diff --git a/chapter08/python.xml b/chapter08/python.xml
index 7ac618c09..d60378abb 100644
--- a/chapter08/python.xml
+++ b/chapter08/python.xml
@@ -78,11 +78,21 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Running the tests at this point is not recommended.  The
-    tests are known to hang indefinitely in the partial LFS environment.
-    If desired, the tests can be rerun at the end of this chapter, or
-    when Python 3 is reinstalled in BLFS.  To run the tests anyway,
-    issue <command>make test</command>.</para>
+    <para>Some tests are known to occasionally hang indefinitely.  So to test the
+    results, run the test suite but set a 2-minute time limit for each
+    test case:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make test TESTOPTS="--timeout 120"</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>For a relatively slow system you may need to increase the time
+    limit and 1 SBU (measured when building Binutils pass 1 with one CPU
+    core) should be enough.  Some tests are flaky, so the test suite will
+    automatically re-run failed tests.  If a test failed but then passed
+    when re-run, it should be considered as passed.</para>
+
+    <para>Two tests named <filename>test_xml_etree</filename> and
+    <filename>test_xml_etree_c</filename> are known to fail with expat-2.6.0
+    or newer.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter08/util-linux.xml b/chapter08/util-linux.xml
index 4df6e04dd..648b204b5 100644
--- a/chapter08/util-linux.xml
+++ b/chapter08/util-linux.xml
@@ -93,7 +93,14 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>If desired, run the test suite as a non-&root; user:</para>
+    <!-- To editors:
+         Two tests need a /etc/fstab file.  They are skipped if the host
+         distro isn't using systemd as the init system, so don't remove
+         the creation of /etc/fstab unless you've tested it with such a
+         host distro (for example LFS systemd or Debian).  -->
+    <para>If desired, create a dummy <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file
+    to satisfy two tests and run the test suite as a non-&root;
+    user:</para>
 
     <warning><para>Running the test suite as the
     <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user can be harmful to
@@ -106,7 +113,8 @@
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>bash tests/run.sh --srcdir=$PWD --builddir=$PWD</userinput></screen>
     </warning>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester .
+<screen><userinput remap="test">touch /etc/fstab
+chown -R tester .
 su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen>
 
     <para> 
diff --git a/chapter10/kernel/kernel.version b/chapter10/kernel/kernel.version
index 29310f454..166d79d6d 100644
--- a/chapter10/kernel/kernel.version
+++ b/chapter10/kernel/kernel.version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.7.4
+6.8.2
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 72f9b60d2..169832760 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-size "9,412 KB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/v&e2fsprogs-version;/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.gz">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-md5 "6b4f18a33873623041857b4963641ee9">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-home "http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-home "https://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-fin-du "95 MB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-fin-sbu "2.4 SBU on a spinning disk, 0.4 SBU on an SSD">
 
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@
 <!ENTITY tcl-size "11,355 KB">
 <!ENTITY tcl-url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl&tcl-version;-src.tar.gz">
 <!ENTITY tcl-md5 "c30b57c6051be28fa928d09aca82841e">
-<!ENTITY tcl-home "http://tcl.sourceforge.net/">
+<!ENTITY tcl-home "https://tcl.sourceforge.net/">
 <!ENTITY tcl-docs-url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl&tcl-version;-html.tar.gz">
 <!ENTITY tcl-docs-md5 "5467198f8d57c54835bf80b98ffb0170">
 <!ENTITY tcl-docs-size "1,167 KB">
diff --git a/part3intro/generalinstructions.xml b/part3intro/generalinstructions.xml
index 624771c2d..37e07f862 100644
--- a/part3intro/generalinstructions.xml
+++ b/part3intro/generalinstructions.xml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
             <para>Do not use any method except the <command>tar</command> command
               to extract the source code. Notably, using the <command>cp -R</command>
               command to copy the
-              source code tree somewhere else can destroy links and
+              source code tree somewhere else can destroy
               timestamps in the source tree, and cause the build to fail.</para>
             </listitem>
             <listitem>