diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index f600a9afe..0051eef10 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@
     <listitem revision="sysv"> or <listitem revision="systemd"> as
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2017-08-24</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Fix acl's testsuite for perl-5.26.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2017-08-16</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter06/acl.xml b/chapter06/acl.xml
index 752e8eb86..df058f721 100644
--- a/chapter06/acl.xml
+++ b/chapter06/acl.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "s:| sed.*::g" test/{sbits-restore,cp,misc}.test</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Fix a problem in the test procedures caused by changes in perl-5.26:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/{(/\\{(/' test/run</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Additionally, fix a bug that causes <command>getfacl -e</command>
     to segfault on overly long group name:</para>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 9a0161197..d7371b776 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20170818">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20170824">
 <!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        "20170818-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20170824-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "August 18, 2017">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "August 24, 2017">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2017"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone       "8.1">