#### Linux From Scratch - Version 9.0-systemd

### Chapter 1. Introduction

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# 1.3. Changelog

This is version 9.0-systemd of the Linux From Scratch book, dated September 1st, 2019. 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:

- 2019-09-01

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-9.0 released.

- 2019-08-14

  - [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.1.1846. Fixes #4500.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.177. Fixes #4516.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-9.2.0. Fixes #4514.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.1.3. Fixes #4513.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.8.6.1. Fixes #4512.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.8. Fixes #4511.

- 2019-08-04

  - [bdubbs] - Fix a problem introduced by linux-5.2 by adding an include file to a glibc header.

- 2019-08-03

  - [renodr] - Add a patch to systemd to fix issues with networkd on kernel versions 5.2+, and to fix issues with AMD Ryzen CPUs. Fixes #4506.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.5. Fixes #4505.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.2.0. Fixes #4507.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.30. Fixes #4508.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.02. Fixes #4509.

- 2019-07-21

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.2. Fixes #4504.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.1.1. Fixes #4503.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.1.0. Fixes #4502.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.3. Fixes #4501.

- 2019-07-14

  - [bdubbs] - Fix testing of binutils-2.32 gold linker. Fixes #4498.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2019b. Fixes #4492.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.7.4. Fixes #4496.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.51.1. Fixes #4497.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.2.0. Fixes #4495.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to grub-2.04. Fixes #4494.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.1. Fixes #4493.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.1.0. Fixes #4436.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bzip2-1.0.8. Fixes #4499.

- 2019-07-12

  - [renodr] - Fix an FTBFS for systemd and do minor text and instructions improvements. Also, fix symlinks that were not removed.

- 2019-06-29

  - [bdubbs] - Properly initialize a data structure in OpenSSL to avoid valgrind uninitialized value errors. Fixes #4491.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.51.0. Fixes #4483.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-5.0.1. Fixes #4486.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.7. Fixes #4488.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.15. Fixes #4487.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bzip2-1.0.7. Fixes #4490.

- 2019-06-24

  - [renodr] - Fixed issue with installing Check's documentation in a versioned directory. Thanks goes to Ryan Marsaw for the report. This was fixed by removing the unrecognized/unused --docdir and replacing it with a "docdir=" in the make install command.

- 2019-06-18

  - [renodr] - Update to linux-5.1.11. Fixes the SOCK PANIC issue. Fixes #4485.

- 2019-06-16

  - [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.1.1535. Fixes #4482.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.7. Fixes #4481.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.10. Fixes #4478.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to less-551. Fixes #4477.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.34. Fixes #4462.

  - [bdubbs] - Remove eudev instructions referring to /tools. Fixes #4480.

- 2019-06-12

  - [renodr] - Update to dbus-1.12.16. Fixes #4470.

- 2019-06-08

  - [renodr] - make it so that the instructions for removing symlinks before building Util-Linux in Chapter 6 are only visible in systemd.

- 2019-06-03

  - [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.30.0. Fixes #4474.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.6. Fixes #4473.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1c. Fixes #4476.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.4.1. Fixes #4471.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.2. Fixes #4475.

- 2019-05-19

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.01. Fixes #4467.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.3. Fixes #4464.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.1.0. Fixes #4467.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.20.1. Fixes #4465.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.37. Fixes #4469.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.1. Fixes #4468.

- 2019-05-11

  - [pierre] - Fix a hardcoded path to /usr/bin/find in the systemd unit of man-db.

- 2019-05-03

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-9.1.0. Fixes #4463.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.11. Fixes #4461.

- 2019-04-23

  - [bdubbs] - Apply a change to allow Perl to build correctly when building with the latest versions of gcc.

- 2019-04-20

  - [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.28.2. Fixes #4460.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.50.1. Fixes #4459.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.9. Fixes #4458.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.27. Fixes #4457.

  - [renodr] - Fix the syntax used for configuring automatic file creation and deletion.

- 2019-04-15

  - [bdubbs] - Update bzip2 url. Fixes #4450.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.33.2. Fixes #4454.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.7. Fixes #4449.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-5.0.0. Fixes #4455.

- 2019-03-27

  - [bdubbs] - Revert to meson-0.49.2.

- 2019-03-26

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata2019a. Fixes #4448.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.7.3. Fixes #4447.

- 2019-03-25

  - [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.0.0. Fixes #4446.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.4. Fixes #4444.

  - [xry111] - Use -ffile-prefix-map instead of -isystem and symlinks in the Glibc build to simplify the instruction.

- 2019-03-13

  - [xry111] - Update contents and short descriptions of packages. Fixes #4443.

- 2019-03-12

  - [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.50.0. Fixes #4442.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.31. Fixes #4441.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.1. Fixes #4440.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.00. Fixes #4439.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.0. Fixes #4438.

- 2019-03-08

  - [renodr] - Update to systemd-241. Fixes #4424.

- 2019-03-05

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0. Fixes #4437.

- 2019-03-01

  - [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.6. Fixes #4427.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to tar-1.32. Fixes #4431.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1b. Fixes #4435.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-8.3.0. Fixes #4430.

  - [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.13. Fixes #4434.

- 2019-03-01

  - [bdubbs] - LFS-8.4 released.

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