diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index a796e04c0..b36a81bac 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 <listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem><para>Automake 1.9.5</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>Binutils 2.15.94.0.2.2</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Binutils 2.16</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Bison 2.0</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Bzip2 1.0.3</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>E2fsprogs 1.37</para></listitem>
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added gzip security patch.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter05/chapter05.xml b/chapter05/chapter05.xml
index 9c567c530..d604cfa96 100644
--- a/chapter05/chapter05.xml
+++ b/chapter05/chapter05.xml
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="texinfo.xml"/>
 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="bash.xml"/>
 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="m4.xml"/>
-<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="bison.xml"/>
-<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="flex.xml"/>
+<!--<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="bison.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="flex.xml"/>-->
 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="util-linux.xml"/>
 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="perl.xml"/>
 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="stripping.xml"/>
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils.xml b/chapter06/binutils.xml
index d859f6eaf..ba8ce561c 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ handling object files.</para>
 
 <segmentedlist>
 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext,
+<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext,
 Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 </sect2>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 444e5f2e8..fe3f3c9c3 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20050516">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "May 16, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20050522">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "May 22, 2005">
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
 
 <!ENTITY lfs-root "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 <!ENTITY autoconf-version "2.59">
 <!ENTITY automake-version "1.9.5">
 <!ENTITY bash-version "3.0">
-<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.15.94.0.2.2">
+<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.16">
 <!ENTITY bison-version "2.0">
 <!ENTITY bzip2-version "1.0.3">
 <!ENTITY coreutils-version "5.2.1">