# Changelog

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Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.

## Changelog Entries:

- 2015-10-01

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-7.8 released.

- 2015-09-26

  - [bdubbs] - Add additional discussion about copying an LFS system from one machine to another.

- 2015-09-17

  - [bdubbs] - Provide non-wide-character ncurses instructions that are complient with version 5 of ncurses.

- 2015-09-16

  - [bdubbs] - Remove unneeded sed in e2fsprogs.

- 2015-09-07

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-7.8-rc1 released.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux 2.27. Fixes #3823.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2. Fixes *3834.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.2.0. Fixes *3836.

- 2015-09-01

  - [bdubbs] - Increase host requirement for tar to version 1.22. Fixes #3835.

  - [bdubbs] - Replace an old link to building software in Prerequisites section. Thanks to Simon Kitching.

- 2015-08-25

  - [bdubbs] - Add MPFR upstream fixes.

- 2015-08-23

  - [bdubbs] - Update to libpipeline-1.4.1. Fixes #3829.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.6. Fixes *3832.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.2. Fixes *3833.

  - [bdubbs] - Add a patch to allow glibc to build properly on i386 systems.

  - [bdubbs] - Remove obsolete r* programs from inetutils.

- 2015-08-11

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2015f. Fixes #3830.

  - [bdubbs] - Add a workaround to ncurses in Chapter 5 for hosts that have mawk installed.

- 2015-08-11

  - [bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-3.3.11. Fixes #3829.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.02. Fixes #3828.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to ncurses-6.0. Fixes #3827.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.22. Fixes *3826.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.5. Fixes *3825.

- 2015-08-03

  - [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.25.1. Fixes *3820.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.3. Fixes *3821.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.01. Fixes #3822.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to check-0.10.0. Fixes #3824.

- 2015-07-23

  - [krejzi] - Fixed a warning in the intltool-update perl script caused by perl-5.22.

- 2015-07-16

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-5.2.0. Fixes *3819.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.5.1. Fixes *3818.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.0.3. Fixes #3815.

- 2015-07-12

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.1.1. Fixes *3811.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.24. Fixes *3812.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.2. Fixes #3814.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.5. Fixes #3813.

  - [bdubbs] - Fix a warning in the installed automake perl script. #3809.

- 2015-07-04

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.1.0. Fixes *3802.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.0. Fixes *3803.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.1. Fixes #3805.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.24. Fixes #3806.

  - [bdubbs] - Update perl installed files. Fixes #3804.

- 2015-06-23

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2015e. Fixes *3798.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1.2. Fixes *3799.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-3.1.3. Fixes #3800.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1. Fixes #3801.

- 2015-06-13

  - [bdubbs] - Simplify gcc-pass1 instructions. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the patch. Fixes #3797.

- 2015-06-10

  - [bdubbs] - Update standards discussion for FHS 3.0 and LSB-5.0.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to inetutils-1.9.4. Fixes #3796.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.23. Fixes #3795.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-21. Fixes #3794.

- 2015-06-07

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0.5. Fixes #3793.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1.1. Fixes #3792.

- 2015-06-05

  - [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.22.0. Fixes #3791.

- 2015-05-31

  - [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1. Fixes #3790.

- 2015-05-25

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bash-4.3.30-upstream_fixes-2.patch. Fixes #3789.

- 2015-05-23

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0.4. Fixes #3786.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.42.13. Fixes #3787.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.1.3. Fixes #3788.

  - [bdubbs] - Added a new patch for gcc to fix inline issues and some libgomp problems.

- 2015-05-15

  - [bdubbs] - Add a patch from upstream to fix some libgomp (gcc) problems.

- 2015-05-14

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.1.2. Fixes #3781.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0.3. Fixes #3782.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.26.2. Fixes #3783.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.00. Fixes #3784.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to inetutils-1.9.3. Fixes #3785.

- 2015-04-26

  - [bdubbs] - Updated to tzdata-2015d. Fixes #3780.

- 2015-04-24

  - [krejzi] - Added a fix for security issue in Glibc (CVE-2015-1781). Thanks to Ken Moffat for identifying the problem and the fix.

  - [krejzi] - Fixed Ncurses and Perl build with GCC 5. Thanks to Ken Moffat and Douglas R. Reno for providing the patches.

  - [krejzi] - Updated to GCC-5.1.0. Fixes #3779.

- 2015-04-21

  - [bdubbs] - Prevent /tools from being hard coded into eudev binaries.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.8.3. Fixes #3778.

  - [bdubbs] - Suppress duplicate installation of attr man pages.

- 2015-04-16

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0. Fixes #3775.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2015c. Fixes #3776.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.0.0. Fixes #3777.

- 2015-03-31

  - [bdubbs] - Adjust discussion of LFS environment variable to be before first use.

  - [bdubbs] - Use --with-glibc-version=2.11 in gcc-pass1.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to dejagnu-1.5.3. Fixes #3773.

- 2015-03-28

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.19.3. Fixes #3772.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata2015b. Fixes #3770.

- 2015-03-20

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.19.2. Fixes #3768.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.0. Fixes #3769.

- 2015-03-15

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tcl-core-8.6.4. Fixes #3766.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.26.1. Fixes #3767.

  - [bdubbs] - Remove non-essential static libraries from the installation. Added a new section in Chapter 6 Introduction, suppressed many static libraries in different packages, and removed the remaining in the Cleaning Up section. Fixes #3751.

- 2015-03-11

  - [bdubbs] - Update to intltool-0.51.0. Fixes #3764.

- 2015-03-08

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.19.1. Fixes #3763.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to patch-2.7.5. Fixes #3762.

  - [bdubbs] - Change tcl to minimal tcl-core package. Fixes #3752.

- 2015-03-07

  - [bdubbs] - Update to mpc-1.0.3. Fixes #3753.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.8.1. Fixes #3754.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.2.1. Fixes #3757.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-20. Fixes #3758.

- 2015-03-06

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-7.7 released.