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8<sect1 id="ch-intro-changelog" xreflabel="Master Changelog">
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10
11  <title>Master Changelog</title>
12
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;"/>.</para>
17
18  <para>Below is a list of detailed changes made since the previous release of
19   the book.</para>
20
21  <itemizedlist>
22    <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26    <listitem>
27      <para>Date</para>
28      <itemizedlist>
29        <listitem>
30          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31        </listitem>
32        <listitem>
33          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34        </listitem>
35      </itemizedlist>
36    </listitem>
37-->
38
39    <listitem>
40      <para>January 8, 2006</para>
41      <itemizedlist>
42        <listitem>
43          <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
44process and test suite information.</para>
45        </listitem>
46      </itemizedlist>
47    </listitem>
48
49
50    <listitem>
51      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
52      <itemizedlist>
53        <listitem>
54          <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
55        </listitem>
56      </itemizedlist>
57    </listitem>
58
59    <listitem>
60      <para>December 30, 2005</para>
61      <itemizedlist>
62        <listitem>
63          <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
64          "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
65          removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
66        </listitem>
67        <listitem>
68          <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
69        </listitem>
70      </itemizedlist>
71    </listitem>
72
73    <listitem>
74      <para>December 29, 2005</para>
75      <itemizedlist>
76        <listitem>
77          <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
78        </listitem>
79      </itemizedlist>
80    </listitem>
81
82    <listitem>
83      <para>December 28, 2005</para>
84      <itemizedlist>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
87          are in chroot.</para>
88        </listitem>
89        <listitem>
90          <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
91        </listitem>
92        <listitem>
93          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
94        </listitem>
95      </itemizedlist>
96    </listitem>
97
98    <listitem>
99      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
100      <itemizedlist>
101        <listitem>
102          <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
103        </listitem>
104      </itemizedlist>
105    </listitem>
106
107    <listitem>
108      <para>December 22, 2005</para>
109      <itemizedlist>
110        <listitem>
111          <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
112          following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
113          including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
114          as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
115        </listitem>
116        <listitem>
117          <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
118          following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
119          faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
120          Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
121          readline.</para>
122        </listitem>
123        <listitem>
124          <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
125           a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
126        </listitem>
127        <listitem>
128          <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
129        </listitem>
130      </itemizedlist>
131    </listitem>
132
133    <listitem>
134      <para>December 20, 2005</para>
135      <itemizedlist>
136        <listitem>
137          <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
138        </listitem>
139      </itemizedlist>
140    </listitem>
141
142   <listitem>
143     <para>December 19, 2005</para>
144     <itemizedlist>
145        <listitem>
146          <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
147        </listitem>
148        <listitem>
149          <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
150          an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
151        </listitem>
152     </itemizedlist>
153   </listitem>
154
155    <listitem>
156      <para>December 18, 2005</para>
157      <itemizedlist>
158        <listitem>
159          <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
160          perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
161          and boot sections.</para>
162        </listitem>
163        <listitem>
164          <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
165          it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
166          a multilib capable build.</para>
167        </listitem>
168        <listitem>
169          <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
170        </listitem>
171        <listitem>
172          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
173        </listitem>
174      </itemizedlist>
175    </listitem>
176
177    <listitem>
178      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
179      <itemizedlist>
180        <listitem>
181          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
182        </listitem>
183      </itemizedlist>
184    </listitem>
185
186    <listitem>
187      <para>December 16, 2005</para>
188      <itemizedlist>
189        <listitem>
190          <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
191        </listitem>
192        <listitem>
193          <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
194          in perl.</para>
195        </listitem>
196      </itemizedlist>
197    </listitem>
198
199    <listitem>
200      <para>December 15, 2005</para>
201      <itemizedlist>
202        <listitem>
203          <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
204        </listitem>
205        <listitem>
206          <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
207        </listitem>
208      </itemizedlist>
209    </listitem>
210
211    <listitem>
212      <para>December 14, 2005</para>
213      <itemizedlist>
214        <listitem>
215          <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
216          further build issues.</para>
217        </listitem>
218        <listitem>
219          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
220        </listitem>
221        <listitem>
222          <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
223        </listitem>
224      </itemizedlist>
225    </listitem>
226
227    <listitem>
228      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
229      <itemizedlist>
230        <listitem>
231          <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
232          Thanks to David Fix.</para>
233        </listitem>
234      </itemizedlist>
235    </listitem>
236
237    <listitem>
238      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
239      <itemizedlist>
240        <listitem>
241          <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
242        </listitem>
243      </itemizedlist>
244    </listitem>
245
246    <listitem>
247      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
248      <itemizedlist>
249        <listitem>
250          <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
251        </listitem>
252      </itemizedlist>
253    </listitem>
254
255    <listitem>
256      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
257      <itemizedlist>
258        <listitem>
259          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
260        </listitem>
261        <listitem>
262          <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
263        </listitem>
264        <listitem>
265          <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
266          They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
267        </listitem>
268      </itemizedlist>
269    </listitem>
270
271    <listitem>
272      <para>December 8, 2005</para>
273      <itemizedlist>
274        <listitem>
275          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
276        </listitem>
277        <listitem>
278          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
279        </listitem>
280        <listitem>
281          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
282        </listitem>
283      </itemizedlist>
284    </listitem>
285
286    <listitem>
287      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
288      <itemizedlist>
289        <listitem>
290          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
291        </listitem>
292        <listitem>
293          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
294        </listitem>
295        <listitem>
296          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
297        </listitem>
298        <listitem>
299          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
300        </listitem>
301      </itemizedlist>
302    </listitem>
303
304    <listitem>
305      <para>December 6, 2005</para>
306      <itemizedlist>
307        <listitem>
308          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
309        </listitem>
310        <listitem>
311          <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
312        </listitem>
313        <listitem>
314          <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
315        </listitem>
316        <listitem>
317          <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
318                correct the date in changelog.</para>
319        </listitem>
320        <listitem>
321          <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
322          for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
323          wrong.</para>
324        </listitem>
325        <listitem>
326          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
327        </listitem>
328      </itemizedlist>
329    </listitem>
330
331    <listitem>
332      <para>December 5, 2005</para>
333      <itemizedlist>
334        <listitem>
335          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
336                instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
337        </listitem>
338        <listitem>
339          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
340        </listitem>
341        <listitem>
342          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
343                user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
344                by other devs</para>
345        </listitem>
346        <listitem>
347          <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
348                testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
349        </listitem>
350      </itemizedlist>
351    </listitem>
352
353    <listitem>
354      <para>December 3, 2005</para>
355      <itemizedlist>
356        <listitem>
357          <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
358          coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
359          from LFS.</para>
360        </listitem>
361      </itemizedlist>
362    </listitem>
363
364    <listitem>
365      <para>December 2, 2005</para>
366      <itemizedlist>
367        <listitem>
368          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
369        </listitem>
370      </itemizedlist>
371    </listitem>
372
373    <listitem>
374      <para>December 1, 2005</para>
375      <itemizedlist>
376        <listitem>
377          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
378        </listitem>
379        <listitem>
380          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
381        </listitem>
382        <listitem>
383          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
384        </listitem>
385        <listitem>
386          <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
387        </listitem>
388      </itemizedlist>
389    </listitem>
390
391   <listitem>
392      <para>November 30, 2005</para>
393      <itemizedlist>
394        <listitem>
395          <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
396        </listitem>
397        <listitem>
398          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
399        </listitem>
400      </itemizedlist>
401    </listitem>
402
403   <listitem>
404      <para>November 29, 2005</para>
405      <itemizedlist>
406        <listitem>
407          <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
408        </listitem>
409        <listitem>
410          <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
411        </listitem>
412      </itemizedlist>
413    </listitem>
414
415   <listitem>
416      <para>November 28, 2005</para>
417      <itemizedlist>
418        <listitem>
419          <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
420        </listitem>
421        <listitem>
422          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
423        </listitem>
424        <listitem>
425          <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
426        </listitem>
427      </itemizedlist>
428    </listitem>
429
430   <listitem>
431      <para>November 27, 2005</para>
432      <itemizedlist>
433        <listitem>
434          <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
435        </listitem>
436        <listitem>
437          <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
438        </listitem>
439      </itemizedlist>
440    </listitem>
441
442   <listitem>
443      <para>November 25, 2005</para>
444      <itemizedlist>
445        <listitem>
446          <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
447        </listitem>
448      </itemizedlist>
449    </listitem>
450
451    <listitem>
452      <para>November 24, 2005</para>
453      <itemizedlist>
454        <listitem>
455          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
456        </listitem>
457        <listitem>
458          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
459          that it no longer exists</para>
460        </listitem>
461      </itemizedlist>
462    </listitem>
463
464    <listitem>
465      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
466      <itemizedlist>
467        <listitem>
468          <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
469          /tools/include.</para>
470        </listitem>
471      </itemizedlist>
472    </listitem>
473
474    <listitem>
475      <para>November 21, 2005</para>
476      <itemizedlist>
477        <listitem>
478          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
479        </listitem>
480        <listitem>
481          <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
482        </listitem>
483      </itemizedlist>
484    </listitem>
485
486    <listitem>
487      <para>November 20, 2005</para>
488      <itemizedlist>
489        <listitem>
490          <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
491        </listitem>
492      </itemizedlist>
493    </listitem>
494
495    <listitem>
496      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
497      <itemizedlist>
498        <listitem>
499          <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
500          package.</para>
501        </listitem>
502      </itemizedlist>
503    </listitem>
504
505    <listitem>
506      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
507      <itemizedlist>
508        <listitem>
509          <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
510        </listitem>
511        <listitem>
512          <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
513          Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
514        </listitem>
515        <listitem>
516          <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
517        </listitem>
518      </itemizedlist>
519    </listitem>
520
521    <listitem>
522      <para>November 13, 2005</para>
523      <itemizedlist>
524        <listitem>
525          <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
526          is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
527          LFS-SVN.</para>
528        </listitem>
529        <listitem>
530          <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
531          as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
532        </listitem>
533        <listitem>
534          <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
535        </listitem>
536        <listitem>
537          <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
538        </listitem>
539      </itemizedlist>
540    </listitem>
541
542    <listitem>
543      <para>November 10, 2005</para>
544      <itemizedlist>
545        <listitem>
546          <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
547          testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
548        </listitem>
549        <listitem>
550          <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
551        </listitem>
552        <listitem>
553          <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
554        </listitem>
555      </itemizedlist>
556    </listitem>
557
558    <listitem>
559      <para>November 9, 2005</para>
560      <itemizedlist>
561        <listitem>
562          <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
563          system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
564        </listitem>
565        <listitem>
566          <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
567          of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
568        </listitem>
569        <listitem>
570          <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
571        </listitem>
572        <listitem>
573          <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
574        </listitem>
575      </itemizedlist>
576    </listitem>
577
578    <listitem>
579      <para>November 8, 2005</para>
580      <itemizedlist>
581        <listitem>
582          <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
583        </listitem>
584      </itemizedlist>
585    </listitem>
586
587    <listitem>
588      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
589      <itemizedlist>
590        <listitem>
591          <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
592          toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
593        </listitem>
594        <listitem>
595          <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
596          class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
597          of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
598          Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
599        </listitem>
600        <listitem>
601          <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
602          Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
603        </listitem>
604        <listitem>
605          <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
606          cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
607        </listitem>
608      </itemizedlist>
609    </listitem>
610
611    <listitem>
612      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
613      <itemizedlist>
614        <listitem>
615          <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
616        </listitem>
617        <listitem>
618          <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
619        </listitem>
620        <listitem>
621          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
622        </listitem>
623      </itemizedlist>
624    </listitem>
625
626    <listitem>
627      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
628      <itemizedlist>
629        <listitem>
630          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
631        </listitem>
632      </itemizedlist>
633    </listitem>
634
635    <listitem>
636      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
637      <itemizedlist>
638        <listitem>
639          <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
640           Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
641        </listitem>
642      </itemizedlist>
643    </listitem>
644
645    <listitem>
646      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
647      <itemizedlist>
648        <listitem>
649          <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
650        </listitem>
651      </itemizedlist>
652    </listitem>
653
654  </itemizedlist>
655
656  <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
657
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