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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 12, 2006</para>
41      <itemizedlist>
42        <listitem>
43          <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
44          to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
45        </listitem>
46        <listitem>
47          <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
48        </listitem>
49      </itemizedlist>
50    </listitem>
51
52    <listitem>
53      <para>January 11, 2006</para>
54      <itemizedlist>
55        <listitem>
56          <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
57           a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
58           the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
59        </listitem>
60      </itemizedlist>
61    </listitem>
62
63    <listitem>
64      <para>January 8, 2006</para>
65      <itemizedlist>
66        <listitem>
67          <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
68          process and test suite information.</para>
69        </listitem>
70      </itemizedlist>
71    </listitem>
72
73    <listitem>
74      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
75      <itemizedlist>
76        <listitem>
77          <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
78        </listitem>
79      </itemizedlist>
80    </listitem>
81
82    <listitem>
83      <para>December 30, 2005</para>
84      <itemizedlist>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
87          "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
88          removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
89        </listitem>
90        <listitem>
91          <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
92        </listitem>
93      </itemizedlist>
94    </listitem>
95
96    <listitem>
97      <para>December 29, 2005</para>
98      <itemizedlist>
99        <listitem>
100          <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
101        </listitem>
102      </itemizedlist>
103    </listitem>
104
105    <listitem>
106      <para>December 28, 2005</para>
107      <itemizedlist>
108        <listitem>
109          <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
110          are in chroot.</para>
111        </listitem>
112        <listitem>
113          <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
114        </listitem>
115        <listitem>
116          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
117        </listitem>
118      </itemizedlist>
119    </listitem>
120
121    <listitem>
122      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
123      <itemizedlist>
124        <listitem>
125          <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
126        </listitem>
127      </itemizedlist>
128    </listitem>
129
130    <listitem>
131      <para>December 22, 2005</para>
132      <itemizedlist>
133        <listitem>
134          <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
135          following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
136          including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
137          as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
138        </listitem>
139        <listitem>
140          <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
141          following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
142          faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
143          Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
144          readline.</para>
145        </listitem>
146        <listitem>
147          <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
148           a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
149        </listitem>
150        <listitem>
151          <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
152        </listitem>
153      </itemizedlist>
154    </listitem>
155
156    <listitem>
157      <para>December 20, 2005</para>
158      <itemizedlist>
159        <listitem>
160          <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
161        </listitem>
162      </itemizedlist>
163    </listitem>
164
165   <listitem>
166     <para>December 19, 2005</para>
167     <itemizedlist>
168        <listitem>
169          <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
170        </listitem>
171        <listitem>
172          <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
173          an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
174        </listitem>
175     </itemizedlist>
176   </listitem>
177
178    <listitem>
179      <para>December 18, 2005</para>
180      <itemizedlist>
181        <listitem>
182          <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
183          perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
184          and boot sections.</para>
185        </listitem>
186        <listitem>
187          <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
188          it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
189          a multilib capable build.</para>
190        </listitem>
191        <listitem>
192          <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
193        </listitem>
194        <listitem>
195          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
196        </listitem>
197      </itemizedlist>
198    </listitem>
199
200    <listitem>
201      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
202      <itemizedlist>
203        <listitem>
204          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
205        </listitem>
206      </itemizedlist>
207    </listitem>
208
209    <listitem>
210      <para>December 16, 2005</para>
211      <itemizedlist>
212        <listitem>
213          <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
214        </listitem>
215        <listitem>
216          <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
217          in perl.</para>
218        </listitem>
219      </itemizedlist>
220    </listitem>
221
222    <listitem>
223      <para>December 15, 2005</para>
224      <itemizedlist>
225        <listitem>
226          <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
227        </listitem>
228        <listitem>
229          <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
230        </listitem>
231      </itemizedlist>
232    </listitem>
233
234    <listitem>
235      <para>December 14, 2005</para>
236      <itemizedlist>
237        <listitem>
238          <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
239          further build issues.</para>
240        </listitem>
241        <listitem>
242          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
243        </listitem>
244        <listitem>
245          <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
246        </listitem>
247      </itemizedlist>
248    </listitem>
249
250    <listitem>
251      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
252      <itemizedlist>
253        <listitem>
254          <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
255          Thanks to David Fix.</para>
256        </listitem>
257      </itemizedlist>
258    </listitem>
259
260    <listitem>
261      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
262      <itemizedlist>
263        <listitem>
264          <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
265        </listitem>
266      </itemizedlist>
267    </listitem>
268
269    <listitem>
270      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
271      <itemizedlist>
272        <listitem>
273          <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
274        </listitem>
275      </itemizedlist>
276    </listitem>
277
278    <listitem>
279      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
280      <itemizedlist>
281        <listitem>
282          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
283        </listitem>
284        <listitem>
285          <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
286        </listitem>
287        <listitem>
288          <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
289          They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
290        </listitem>
291      </itemizedlist>
292    </listitem>
293
294    <listitem>
295      <para>December 8, 2005</para>
296      <itemizedlist>
297        <listitem>
298          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
299        </listitem>
300        <listitem>
301          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
302        </listitem>
303        <listitem>
304          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
305        </listitem>
306      </itemizedlist>
307    </listitem>
308
309    <listitem>
310      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
311      <itemizedlist>
312        <listitem>
313          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
314        </listitem>
315        <listitem>
316          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
317        </listitem>
318        <listitem>
319          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
320        </listitem>
321        <listitem>
322          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
323        </listitem>
324      </itemizedlist>
325    </listitem>
326
327    <listitem>
328      <para>December 6, 2005</para>
329      <itemizedlist>
330        <listitem>
331          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
332        </listitem>
333        <listitem>
334          <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
335        </listitem>
336        <listitem>
337          <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
338        </listitem>
339        <listitem>
340          <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
341                correct the date in changelog.</para>
342        </listitem>
343        <listitem>
344          <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
345          for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
346          wrong.</para>
347        </listitem>
348        <listitem>
349          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
350        </listitem>
351      </itemizedlist>
352    </listitem>
353
354    <listitem>
355      <para>December 5, 2005</para>
356      <itemizedlist>
357        <listitem>
358          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
359                instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
360        </listitem>
361        <listitem>
362          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
363        </listitem>
364        <listitem>
365          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
366                user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
367                by other devs</para>
368        </listitem>
369        <listitem>
370          <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
371                testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
372        </listitem>
373      </itemizedlist>
374    </listitem>
375
376    <listitem>
377      <para>December 3, 2005</para>
378      <itemizedlist>
379        <listitem>
380          <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
381          coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
382          from LFS.</para>
383        </listitem>
384      </itemizedlist>
385    </listitem>
386
387    <listitem>
388      <para>December 2, 2005</para>
389      <itemizedlist>
390        <listitem>
391          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
392        </listitem>
393      </itemizedlist>
394    </listitem>
395
396    <listitem>
397      <para>December 1, 2005</para>
398      <itemizedlist>
399        <listitem>
400          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
401        </listitem>
402        <listitem>
403          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
404        </listitem>
405        <listitem>
406          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
407        </listitem>
408        <listitem>
409          <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
410        </listitem>
411      </itemizedlist>
412    </listitem>
413
414   <listitem>
415      <para>November 30, 2005</para>
416      <itemizedlist>
417        <listitem>
418          <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
419        </listitem>
420        <listitem>
421          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
422        </listitem>
423      </itemizedlist>
424    </listitem>
425
426   <listitem>
427      <para>November 29, 2005</para>
428      <itemizedlist>
429        <listitem>
430          <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
431        </listitem>
432        <listitem>
433          <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
434        </listitem>
435      </itemizedlist>
436    </listitem>
437
438   <listitem>
439      <para>November 28, 2005</para>
440      <itemizedlist>
441        <listitem>
442          <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
443        </listitem>
444        <listitem>
445          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
446        </listitem>
447        <listitem>
448          <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
449        </listitem>
450      </itemizedlist>
451    </listitem>
452
453   <listitem>
454      <para>November 27, 2005</para>
455      <itemizedlist>
456        <listitem>
457          <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
458        </listitem>
459        <listitem>
460          <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
461        </listitem>
462      </itemizedlist>
463    </listitem>
464
465   <listitem>
466      <para>November 25, 2005</para>
467      <itemizedlist>
468        <listitem>
469          <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
470        </listitem>
471      </itemizedlist>
472    </listitem>
473
474    <listitem>
475      <para>November 24, 2005</para>
476      <itemizedlist>
477        <listitem>
478          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
479        </listitem>
480        <listitem>
481          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
482          that it no longer exists</para>
483        </listitem>
484      </itemizedlist>
485    </listitem>
486
487    <listitem>
488      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
489      <itemizedlist>
490        <listitem>
491          <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
492          /tools/include.</para>
493        </listitem>
494      </itemizedlist>
495    </listitem>
496
497    <listitem>
498      <para>November 21, 2005</para>
499      <itemizedlist>
500        <listitem>
501          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
502        </listitem>
503        <listitem>
504          <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
505        </listitem>
506      </itemizedlist>
507    </listitem>
508
509    <listitem>
510      <para>November 20, 2005</para>
511      <itemizedlist>
512        <listitem>
513          <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
514        </listitem>
515      </itemizedlist>
516    </listitem>
517
518    <listitem>
519      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
520      <itemizedlist>
521        <listitem>
522          <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
523          package.</para>
524        </listitem>
525      </itemizedlist>
526    </listitem>
527
528    <listitem>
529      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
530      <itemizedlist>
531        <listitem>
532          <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
533        </listitem>
534        <listitem>
535          <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
536          Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
537        </listitem>
538        <listitem>
539          <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
540        </listitem>
541      </itemizedlist>
542    </listitem>
543
544    <listitem>
545      <para>November 13, 2005</para>
546      <itemizedlist>
547        <listitem>
548          <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
549          is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
550          LFS-SVN.</para>
551        </listitem>
552        <listitem>
553          <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
554          as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
555        </listitem>
556        <listitem>
557          <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
558        </listitem>
559        <listitem>
560          <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
561        </listitem>
562      </itemizedlist>
563    </listitem>
564
565    <listitem>
566      <para>November 10, 2005</para>
567      <itemizedlist>
568        <listitem>
569          <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
570          testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
571        </listitem>
572        <listitem>
573          <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
574        </listitem>
575        <listitem>
576          <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
577        </listitem>
578      </itemizedlist>
579    </listitem>
580
581    <listitem>
582      <para>November 9, 2005</para>
583      <itemizedlist>
584        <listitem>
585          <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
586          system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
587        </listitem>
588        <listitem>
589          <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
590          of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
591        </listitem>
592        <listitem>
593          <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
594        </listitem>
595        <listitem>
596          <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
597        </listitem>
598      </itemizedlist>
599    </listitem>
600
601    <listitem>
602      <para>November 8, 2005</para>
603      <itemizedlist>
604        <listitem>
605          <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
606        </listitem>
607      </itemizedlist>
608    </listitem>
609
610    <listitem>
611      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
612      <itemizedlist>
613        <listitem>
614          <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
615          toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
616        </listitem>
617        <listitem>
618          <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
619          class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
620          of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
621          Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
622        </listitem>
623        <listitem>
624          <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
625          Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
626        </listitem>
627        <listitem>
628          <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
629          cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
630        </listitem>
631      </itemizedlist>
632    </listitem>
633
634    <listitem>
635      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
636      <itemizedlist>
637        <listitem>
638          <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
639        </listitem>
640        <listitem>
641          <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
642        </listitem>
643        <listitem>
644          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
645        </listitem>
646      </itemizedlist>
647    </listitem>
648
649    <listitem>
650      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
651      <itemizedlist>
652        <listitem>
653          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
654        </listitem>
655      </itemizedlist>
656    </listitem>
657
658    <listitem>
659      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
660      <itemizedlist>
661        <listitem>
662          <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
663           Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
664        </listitem>
665      </itemizedlist>
666    </listitem>
667
668    <listitem>
669      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
670      <itemizedlist>
671        <listitem>
672          <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
673        </listitem>
674      </itemizedlist>
675    </listitem>
676
677  </itemizedlist>
678
679  <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
680
681</sect1>
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