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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        <listitem>
50          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
51        </listitem>
52      </itemizedlist>
53    </listitem>
54
55    <listitem>
56      <para>January 11, 2006</para>
57      <itemizedlist>
58        <listitem>
59          <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
60           a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
61           the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
62        </listitem>
63      </itemizedlist>
64    </listitem>
65
66    <listitem>
67      <para>January 8, 2006</para>
68      <itemizedlist>
69        <listitem>
70          <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
71          process and test suite information.</para>
72        </listitem>
73      </itemizedlist>
74    </listitem>
75
76    <listitem>
77      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
78      <itemizedlist>
79        <listitem>
80          <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
81        </listitem>
82      </itemizedlist>
83    </listitem>
84
85    <listitem>
86      <para>December 30, 2005</para>
87      <itemizedlist>
88        <listitem>
89          <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
90          "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
91          removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
92        </listitem>
93        <listitem>
94          <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
95        </listitem>
96      </itemizedlist>
97    </listitem>
98
99    <listitem>
100      <para>December 29, 2005</para>
101      <itemizedlist>
102        <listitem>
103          <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
104        </listitem>
105      </itemizedlist>
106    </listitem>
107
108    <listitem>
109      <para>December 28, 2005</para>
110      <itemizedlist>
111        <listitem>
112          <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
113          are in chroot.</para>
114        </listitem>
115        <listitem>
116          <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
117        </listitem>
118        <listitem>
119          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
120        </listitem>
121      </itemizedlist>
122    </listitem>
123
124    <listitem>
125      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
126      <itemizedlist>
127        <listitem>
128          <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
129        </listitem>
130      </itemizedlist>
131    </listitem>
132
133    <listitem>
134      <para>December 22, 2005</para>
135      <itemizedlist>
136        <listitem>
137          <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
138          following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
139          including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
140          as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
141        </listitem>
142        <listitem>
143          <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
144          following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
145          faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
146          Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
147          readline.</para>
148        </listitem>
149        <listitem>
150          <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
151           a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
152        </listitem>
153        <listitem>
154          <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
155        </listitem>
156      </itemizedlist>
157    </listitem>
158
159    <listitem>
160      <para>December 20, 2005</para>
161      <itemizedlist>
162        <listitem>
163          <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
164        </listitem>
165      </itemizedlist>
166    </listitem>
167
168   <listitem>
169     <para>December 19, 2005</para>
170     <itemizedlist>
171        <listitem>
172          <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
173        </listitem>
174        <listitem>
175          <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
176          an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
177        </listitem>
178     </itemizedlist>
179   </listitem>
180
181    <listitem>
182      <para>December 18, 2005</para>
183      <itemizedlist>
184        <listitem>
185          <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
186          perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
187          and boot sections.</para>
188        </listitem>
189        <listitem>
190          <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
191          it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
192          a multilib capable build.</para>
193        </listitem>
194        <listitem>
195          <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
196        </listitem>
197        <listitem>
198          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
199        </listitem>
200      </itemizedlist>
201    </listitem>
202
203    <listitem>
204      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
205      <itemizedlist>
206        <listitem>
207          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
208        </listitem>
209      </itemizedlist>
210    </listitem>
211
212    <listitem>
213      <para>December 16, 2005</para>
214      <itemizedlist>
215        <listitem>
216          <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
217        </listitem>
218        <listitem>
219          <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
220          in perl.</para>
221        </listitem>
222      </itemizedlist>
223    </listitem>
224
225    <listitem>
226      <para>December 15, 2005</para>
227      <itemizedlist>
228        <listitem>
229          <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
230        </listitem>
231        <listitem>
232          <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
233        </listitem>
234      </itemizedlist>
235    </listitem>
236
237    <listitem>
238      <para>December 14, 2005</para>
239      <itemizedlist>
240        <listitem>
241          <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
242          further build issues.</para>
243        </listitem>
244        <listitem>
245          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
246        </listitem>
247        <listitem>
248          <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
249        </listitem>
250      </itemizedlist>
251    </listitem>
252
253    <listitem>
254      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
255      <itemizedlist>
256        <listitem>
257          <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
258          Thanks to David Fix.</para>
259        </listitem>
260      </itemizedlist>
261    </listitem>
262
263    <listitem>
264      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
265      <itemizedlist>
266        <listitem>
267          <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
268        </listitem>
269      </itemizedlist>
270    </listitem>
271
272    <listitem>
273      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
274      <itemizedlist>
275        <listitem>
276          <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
277        </listitem>
278      </itemizedlist>
279    </listitem>
280
281    <listitem>
282      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
283      <itemizedlist>
284        <listitem>
285          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
286        </listitem>
287        <listitem>
288          <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
289        </listitem>
290        <listitem>
291          <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
292          They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
293        </listitem>
294      </itemizedlist>
295    </listitem>
296
297    <listitem>
298      <para>December 8, 2005</para>
299      <itemizedlist>
300        <listitem>
301          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
302        </listitem>
303        <listitem>
304          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
305        </listitem>
306        <listitem>
307          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
308        </listitem>
309      </itemizedlist>
310    </listitem>
311
312    <listitem>
313      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
314      <itemizedlist>
315        <listitem>
316          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
317        </listitem>
318        <listitem>
319          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
320        </listitem>
321        <listitem>
322          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
323        </listitem>
324        <listitem>
325          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
326        </listitem>
327      </itemizedlist>
328    </listitem>
329
330    <listitem>
331      <para>December 6, 2005</para>
332      <itemizedlist>
333        <listitem>
334          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
335        </listitem>
336        <listitem>
337          <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
338        </listitem>
339        <listitem>
340          <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
341        </listitem>
342        <listitem>
343          <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
344                correct the date in changelog.</para>
345        </listitem>
346        <listitem>
347          <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
348          for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
349          wrong.</para>
350        </listitem>
351        <listitem>
352          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
353        </listitem>
354      </itemizedlist>
355    </listitem>
356
357    <listitem>
358      <para>December 5, 2005</para>
359      <itemizedlist>
360        <listitem>
361          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
362                instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
363        </listitem>
364        <listitem>
365          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
366        </listitem>
367        <listitem>
368          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
369                user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
370                by other devs</para>
371        </listitem>
372        <listitem>
373          <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
374                testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
375        </listitem>
376      </itemizedlist>
377    </listitem>
378
379    <listitem>
380      <para>December 3, 2005</para>
381      <itemizedlist>
382        <listitem>
383          <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
384          coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
385          from LFS.</para>
386        </listitem>
387      </itemizedlist>
388    </listitem>
389
390    <listitem>
391      <para>December 2, 2005</para>
392      <itemizedlist>
393        <listitem>
394          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
395        </listitem>
396      </itemizedlist>
397    </listitem>
398
399    <listitem>
400      <para>December 1, 2005</para>
401      <itemizedlist>
402        <listitem>
403          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
404        </listitem>
405        <listitem>
406          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
407        </listitem>
408        <listitem>
409          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
410        </listitem>
411        <listitem>
412          <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
413        </listitem>
414      </itemizedlist>
415    </listitem>
416
417   <listitem>
418      <para>November 30, 2005</para>
419      <itemizedlist>
420        <listitem>
421          <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
422        </listitem>
423        <listitem>
424          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
425        </listitem>
426      </itemizedlist>
427    </listitem>
428
429   <listitem>
430      <para>November 29, 2005</para>
431      <itemizedlist>
432        <listitem>
433          <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
434        </listitem>
435        <listitem>
436          <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
437        </listitem>
438      </itemizedlist>
439    </listitem>
440
441   <listitem>
442      <para>November 28, 2005</para>
443      <itemizedlist>
444        <listitem>
445          <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
446        </listitem>
447        <listitem>
448          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
449        </listitem>
450        <listitem>
451          <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
452        </listitem>
453      </itemizedlist>
454    </listitem>
455
456   <listitem>
457      <para>November 27, 2005</para>
458      <itemizedlist>
459        <listitem>
460          <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
461        </listitem>
462        <listitem>
463          <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
464        </listitem>
465      </itemizedlist>
466    </listitem>
467
468   <listitem>
469      <para>November 25, 2005</para>
470      <itemizedlist>
471        <listitem>
472          <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
473        </listitem>
474      </itemizedlist>
475    </listitem>
476
477    <listitem>
478      <para>November 24, 2005</para>
479      <itemizedlist>
480        <listitem>
481          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
482        </listitem>
483        <listitem>
484          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
485          that it no longer exists</para>
486        </listitem>
487      </itemizedlist>
488    </listitem>
489
490    <listitem>
491      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
492      <itemizedlist>
493        <listitem>
494          <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
495          /tools/include.</para>
496        </listitem>
497      </itemizedlist>
498    </listitem>
499
500    <listitem>
501      <para>November 21, 2005</para>
502      <itemizedlist>
503        <listitem>
504          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
505        </listitem>
506        <listitem>
507          <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
508        </listitem>
509      </itemizedlist>
510    </listitem>
511
512    <listitem>
513      <para>November 20, 2005</para>
514      <itemizedlist>
515        <listitem>
516          <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
517        </listitem>
518      </itemizedlist>
519    </listitem>
520
521    <listitem>
522      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
523      <itemizedlist>
524        <listitem>
525          <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
526          package.</para>
527        </listitem>
528      </itemizedlist>
529    </listitem>
530
531    <listitem>
532      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
533      <itemizedlist>
534        <listitem>
535          <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
536        </listitem>
537        <listitem>
538          <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
539          Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
540        </listitem>
541        <listitem>
542          <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
543        </listitem>
544      </itemizedlist>
545    </listitem>
546
547    <listitem>
548      <para>November 13, 2005</para>
549      <itemizedlist>
550        <listitem>
551          <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
552          is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
553          LFS-SVN.</para>
554        </listitem>
555        <listitem>
556          <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
557          as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
558        </listitem>
559        <listitem>
560          <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
561        </listitem>
562        <listitem>
563          <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
564        </listitem>
565      </itemizedlist>
566    </listitem>
567
568    <listitem>
569      <para>November 10, 2005</para>
570      <itemizedlist>
571        <listitem>
572          <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
573          testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
574        </listitem>
575        <listitem>
576          <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
577        </listitem>
578        <listitem>
579          <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
580        </listitem>
581      </itemizedlist>
582    </listitem>
583
584    <listitem>
585      <para>November 9, 2005</para>
586      <itemizedlist>
587        <listitem>
588          <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
589          system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
590        </listitem>
591        <listitem>
592          <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
593          of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
594        </listitem>
595        <listitem>
596          <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
597        </listitem>
598        <listitem>
599          <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
600        </listitem>
601      </itemizedlist>
602    </listitem>
603
604    <listitem>
605      <para>November 8, 2005</para>
606      <itemizedlist>
607        <listitem>
608          <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
609        </listitem>
610      </itemizedlist>
611    </listitem>
612
613    <listitem>
614      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
615      <itemizedlist>
616        <listitem>
617          <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
618          toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
619        </listitem>
620        <listitem>
621          <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
622          class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
623          of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
624          Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
625        </listitem>
626        <listitem>
627          <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
628          Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
629        </listitem>
630        <listitem>
631          <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
632          cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
633        </listitem>
634      </itemizedlist>
635    </listitem>
636
637    <listitem>
638      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
639      <itemizedlist>
640        <listitem>
641          <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
642        </listitem>
643        <listitem>
644          <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
645        </listitem>
646        <listitem>
647          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
648        </listitem>
649      </itemizedlist>
650    </listitem>
651
652    <listitem>
653      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
654      <itemizedlist>
655        <listitem>
656          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
657        </listitem>
658      </itemizedlist>
659    </listitem>
660
661    <listitem>
662      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
663      <itemizedlist>
664        <listitem>
665          <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
666           Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
667        </listitem>
668      </itemizedlist>
669    </listitem>
670
671    <listitem>
672      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
673      <itemizedlist>
674        <listitem>
675          <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
676        </listitem>
677      </itemizedlist>
678    </listitem>
679
680  </itemizedlist>
681
682  <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
683
684</sect1>
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