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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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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
<para>2007-03-19</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1974">#1974</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest
patch from upstream. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1973">#1973</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-03-14</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout
Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since
the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed
in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates
from DIY Linux.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-03-04</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1954">#1954</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all
upstream patches up to 206.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1969">#1969</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1967">#1967</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1968">#1968</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-03-1</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and
notices to appear before affected commands.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-25</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages
builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-24</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2.
Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers
installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions.
Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1965">#1965</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1964">#1964</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1930">#1930</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1960">#1960</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1961">#1961</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for
<command>cpan</command> and <command>prove</command> from the
Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-23</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf
to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some
commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and
Autoconf pages.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev
documentation install command since it is already created by
udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing
any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit
the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only
generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris
Staub.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-20</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching
the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-18</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-17</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes
part of <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-09</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Move <command>readlink</command> to
<filename class="directory">/bin</filename> because
<function>sysreadlink</function> in Udev's shell functions may call
it before <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> has been
mounted. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1913">#1913</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Remove some <command>chmod</command> and
<command>chown</command> commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as
they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1953">#1953</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1949">#1949</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1951">#1951</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-07</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1950">#1950</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-02-03</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1948">#1948</ulink> and the
udev_retry script.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-01-31</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn
and udev-config tarballs. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1932">#1932</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not
required after upgrading to Readline-5.2. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1942">#1942</ulink>. Thanks to Alexander
Patrakov for the report and fix.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to
fix a multibyte-related issue. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1945">#1945</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer
in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1941">#1941</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16.1. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1926">#1926</ulink> and
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1944">#1944</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1940">#1940</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1928">#1928</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1936">#1936</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1924">#1924</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1925">#1925</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1923">#1923</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1946">#1946</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1934">#1934</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2007-01-13</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-12-09</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-12-01</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
<filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
<filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
the report and fix.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-11-25</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
before starting chapter 6.
Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
<filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
<command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks
to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
<ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
this thread.</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-11-24</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-11-10</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-11-05</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-11-03</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
<filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-10-29</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
&quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
076.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-10-28</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
&quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
&quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
bug when parsing comments.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-10-23</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-10-21</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
doc files.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-10-15</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-10-05</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
of the rules.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-10-02</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
&quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
kernel sources.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-09-23</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
heads-up.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-09-22</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2006-09-20</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
</listitem>
<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>
</sect1>