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LFS 6.5 Release

Matthew Burgess - 2009/08/16

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.3, GCC-4.4.1, Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes 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 6.5-rc2 Release

Matthew Burgess - 2009/07/29

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5-rc2. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.3, GCC-4.4.1, Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes 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

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

• Matthew Burgess - 2009/11/06

  • Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.11.1. Fixes #2507.
  • Upgrade to Linux-2.6.31.5. Fixes #2508.
  • Upgrade to latest upstream patches for Bash.
  • Upgrade to Glibc-2.11. Fixes #2509.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/10/30

  • Typo
  • Another typo

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/10/29

  • Update to GRUB-1.97
  • Remove obsolete GRUB patches

• Matthew Burgess - 2009/10/20

  • Upgrade to Binutils-2.20. Fixes #2505.
  • Upgrade to GCC-4.4.2. Fixes #2504.
  • Upgrade to Linux-2.6.31.4. Fixes #2503.

• Matthew Burgess - 2009/10/12

  • Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.13. Fixes #2500.
  • Upgrade to Linux-2.6.31.3. Fixes #2499.
  • Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.23. Fixes #2498.
  • Upgrade to Kbd-1.15.1. Fixes #2501.
  • Add e2freefrag to the list of programs installed by E2fsprogs. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report & patch. Fixes #2502.

• Matthew Burgess - 2009/09/29

  • Install psmisc's binaries in /usr/bin, not /bin. Fixes #2469.
  • Upgrade to Linux-2.6.31.1. Fixes #2496.

• Bryan Kadzban - 2009/09/26

  • Duplicate the RTC-setting rule for non-rtc-class kernels. Move the assignment to MODE after the match on ACTION. Add a missing changelog entry (copied from svn log, then reworded).
  • Upgrade to udev-config-20090925. Fixes #2497.

• Matthew Burgess - 2009/09/24

  • Update Patch's homepage. Fixes #2493. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and fix.
  • Update list of installed programs for various packages. Fixes #2494.
  • Update list of headers installed by Linux. Fixes #2495.

• Matthew Burgess - 2009/09/17

  • Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.6. Fixes #2481.
  • Upgrade to Coreutils-7.6. Fixes #2487.
  • Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.16.1. FIxes #2483.
  • Upgrade to Linux-2.6.31. Fixes #2485.
  • Upgrade to latest upstream Bash patches. Fixes #2484.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2009/09/11

  • Deleted the reference to the outdated and incomplete optimization hint. Fixed a md5sum error.