diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index fcc8b92af..73e81216c 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,28 @@
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2018-09-02</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4342">#4342</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.47.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4341">#4341</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.18. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4340">#4340</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.4. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4338">#4338</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2018-09-01</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index 617d9b172..44d68ccd9 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Binutils-&binutils-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Bison-&bison-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Bzip2-&bzip2-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@
     <!--<listitem revision="sysv">
       <para>Eudev-&eudev-version;</para>
    </listitem>-->
-   <!--<listitem>
+   <listitem>
       <para>E2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</para>
-   </listitem>-->
+   </listitem>
    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Expat-&expat-version;</para>
    </listitem>-->
@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@
    <!--<listitem>
       <para>GCC-&gcc-version;</para>
    </listitem>-->
-   <!--<listitem>
+   <listitem>
       <para>GDBM-&gdbm-version;</para>
-   </listitem>-->
+   </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Gettext-&gettext-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
@@ -173,9 +173,9 @@
    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Man-pages-&man-pages-version;</para>
    </listitem>-->
-   <!--<listitem>
+   <listitem>
       <para>Meson-&meson-version;</para>
-   </listitem>-->
+   </listitem>
    <!-- <listitem>
       <para>MPC-&mpc-version;</para>
    </listitem>-->
diff --git a/chapter06/bison.xml b/chapter06/bison.xml
index dd415feb9..4d4fa17f3 100644
--- a/chapter06/bison.xml
+++ b/chapter06/bison.xml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
     <para>There is a circular dependency between bison and flex with regard to
     the checks.  If desired, after installing flex in the next section, the
-    bison can be rebuilt and the bison checks can be run with 
+    bison package can be rebuilt and the bison checks can be run with 
     <command>make check</command>.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
index 7b6a07955..6b935a265 100644
--- a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
+++ b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ make LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tools/lib check</userinput></screen>
     If you do not have significantly more RAM than this, be sure to enable
     sufficient swap space for the test. See <xref
     linkend="space-creatingfilesystem"/> and <xref linkend="space-mounting"/>
-    for details on creating and enabling swap space.  Two tests, f_bigalloc_badinode
-    and f_bigalloc_orphan_list, are known ot fail.</para>
+    for details on creating and enabling swap space.</para>
 
     <para>Install the binaries, documentation, and shared libraries:</para>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 705cb37a9..76d72f81e 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20180816">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20180902">
 <!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        "20180816-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20180902-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "August 16, 2018">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "September 2, 2018">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2018"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone       "8.3">
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index fcad436c8..8d6cb6f7d 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@
 <!ENTITY binutils-ch6-du "4.9 GB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-ch6-sbu "6.6 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY bison-version "3.0.5">
-<!ENTITY bison-size "1,910 KB">
+<!ENTITY bison-version "3.1">
+<!ENTITY bison-size "1,944 KB">
 <!ENTITY bison-url "&gnu;bison/bison-&bison-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY bison-md5 "3e54f20988ecd1b62044e25481e5f06b">
+<!ENTITY bison-md5 "db7e431785ad96870bfa570a15cab079">
 <!ENTITY bison-home "&gnu-software;bison/">
 <!ENTITY bison-ch5-du "35 MB">
 <!ENTITY bison-ch5-sbu "0.3 SBU">
@@ -134,13 +134,10 @@
 <!ENTITY diffutils-ch6-du "33 MB">
 <!ENTITY diffutils-ch6-sbu "0.4 SBU">
 
-<!-- NOTE: When updating e2fsprogs, remember to check the list
-     of acceptable features that can be shown by debugfs in
-     chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml -->
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-version "1.44.3">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-size "7,394 KB">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-version "1.44.4">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-size "7,419 KB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/v&e2fsprogs-version;/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-md5 "6bd765f3cf8f15740cdf81e71e88f2a4">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-md5 "156e94a6169ca1fa3f0c6749ae5921b9">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-home "http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-ch6-du "96 MB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-ch6-sbu "1.6 SBU">
@@ -237,10 +234,10 @@
 <!ENTITY libstdcpp-ch5-du "803 MB">
 <!ENTITY libstdcpp-ch5-sbu "0.5 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY gdbm-version "1.17">
-<!ENTITY gdbm-size "917 KB">
+<!ENTITY gdbm-version "1.18">
+<!ENTITY gdbm-size "918 KB">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-url "&gnu;gdbm/gdbm-&gdbm-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY gdbm-md5 "f20ce117abc6f302ecf62c34d41c1ecf">
+<!ENTITY gdbm-md5 "e316f8e4a3e7e4f23955be65d54fec48">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-home "&gnu-software;gdbm/">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-ch6-du "11 MB">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-ch6-sbu "0.1 SBU">
@@ -416,12 +413,12 @@
 
 <!ENTITY linux-major-version "4">
 <!ENTITY linux-minor-version "18">
-<!ENTITY linux-patch-version "1">
+<!ENTITY linux-patch-version "5">
 <!--<!ENTITY linux-version "&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;"> -->
 <!ENTITY linux-version "&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;.&linux-patch-version;">
-<!ENTITY linux-size "99,409 KB">
+<!ENTITY linux-size "99,411 KB">
 <!ENTITY linux-url "&kernel;linux/kernel/v&linux-major-version;.x/linux-&linux-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY linux-md5 "70b08b4bb5bfe1783d79cd41e2303970">
+<!ENTITY linux-md5 "22851fe6c82db6673a844bbb7c62df67">
 <!ENTITY linux-home "https://www.kernel.org/">
 <!-- measured for 4.8.3 / gcc-6.2.0 on x86_64 : minimum is
  allnoconfig extended for a hopefully-bootable build on desktop machine,
@@ -470,10 +467,10 @@
 <!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-du "28 MB">
 <!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY meson-version "0.47.1">
-<!ENTITY meson-size "1,221 KB">
+<!ENTITY meson-version "0.47.2">
+<!ENTITY meson-size "1,239 KB">
 <!ENTITY meson-url "&github;/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/&meson-version;/meson-&meson-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY meson-md5 "5ed95fd4e9c7634f7cf3482d352804e7">
+<!ENTITY meson-md5 "31bda3519d8c0eb3438267268a78085e">
 <!ENTITY meson-home "https://mesonbuild.com">
 <!ENTITY meson-ch6-du "21 MB">
 <!ENTITY meson-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">