diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index e8dcba3bf..70498021d 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2011-05-07</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Fix a couple of test failures in Binutils, due to
+          incompatibilities with GCC-4.6.x. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2866">#2866</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.19.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2865">#2865</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils.xml b/chapter06/binutils.xml
index 521eb659a..c7708bd61 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils.xml
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -fv etc/standards.info
 sed -i.bak '/^INFO/s/standards.info //' etc/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Fix a couple of the tests, which fail when using GCC-&gcc-version;</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "/exception_defines.h/d" ld/testsuite/ld-elf/new.cc
+sed -i "s/-fvtable-gc //" ld/testsuite/ld-selective/selective.exp</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the
     source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>