diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 90323b387..508075ad1 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
 
+     <listitem>
+      <para>2007-11-25</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Fixed test for Debian binutils.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2007-10-29</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 02d1422f5..002233d0c 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20071029">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "October 29, 2007">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20071125">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "November 25, 2007">
 <!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 a4246c5d7..becc1aae6 100644
--- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
 
 bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
-echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4
+echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
 bison --version | head -n1
 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