diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 1fbcd903a..5e6c524d9 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,35 @@
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2018-07-18</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux 2.32.1.  Fixes
+           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4315">#4315</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.31.1.  Fixes
+           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4314">#4314</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.47.1.  Fixes
+           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4313">#4313</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+           <para>[bdubbs] - Document some new regression test failures.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.17.8.  Fixes
+           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4312">#4312</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.3.  Fixes
+           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4310">#4310</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2018-07-08</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index 978a172e9..a76cc4562 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Bc &bc-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Binutils-&binutils-version;</para>
-   </listitem>-->
+   </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Bison-&bison-version;</para>
     </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/eudev.xml b/chapter06/eudev.xml
index 9734eb1dc..8f6681417 100644
--- a/chapter06/eudev.xml
+++ b/chapter06/eudev.xml
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Eudev</title>
-
+<!--
     <para>First, fix a test script:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -r -i 's|/usr(/bin/test)|\1|' test/udev-test.pl</userinput></screen>
+-->
 <!--
     <para>Next, remove an unneeded line that causes a build failure:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml
index c83b80a67..8c277a5dd 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml
@@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ unset GCC_INCDIR</userinput></screen>
         <emphasis>posix/tst-getaddrinfo5</emphasis>
         may fail on some architectures.</para>
       </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>The <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis>
+        test may fail for reasons that have not been determined.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
 <!--
       <listitem>
         <para>The <emphasis>rt/tst-cputimer1</emphasis> and 
diff --git a/chapter06/inetutils.xml b/chapter06/inetutils.xml
index c69bdf52d..c8fdd456f 100644
--- a/chapter06/inetutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/inetutils.xml
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@
 
     <note><para>One test, libls.sh, may fail in the initial chroot
     environment but will pass if the test is rerun after the LFS system
-    is complete.</para></note>
+    is complete. One test, ping-localhost.sh, will fail if the host
+    system does not have ipv6 capability.</para></note>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/meson.xml b/chapter06/meson.xml
index b0410392b..02cfdf839 100644
--- a/chapter06/meson.xml
+++ b/chapter06/meson.xml
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Meson</title>
 
-    <para>Make a fix from upstream:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '309 s/os.getcwd/-C, &amp;/' mesonbuild/minstall.py</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>
@@ -54,13 +50,6 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install --root=dest
 cp -rv dest/* /</userinput></screen>
-<!--
-    <para>At last, move Meson man pages to correct location:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share/man/man1/*.1 \
-      /usr/share/man/man1
-rm -r /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share</userinput></screen>
--->
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 79b13f69b..301b8d793 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20180708">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20180718">
 <!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        "20180708-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20180718-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "July 8, 2018">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "July 18, 2018">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2018"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone       "8.3">
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 <!ENTITY livecd-root     "&lfs-root;livecd/">
 <!ENTITY test-results    "&lfs-root;lfs/build-logs/&generic-version;/">
 <!ENTITY errata          "&lfs-root;lfs/errata/&generic-version;/">
-<!ENTITY erratad         "&lfs-root;lfs/errata/&generic-versiond;/">
 <!ENTITY min-kernel      "3.2">
 
 <!ENTITY patches-rootd   "&lfs-root;patches/lfs/&generic-versiond;/">
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index f044ffe05..88d9b6bef 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@
 <!ENTITY bc-ch6-du "3.7 MB">
 <!ENTITY bc-ch6-sbu "0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.30">
-<!ENTITY binutils-size "19,811 KB">
+<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.31.1">
+<!ENTITY binutils-size "19,989 KB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-url "&gnu;binutils/binutils-&binutils-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY binutils-md5 "ffc476dd46c96f932875d1b2e27e929f">
+<!ENTITY binutils-md5 "5b7c9d4ce96f507d95c1b9a255e52418">
 <!ENTITY binutils-home "&gnu-software;binutils/">
 <!ENTITY binutils-ch5p1-du "547 MB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-ch5p1-sbu "1 SBU">
@@ -137,10 +137,10 @@
 <!-- NOTE: When updating e2fsprogs, remember to check the list
      of acceptable features that can be shown by debugfs in
      chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml -->
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-version "1.44.2">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-size "7,386 KB">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-version "1.44.3">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-size "7,394 KB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/v&e2fsprogs-version;/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-md5 "97b1c3603e5465667317775cf020e1a9">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-md5 "6bd765f3cf8f15740cdf81e71e88f2a4">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-home "http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-ch6-du "58 MB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-ch6-sbu "5.1 SBU">
@@ -416,12 +416,12 @@
 
 <!ENTITY linux-major-version "4">
 <!ENTITY linux-minor-version "17">
-<!ENTITY linux-patch-version "5">
+<!ENTITY linux-patch-version "8">
 <!--<!ENTITY linux-version "&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;"> -->
 <!ENTITY linux-version "&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;.&linux-patch-version;"> 
-<!ENTITY linux-size "99,780 KB">
+<!ENTITY linux-size "99,792 KB">
 <!ENTITY linux-url "&kernel;linux/kernel/v&linux-major-version;.x/linux-&linux-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY linux-md5 "1677d884b0e39f217afc9e23e088e330">
+<!ENTITY linux-md5 "8e2d3d45470b8a35cd74fb500e5487ef">
 <!ENTITY linux-home "https://www.kernel.org/">
 <!-- measured for 4.8.3 / gcc-6.2.0 on x86_64 : minimum is
  allnoconfig extended for a hopefully-bootable build on desktop machine,
@@ -470,10 +470,10 @@
 <!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-du "27 MB">
 <!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY meson-version "0.47.0">
-<!ENTITY meson-size "1,218 KB">
+<!ENTITY meson-version "0.47.1">
+<!ENTITY meson-size "1,221 KB">
 <!ENTITY meson-url "&github;/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/&meson-version;/meson-&meson-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY meson-md5 "5ec10121fcd1e130fdc7e9a10d762a4c">
+<!ENTITY meson-md5 "5ed95fd4e9c7634f7cf3482d352804e7">
 <!ENTITY meson-home "https://mesonbuild.com">
 <!ENTITY meson-ch6-du "16 MB">
 <!ENTITY meson-ch6-sbu "0.1 SBU">
@@ -674,10 +674,10 @@
 <!ENTITY udev-lfs-home    " ">
 
 <!ENTITY util-linux-minor "2.32">
-<!ENTITY util-linux-version "2.32">
-<!ENTITY util-linux-size "4,444 KB">
+<!ENTITY util-linux-version "2.32.1">
+<!ENTITY util-linux-size "4,455 KB">
 <!ENTITY util-linux-url "&kernel;linux/utils/util-linux/v&util-linux-minor;/util-linux-&util-linux-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY util-linux-md5 "e0d8a25853f88cd15ff557e5d8cb4ea7">
+<!ENTITY util-linux-md5 "9e5b1b8c1dc99455bdb6b462cf9436d9">
 <!ENTITY util-linux-home "http://freecode.com/projects/util-linux">
 <!ENTITY util-linux-ch5-du "131 MB">
 <!ENTITY util-linux-ch5-sbu "0.9 SBU">