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<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
<title>Changelog</title>
<?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>
<para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
&releasedate;. If this book is more than two months old, a newer and better
version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;"/>.</para>
<para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book,
first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>autoconf-2.59</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>automake-1.8.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>binutils-2.15.91.0.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bison-1.875a</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.2.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.35</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>expect-5.41.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>file-4.09</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>flex-2.5.31</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.1-20040601</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gettext-0.14.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.4-20040529</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>groff-1.19.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>grub-0.94</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>kbd-1.12</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>less-382</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-2.1.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libtool-2.5.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.6.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>m4-1.4.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.67</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.4</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>perl-5.8.4</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procps-3.2.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>psmisc-21.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sed-4.0.9</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>shadow-4.0.4.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tar-1.14</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tcl-8.4.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>texinfo-4.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.12a</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.3</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.2.1-suppress_hostname_uptime_kill_su-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>flex-2.5.31-debian_fixes-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>grub-0.94-gcc34-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01-bogus_deps-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01-device-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01-isapnp-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>iana-etc-1.00</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2-no_server_man_pages-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-libc-headers-2.6.6.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>mktemp-1.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>module-init-tools-3.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>net-tools-1.60-gcc34-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>readline-4.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>readline-4.3-gnu_fixes-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-signal-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.85-proclen-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>udev-026</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>udev-026-config-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.12a-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.3 language files</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>bison-1.875-attribute.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.2.1-hostname-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ed-0.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1-suppress-libiberty.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>kbd-1.12-more-programs-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-utils-0.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5m2-manpath.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5m2-pager.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.25</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>net-tools-1.60-miitool-gcc33-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procinfo-18</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procps-3.1.11-locale-fix.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3-newgrp-fix.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>zlib-1.1.4-vsnprintf.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: British people speak English but
need loadkeys and setfont (reported by Dave Mascall on IRC). Corrected the
text on the console page to account for this</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the "background" option to
/etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an "if"
statement because it applies to some, not all, terminals</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped hackish GRUB instructions in
favor of a patch from upstream.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Force Readline to link against Ncurses.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [alexander]: Added sysvinit-2.85-proclen-1.patch
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Reverted the bogus change of package
order. Removed the "background" line from /etc/vimrc because it matches the
default on Linux console</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Added a command to autodetect the
character set of files being edited to /etc/vimrc
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Added vim language files. Moved
vim after gettext in order for them to work
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to M4-1.4.1, after 9 years!
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.6.0.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [winkie]: Updated locations of the Glibc &amp; GCC
tarballs.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Udev 026.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped Net-tools patch for kernel
headers in favor of a simple sed.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Normalized <quote>sed</quote> usage
throughout the book.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Use the
<quote>gcc --print-file specs</quote> command to determine the location of the
<quote>specs</quote> file.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Updated patch names to match those used
by the patches project.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Globally changed <quote>DejaGnu</quote>
to <quote>DejaGNU</quote>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Vim 6.3.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 2, 2004 [matt]: Prologue - acknowledgments, Added Thomas
Reitelbach as the German translator</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 2nd, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GCC 3.4.1-20040601. This
release fixes bugs with reference to both GCC 3.4.0 and GCC 3.4.1-20040517. Also
upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040529 which includes lots of fixes for non-x86
architectures.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 1st, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Binutils 2.15.91.0.1. This
release provides the <quote>-z relro</quote> option.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 1st, 2004 [winkie]: Inconsequential wrapping fixes.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: Mentioned the hotplug+udev+modules
problem. Removed the effectively dead link to the Kernel
HOWTO.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: Corrected usbfs line in
/etc/fstab.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: New LFS bootscripts already come
with the /etc/sysconfig/console file. Corrected the text.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Upgraded psmisc to
21.5.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Corrected download location for the
lfs-bootscripts package</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 24, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to libc-headers 2.6.5.2</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>May 23, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Vim - added an option to the
vimrc config file</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 23th, 2004 [alexander]: Don't list the initscript in the
contents of the Hotplug package. The reason is that we use winkie's
replacement script from LFS-Bootscripts.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 23th, 2004 [alexander]: Fixed XML validation
error.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Moved group <quote>usb</quote> to GID
14, instead of 15.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped Hotplug's
<quote>cosmetic</quote> patch in favor of the script from LFS-Bootscripts and
some general textual/rendering cleanups.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Point to the correct GCC patches.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [alexander]: Added Hotplug 2004_04_01.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 19th, 2004 [winkie]: Change permissions of /dev/random to
0444 instead of 0666.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 19th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Binutils 2.15 &amp; GCC
3.4.1-20040517.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 19th, 2004 [matt]: Chapter 6 - mktemp. Install tempfile
wrapper.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 18th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 16th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Automake-1.8.5.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 15th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.1-pre2.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 14th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Groff 1.19.1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 14th, 2004 [alexander]: Several textual changes on Vim
page.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Apply patch to assure Coreutils doesn't
install any binaries that we don't need/want.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Don't pass <quote>-default</quote> to
Man's configure, since it's not needed anymore.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Shorten the <quote>sed</quote> used
on Gzip's <filename>gzexe.in</filename> file.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Fixed Coreutils testsuite execution.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 11th, 2004 [jeremy]: Updated list of active LFS Staff in
HEAD</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 11th, 2004 [winkie]: Don't build the PCH header for
libstdc++ in Chapter 5 -- it's just a waste of space.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 11th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040510 and
Tar 1.14.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 10th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 8 - Upgraded to Linux 2.6.6.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 7th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - When configuring Vim, pass
the <quote>--enable-multibyte</quote> option.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 6th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Removed unused and broken
entries from <filename>nsswitch.conf</filename>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 6th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Add Readline installation
and use it when building Bash.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 6th, 2004 [winkie]: Added Alexander Patrakov's I18n patch.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Create and use the
<quote>utmp</quote> group.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 7 - Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts
2.1.0 and modify the book to work with it.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Install the
<quote>passwd</quote> binary in /bin instead of /usr/bin.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Switch the uname patch we
use, so that we get correct results.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 8 - Use the full LFS version for
the GRUB title.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 5 &amp; 6 - Use new patch
naming <quote>standard</quote>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 3rd, 2004 [winkie]: Merged BE-LFS content - thanks to Ron
and Jason Scott for the help they gave to BE-LFS before integration.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2004 [matt]: Quoted chroot commands in chapter 6 (bug
#818).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2004 [matt]: Removed description of the now
non-existent part IV from the structure section in the prologue.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>May 1st, 2004 [jeremy]: Added creation of the /media and /srv
directories, as well as 2 directories under /media for floppy and cdrom, as per
FHS - fixes bugzilla bug #785 and #819.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>April 14th, 2004 [jeremy]: Updated to lfs-bootscripts-2.0.3, no
textual changes needed</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>March 24th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 7 - Updated to the new
lfs-bootscripts-2.0.2, and all necessary changes to the bootscript
configuration</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>March 21st, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Replaced Lfs-Utils
with Iana-Etc and Mktemp.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to
Procps-3.2.0.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to Lfs-utils-0.5 -
fixes a possible symlink attack in iana-get.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Altered the
instructions for Findutils to be FHS-compliant.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 26th, 2004 [jeremy]: Removed the creation of the
/usr/etc directory to conform with FHS - closes bug 775.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 26th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to
Linux-2.4.25.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 23rd, 2004 [alex]: Chapters 6 + 9 - Cleaned up the
Revision of chroot and Reboot sections.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 22nd, 2004 [alex]: Moved the stripping of the final
system from chapter 9 to the end of chapter 6.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 22nd, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Coreutils and
E2fsprogs: Clarified the prerequisites for running the tests.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 19th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 5 - Stripping: Removed
an unnecessary <quote>{,share/}</quote> from the documentation's <command>rm</command>
command.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 14th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Upgraded to
Less-382.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 14th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapters 5 + 6 - Upgraded to
Ncurses-5.4, and removed references to the etip patch.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 12th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed explicit
paths from the pwconv and grpconv commands, since /usr/sbin is part of
the default path.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 9th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Moved the Bootscripts
installation section to chapter 7.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 8th, 2004 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated to
Man-pages-1.66.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 7th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 1 - Moved the Conventions
and Acknowledgments sections to the Preface.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 7th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Creating devices:
replaced the MAKEDEV script with the make_devices script. Contributed by
Matthias Benkmann.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 5th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Simplified the final
install of the kernel headers to just copying them from the temporary tools
directory.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>February 4th, 2004 [alex]: Chapters 5 + 6 - Moved the Mounting
of proc and devpts to before Chrooting, dropped Util-linux from the tools, and
added a little arch script for Perl.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Release of version 5.1-pre1 on February 1st, 2004.</para>
</sect1>