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4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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7
8<sect1 id="ch-intro-changelog" xreflabel="Master Changelog">
9  <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>
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        <listitem>
53          <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
54           to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
55        </listitem>
56      </itemizedlist>
57    </listitem>
58
59    <listitem>
60      <para>January 11, 2006</para>
61      <itemizedlist>
62        <listitem>
63          <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
64           a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
65           the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
66        </listitem>
67      </itemizedlist>
68    </listitem>
69
70    <listitem>
71      <para>January 8, 2006</para>
72      <itemizedlist>
73        <listitem>
74          <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
75          process and test suite information.</para>
76        </listitem>
77      </itemizedlist>
78    </listitem>
79
80    <listitem>
81      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
82      <itemizedlist>
83        <listitem>
84          <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
85        </listitem>
86      </itemizedlist>
87    </listitem>
88
89    <listitem>
90      <para>December 30, 2005</para>
91      <itemizedlist>
92        <listitem>
93          <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
94          "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
95          removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
96        </listitem>
97        <listitem>
98          <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
99        </listitem>
100      </itemizedlist>
101    </listitem>
102
103    <listitem>
104      <para>December 29, 2005</para>
105      <itemizedlist>
106        <listitem>
107          <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
108        </listitem>
109      </itemizedlist>
110    </listitem>
111
112    <listitem>
113      <para>December 28, 2005</para>
114      <itemizedlist>
115        <listitem>
116          <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
117          are in chroot.</para>
118        </listitem>
119        <listitem>
120          <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
121        </listitem>
122        <listitem>
123          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
124        </listitem>
125      </itemizedlist>
126    </listitem>
127
128    <listitem>
129      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
130      <itemizedlist>
131        <listitem>
132          <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
133        </listitem>
134      </itemizedlist>
135    </listitem>
136
137    <listitem>
138      <para>December 22, 2005</para>
139      <itemizedlist>
140        <listitem>
141          <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
142          following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
143          including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
144          as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
145        </listitem>
146        <listitem>
147          <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
148          following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
149          faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
150          Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
151          readline.</para>
152        </listitem>
153        <listitem>
154          <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
155           a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
156        </listitem>
157        <listitem>
158          <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
159        </listitem>
160      </itemizedlist>
161    </listitem>
162
163    <listitem>
164      <para>December 20, 2005</para>
165      <itemizedlist>
166        <listitem>
167          <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
168        </listitem>
169      </itemizedlist>
170    </listitem>
171
172   <listitem>
173     <para>December 19, 2005</para>
174     <itemizedlist>
175        <listitem>
176          <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
177        </listitem>
178        <listitem>
179          <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
180          an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
181        </listitem>
182     </itemizedlist>
183   </listitem>
184
185    <listitem>
186      <para>December 18, 2005</para>
187      <itemizedlist>
188        <listitem>
189          <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
190          perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
191          and boot sections.</para>
192        </listitem>
193        <listitem>
194          <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
195          it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
196          a multilib capable build.</para>
197        </listitem>
198        <listitem>
199          <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
200        </listitem>
201        <listitem>
202          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
203        </listitem>
204      </itemizedlist>
205    </listitem>
206
207    <listitem>
208      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
209      <itemizedlist>
210        <listitem>
211          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
212        </listitem>
213      </itemizedlist>
214    </listitem>
215
216    <listitem>
217      <para>December 16, 2005</para>
218      <itemizedlist>
219        <listitem>
220          <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
221        </listitem>
222        <listitem>
223          <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
224          in perl.</para>
225        </listitem>
226      </itemizedlist>
227    </listitem>
228
229    <listitem>
230      <para>December 15, 2005</para>
231      <itemizedlist>
232        <listitem>
233          <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
234        </listitem>
235        <listitem>
236          <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
237        </listitem>
238      </itemizedlist>
239    </listitem>
240
241    <listitem>
242      <para>December 14, 2005</para>
243      <itemizedlist>
244        <listitem>
245          <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
246          further build issues.</para>
247        </listitem>
248        <listitem>
249          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
250        </listitem>
251        <listitem>
252          <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
253        </listitem>
254      </itemizedlist>
255    </listitem>
256
257    <listitem>
258      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
259      <itemizedlist>
260        <listitem>
261          <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
262          Thanks to David Fix.</para>
263        </listitem>
264      </itemizedlist>
265    </listitem>
266
267    <listitem>
268      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
269      <itemizedlist>
270        <listitem>
271          <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
272        </listitem>
273      </itemizedlist>
274    </listitem>
275
276    <listitem>
277      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
278      <itemizedlist>
279        <listitem>
280          <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
281        </listitem>
282      </itemizedlist>
283    </listitem>
284
285    <listitem>
286      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
287      <itemizedlist>
288        <listitem>
289          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
290        </listitem>
291        <listitem>
292          <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
293        </listitem>
294        <listitem>
295          <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
296          They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
297        </listitem>
298      </itemizedlist>
299    </listitem>
300
301    <listitem>
302      <para>December 8, 2005</para>
303      <itemizedlist>
304        <listitem>
305          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
306        </listitem>
307        <listitem>
308          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
309        </listitem>
310        <listitem>
311          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
312        </listitem>
313      </itemizedlist>
314    </listitem>
315
316    <listitem>
317      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
318      <itemizedlist>
319        <listitem>
320          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
321        </listitem>
322        <listitem>
323          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
324        </listitem>
325        <listitem>
326          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
327        </listitem>
328        <listitem>
329          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
330        </listitem>
331      </itemizedlist>
332    </listitem>
333
334    <listitem>
335      <para>December 6, 2005</para>
336      <itemizedlist>
337        <listitem>
338          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
339        </listitem>
340        <listitem>
341          <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
342        </listitem>
343        <listitem>
344          <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
345        </listitem>
346        <listitem>
347          <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
348                correct the date in changelog.</para>
349        </listitem>
350        <listitem>
351          <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
352          for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
353          wrong.</para>
354        </listitem>
355        <listitem>
356          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
357        </listitem>
358      </itemizedlist>
359    </listitem>
360
361    <listitem>
362      <para>December 5, 2005</para>
363      <itemizedlist>
364        <listitem>
365          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
366                instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
367        </listitem>
368        <listitem>
369          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
370        </listitem>
371        <listitem>
372          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
373                user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
374                by other devs</para>
375        </listitem>
376        <listitem>
377          <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
378                testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
379        </listitem>
380      </itemizedlist>
381    </listitem>
382
383    <listitem>
384      <para>December 3, 2005</para>
385      <itemizedlist>
386        <listitem>
387          <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
388          coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
389          from LFS.</para>
390        </listitem>
391      </itemizedlist>
392    </listitem>
393
394    <listitem>
395      <para>December 2, 2005</para>
396      <itemizedlist>
397        <listitem>
398          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
399        </listitem>
400      </itemizedlist>
401    </listitem>
402
403    <listitem>
404      <para>December 1, 2005</para>
405      <itemizedlist>
406        <listitem>
407          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
408        </listitem>
409        <listitem>
410          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
411        </listitem>
412        <listitem>
413          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
414        </listitem>
415        <listitem>
416          <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
417        </listitem>
418      </itemizedlist>
419    </listitem>
420
421   <listitem>
422      <para>November 30, 2005</para>
423      <itemizedlist>
424        <listitem>
425          <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
426        </listitem>
427        <listitem>
428          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
429        </listitem>
430      </itemizedlist>
431    </listitem>
432
433   <listitem>
434      <para>November 29, 2005</para>
435      <itemizedlist>
436        <listitem>
437          <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
438        </listitem>
439        <listitem>
440          <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
441        </listitem>
442      </itemizedlist>
443    </listitem>
444
445   <listitem>
446      <para>November 28, 2005</para>
447      <itemizedlist>
448        <listitem>
449          <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
450        </listitem>
451        <listitem>
452          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
453        </listitem>
454        <listitem>
455          <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
456        </listitem>
457      </itemizedlist>
458    </listitem>
459
460   <listitem>
461      <para>November 27, 2005</para>
462      <itemizedlist>
463        <listitem>
464          <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
465        </listitem>
466        <listitem>
467          <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
468        </listitem>
469      </itemizedlist>
470    </listitem>
471
472   <listitem>
473      <para>November 25, 2005</para>
474      <itemizedlist>
475        <listitem>
476          <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
477        </listitem>
478      </itemizedlist>
479    </listitem>
480
481    <listitem>
482      <para>November 24, 2005</para>
483      <itemizedlist>
484        <listitem>
485          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
486        </listitem>
487        <listitem>
488          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
489          that it no longer exists</para>
490        </listitem>
491      </itemizedlist>
492    </listitem>
493
494    <listitem>
495      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
496      <itemizedlist>
497        <listitem>
498          <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
499          /tools/include.</para>
500        </listitem>
501      </itemizedlist>
502    </listitem>
503
504    <listitem>
505      <para>November 21, 2005</para>
506      <itemizedlist>
507        <listitem>
508          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
509        </listitem>
510        <listitem>
511          <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
512        </listitem>
513      </itemizedlist>
514    </listitem>
515
516    <listitem>
517      <para>November 20, 2005</para>
518      <itemizedlist>
519        <listitem>
520          <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
521        </listitem>
522      </itemizedlist>
523    </listitem>
524
525    <listitem>
526      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
527      <itemizedlist>
528        <listitem>
529          <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
530          package.</para>
531        </listitem>
532      </itemizedlist>
533    </listitem>
534
535    <listitem>
536      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
537      <itemizedlist>
538        <listitem>
539          <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
540        </listitem>
541        <listitem>
542          <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
543          Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
544        </listitem>
545        <listitem>
546          <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
547        </listitem>
548      </itemizedlist>
549    </listitem>
550
551    <listitem>
552      <para>November 13, 2005</para>
553      <itemizedlist>
554        <listitem>
555          <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
556          is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
557          LFS-SVN.</para>
558        </listitem>
559        <listitem>
560          <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
561          as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
562        </listitem>
563        <listitem>
564          <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
565        </listitem>
566        <listitem>
567          <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
568        </listitem>
569      </itemizedlist>
570    </listitem>
571
572    <listitem>
573      <para>November 10, 2005</para>
574      <itemizedlist>
575        <listitem>
576          <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
577          testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
578        </listitem>
579        <listitem>
580          <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
581        </listitem>
582        <listitem>
583          <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
584        </listitem>
585      </itemizedlist>
586    </listitem>
587
588    <listitem>
589      <para>November 9, 2005</para>
590      <itemizedlist>
591        <listitem>
592          <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
593          system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
594        </listitem>
595        <listitem>
596          <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
597          of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
598        </listitem>
599        <listitem>
600          <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
601        </listitem>
602        <listitem>
603          <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
604        </listitem>
605      </itemizedlist>
606    </listitem>
607
608    <listitem>
609      <para>November 8, 2005</para>
610      <itemizedlist>
611        <listitem>
612          <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
613        </listitem>
614      </itemizedlist>
615    </listitem>
616
617    <listitem>
618      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
619      <itemizedlist>
620        <listitem>
621          <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
622          toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
623        </listitem>
624        <listitem>
625          <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
626          class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
627          of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
628          Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
629        </listitem>
630        <listitem>
631          <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
632          Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
633        </listitem>
634        <listitem>
635          <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
636          cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
637        </listitem>
638      </itemizedlist>
639    </listitem>
640
641    <listitem>
642      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
643      <itemizedlist>
644        <listitem>
645          <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
646        </listitem>
647        <listitem>
648          <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
649        </listitem>
650        <listitem>
651          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
652        </listitem>
653      </itemizedlist>
654    </listitem>
655
656    <listitem>
657      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
658      <itemizedlist>
659        <listitem>
660          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
661        </listitem>
662      </itemizedlist>
663    </listitem>
664
665    <listitem>
666      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
667      <itemizedlist>
668        <listitem>
669          <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
670           Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
671        </listitem>
672      </itemizedlist>
673    </listitem>
674
675    <listitem>
676      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
677      <itemizedlist>
678        <listitem>
679          <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
680        </listitem>
681      </itemizedlist>
682    </listitem>
683
684  </itemizedlist>
685
686  <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
687
688</sect1>
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