This is version r10.1-79-g79241 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated May 2nd, 2021. 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 https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mirrors.html.
Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
2021-04-28
2021-04-26
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2812. Addresses #4500.
[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20210407. Addresses #4722.
[bdubbs] - Update to Python3-3.9.4. Fixes #4843.
[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.57.2. Fixes #4846.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.11.16. Addresses #4840.
[bdubbs] - Update to less-581. Fixes #4849.
[bdubbs] - Update to file-5.40. Fixes #4839.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-4.0.1. Fixes #4845.
2021-04-22
[xry111] - Revert 2772bb9c, as the proposed fix in it is rejected by Python maintainers explicitly.
2021-04-06
The XML source code of this book is migrated from SVN to Git.
2021-03-26
[renodr] - Update to openssl-1.1.1k (Security Update). Fixes #4838.
[renodr] - Update to attr-2.5.1. Fixes #4833.
[renodr] - Update to linux-5.11.10. Fixes #4834.
[renodr] - Update to bc-3.3.4. Fixes #4835.
[renodr] - Update to man-pages-5.11. Fixes #4836.
[renodr] - Update to expat-2.3.0. Fixes #4837.
[renodr] - Update to acl-2.3.1. Fixes #4832.
2021-03-17
[xry111] - Use -j1 for
Binutils installation. Thanks report from Hans Meier.
2021-03-15
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2604. Addreses #4500.
[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20210304. Addreses #4722.
[bdubbs] - Update to zstd-1.4.9. Fixes #4827.
[bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.99. Fixes #4822.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.11.6. Fixes #4824.
[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.49. Fixes #4831.
[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.11.0. Fixes #4823.
[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.46.2. Fixes #4826.
[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.6. Fixes #4828.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.3.3. Fixes #4825.
[bdubbs] - Update to attr-2.5.0. Fixes #4830.
[bdubbs] - Update to acl-2.3.0. Fixes #4829.
2021-03-02
[pierre] - Fix a header file for python, so that #include <python3.9/Python.h> works.
2021-03-01
[bdubbs] - LFS-10.1 released.