diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 4f9775f6d..ad57bb33e 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@
 
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2008-12-18</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[robert] - Removed the unneeded -e option from the Sed command
+          in the chap6 Findutils page, for consistency.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2008-12-07</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml
index 197bddc41..bf3548340 100644
--- a/chapter06/findutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
     script also needs to be modified to correct an explicit path:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/bin/find /bin
-sed -i -e 's/find:=${BINDIR}/find:=\/bin/' /usr/bin/updatedb</userinput></screen>
+sed -i 's/find:=${BINDIR}/find:=\/bin/' /usr/bin/updatedb</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 70ea0d004..3d969bd78 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20081207">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "December 7, 2008">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20081218">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "December 18, 2008">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2008"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone "7.0">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->