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<sect1 id="ch-intro-changelog" xreflabel="Master Changelog">
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  <title>Master Changelog</title>

  <para>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 <ulink url="&lfs-root;"/>.</para>

  <para>Below is a list of detailed changes made since the previous release of
   the book.</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <title>Changelog Entries:</title>

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    <listitem>
      <para>Date</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
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    <listitem>
      <para>January 13, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Moved grep ahead of libtool to avoid /tools being hardcoded
          into the libtool script for EGREP.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Alter bison to build repeatably, from LFS.</para> 
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Alter gccbug to use mktemp, from LFS.</para> 
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Move creation of /etc/hosts within Perl instructions,
          for repeatability, from LFS.</para> 
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Chris] - Moved bootloader setup to right after "Changing Ownership" in Chapter 7, and changed several package installation instructions in that chapter.</para>
        </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
        
    <listitem>
      <para>January 12, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
          to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
           to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So
          I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted
          on Pure 64 builds.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 11, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
           a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
           the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 8, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
          process and test suite information.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 30, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
          "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
          removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 29, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 28, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
          are in chroot.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 22, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
          following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
          including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
          as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
          following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
          faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
          Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
          readline.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
           a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 20, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

   <listitem>
     <para>December 19, 2005</para>
     <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
          an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
        </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
   </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 18, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
          perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
          and boot sections.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
          it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
          a multilib capable build.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 16, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
          in perl.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 15, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 14, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
          further build issues.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
          Thanks to David Fix.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
          They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 8, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
                correct the date in changelog.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
          for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
          wrong.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 5, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
                instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
                user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
                by other devs</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
                testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 3, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
          coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
          from LFS.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 2, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>December 1, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

   <listitem>
      <para>November 30, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

   <listitem>
      <para>November 29, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

   <listitem>
      <para>November 28, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

   <listitem>
      <para>November 27, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

   <listitem>
      <para>November 25, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 24, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
          that it no longer exists</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
          /tools/include.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 21, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 20, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
          package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
          Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 13, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
          is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
          LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
          as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 10, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
          testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 9, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
          system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
          of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 8, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
          toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
          class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
          of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
          Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
          Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
          cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
           Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>

</sect1>