</para>
590 </listitem>
591 <listitem>
592 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.11. Fixes
593 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3024">#3024</ulink>.</para>
594 </listitem>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.2.9. Fixes
597 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3023">#3023</ulink>.</para>
598 </listitem>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.21. Fixes
601 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3002">#3002</ulink>.</para>
602 </listitem>
603 </itemizedlist>
604 </listitem>
605
606 <listitem>
607 <para>2012-03-02</para>
608 <itemizedlist>
609 <listitem>
610 <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-7.1 released.
611 </para>
612 </listitem>
613 </itemizedlist>
614 </listitem>
615
616 </itemizedlist>
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