Index: chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter01/changelog.xml	(revision 54470acb0c692dda71fb92e364557176afe4c2a5)
+++ chapter01/changelog.xml	(revision 92c948920f7ab58e08c5b9375e2f290b823c11eb)
@@ -44,4 +44,26 @@
 -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>2017-12-19</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update tar-1.30.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4175">#4175</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update meson-0.44.0.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4173">#4173</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to systemd-236.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4174">#4174</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.14.6.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4171">#4171</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>2017-12-03</para>
       <itemizedlist>
Index: chapter01/whatsnew.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter01/whatsnew.xml	(revision 54470acb0c692dda71fb92e364557176afe4c2a5)
+++ chapter01/whatsnew.xml	(revision 92c948920f7ab58e08c5b9375e2f290b823c11eb)
@@ -207,13 +207,13 @@
       <para>Sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem revision="systemd">
+    <listitem revision="systemd">
       <para>Systemd-&systemd-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem revision="sysv">
       <para>SysVinit-&sysvinit-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Tar-&tar-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Tcl-core-&tcl-version;</para>
Index: chapter06/createfiles.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter06/createfiles.xml	(revision 54470acb0c692dda71fb92e364557176afe4c2a5)
+++ chapter06/createfiles.xml	(revision 92c948920f7ab58e08c5b9375e2f290b823c11eb)
@@ -289,4 +289,5 @@
 input:x:24:
 mail:x:34:
+kvm:x:61:
 systemd-bus-proxy:x:72:
 systemd-journal-gateway:x:73:
Index: chapter06/revisedchroot.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter06/revisedchroot.xml	(revision 54470acb0c692dda71fb92e364557176afe4c2a5)
+++ chapter06/revisedchroot.xml	(revision 92c948920f7ab58e08c5b9375e2f290b823c11eb)
@@ -43,5 +43,5 @@
   linkend="ch-system-kernfsmount"/>.</para>
 
-  <para>Finally, there were several static libraries that were not suppressed earlier
+  <para>There were several static libraries that were not suppressed earlier
   in the chapter in order to satisfy the regression tests in several packages. These 
   libraries are from binutils, bzip2, e2fsprogs, flex, libtool, and zlib.  If desired,
@@ -56,3 +56,18 @@
 rm -f /usr/lib/libz.a</userinput></screen>
 
+  <para>There are also several files installed in the /usr/lib directory with a
+  file name extention of .la.  These are "libtool archive" files and generally
+  unneeded on a linux system.  None of these are necessary at this point.  To
+  remove them, run: 
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>find /usr/lib -name \*.la -delete</userinput></screen>
+
+   For more information about libtool archive files, see the <ulink
+   url="&blfs-book;/introduction/la-files.html">BLFS section "About Libtool
+   Archive (.la) files"</ulink>.
+
+  </para>
+
+
+
 </sect1>
Index: chapter06/systemd.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter06/systemd.xml	(revision 54470acb0c692dda71fb92e364557176afe4c2a5)
+++ chapter06/systemd.xml	(revision 92c948920f7ab58e08c5b9375e2f290b823c11eb)
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
     <para>Create a symlink to work around missing xsltproc:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">ln -s /tools/bin/true /usr/bin/xsltproc</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">ln -sf /tools/bin/true /usr/bin/xsltproc</userinput></screen>
     <para>Set up the man pages:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">tar -xf ../systemd-man-pages-235.tar.xz</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">tar -xf ../systemd-man-pages-236.tar.xz</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare systemd for compilation:</para>
Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision 54470acb0c692dda71fb92e364557176afe4c2a5)
+++ general.ent	(revision 92c948920f7ab58e08c5b9375e2f290b823c11eb)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20171203">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20171219">
 <!ENTITY short-version   "svn">  <!-- Used below in &blfs-book; 
                                       Change to x.y for release but not -rc releases -->
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development"  or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
-<!ENTITY versiond        "20171203-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20171219-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "December 3, 2017">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "December 19, 2017">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2017"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 54470acb0c692dda71fb92e364557176afe4c2a5)
+++ packages.ent	(revision 92c948920f7ab58e08c5b9375e2f290b823c11eb)
@@ -409,10 +409,10 @@
 <!ENTITY linux-major-version "4">
 <!ENTITY linux-minor-version "14">
-<!ENTITY linux-patch-version "3">
+<!ENTITY linux-patch-version "6">
 <!--<!ENTITY linux-version "&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;">i-->
 <!ENTITY linux-version "&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;.&linux-patch-version;">
-<!ENTITY linux-size "98,417 KB">
+<!ENTITY linux-size "98,421 KB">
 <!ENTITY linux-url "&kernel;linux/kernel/v&linux-major-version;.x/linux-&linux-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY linux-md5 "c24ea351d105e48b401fd34db8163495">
+<!ENTITY linux-md5 "938baaf8fd3d232e9fbc2f402adf0d3f">
 <!ENTITY linux-home "http://www.kernel.org/">
 <!-- measured for 4.8.3 / gcc-6.2.0 on x86_64 : minimum is
@@ -463,8 +463,8 @@
 <!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY meson-version "0.43.0">
-<!ENTITY meson-size "1,048 KB">
+<!ENTITY meson-version "0.44.0">
+<!ENTITY meson-size "1,077 KB">
 <!ENTITY meson-url "https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/&meson-version;/meson-&meson-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY meson-md5 "b0d389cc5937928c2f5114656dc5a99a">
+<!ENTITY meson-md5 "26a7ca93ec9cea5facb365664261f9c6">
 <!ENTITY meson-home "http://mesonbuild.com">
 <!ENTITY meson-ch6-du "30 MB">
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
 <!ENTITY python-ch6-du "355 MB">
 <!ENTITY python-ch6-sbu "1.3 SBU">
-<!ENTITY python-docs-url "https://docs.python.org/3.6/archives/python-3.6.3-docs-html.tar.bz2">
-<!ENTITY python-docs-md5 "5e4a8a97d4221fc67561ca26e26bd575">
-<!ENTITY python-docs-size "7,732 MB">
+<!ENTITY python-docs-url "https://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/3.6.3/python-3.6.3-docs-html.tar.bz2">
+<!ENTITY python-docs-md5 "5f9668cb0cf994d265774585ba622552">
+<!ENTITY python-docs-size "5,807 MB">
 
 <!ENTITY readline-version "7.0">
@@ -594,12 +594,12 @@
 <!ENTITY sysklogd-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY systemd-version  "235">
-<!ENTITY systemd-size     "6,440 KB">
+<!ENTITY systemd-version  "236">
+<!ENTITY systemd-size     "6,433 KB">
 <!ENTITY systemd-url      "https://github.com/systemd/systemd/archive/v&systemd-version;/systemd-&systemd-version;.tar.gz">
 <!ENTITY systemd-md5      "d53a925f1ca5b2e124de0a8aa65d0db2">
 <!ENTITY systemd-home     "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/">
-<!ENTITY systemd-man-size "316 KB">
+<!ENTITY systemd-man-size "323 KB">
 <!ENTITY systemd-man-url  "http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/systemd-man-pages-&systemd-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY systemd-man-md5  "6cd94df145eeb6e9558d9402fa1a747a">
+<!ENTITY systemd-man-md5  "cf089b9dbb4aa0a4da1c32bb6c0e9b9d">
 <!ENTITY systemd-ch6-du   "13 MB">
 <!ENTITY systemd-ch6-sbu  "0.6 SBU">
@@ -613,8 +613,8 @@
 <!ENTITY sysvinit-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY tar-version "1.29">
-<!ENTITY tar-size "1,950 KB">
+<!ENTITY tar-version "1.30">
+<!ENTITY tar-size "2,059 KB">
 <!ENTITY tar-url "&gnu;tar/tar-&tar-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY tar-md5 "a1802fec550baaeecff6c381629653ef">
+<!ENTITY tar-md5 "2d01c6cd1387be98f57a0ec4e6e35826">
 <!ENTITY tar-home "&gnu-software;tar/">
 <!ENTITY tar-ch5-du "33 MB">
