%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via . Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. 2025-06-01 [bdubbs] - Update build instructions to accomodate gcc-15 for bc, expect, ncurses, and gmp. [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-15.1.0. Fixes #5707. [bdubbs] - Update to less-678. Fixes #5724. [bdubbs] - Update to readline-8.3-rc1. Fixes #5726. [bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.3-rc1. Fixes #5714. 2025-05-15 [bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-80.7.1. Fixes #5715. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-6.14. Fixes #5720. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.13.1. Fixes #5719. [bdubbs] - Update to m4-1.4.20. Fixes #5722. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.14.6. Fixes #5717. [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.25. Fixes #5718. 2025-05-01 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.1353. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-80.0.1. Fixes #5710. [bdubbs] - Update to packaging-25.0. Fixes #5706. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.8.0. Fixes #5713. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.14.4. Fixes #5709. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20250407. Addresses #5006. [bdubbs] - Update to gperf-3.3. Fixes #5708. [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.193. Fixes #5711. 2025-04-15 [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.76. Fixes #5704. [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.40.2 (Security update). Fixes #5703. [bdubbs] - Add packaging-24.2 (Python module). Needed for wheel. [bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.8.1. Fixes #5694. [bdubbs] - Update to wheel-0.46.1 (Python Module). Fixes #5693. [bdubbs] - Update to sysklogd-2.7.2. Fixes #5690. [bdubbs] - Update to Python3-3.13.3. Fixes #5697. [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.5.0. Fixes #5701. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.7.2. Fixes #5691. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.14.2. Fixes #5680. [bdubbs] - Update to libffi-3.4.8. Fixes #5700. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-6.14.0. Fixes #5682. [bdubbs] - Update to gzip-1.14. Fixes #5699. [bdubbs] - Update to grep-3.12. Fixes #5702. [bdubbs] - Update to gperf-3.2.1. Fixes #5695. [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-5.3.2. Fixes #5692. [bdubbs] - Update to diffutils-3.12. Fixes #5696. [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-9.7. Fixes #5698. 2025-04-01 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.1263. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20250328. Addresses #5006. [bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.8.0. Fixes #5684. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.41. Fixes #5648. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2025b. Fixes #5681. [bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.17.4. Fixes #5678. [bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-78.1.0. Fixes #5676. [bdubbs] - Update to patch-2.8. Fixes #5689. [bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-4.2.2. Fixes #5677. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-34.2. Fixes #5688. [bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.25. Fixes #5679. [bdubbs] - Update to flit_core-3.12.0. Fixes #5683. [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.7.1. Fixes #5685. 2025-03-15 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.1202. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20250304. Addresses #5006. [bdubbs] - Update to sysklogd-2.7.1. Fixes #5668. [bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-76.0.0. Fixes #5665. [bdubbs] - Update to pkgconf-2.4.3. Fixes #5672. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-6.13. Fixes #5673. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.13.7. Fixes #5664. [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.75. Fixes #5667. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-34.1. Fixes #5671. [bdubbs] - Update to jinja2-3.1.6. Fixes #5670. [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.7.0. Fixes #5675. [bdubbs] - Update to dbus-1.16.2. Fixes #5663. 2025-03-05 [bdubbs] - LFS-12.3 released.