#### Linux From Scratch - Version 7.9

### Chapter 1. Introduction

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# 1.3. Changelog

This is version 7.9 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated March 8, 2016. 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 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mirrors.html.

Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.

Changelog Entries:

- 2016-03-08

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-7.9 released.

- 2016-03-07

  - [bdubbs] - Disable static libraries in texinfo and document installation of XSParagraph.so. Fixes #3896.

- 2016-02-26

  - [bdubbs] - Prevent attr and shadow from overwriting man pages installed by the man-pages package. Fixes #3890, #3891, and #3892

  - [bdubbs] - Retain flex static library for automake regression tests. Remove at the end of Chapter 6. Fixes #3894.

- 2016-02-19

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-7.9-rc2 released.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.23. Fixes #3889.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.4.2. Fixes #3888.

- 2016-02-16

  - [bdubbs] - Update patches for bash, binutils, glibc, mpfr, and gcc from upstream repositories. Fixes (among other things) #3887.

- 2016-02-14

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-7.9-rc1 released.

- 2016-02-09

  - [bdubbs] - Update coreutils-i18n patch.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.1. Fixes #3886.

- 2016-02-05

  - [bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.23. Fixes #3881.

- 2016-02-02

  - [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.26. Fixes #3882.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2016a. Fixes #3883.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.25. Fixes #3884.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.4.1. Fixes #3885.

- 2016-01-27

  - [bdubbs] - Move external build directories into dedicated build directories inside the source tree for binutils, gcc, and glibc.

- 2016-01-24

  - [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.25. Fixes #3880.

  - [bdubbs] - Simplify bash installation procedures. Fixes #3879.

- 2016-01-17

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.4. Fixes #3877.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.4.0. Fixes #3878.

- 2016-01-01

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.04. Fixes #3875.

- 2015-12-29

  - [bdubbs] - Add OpenSSL as optional kernel dependency. Fixes #3872.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to findutils-4.6.0. Fixes #3873.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.7. Fixes #3874.

- 2015-12-21

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.3.3.

- 2015-12-19

  - [bdubbs] - Reword FHS Compliance Note. Fixes #3871.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.22.1. Fixes #3870.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.22.1. Fixes #3870.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.3.1. Fixes #3868.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.03. Fixes #3867.

  - [bdubbs] - Fix xz problem identified upstream. Fixes #3869.

- 2015-12-06

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-5.3.0. Fixes #3866.

- 2015-12-03

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gmp-6.1.0. Fixes #3862.

  - [bdubbs] - Clean up Eudev configure options. Fixes #3865.

  - [bdubbs] - Update host requirements to require GCC-4.7 or later.

  - [bdubbs] - Clarify that setting and using the LFS variable assumes the bash shell.

- 2015-11-18

  - [bdubbs] - Update to flex-2.6.0. Fixes #3860.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.5. Fixes #3859.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-22. Fixes #3861.

- 2015-11-06

  - [bdubbs] - Add glibc-2.22-largefile-1.patch.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.3. Fixes #3857.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.3.0. Fixes #3858.

- 2015-11-02

  - [bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.22. Fixes #3855.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2.5. Fixes #3854.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.27.1. Fixes #3856.

- 2015-10-25

  - [bdubbs] - Revise version-check.sh to flag bad /bin/sh symlinks.

- 2015-10-17

  - [bdubbs] - Update to less-481. Fixes #3853.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1.5. Fixes #3851.

- 2015-10-12

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.4. Fixes #3850.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2.3. Fixes #3844.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata2015g. Fixes #3845.

  - [bdubbs] - Many updates to installed files and directories. Huge thanks to Fernando. Fixes #3849.

- 2015-10-11

  - [bdubbs] - Reset location of anduin hosted files.

- 2015-10-02

  - [bdubbs] - Change references to ncursesw5 to ncursesw6. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the patch.

- 2015-10-01

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.3. Fixes #3837.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.6. Fixes #3838.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.25. Fixes #3839.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2.1. Fixes #3840.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to pkg-config-0.29. Fixes #3842.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.2.2. Fixes #3843.

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-7.8 released.

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