diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 7f46eebaa..d23ab855e 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2019-01-27</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Fix a bug introduced in tar-1.31, by adding
+          a sed to the build instructions. Also remove an obsolete comment
+          about a failing test.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem revision="systemd">
       <para>2019-01-20</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter06/tar.xml b/chapter06/tar.xml
index 1200a3949..d51bfa8c8 100644
--- a/chapter06/tar.xml
+++ b/chapter06/tar.xml
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Tar</title>
-<!--
-    <para>Add a program that generates a man page for tar from the source code:</para>
+
+    <para>Fix a bug introduced in tar-1.31:</para>
  
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-manpage-patch;</userinput></screen>
--->
+ <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/abort.*/FALLTHROUGH;/' src/extract.c</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1  \
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
+<!-- Seems to pass for version 1.31. Keeping as a comment just in case...
     <para>One test, link mismatch, is known to fail.</para>
+-->
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 962e0bf3c..16be51e9f 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20190120">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20190127">
 <!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        "20190120-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20190127-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "January 20, 2019">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "January 27, 2019">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2019"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone       "8.4">