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