%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the Cross-Compiled 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 detailed changes made since the previous release of the book. 04 May 2017 [William Harrington] - Man-DB to 2.7.6.1. Fixes ticket #1143. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Tar to 1.29. Fixes ticket #1151. [William Harrington] - Upgrade BC to 1.07.1. Fixes ticket #1124. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Grep to 3.0. Fixes ticket #1107. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Readline to 7.0. Fixes ticket #1086. 03 May 2017 [William Harrington] - Upgrade Bash to 4.4. Fixes ticket #1085. 16 April 2017 [William Harrington] - Upgrade Util-Linux to 2.29.2. Fixes ticket #1038. 16 April 2017 [William Harrington] - Upgrade Linux kernel to 4.9.21. Fixes ticket #1105. [William Harrington] - Upgrade IProute2 to 4.9.0. Fixes ticket #1103. 15 April 2017 [William Harrington] - Upgrade DejaGNU to 1.6. Fixes ticket #1128. [William Harrington] - Upgrade DHCPCD to 6.11.5. Fixes ticket #1077. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Diffutils to 3.5. Fixes ticket #1129. [William Harrington] - Upgrade E2fsprogs to 1.43.4. Fixes ticket #1113. [William Harrington] - Upgrade File to 5.30. Fixes ticket #1131. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Findutils to 4.6.0. Fixes ticket #1101. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Gawk to 4.1.4. Fixes ticket #1132. [William Harrington] - Upgrade GDBM to 1.13. Fixes ticket #1133. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Gettext to 0.19.8.1. Fixes ticket #1134. [William Harrington] - Upgrade GMP to 6.1.2. Fixes ticket #1100. [William Harrington] - Upgrade GZIP to 1.8. Fixes ticket #1136. [William Harrington] - Upgrade KBD to 2.0.4. Fixes ticket #1137. [William Harrington] - Upgrade LESS to 491. Fixes ticket #1139. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Libestr to 0.1.10. Fixes ticket #1141. [William Harrington] - Upgrade M4 to 1.4.18. Fixes ticket #1142. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Make to 4.2.1. Fixes ticket #1112. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Man-pages to 4.09. Fixes ticket #1144. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Procps-ng to 3.3.12. Fixes ticket #1148. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Texinfo to 6.3. Fixes ticket #1152. [William Harrington] - Upgrade TZData to 2017b. Fixes ticket #1153. [William Harrington] - Upgrade XZ-Utils to 5.2.3. Fixes ticket #1157. [William Harrington] - Upgrade Zlib to 1.2.11. Fixes ticket #1156. 28 December 2016 [Chris] - Added "ext_attr" to the list of filesystem attributes to check for when creating a filesystem. Thanks to Roger Koehler for pointing this out. 13 March 2016 [Chris] - Updated Gawk dependencies - Gawk can use GMP, MPFR, Readline. 04 March 2016 [Chris] - Added creation of /var/log/faillog to Shadow instructions. 19 February 2016 [Chris] - Removed --disable-profile from Glibc instructions - profiling is disabled by default. [Chris] - Removed commands to create libcurses* symlinks in Ncurses, as few packages now are likely to need them. Fixes ticket #1102. [Chris] - Modified Ncurses instructions to move fewer libs to /lib{,32,64} as only libncursesw itself is needed there.Fixes ticket #1104. [Chris] - Prevented the bashbug script from being installed in /bin, as it is not needed there. Fixes ticket #1099. 17 January 2016 [Chris] - Removed redundant commands from multilib Ncurses pages. 07 January 2016 [Chris] - Removed command in Grep instructions for security fix that was addressed in latest version. 28 December 2015 [William Harrington] - Upgrade to GREP 2.22. Fixes ticket #1087. [William Harrington] - Upgrade to LESS 481. Fixes ticket #1088. [William Harrington] - Upgrade to Ncurses 6.0. Fixes ticket #1044. [William Harrington] - Upgrade to GCC 5.3.0. Fixes ticket #1094. 23 December 2015 [Chris] - Changed LSB link to its new location at linuxfoundation.org. 19 December 2015 [Chris] - Added -j1 to vim install command to prevent errors in make install output. 13 December 2015 [Chris] - Edited configure options to have one per line. Fixes ticket #1091. 05 December 2015 [Chris] - Removed unneeded directory and symlink creation on Pure64 Essential Symlinks page. 30 November 2015 [Chris] - Removed one more remaining --disable-libstdcxx-pch option from final-system GCC installation. [Chris] - Updates to command explanations. 27 November 2015 [William Harrington] - Update GCC to 5.2.0. Fixes ticket #1019. [William Harrington] - Remove CLooG. Fixes ticket #1020. [William Harrington] - Update ISL to 0.15. Fixes ticket #978. 17 October 2015 [William Harrington] - Update GLIBC to 2.22. Fixes ticket #1027. 16 October 2015 [William Harrington] - Update Binutils to 2.25.1. Fixes ticket #1023. [William Harrington] - Update XZ to 5.2.2. Fixes ticket #1081. [William Harrington] - Update KBD to 2.0.3. Fixes ticket #1057. [William Harrington] - Update TZDATA to 2015g. Fixes ticket #1051. [William Harrington] - Update Libpipeline to 1.4.1. Fixes ticket #1067. 01 October 2015 [Chris] - Removed unneeded --disable-static option from Cross-Tools File page, as that is now the default. [Chris] - Removed --without-shared option from Cross-Tools Ncurses page, as that is the default. 22 September 2015 [William Harrington] - Update Libtool to 2.4.6. Fixes ticket #1076. [William Harrington] - Update Gettext to 0.19.6. Fixes ticket #1075. [William Harrington] - Update File to 5.25. Fixes ticket #1074. 18 September 2015 [William Harrington] - Remove sed for E2fsprogs. Fixes ticket #1073. 16 September 2015 [William Harrington] - Update IProute2 to 4.1.1. Fixes ticket #992. [William Harrington] - Update Linux to 4.1.7. Fixes ticket #995. 15 September 2015 [William Harrington] - Update Procps-ng to 3.3.11. Fixes ticket #1072. 07 September 2015 [William Harrington] - mv gzexe and uncompress to /usr/bin. 06 September 2015 [William Harrington] - Add IPv6 entry to /etc/hosts for localhost [William Harrington] - Update iputils to s20150815. Fixes ticket #1066. [William Harrington] - mv fuser killall to /bin per the FHS. Fixes ticket #1068. [William Harrington] - Update MPFR to 3.1.3. Fixes ticket #1043. [William Harrington] - Update Texinfo to 6.0. Fixes ticket #1041. [William Harrington] - Update XZ to 5.2.1. Fixes ticket #1037. [William Harrington] - Update Patch to 2.7.5. Fixes ticket #1034. [William Harrington] - Update MPC to 1.0.3. Fixes ticket #1033. [William Harrington] - Update KMOD to 21. Fixes ticket #1031. [William Harrington] - Update Groff to 1.22.3. Fixes ticket #1029. [William Harrington] - Update Grep to 2.21. Fixes ticket #1028. [William Harrington] - Update DejaGNU to 1.5.3. Fixes ticket #1025. [William Harrington] - Update Bison to 3.0.4. Fixes ticket #1024. [William Harrington] - Update Automake to 1.15. Fixes ticket #1022. [William Harrington] - Update LESS to 479. Fixes ticket #1056. 04 September 2015 [William Harrington] - Update File to 5.24. Fixes ticket #1021. [William Harrington] - Update Man-db to 2.7.2. Fixes ticket #1032. [William Harrington] - Update TCL to 8.6.4. Fixes ticket #1036. [William Harrington] - Update Check to 0.10.0. Fixes ticket #1045. [William Harrington] - Update E2fsprogs to 1.42.13. Fixes ticket #1046. [William Harrington] - Update Gawk to 4.1.3. Fixes ticket #1047. [William Harrington] - Update Gettext to 0.19.5.1. Fixes ticket #1048. [William Harrington] - Update Man-pages to 4.02. Fixes ticket #1050. [William Harrington] - Add Bc memory leak patch. Fixes ticket #1055. 30 July 2015 [Chris] - Removed reference to Freecode, as it's no longer being updated. 07 February 2015 [Chris] - Updated FHS URL to new location. 2 November 2014 [Chris] - Removed obsolete command for fixing tzselect from Glibc instructions. [William Harrington] - Update E2FSprogs to 1.42.12. Fixes ticket #1012. [William Harrington] - Update Libtool to 2.4.3. Fixes ticket #1013. 31 October 2014 [William Harrington] - Update TZDATA to 2014i. Fixes ticket #1006. [William Harrington] - Update Util-linux to 2.25.2. Fixes ticket #1007. [William Harrington] - Update XZ Utils to 5.0.7. Fixes ticket #1008. [William Harrington] - Update DHCPCD to 6.6.0. Fixes ticket #1009. [William Harrington] - Update Libpipeline to 1.4.0. Fixes ticket #1010. [William Harrington] - Update GLIBC to 2.20. Fixes ticket #982. [William Harrington] - Update Coreutils to 8.23. Fixes ticket #975. 25 October 2014 [William Harrington] - Update GREP to 2.20. Fixes ticket #969. [William Harrington] - Update Check to 0.9.14. Fixes ticket #986. [William Harrington] - Update DHCPCD to 6.5.1. Fixes ticket #988. [William Harrington] - Update File to 5.20. Fixes ticket #990. [William Harrington] - Update Gettext to 0.19.3. Fixes ticket #991. [William Harrington] - Update KBD to 2.0.2. Fixes ticket #993. [William Harrington] - Update Libpipeline to 1.3.1. Fixes ticket 994. [William Harrington] - Update Make to 4.1. Fixes ticket #996. [William Harrington] - Add Man-DB Home Page. Fixes ticket #997. [William Harrington] - Update Man-DB to 2.7.0.2. Fixes ticket #998. [William Harrington] - Update Man-pages to 3.75. Fixes ticket #999. [William Harrington] - Update Perl to 5.20.1. Fixes ticket #1000. All hail the 1000 ticket! [William Harrington] - Update Procps-ng to 3.3.10. Fixes ticket #1001. [William Harrington] - Update Tar to 1.28. Fixes ticket #1004. [William Harrington] - Update TCL to 8.6.2. Fixes ticket #1005. 18 October 2014 [William Harrington] - Update LESS to 464. 18 October 2014 [William Harrington] - Changelog restarted, see the 3.0.0 book for the old changelog.