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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

• Bryan Kadzban - 2009/06/29

  • Upgrade udev to 143. Remove the testsuite dependencies from appendix C (since there is no udev testsuite anymore). Fixes #2425.

• Matthew Burgess - 2009/06/29

  • Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.6. Fixes #2421.
  • Correct version & release date
  • Upgrade to Findutils-4.4.2. Fixes #2423.
  • Upgrade to Linux-2.6.30. Fixes #2424.
  • Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.9. Fixes #2420.
  • Add upstream Readline patches. Fixes #2426.
  • Fix the generation of Sed's HTML documentation. Fixes #2422.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/06/23

  • Added a list entry in the help section to suggest that the results of the version check script be posted when asking for help

• Bryan Kadzban - 2009/06/13

  • Make the date change that I accidentally omitted last time around.

• Bryan Kadzban - 2009/06/12

  • Add maketar to the nochunks dependency list, to create the bootscripts and udev-config tarballs for it as well.
  • Add a sed to glibc to fix the constants passed to futex(2) in 32-bit builds. Seems to fix testsuite hangs (the tst-mutex9 process never exits, for instance). This change is in upstream git, so this can be reverted once we upgrade glibc.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/06/06

  • Change instruction for minimum kernel version to 2.6.18 in glibc.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/06/01

  • Remove no longer used zlib patch from patches list.
  • Fix date in changelog

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/05/29

  • Add a reference to the kernel-configuration hint

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/05/28

  • Update grub make instruction to ensure all checks pass.

• Gerard Beekmans - 2009/05/28

  • Commented out "LFS next to existing hints" until its viability can be established.
  • Fixed inaccurate changelog entry.