diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 812ea6d54..9699762bd 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+e?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2008-04-11</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated host requirments to check for
+          symbolic links from sh, awk, and yacc.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2008-04-03</para>
       <itemizedlist>
@@ -48,7 +58,7 @@
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Added patch for 256-byte inode support in GRUB.
-	  Fixes #2161.</para>
+          Fixes #2161.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
@@ -94,7 +104,7 @@
           <para>[ken] - Corrected typo in name of ru-ms keymap.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-	  <para>[ken] - Updated Kbd to 1.13.</para>
+          <para>[ken] - Updated Kbd to 1.13.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
@@ -118,13 +128,13 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3, thanks to Matthew for the fix
-	  for automated builds.</para>
+          for automated builds.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-	  <para>[ken] - Updated Flex to 2.5.34.</para>
+          <para>[ken] - Updated Flex to 2.5.34.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-	  <para>[ken] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4.</para>
+          <para>[ken] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index a93c8669d..120ecf5dd 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20080403">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "April 3, 2008">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20080412">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "April 12, 2008">
 <!ENTITY milestone "7.0">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
diff --git a/prologue/hostreqs.xml b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
index 434d86ee1..60adad78b 100644
--- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
   <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis> (/bin/sh
+      must be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc
+      must be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
@@ -52,7 +54,8 @@
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk
+      must be a link to gawk)</para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
@@ -134,13 +137,16 @@ export LC_ALL=C
 # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
 
 bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
+ls -l `which sh`
 echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
 bison --version | head -n1
+ls -l `which yacc`
 bzip2 --version 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt; /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
 echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
 diff --version | head -n1
 find --version | head -n1
 gawk --version | head -n1
+ls -l `which awk`
 gcc --version | head -n1
 /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
 grep --version | head -n1
@@ -150,7 +156,9 @@ make --version | head -n1
 patch --version | head -n1
 sed --version | head -n1
 tar --version | head -n1
-makeinfo --version | head -n1</literal>
+makeinfo --version | head -n1
+
+</literal>
 
 EOF