Changelog

This is version 8.4-systemd of the Linux From Scratch book, dated Maarch 1, 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.

Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.

Changelog Entries:

  • 2019-03-01

    • [bdubbs] - LFS-8.4 released.

  • 2019-02-25

    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.12. Fixes #4425.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.176. Fixes #4426.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.36. Fixes #4429.
    • [renodr] - Add a security patch for systemd-240 to fix a PID1 crash over D-Bus. Fixes #4428.

  • 2019-02-19

    • [bdubbs] - Add an optional modification to the build procedure for ninja to allow use the the environment variable NINJAJOBS.

  • 2019-02-14

    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.8. Fixes #4423.
    • [bdubbs] - Fix a problem when building Python in Chapter 5 where some hosts may use host dependent headers.

  • 2019-02-11

    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.7. Fixes #4421.

    • Update to kmod-26. Fixes #4422.

    • 2019-02-08

      • [renodr] - Update host system requirements.

  • 2019-02-06

    • [bdubbs] - Simlify instructions for glibc in Chapter 5. Thanks to Romain Geissler for the report.

  • 2019-02-05

    • [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.3.2. Fixes #4419.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.49.2. Fixes #4420.

  • 2019-02-02

  • [bdubbs] - Fix psmisc URL. Fixes #4418.
  • [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.32. Fixes #4417.

  • 2019-02-01

    • [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.3.1. Fixes #4412.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.29. Fixes #4415.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to libpipeline-1.5.1. Fixes #4413.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.6. Fixes #4409.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.49.1. Fixes #4410.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-4.0.2. Fixes #4416.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.9.0. Fixes #4414.

  • 2019-01-27

    • [pierre] - Fix a bug introduced in tar-1.31, by adding a sed to the build instructions. Also remove an obsolete comment about a failing test.

  • 2019-01-20

    • [renodr] - Regenerate the systemd man pages tarball with the Non-namespaced versions of the Docbook XSL Stylesheets.

  • 2019-01-27

    • [renodr] - Add a security patch for systemd-240. This fixes CVE-2018-16865 and CVE-2018-16864 (memory corruption in journald leading to stack overflows / arbitrary code execution). Apply this as soon as you can. Fixes #4408.

  • 2019-01-10

    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.1. Fixes #4398.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to diffutils-3.7. Fixes #4401.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to tar-1.31. Fixes #4402.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.8.5. Fixes #4403.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.0. Fixes #4404.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to readline-8.0. Fixes #4405.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.20.0. Fixes #4406.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.33.1. Fixes #4407.

  • 2019-01-01

    • [bdubbs] - Update to gzip-1.10. Fixes #4400.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2018i. Fixes #4399.

  • 2018-12-27

    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.19.12. Fixes #4389.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.5. Fixes #4390.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.2.4. Fixes #4391.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to sed-4.7. Fixes #4392.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to grep-3.3. Fixes #4393.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to systemd-240. Contains a critical fix for systemd-tmpfiles (privilege escalation). Fixes #4394.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.7.2. Fixes #4395.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to groff-1.22.4. Fixes #4396.

  • 2018-12-12

    • [renodr] - Add a note to libffi about optimizing for the specific CPU in use at compile time. Similar to GMP, this causes Illegal Operation errors if the installation is moved to another system.

  • 2018-12-01

    • [bdubbs] - Move /etc/bash_completions.d/grub to a better location. Fixes #4385.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to dejagnu-1.6.2. Fixes #4382.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.19.6. Fixes #4383.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.28.1. Fixes #4384.

  • 2018-11-25

    • [renodr] - Update to bison-3.2.2. Fixes #4380.

  • 2018-11-24

    • [dj] - Update to linux-4.19.4. Fixes #4381.
    • [dj] - Update to systemd-239-6b4878d.
    • [dj] - Add "wheel" group to systemd groups.
    • [dj] - Add touch to the list of moved coreutils programs, and clarify necessity of the moves to meet FHS compliance.

  • 2018-11-21

    • [renodr] - Add "wheel" group to satisfy systemd requirements. Fixes #4376.
    • [renodr] - Add a sed to fix a bug in autoconf's test suite. Fixes #4372.
    • [renodr] - Update to tcl-8.6.9. Security update. Fixes #4375.
    • [renodr] - Update to openssl-1.1.1a. This is a security update. Fixes #4379.
    • [renodr] - Update to systemd-239-25d1ba1. This fixes three security problems in systemd. Fixes #4377.
    • [renodr] - Update to linux-4.19.3. Fixes #4373.
    • [renodr] - Update to elfutils-0.175. Fixes #4374.

  • 2018-11-19

    • [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.26. Fixes #4378.

  • 2018-11-09

    • [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.48.2. Fixes #4371.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.2.1. Fixes #4370.

  • 2018-11-06

    • [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.2. Fixes #4367.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.19.1. Fixes #4368.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2018g. Fixes #4366.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-v2.33. Fixes #4353.

  • 2018-10-29

    • [dj] - Update to gdbm-1.18.1. Fixes #4364.
    • [dj] - Update to Python-3.7.1. Fixes #4361.

  • 2018-10-27

    • [dj] - Update to iproute2-4.19.0. Fixes #4363.
    • [dj] - Update to file-5.35. Fixes #4359.
    • [dj] - Update to tzdata-2018f. Fixes #4358.
    • [dj] - Update to meson-0.48.1. Fixes #4357.
    • [dj] - Update to linux-4.19. Fixes #4356.

  • 2018-10-10

    • [dj] - Removed incorrect link to /toold/lib64 in systemd instructions. Fixes #4355.
    • [dj] - Added systemd-239-meson-0.48.0_fixes-1.patch to resolve build errors with meson.
    • [dj] - Update to meson-0.48.0. Fixes #4351.
    • [dj] - Update to linux-4.18.12. Fixes #4352.

  • 2018-09-30

    • [dj] - Restore build of Util-Linux in chapter5 to avoid reciprocal dependency for Systemd.
    • [dj] - Moved installation of Util-Linux and E2fsprogs after Procps to satisfy build order in the Systemd book. This has no effect on the SysV book.

  • 2018-09-20

    • [bdubbs] - Clean up of unneeded symbolic links. Reordered packages so version specific packages are built as late as possible in Chapter 6. Now building util-linux in Chapter 5 is unneeded and has been removed. Fixes #4345 and #4349.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.174 (libelf). Fixes #4348.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-23.2. Fixes #4347.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1. Fixes #4346.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.18.9. Fixes #4344.

  • 2018-09-02

    • [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.1. Fixes #4342.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.47.2. Fixes #4341.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.18. Fixes #4340.
    • [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.44.4. Fixes #4338.

  • 2018-09-01

    • [bdubbs] - LFS-8.3 released.