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11 <title>Changelog</title>
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
18 <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
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40 <para>2011-10-19</para>
43 <para>[bdubbs] - Remove reference to /dev/shm in fstab description.
44 It is now automatic at /run/shm.</para>
50 <para>2011-10-17</para>
53 <para>[bdubbs] - Add statusproc back to bootscripts.</para>
56 <para>[bdubbs] - Also remove doc/ files when stripping in Chapter 5.
60 <para>[bdubbs] - Add --noclear to agetty for tty1 in inittab.</para>
66 <para>2011-10-13</para>
69 <para>[bdubbs] - Added Xz to the prerequisites due to Coreutils
70 now only distributed in .xz format.</para>
73 <para>[bdubbs] - Change file location for kbd, udev, util-linux,
74 and moduule-init-tools to anduin until kernel.org gets repopulated.</para>
77 <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.14. Fixes
78 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2945">#2945</ulink>.</para>
84 <para>2011-10-12</para>
87 <para>[matthew] - Really fix the Coreutils i18n patch so that it runs
88 and passes all tests again.</para>
91 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.1.0. Fixes
92 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2934">#2934</ulink>.</para>
95 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.16. Fixes
96 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2882">#2882</ulink>.</para>
99 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.14.1. Fixes
100 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2940">#2940</ulink>.</para>
106 <para>2011-10-10</para>
109 <para>[bdubbs] - Add a patch for gcc to fix some locale
111 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2938">#2938</ulink>.</para>
114 <para>[bdubbs] - Add check to Chapter 5 and incorate it into
116 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2941">#2941</ulink>.</para>
119 <para>[bdubbs] - Add a paragraph in Chapter 3.1 about obtaining and
120 using md5sums for the packages in the book.</para>
126 <para>2011-10-08</para>
129 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.35. Fixes
130 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2936">#2936</ulink>.</para>
133 <para>[bdubbs] - Add additional environment variable
140 <para>2011-10-07</para>
143 <para>[bdubbs] - Minor update to bootscripts Makefile. Fixes
144 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2939">#2939</ulink>.</para>
147 <para>[matthew] - Remove Pkg-Config, and its dependencies PCRE and
148 Glib. E2fsprogs, Man-DB and Udev can all be built without Pkg-Config,
149 and later Glib versions are becoming a little much for LFS.</para>
155 <para>2011-10-06</para>
158 <para>[bryan] - Fix the udev_retry script, and add an explanation
159 for how to configure it.</para>
165 <para>2011-10-05</para>
168 <para>[bdubbs] - Add a small change from upstream to gmp. Fixes
169 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2935">#2935</ulink>.</para>
175 <para>2011-10-02</para>
178 <para>[matthew] - Fix the Coreutils i18n patch so that it runs and
179 passes all tests again.</para>
185 <para>2011-09-29</para>
188 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.14.2. Fixes
189 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2933">#2933</ulink>.</para>
192 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.09. Fixes
193 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2932">#2932</ulink>.</para>
196 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.13. Fixes
197 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2928">#2928</ulink>.</para>
200 <para>[matthew] - Add a fix for a bug in Glibc that causes programs
201 linked to SDL to segfault. Fixes
202 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2920">#2920</ulink>.</para>
205 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Diffutils-3.2. Fixes
206 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2919">#2919</ulink>.</para>
209 <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to correct several bugs in MPFR. Fixes
210 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2918">#2918</ulink>.</para>
216 <para>2011-09-26</para>
219 <para>[bdubbs] - Correct syntax in modules boot script.</para>
225 <para>2011-09-23</para>
228 <para>[bdubbs] - Allow variables in rc.site to override defaults.</para>
234 <para>2011-09-22</para>
237 <para>[bdubbs] - Updates to lfs-bootscripts console script.</para>
243 <para>2011-09-21</para>
246 <para>[bdubbs] - Updates to lfs-bootscripts Makefile.</para>
252 <para>2011-09-18</para>
255 <para>[bdubbs] - Review and update recent changes to bootscripts.</para>
257 <listitem><para>Rename /etc/sysconfig/init_params to /etc/sysconfig/rc.site.</para>
259 <listitem><para>Move network services to /lib/services.</para></listitem>
260 <listitem><para>Move init-functions to /lib/lsb.</para></listitem>
261 <listitem><para>Make /lib/lsb a symlink to /lib/services.</para></listitem>
262 <listitem><para>Create convenience symlink /etc/init.d->/etc/rc.d/init.d
264 <listitem><para>Add help and man pages to ifup/ifdown.
266 <listitem><para>Append /run/var/bootlog to /var/log/boot.log at the end of
267 the boot sequence.</para></listitem>
268 <listitem><para>Add capability to step through the boot scripts at boot time.
270 <listitem><para>Optionally allow environment variables in sysconfig directory's
271 console, network, and clock files to be placed in rc.site.
273 <listitem><para>Add an optional FASTBOOT parameter to set /fastboot when rebooting.
278 <para>[bdubbs] - Remove a minor warning message from udev that is triggered
279 by the udev_retry boot script.</para>
282 <para>[bdubbs] - Add SKIPTMPCLEAN as an optional parameter to skip cleaning
283 /tmp at boot time.</para>
286 <para>[bdubbs] - Add a page to Chapter 7 documenting rc.site.</para>
292 <para>2011-09-04</para>
295 <para>[bdubbs] - Fix a broken popt function in pkg-config.</para>
298 <para>[bdubbs] - Suppress sysvinit overwriting mountpoint from util-linux.
305 <para>2011-09-03</para>
308 <para>[bdubbs] - Fix binutils extracted directory version in binutils
309 build instructions. This will be reverted at the next upstream release
310 when the tarball name is again synced with the extracted directory
314 <para>[bdubbs] - Fix bootscripts to properly export IN_BOOT variable.</para>
320 <para>2011-09-01</para>
323 <para>[bdubbs] - Adjust minimum kernel for the host sysem to 2.6.25
324 due to a udev requirement.</para>
330 <para>2011-08-31</para>
333 <para>[bdubbs] - Remove the creation of a spurious file
334 in grep's test suite.</para>
340 <para>2011-08-29</para>
343 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.21.1a. Fixes
344 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2917">#2917</ulink>.</para>
347 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.0.4. Fixes
348 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2914">#2914</ulink>.</para>
351 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.20. Fixes
352 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2915">#2915</ulink>.</para>
355 <para>[bdubbs] - Fix shutdown problem in bootscripts.
356 Replace tab characters with spaces.
363 <para>2011-08-14</para>
366 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to fix a couple of bugs in Glibc-2.14.
370 <para>[matthew] - Update to GDBM-1.9.1. Fixes
371 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2913">#2913</ulink>.</para>
374 <para>[matthew] - Update to Diffutils-3.1. Fixes
375 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2912">#2912</ulink>.</para>
381 <para>2011-08-03</para>
384 <para>[bdubbs] - Minor corrections to bootscripts.</para>
390 <para>2011-08-07</para>
393 <para>[matthew] - Update to Linux-3.0.1. Fixes
394 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2911">#2911</ulink>.</para>
397 <para>[matthew] - Update to File-5.08. Fixes
398 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2909">#2909</ulink>.</para>
404 <para>2011-08-02</para>
407 <para>[matthew] - Update to Udev-173. Fixes
408 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2908">#2908</ulink>.</para>
411 <para>[matthew] - Update to Linux-3.0. Fixes
412 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2905">#2905</ulink>.</para>
415 <para>[bdubbs] - Add /etc/sysconfig to Creating Directories.</para>
418 <para>[bdubbs] - Update boot logging to remove terminal escape
425 <para>2011-08-01</para>
428 <para>[bdubbs] - Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7.</para>
430 <listitem><para>Make scripts compatible with initd format (see BLFS).</para></listitem>
431 <listitem><para>Move functions and services to /lib/boot.</para></listitem>
432 <listitem><para>Log boot messages to /run/var/bootlog.</para></listitem>
433 <listitem><para>Move ifup/ifdown to /sbin.</para></listitem>
434 <listitem><para>Move network device configuration files to
435 /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.*.</para></listitem>
436 <listitem><para>Add IFACE variable to network configuration files.
438 <listitem><para>Read optional configuration file /etc/sysconfig/init_params
439 in functions.</para></listitem>
446 <para>2011-07-17</para>
449 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-172. Fixes
450 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2904">#2904</ulink>.</para>
453 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39.3. Fixes
454 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2903">#2903</ulink>.</para>
460 <para>2011-07-08</para>
463 <para>[bdubbs] - Update location of POSIX Standard.</para>
469 <para>2011-07-01</para>
472 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.0.0. Fixes
473 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2900">#2900</ulink>.</para>
476 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-2.6.39. Fixes
477 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2901">#2901</ulink>.</para>
483 <para>2011-06-29</para>
486 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Glibc-2.14. Fixes
487 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2883">#2883</ulink>.</para>
490 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Tcl-8.5.10. Fixes
491 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2896">#2896</ulink>.</para>
494 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to GCC 4.6.1. Fixes
495 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2897">#2897</ulink>.</para>
498 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Binutils-2.21.1. Fixes
499 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2898">#2898</ulink>.</para>
505 <para>2011-06-26</para>
508 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5-14.1. Fixes
509 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2874">#2874</ulink>.</para>
512 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to less-444. Fixes
513 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2887">#2887</ulink>.</para>
516 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to glib-2.28.8. Fixes
517 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2886">#2886</ulink>.</para>
523 <para>2011-06-24</para>
526 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-2.6.39.2. Fixes
527 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2894">#2894</ulink>.</para>
530 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-22.14. Fixes
531 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2889">#2889</ulink>.</para>
534 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.9. Fixes
535 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2893">#2893</ulink>.</para>
541 <para>2011-06-20</para>
544 <para>[bdubbs] - Update to grub-1.99. Fixes
545 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2818">#2818</ulink>.</para>
551 <para>2011-06-19</para>
554 <para>[bdubbs] - Update shadow location. Fixes
555 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2888">#2888</ulink>.</para>
561 <para>2011-06-05</para>
564 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39.1. Fixes
565 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2884">#2884</ulink>.</para>
568 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glib-2.28.7. Fixes
569 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2881">#2881</ulink>.</para>
572 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-171. Fixes
573 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2880">#2880</ulink>.</para>
576 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to XZ-5.0.3. Fixes
577 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2879">#2879</ulink>.</para>
583 <para>2011-05-31</para>
586 <para>[dj] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20110531.</para>
592 <para>2011-05-23</para>
595 <para>[matthew] - Fix a typo in the PCRE instructions, and make
596 Glib put its configuration in
597 <filename class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
603 <para>2011-05-22</para>
606 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-170. Fixes
607 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2878">#2878</ulink>.</para>
610 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.39. Fixes
611 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2877">#2877</ulink>.</para>
614 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Pkg-config-0.26, including its
615 dependency of Glib and Glib's dependency of PCRE. Fixes
616 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2876">#2876</ulink>.</para>
619 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.5. Fixes
620 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2875">#2875</ulink>.</para>
626 <para>2011-05-15</para>
629 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Grep-2.8. Fixes
630 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2872">#2872</ulink>.</para>
633 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.07. Fixes
634 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2871">#2871</ulink>.</para>
637 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.6. Fixes
638 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2870">#2870</ulink>.</para>
641 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-5.0.2. Fixes
642 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2869">#2869</ulink>.</para>
648 <para>2011-05-07</para>
651 <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
652 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2868">#2868</ulink>.</para>
655 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.5. Fixes
656 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2867">#2867</ulink>.</para>
659 <para>[matthew] - Fix a couple of test failures in Binutils, due to
660 incompatibilities with GCC-4.6.x. Fixes
661 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2866">#2866</ulink>.</para>
664 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Util-Linux-2.19.1. Fixes
665 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2865">#2865</ulink>.</para>
668 <para>[matthew] - Don't create the
669 <filename class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> directory anymore, as
670 it is created in the udev bootscript now. Fixes
671 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2864">#2864</ulink>.</para>
677 <para>2011-04-25</para>
680 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-168. Fixes
681 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2862">#2862</ulink>.</para>
684 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.4. Fixes
685 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2861">#2861</ulink>.</para>
691 <para>2011-04-19</para>
694 <para>[bdubbs] - Update cleanfs bootscript to
695 not clean /var/run or /var/lock because
696 they are now linked to a fresh tmpfs.</para>
702 <para>2011-04-18</para>
705 <para>[bdubbs] - Add new /run mount point to top
706 level directories. Mount a tmpfs on /run in
710 <para>[bdubbs] - In Chapter 6, move File to before
711 binutils to prevent some configure warnings.</para>
714 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.06. Fixes
715 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2860">#2860</ulink>.</para>
718 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.3. Fixes
719 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2859">#2859</ulink>.</para>
722 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.11. Fixes
723 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2858">#2858</ulink>.</para>
726 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-DB-2.6.0.2, including adding its
727 dependency, libpipeline-1.2.0. Fixes
728 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2857">#2857</ulink>.</para>
731 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-443. Fixes
732 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2856">#2856</ulink>.</para>
735 <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patch for Bash. Fixes
736 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2855">#2855</ulink>.</para>
739 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.9. Fixes
740 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2853">#2853</ulink>.</para>
743 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.0.1. Fixes
744 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2852">#2852</ulink>.</para>
747 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to XZ-Utils-5.0.2. Fixes
748 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2851">#2851</ulink>.</para>
751 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-167. Fixes
752 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2850">#2850</ulink>.</para>
758 <para>2011-04-13</para>
761 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a sed to fix an intermittent test
762 failure in coreutils. Fixes
763 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2833">#2833</ulink>.</para>
769 <para>2011-04-12</para>
772 <para>[bdubbs] - Added optional instructions to allow a user
773 to use an include directory to supplement ld.so.conf. Fixes
774 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2843">#2843</ulink>.</para>
777 <para>[bdubbs] - Rewrote General Compilation Instructions using
778 better docbook structures and clarified a couple of points. Fixes
779 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2725">#2725</ulink>.</para>
785 <para>2011-03-30</para>
788 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.38. Fixes
789 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2849">#2849</ulink>.</para>
792 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.6.0. Fixes
793 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2848">#2848</ulink>.</para>
796 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.38.2. Fixes
797 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2847">#2847</ulink>.</para>
803 <para>2011-03-14</para>
806 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.26. Fixes
807 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2846">#2846</ulink>.</para>
810 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Dejagnu-1.5. Fixes
811 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2845">#2845</ulink>.</para>
814 <para>[matthew] - Add patch to fix the sparse-fiemap test failure in
815 Coreutils-8.10. Thanks to Tadeus (Eus) Prastowo for the report and
819 <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline-6.2.</para>
822 <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash-4.2. Fixes
823 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2841">#2841</ulink>.</para>
826 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.16. Fixes
827 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2840">#2840</ulink>.</para>
830 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.8. Fixes
831 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2838">#2838</ulink>.</para>
834 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to MPC-0.9. Fixes
835 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2837">#2837</ulink>.</para>
838 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.37.3. Fixes
839 <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2835">#2835</ulink>.</para>
845 <para>2011-03-04</para>
848 <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-6.8 released.