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LFS 6.4 Release

Bruce Dubbs - 2008/11/23

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.4. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.3 (including update to Linux-2.6.27.4, GCC-4.3.2, Glibc-2.8) and security fixes. It also includes a large amount of editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.

You can read the book online, or download to read locally.

Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.

LFS 6.4 Release Candidate 1

Bruce Dubbs - 2008/11/06

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.4 Release Candidate 1. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.3 (including update to Linux-2.6.27.4, GCC-4.3.2, Glibc-2.8) and security fixes. It also includes a large amount of editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.

You can read the book online, or download to read locally.

Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.

Latest SVN Changes

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/01/04

  • Reformatted several pages so pdf is properly generated.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2008/12/29

  • Split one udev rule so it is not wider than the book's page.
  • Finish fixing udev rules

• Bruce Dubbs - 2008/12/24

  • Updated the location of glibc-2.8-20080929.tar.bz2.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/12/20

  • Added -v to the install command for the convert-mans script in the man-db page, for consistent use of verbose commands.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/12/19

  • Removed the unneeded -e option from the Sed command in the chap6 Findutils page, for consistency.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2008/12/14

  • Typo.

• Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/12/08

  • Update Greg Schafer's entry in the acknowledgments section
  • Fixed version and date of last release in changelog.
  • Add links to ticket numbers in changelog entries

• Bryan Kadzban - 2008/12/07

  • Remove several rules that are duplicates from upstream. Remove two rules (/dev/js and /dev/tjs) that will never match any device, according to devices.txt. Fixes the first part of #2297.
  • Replace "add" with "add|change" everywhere (for ACTION matches). Fixes #2270.

• Matthew Burgess - 2008/12/07

  • Upgrade to Automake-1.10.2. Fixes #2286.
  • Upgrade to bash-3.2-fixes-9.patch. Fixes #2294.
  • Upgrade to Binutils-2.19. FIxes #2268.
  • Upgrade to Bison-2.4. Fixes #2281.
  • Upgrade to Kbd-1.15. Fixes #2291.
  • Upgrade to Linux-2.6.27.8. Fixes #2282.
  • Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.3. Fixes #2283.
  • Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.15. Fixes #2269.
  • Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.5. Fixes #2245.
  • Upgrade to Ncurses-5.7. Fixes #2276.
  • Upgrade to readline-5.2-fixes-6.patch. Fixes #2295.
  • Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.2.2. Fixes #2287.
  • Upgrade to Udev-135. Fixes #2284.
  • Upgrade to vim-7.2-fixes-4.patch. Fixes #2296.

• Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/12/05

  • Bring in DIY's next generation build method. Move GRUB to chapter 8.