diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 2defa0c1b..9913bc09d 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
+</listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>December 7, 2005 [matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of
 them) for all packages (fixes bug 1664).  Thanks to Chris Staub for the
 report and analysis of affected packages.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter03/packages.xml b/chapter03/packages.xml
index ce9e9ecdf..7d991b232 100644
--- a/chapter03/packages.xml
+++ b/chapter03/packages.xml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp"/>.</para></note>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
-<term>Findutils (&findutils-version;) - 881 KB:</term>
+<term>Findutils (&findutils-version;) - 887 KB:</term>
 <listitem>
 <para><ulink url="&gnu;findutils/"/></para>
 </listitem>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 3b3ad8365..1eaf2399f 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20051207">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "December 7, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-200512079">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "December 9, 2005">
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 <!ENTITY expect-version "5.43.0">
 <!ENTITY expect-lib-version "5.43">
 <!ENTITY file-version "4.16">
-<!ENTITY findutils-version "4.2.26">
+<!ENTITY findutils-version "4.2.27">
 <!ENTITY flex-version "2.5.31">
 <!ENTITY gawk-version "3.1.5">
 <!ENTITY gcc-version "4.0.2">